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Paden School Plan 2003/04

Paden Elementary School was a K-8 school with an enrollment of 400 in 2003/04 that used Lifelong Guidelines and Lifeskills. To review Paden's state Academic Performance Index scores since 2000 click here. Here is the latest STAR data available from the state of California for Paden.

Disclaimer: Single School Plan were hand typed and transcribed from source documents. Please pardon the typos as the webmaster is a poor typist. While an effort was made to spell acronyms, here is a reference guide for those acronyms.

Single School Plan Components

Fall 2003

  1. What are the major strategies in your plan?
    • Continue grade level study team work to identify students who are not achieving, why they are not achieveing, align instruction to assessed skill gaps, evaluate effectiveness and refine. Share work of team with staff.
    • Revise Record of Agreement (literacy plan) based on Consortium on Reading Excellence practicum.
    • Provide support for teachers to improve the teaching of vocabulary skills and increasing target student fluency rates.
    • Work with the local collaborative to improve tools needed in effective school/team Cycles of Inquiry and to share teacher practices in reading that support closing the achivement gap.
    • Continue to provide coaching and time for connecting Integrated Thematic units to standards.

  2. What are your inquiry questions?

    3. Student Achievement Questions

    • Recognizing that two major skill gaps among target students are fluency and vocabulary, what are the target students' fluency rates and are they making making growth?

    Teacher Practice Questions

    • Are teachers implementing the newly adopted Houghton Mifflin and REACH reading program with fidelity? Are the fluency and vocabulary strategies that are embedded with the programs effective for our target population, especially Hispanic and African American students?
    • To what degree are teachers implementing agreed upon strategies for increasing fluency rates and building vocabulary skills in the 4th to 8th grades for our target population, especially Hispanic and African American students?

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Last modified: May 13, 2004

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