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Oliver Ames High School2015-2016 School Improvement Plan

Presented and Submitted by OAHS Principal Wesley H. Paul

This plan is being submitted to the Easton School Committee in compliance with the requirements of Chapter 71: Section 59C of

the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993.

OAHS * 100 Lothrop Street * North Easton * Massachusetts 02356

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Oliver Ames High SchoolSchool Council Members

2014-2015• Special thanks to the members of the Oliver Ames High School Council for their

sacrifice of time and expertise in advising and assessing the principal in the development of and execution of the School Improvement Plan Goals.

• Students– - Robert Capodilupo ,Senior Class President– - Max Sheldon ,Junior Class President– - Chris Meissner, Sophomore Class President– - Hunter Phelps, Freshman Class President

• Parents– Susan Finn– Lynn Loewald– Lisa Zimmerman- Kathy Evans

• Community Representatives– Brian Murphy– Mary O’Brien

• School Professional Staff– Catherine Queally (Co-Chair)– Elizabeth Starr– Wes Paul (Co-Chair)

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OAHS Mission and Expectations for Student Learning

Mission Statement The Oliver Ames High School community of faculty, staff, students, parents, and residents believe that in order to fulfill its mission of excellence and equity in education, we must embody the ideals of a comprehensive high school. We will work together to create a safe, nurturing, and stimulating learning environment. Students will become critical thinkers, problem solvers and independent thinkers who contribute in many ways to our ever changing world. We recognize the need for a variety of learning experiences that extend beyond the classroom and promote intellectual curiosity, individual responsibility and respectful interaction. By achieving goals and overcoming adversity, students will be encouraged to reach their potential and be prepared to assume meaningful roles in society.

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OAHS Mission and Expectations for Student Learning continued

21st Century Academic Expectations for Student Learning

Academic Expectation for Student Learning

OA students will ACCESS information in a variety of ways, including • A1. Actively and critically reading, listening and observing • A2. Initiating appropriate questions • A3. Conducting independent and collaborative research • A4. Using appropriate technologies and networks to locate and retrieve information• A5. Demonstrating initiative while seeking information

OA students will PROCESS information in a variety of ways, including • P1. Assimilating and organizing information • P2. Recognizing patterns, evaluating trends, and making comparisons • P3. Drawing inferences and making conclusions • P4. Responding and adapting quickly to unexpected challenges• P5. Creating and designing solutions to problems and challenges • P6. Applying appropriate form and technique to performance tasks

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OA students will COMMUNICATE information in a variety of ways, including

• C1. Writing and speaking clearly and purposefully for a variety of audiences • C2. Presenting creative products in a variety of formats • C3. Using technology to present information • C4. Demonstrating leadership while promoting individual and collaborative activities

OA students will DEVELOP themselves in a variety of ways, including• D1. Demonstrating a sense of curiosity by considering alternative perspectives• D2. Gaining a better understanding of their learning process through consistent self –

reflection

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Social/Civic Expectation for Student Learning

OA students will act responsibly for themselves and others in a variety of ways, including

• SC1. Working cooperatively and collaboratively • SC2. Respecting and understanding cultural differences • SC3. Participating with a local/global perspective

OA students will act respectfully to themselves and others in a variety of ways, including

• SC4. Interacting appropriately with all members of the community • SC5. Honoring school policies and procedures • SC6. Understanding and demonstrating academic integrity

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Easton Public School Vision and Strategic Plan

Our Vision: The Easton Public School system educates children to become motivated, lifelong learners who, as confident and creative individuals, function to their full potential, understand and value individual differences, and are contributing members of their community, able to meet the challenges of a global society.

Our Philosophy of Education: Recognizing that each child is unique, the Easton Public Schools strives: to provide a coordinated and integrated instructional program; to nurture intellectual and academic capabilities; to promote physical development; to stimulate creativity and aesthetic awareness; to encourage participatory learning; to foster an understanding that learning is a lifelong process; and to develop positive attitudes which can lead to being a responsible member of a global society. Utilizing a variety of instructional approaches, each individual is encouraged to maximize his or her potential and thus develop a positive sense of his or her own self worth. Recognizing the changing structure of family and society, the Easton Public Schools accepts its responsibility to create a safe and nurturing educational environment. The school system views community support and involvement as an integral component of the educational process.

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Easton Public School Vision and Strategic Plan continued

Easton Public Schools Strategic Goals 2011-2016

• Goal 1: Provide differentiated instruction based on formative and summative assessment data to maximize student achievement.

• Goal 2: Establish professional development priorities that are based on the curriculum renewal plan and aligned with state and national standards.

• Goal 3: Develop and integrate 21st Century learning expectations to provide students with what they will need as learners, workers and citizens in today’s global knowledge economy.

• Goal 4: Nurture the social and personal development of students so that they are confident, compassionate, contributing members of society.

• Goal 5: Advocate for and provide students and educators with access to the best possible educational technology and integrated teaching tools.

• Goal 6: Encourage reflective practice and use data to develop and improve systems that impact student achievement.

• Goal 7: Maintain partnerships and open communication to ensure informed, collaborative

decision making with all stakeholders.

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2014-2015 Goal Assessment

• The next slides are reviews of the OAHS SIP Goals for the 2014-2015 school year that were directly tied to the EPS Strategic Plan.

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EASTON PUBLIC SCHOOLSSCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN 2014-2015

SCHOOL: Oliver Ames High SchoolDISTRICT GOAL: (Aligned with District Goal 6) – Encourage reflective practice and use data to develop and improve systems that improve student achievement. DATA SOURCE/CURRENT REALITY: The EPS teacher evaluation system will enter year two of the 2014-2015 school year. The new system has taken some time to adjust to and has been a challenge for teachers to collect or identify high quality evidence to demonstrate competency in each of the 33 elements of the teacher rubric.

School Goal #1: During the 2014-2015 school year,100% of Oliver Ames High School teachers will have clear understanding and provide at least one example of high quality evidence supporting each element in the teacher rubric at the time of their summative evaluation in May.

Strategies and Action Steps Who is Responsible Target Date or Timeline Evidence of Effectiveness

1. Share examples of artifacts that provide evidence of more than one indicator within the teacher rubric at faculty and/or department common planning meetings.

Principal, Faculty Evidence, related to one or more of the four standards on the teacher rubric, shared by 4 or 5 faculty members at a minimum of three faculty meetings and three common planning meetings throughout the 2014-2015 school year. .

100 % of faculty will have submitted improved evidence for each of the 33 elements of effective instruction as outlined in the teacher rubric and presented to department heads during the formative meetings in February of 2015 and evaluators at the summative meetings in May of 2015

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SCHOOL: Oliver Ames High SchoolDISTRICT GOAL: (aligned with District Goal 1) Provide differentiated instruction based on formative and summative assessment data to maximize student achievement. (aligned with District Goal 7) Maintain partnerships and open communication to ensure informed, collaborative decision making with all stakeholders.DATA SOURCE/CURRENT REALITY: There is a lack of experience about what to use as reliable and valid indicators of student growth in the development student learning SMART Goals within the new teacher evaluation system. There is a need to refine and/or develop pre and post test measurements to provide evidence of specific student learning growth.SCHOOL GOAL # 2 : 100% of faculty will work by department and content area to refine the assessments used this year or identify and use at least one reliable and valid indicator of student growth to assess progress on student learning goals by May of 2015.


Beginning in September of 2014, departments will take time during common planning periods to refine pre and post tests used this year to address the need for reliable and valid indicators of student growth or research and use appropriate assessment tools currently available.

Teachers and Principal September 2014 – April 2015 Common Planning Period Work and Cooperative Meetings during year.

Each teacher will have progressed toward attainment of one more reliable and valid indicators of student growth to use in the development of Student Learning SMART Goals by April 2015.

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SCHOOL: Oliver Ames High SchoolDISTRICT GOAL: (aligned with District Goal 2) Establish professional development priorities that are based on the curriculum renewal plan and aligned with state and national standards. DATA SOURCE/CURRENT REALITY: OAHS is in the beginning stages of transitioning from curriculum maps to curriculum units of study as organized by UbD. There is a need for time and collaboration to develop core course frameworks and/or refine our use of enduring understandings and essential questions to produce curriculum units of study in UbD format.SCHOOL GOAL # 3 : Each department will create a framework of their unit of study for all core courses that will be developed through analysis of the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks standards. For each major area of study: one unit of stage 1 of the UbD curriculum format will be completed and aligned pre K through 12. Stage 1 of UbD includes enduring understandings and essential questions and what students will know and be able to do at the completion of the unit of study.Strategies and Action Steps Who is Responsible Target Date or

TimelineEvidence of Effectiveness

Working collaboratively, departments will utilize PD time and Common Planning Time to frame out the units of study and complete Stage 1 of UbD for all core courses.

Principal, Department Heads, Teachers, Assistant Superintendent

September PDNovember PDApril or May 2015 Final Product s

Framed out content and one completed UbD Stage One Unit of Study collected by department heads.

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2015-2016 School Improvement Plan

• The next 4 slides detail the school improvement plan goals for the 2015-2016 school year at Oliver Ames High School that are new this year and are based upon the EPS Strategic Plan.

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SCHOOL: Oliver Ames High SchoolDISTRICT GOAL: (Aligned with District Goal 7 and New Goal 1) – Maintain partnerships and open communication to ensure informed, collaborative decision making with all stakeholders and increase Family and Community EngagementDATA SOURCE/CURRENT REALITY: The NEAS&C Accreditation Report recommends increasing communication opportunities between the school and parents (specifically parents of our high needs students in ELL and Special Education) who are not connected through co-curricular activities such as music, clubs and athletics.

School Goal #1: During the 2015-2016 school year, we will increase communication opportunities between our school and our parents of ELL and Special Education Students aiming for 50% response rate to invitations to planned events.


1. We will conduct planned parent information presentation programs covering services provided, helpful suggestions for school success, and course of study pathways for ELL parents and parents of students with learning disabilities

Principal, Assistant Principals, Guidance, Study Skills/ESL Teacher and Special Education Teachers

September, December, April meetings

Survey of program effectiveness and records of parent attendance at sessions.

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SCHOOL: Oliver Ames High SchoolDISTRICT GOAL: (Aligned with District Goal 6 and New Goal 4) – Encourage reflective practice and use data to develop and improve systems that impact student achievement and Advancing Student AchievementDATA SOURCE/CURRENT REALITY : Oliver Ames High School is a level 2 rated school based on the school’s progress toward narrowing the proficiency gap of our high needs students (ELL and Special Education). The gap goal is 75%, and our high needs students are at 56%.

School Goal #2: During the 2015-2016 school, we will work with high needs students to increase their performance in MCAS and narrow the 19 point proficiency gap by 20% narrowing the gap from 56% to 60% as reported by DESE on the School Accountability Report.


We will offer MCAS Math and MCAS English courses for students in grade 10 who performed at the Warning or Needs Improvement level on their grade 8 MCAS. Pre-tests and post tests will measure growth during this semester long program. English and math departments will establish a pre-test and post-test assessment of skills and knowledge .

Principal, Assistant Principals, Guidance, Study Skills/ESL Teacher, Special Education Teachers, Math and English Department Heads and teachers

January and June assessment of pre and post test data and then comparison of growth in at Risk Students in MCAS performance.

MCAS scores and growth on narrowing the achievement gaps.

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SCHOOL: Oliver Ames High SchoolDISTRICT GOAL: (aligned with District Goal 2 and Advancing Student Achievement) Establish professional development priorities that are based on the curriculum renewal plan and aligned with state and national standards. DATA SOURCE/CURRENT REALITY: One completed unit of study in most high school courses using UbD has been accomplished. SCHOOL GOAL # 3 By the end of 2015-2016 school year, each department will complete 20% of the UbD units of study for each courseStrategies and Action Steps Who is Responsible Target Date or


Departments will continue to work toward completing 20% of the units of study in complete UbD format for each course using PD time, Common Planning time, and if needed and available curriculum writing time .

Principal, Department Heads, Teachers, Assistant Superintendent

By the end of each quarter of the year, approximately 5% of the units of study will be completed.

Reports on final products by departments

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SCHOOL: Oliver Ames High SchoolDISTRICT GOAL: (aligned with District Goal 3 and Advancing Student Achievement) Develop and integrate 21st Century learning expectations to provide students with the skills they will need as learners, workers and citizens in today’s global knowledge economy. DATA SOURCE/CURRENT REALITY As recommended in the NEAS&C Accreditation Report , we have a need to develop a formal process to assess individual student and whole school’s progress in achieving the school expectations, and communicate to all stakeholders the purpose of the school wide expectations and how they are used to measure student achievement outcomes. SCHOOL GOAL # 4 Generate reports from X2 on progress made by students on achievement levels with OAHS’ 21St Century Academic Expectations in meeting said expectations and use said individual and aggregate data reports to inform parents and students, superintendent and assistant superintendent, faculty and department heads, and School Committee on the progress of the school and students in this goal. The data will also be used to assess the effectiveness of the expectations based upon use. Strategies and Action Steps Who is Responsible Target Date or


Develop data reports on student and school performance on 21st Century Learning Expectations and share with parents and community school progress on student and school achievement on 21st Century Leaning Expectations

Principal, Department Heads, Teachers, Guidance Counselors

July and February reports and letters with initial findings on achievement

Copies of aggregate data and individual student along with sample letters to parents on individual student progress.

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