Continuous School Improvement Plan

Fall 2025 VALLS (Low Risk and Moderate Risk)

• School Average: 71.9% 
• Kindergarten: 70.7%
• First: 80.0%
• Second: 73.1%
• Third: 63.8%

Fall 2025 VKRP (Overall Math)

• 80% Meeting Benchmark
• 20% Below Benchmark

      (Geometry)

• 67% Meeting Expectation
• 33% Below Expectation

      (Patterning)

• 54% Meeting Expectation
• 46% Below Expectation

      (Numeracy)

• 82% Meeting Expectation
• 18% Below Expectation

      (Computation)

• 92% Meeting Expectation
• 8% Below Expectation

Collaborative Planning

• Grade level teams meet weekly for an 85-minute collaborative planning block (alternate Language Arts and Math)

Hawk Time

• 30 minutes daily for both Language Arts and Math reteaching, extension, and interventions

Enrichment Opportunities

• Weekly enrichment for all students (9:10-9:55)
• Makerspace opportunities monthly
• Extension opportunities in daily Language Arts and Math Hawk Time.

iReady Data - Fall 2025

• 12 students (4%) Mid or Above Grade Level
• 36 students (11%) Early On Grade Level
• 179 students (54%) One Grade Level Below
• 75 students (22%) Two Grade Levels Below
• 32 students (10%) Three or More Grade Levels Below

Literacy Walkthrough Data 

August/September 2025

• Staff were trained on how to conduct walkthroughs using the new literacy walkthrough tool
• Teachers were trained to understand the key elements of the literacy walkthrough tool
• IHES developed a walkthrough tool, which covers all subjects, connected to the components of the “Opportunity Myth”

October 2025

• 30-minute Literacy Walkthroughs completed with each classroom teacher 
  • K-3 Foundational Skills Walkthrough
    • 10 teachers
      • 90% scored “Yes” or “Mostly” Overall on Core Action 1- Aligned Content
      • 80% scored “Yes” or “Mostly” Overall on Core Action 2 - Teacher Directed Instruction 
      • 60% scored “Yes” or “Mostly” Overall on Core Action 3- Student Practice
  • K-12 English Language Arts Walkthrough
    • 11 teachers
      • 82% scored “Yes” on Core Action 1- Grade- Level Complex Texts
      • 64% scored “Yes” or “Mostly” Overall on Core Action 2- Text-Dependent Questions and Tasks
      • 27% scored “Yes” or “Mostly” Overall on Core Action 3- Opportunities for Student Engagement

Professional Development

August/September 2025

• Literacy Team Staff were trained how to conduct walkthroughs using the new literacy walkthrough tool
• Grade 4, Grade 5, and new teachers completed training in implementing VALLSS assessments on VAConnects 
• Collaborative PD Day with Gainesboro (September 22, 2025)
• Math workshop structure professional development (ongoing into October, focusing on a different structure with each PD)
• In ELA Achievement Teams
  • K-HMH Structured Literacy (HQIM), using spelling formatives to form flexible groups

October 2025

• Problem strings PD for Grades K-2
• Grade-level teachers learned about the components of the core actions in the literacy walkthrough tool during ELA Achievement Teams
• K-2 Teachers received professional learning on HMH Structured Literacy HQIM during ELA Achievement Teams
• Second grade received professional learning on understanding their writing standards and expectations using VDOE resources including the Writing Progression Chart and Understanding the Standards document during ELA Achievement Teams

Winter 2026 VALLS (Low Risk and Moderate Risk)

• School Average: 79.1%
• Kindergarten: 73.7%
• First: 87.9%
• Second: 76.1%
• Third: 78.6%

Winter 2026 VKRP

• Only students who did not meet the fall benchmark were required to take the winter assessment. 
• Of the students who took the winter assessment, 40% met the benchmark, and 60% continued not to meet the benchmark

 
Collaborative Planning

• Grade level teams meet weekly for an 85-minute collaborative planning block (alternate Language Arts and Math)
  • Mid-Year IHES School Performance Review
    • Analyzed data as collaborative teams
    • Set instructional goals aligned with the Achievement Team's focus
  • Language Arts
  • Math

Hawk Time

• 30 minutes daily for both Language Arts and Math reteaching, extension, and interventions
  • Analyzed Winter VALLS data and progress monitoring data to make adjustments to student reading plans, interventions, and groups during Hawk Time in grades K-5 

Enrichment Opportunities

• Weekly enrichment for all students (9:10-9:55)
• Makerspace opportunities monthly
• Extension opportunities in daily Language Arts and Math Hawk Time
  • Students writing books to present for Author Visit (Stan Tucker)

iReady Data - Winter 2026

• 29 students (9%) Mid or Above Grade Level
• 57 students (17%) Early On Grade Level
• 165 students (51%) One Grade Level Below
• 51 students (16%) Two Grade Levels Below
• 24 students (7%) Three or More Grade Levels Below

Literacy Walkthrough Data

• 30-minute Literacy Walkthroughs completed with each classroom teacher 
  • K-3 Foundational Skills Walkthrough
    • 10 teachers
      • 80% scored “Yes” or “Mostly” Overall on Core Action 1- Aligned Content
      • 90% scored “Yes” or “Mostly” Overall on Core Action 2 - Teacher Directed Instruction 
      • 80% scored “Yes” or “Mostly” Overall on Core Action 3- Student Practice
• K-12 English Language Arts Walkthrough
  • 11 teachers
    • 91% scored “Yes” on Core Action 1- Grade- Level Complex Texts
    • 55% scored “Yes” or “Mostly” Overall on Core Action 2- Text-Dependent Questions and Tasks
    • 45% scored “Yes” or “Mostly” Overall on Core Action 3- Opportunities for Student Engagement

Professional Development

• Continued Problem Strings PD (K: 10 rack, 1st: 20 rack, 2nd: Addition on an open number line)
• Completed a non-curricular task with each grade level from Building Thinking for Grades 3-5
• Completed a non-curricular task with each grade level from Building Thinking for Grades K-2

August/September 2025

• Fully Staffed

October 2025

• Fully Staffed

November 2025

• Fully Staffed

February/March 26

• Fully Staffed

September

• Title I Back to School Night:  189 people attended
• PTO Movie Night:  An estimated 250 people attended

October

• Title I Donuts with Grown-ups:  372 people attended over two days
• PTO Trunk or Treat: An estimated over 1,200 people attended
• Book Character Parade:  Approximately 200 families attended

November

• Veterans Day Parade:  Approximately 75 people attended
• Holiday Meal (400 meals served to students and families)
• Scholastic Book Fair and PTO Bingo Night (more than 100 families attended)

February

• STEAM Night: Approximately 169 people attended

March

• PTO Movie Night:  Approximately 85 people attended