English Language Arts: Reading by 3rd Grade

Measurable Outcome: By Spring 2024, 100% of Lemon Road students will make their within-year growth target on iReady reading.

Strategies:

1. Increase use of data (e.g., iReady, CORE, PASS, PRF, WIDA) to plan instruction and monitor progress for students demonstrating risk. 
2. Expand the use of conversation structures to increase academic talk and build relationships among students.
3. Expand the use of independent practice with a variety of texts (e.g., decodable, nonfiction, fiction) and meaningful tasks (e.g., Lexia, writing about reading). 
4. Provide responsive instruction (supports and scaffolds) within rigorous Tier 1 learning opportunities.
5. Strengthen systematic and explicit writing instruction and provide opportunities to write throughout the day. 

Mathematics 

Measurable Outcome: By Spring 2024, 100% of Lemon Road students in grades 1-6 will make their within-year growth target on iReady math.

Strategies:

1. Increase teacher implementation of explicit instruction and other components of effective mathematics intervention.
2. Increase teachers' implementation strategies related to Shift 8: from looking for correct answers to revealing student thinking.
3. Schedule ESOL teacher push-in ELD instruction during math instructional time.
4. Provide responsive instruction (supports and scaffolds) within rigorous Tier 1 learning opportunities.

Portrait of a Graduate: Presentations of Learning

Measurable Outcome: By Spring 2024, all Lemon Road students will demonstrate growth in one or more Portrait of a Graduate attributes by scoring 'proficient' or 'advanced' in Criterion 2 of the POGPOL rubric, using portfolio artifacts and reflection as evidence.

1. Expand the opportunity for students to identify and articulate Portrait of a Graduate attributes and skills.
2. Facilitate opportunities for staff members to deepen their understanding of successful portfolio implementation.
3. Provide differentiated scaffolding of POG reflection opportunities.
4. Link family engagement activities to learning.