Laura+Laverick's+Action+Plan

Goal: Our goal for the Content Literacy Continuum program at Jackson Memorial Middle School is to improve literacy in all the content areas by creating at least two Content Enhancement Routines per unit during the 2010-2011 school year to be implemented during (or before) the 2011-2012 school year. Success with this program (partnered with continued excellent teaching) will be measured by a Performance Index Score that is improved from 107.3 (in 2009-2010) to 108.3 on the 2011-2012 tests. Future goals will be set once the results of those assessments are available.

Steps:
 * 1) During the 2008-2009 school year, the Jackson Local Schools curriculum department applied for and was awarded a grant to further professional development in the area of curriculum.
 * 2) In the summer of 2009, district curriculum leaders will be sent to a conference to learn about the Content Literacy Continuum program at the University of Kansas, which consists of several Content Enhancement Routines.
 * 3) During the 2009-2010, 2010-2011, and 2011-2012 school years, several professional development days will be set aside for the district curriculum leaders to teach the department heads the Content Enhancement Routines.
 * 4) Within one month of each professional development day, department heads will be responsible for teaching content area teachers the most recently taught Content Enhancement Routines.
 * 5) Immediately thereafter, department heads will provide meeting time for teachers to work together in groups to create Content Enhancement Routines that are related to their given subject area.
 * 6) As Content Enhancement Routines are learned and created throughout the 2009-2010, 2010-2011, and 2011-2012 school years, they are to be implemented into classrooms. This will be monitored by the department heads through reflections and sharing during the four Waiver Days each year. Teachers will also be asked to change and improve any previously-made Content Enhancement Routines, as they see necessary after having tried each routine once and discussed it with other teachers.
 * 7) During professional development days, department heads will report back to curriculum leaders on the status and overall sense of success of the Content Enhancement Routines.
 * 8) Curriculum leaders will monitor achievement test scores to determine whether Value-Added Scores and Performance Index Scores have improved, keeping in mind that the use of Content Enhancement Routines will not be the only factor that affects these scores.