PRIORITY #1 
Student Growth

Provide both rigorous and proactive teaching of standards by using the elements of intentional design with a specific focus on helping students help themselves to achieve maximum growth.


​WHY IS THIS A PRIORITY?
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Measures of student academic growth can give teachers a more nuanced understanding of student achievement that’s useful for instruction. Academic growth happens for students even when they are below proficiency cuts.  The teacher gets insight into the student’s starting point and progress throughout the year so that he/she can adapt instruction accordingly.  The student is encouraged and applauded for his/her achievements and given feedback on areas that remain challenging; and his/her future teachers understand his/her achievement and his/her starting point for new learning.  With growth data, teachers and coordinators are able to better pinpoint whether specific instructional strategies and interventions hold promise and adjust over the course of the school year
​PRIORITY ACTION DETAILED
ACTIO​N
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE​
TIME FRAME FOR BEGINNING, IMPLEMENTING & SUSTAINING ACTION
Testing - MAPS testing will be done in the fall, winter, and spring to diagnose growth and gaps.
Superintendent, Tech. Coordinator, Classroom Teachers
Beginning: Fall 2014
Ongoing: 2019-2020
Interventions - Interventions will be    administered for students needing           extra support           
  • The Colorado READ Act is a legislative priority that focuses on early
    literacy development for all students, especially for students at risk for
    not reading at grade level by the end of third grade. Specific funding is
    allocated to help students who are struggling the most.  Kit Carson School
    District uses summer school, Read Live, 1 on 1 teaching, and many other
    components to enhance early literacy.
  • RTI - Response to Intervention  a prevention-based framework of team-driven data-based problem solving for improving the outcomes of every student through family, school, and community partnering and a layered continuum of evidence-based practices applied at the classroom, school, district, region, and state level.  The Kit Carson School District has done in-services to
    develop techniques and interventions to help all students who are lagging
    behind their peers.     ​
 Superintendent, Classroom Teachers,
SPED/GT/RTI Coordinators  ​
Begin: Fall 2016
Ongoing: 2019-2020
Goals - Students use growth goals        
to develop plan on how to attain their goals.
Superintendent, Classroom Teachers, Students
​Begin: Fall 2016
Ongoing: 2019-2020
Planning - Intentional design leads to standards being taught at the correct time and correct grade levels.
​Superintendent, Principal, Classroom Teachers
Begin: Fall 2016
Ongoing: 2019-2020
Multiple Measures - Benchmark Data 
2020-2021 MAPS and DIBELS Data
2019-2020 MAPS and DIBELS Data
READ Plan/RTI
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2018-2019 MAPS Data
2017-2018 Achievement Data