Indicator(s)

Number

Measurable Improvement Activities:

Person(s) Responsible

Needed

Resource(s)

Documentation of Implementation

Provide students and teachers in all classrooms with access to an online catalog of reading materials at various levels as available throughout the school; such access will allow students to select reading materials and develop reading skills at their individual ability and interest level.

Media Specialist

Destiny online catalog/net-worked thru server and available in all class-rooms

Online catalog/Destiny accessible in all classrooms.

Train E.C. teacher and aides in implementation of Investigations Math program in grades K-5, and of Connected Math in grades 6-8, standards-based curriculums supported by the National Science Foundation, TERC and Pearson Publishing, that focus on math basics and encourage children to develop thinking skills and the ability to reason mathematically.

Director

 $3,000 funding to purchase additional curriculum materials  for both  Investigations math and Connected Math programs, including textbooks, workbooks, manipulative kits, etc.

Investigations Math and Connected Math materials will be purchased and available for teacher and student use—including E.C. teacher, E.C. aides and E.C. students.

Documentation of completion of professional development/ training and successful implementation of the Investigations and Connected Math programs—including EC staff.

Provide individual student log-ins with pearsonsuccess.net (K-8), an online component of Investigations Math that provides individual assessment and remediation in math skills

Technology Facilitator

Pearsonsuccess.net subscription included in purchase price of curriculum

Individual E.C. student reports demonstrating utilization of the program.

Hire an additional assistant to provide additional intervention services for students with disabilities and struggling students in the Afterschool Intervention and Homework Help programs.

Director

$8,000 funding for additional afterschool assistant

Personnel records will indicate hiring an additional assistant for Intervention program. After-school attendance records will document E.C. students attending Intervention program.

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Teachers will agree upon a consistent method of enforcing the Code of Conduct and collaborate in dealing effectively with students who are displaying inappropriate behaviors.

Classroom teachers

Daily team collaborative planning time

Daily team meeting notes will document teacher collaboration in dealing with student behaviors.

Maintain the maximum number consecutive days any E.C. student is suspended to fewer than 10 days in a school year.

Director and E.C. Director

none

NCWise discipline data

Offer professional development in Positive Behavior Intervention Strategies for Early Childhood for teachers and E.C. staff in grades K-8.

Director and Assistant Director

Schedule times for Melanie Rothchild, Director of Early Childhood Education, Tri-County Community College, to meet with kindergarten thru second grade teachers and assistants individually; to provide training in positive behavior intervention strategies for early childhood.

Funding for EC staff to attend trainings in positive behavioral interventions for E.C. staff.

 Visitor sign-in sheets will record dates and times that Ms. Rothchild is on campus to meet with teachers.

Documentation of completion of professional development/ training in positive behavioral interventions by individual EC staff who work directly with E.C. students with behavioral needs, particularly those receiving PC 29 funding.

Create online survey of parents/guardians of all E.C. students requesting feedback on the quality of the E.C. services provided to their children.

C.I.P.P. Stakeholders Steering Committee

None (utilize free online survey tools—i.e. Survey Monkey—for collecting data and calculating results online)

Documentation of survey results

Examine 2000 census data and, when available, 2010 census data to ensure that the racial and ethnic breakdown of our E.C. student population continues to reflect the community we live in and does not reflect disproportionate representation of racial and ethnic groups in either the total number of special education students served or in specific.   

C.I.P.P. Stakeholders Steering Committee

None

E.C. student population at The Learning Center continues to reflect the community we live in and does not reflect disproportionate representation of racial and ethnic groups in either the total number of special education students served or in specific

E.C. Director will continue to participate in all evaluation determination meetings to ensure that the eligibility determination meeting is held and the results of the evaluation are provided to parents/guardians within 90 days of the parental consent to evaluate being signed.

E.C. Director

None

One hundred percent of students for whom a referral was received will have placement determined within 90 days, based on CECAS data.

Continue to hold transition meetings for all E.C. students entering 9^th grade which include the student and high school E.C. teachers (along with other necessary members) and at which the student’s IEP is reviewed to be sure that his/her Transition Plan incorporates postsecondary goals.

E.C. Teacher

None

E.C. records of rising 9^th graders document transition meeting with student and high school E.C. teachers (along with other necessary members) at which transition plan is either written or reviewed and found to be appropriate.

Initiate dialogue with all Cherokee County high school administration to determine percent of former TLC students who graduated in four years and are competitively employed, enrolled in some type of postsecondary school or both, within one year of leaving high school.

C.I.P.P. Stakeholders Steering Committee

None

Documentation, including minutes from CIPP meetings, emails and notes of phone calls between high schools and the Director.

Continue to complete compliance checklists on records of all E.C. students transferring into The Learning Center (TLC) within 30 days of receiving these records

E.C. Coordinator

none

All EC records of students transferring into The Learning Center will continue to be reviewed for compliance within 30 days of the student’s transferring to our school. Compliance checklist completed on each transferring EC student record.

Complete compliance checklists on records of all E.C. students following eligibility or reevaluation determination meetings, a minimum of every 3 years.

E.C. Coordinator

none

Compliance checklist completed on each EC record following eligibility or reevaluation determination meetings (in addition to when student first enters TLC or first enters the EC program at TLC).