LCHS SMART School Improvement Goals
La Center High School
2019-2020
Smart Goal #1
SMART Goal: 100% of LCHS students graduate on time.
Measurement: On time graduation rate.
Specific: What are we looking for? | Measurable: How will we measure the specific? | Accountability: | Reasonable | Time based: Who is responsible and when is it due? |
Focus 9: Organizational skills, time management, communication support, study skills, and accountability for turning in work. | 100% of students showing passing grades in all classes. | Send D/F letters home at the quarter of each semester. | Teacher(s) and Counselors meet with students who are failing with D/F grades | Quarterly review of student’s grades. Mrs. Cole connects with Mrs. Luiz and Mr. DiStefano. |
Identification and communication with off track students. | Create a list for each grade level of students who are off track for graduation; number of credits, meeting standard on state tests, 13th year plan (Xello) |
Send out letters and emails to families of students who are off track. Meet with each student and a parent/guardian in August to determine a plan; seniors, then juniors, then sophomores. Monitored by administration and counseling staff. |
Counselor and Admin. Meet with each student/parent to establish plan to get back on track to graduation. |
Meet and develop plan in September and October – Sr first, Jr. second, and then Sophs. Admin and counselors are responsible to monitor plan progress and communicate with student and family at least twice monthly. |
MTSS: Staff collaborates and tracks students from each grade level on a weekly basis through a shared document. | Data will show student growth plan and improvement on grades | Staff will access the MTSS shared doc. Staff will support accommodations as set in the MTSS meeting. | Weekly grade level meetings by staff. | Mr. DiStefano and Mrs. Luiz will host the MTSS meetings. Share with staff information from shared document. |
Focus 10: Organizational skills, time management, communication support, study skills, and accountability for turning in work. | 100% of students showing passing grades in all classes. | Send D/F letters home at the quarter of each semester. | Teacher(s) and Counselor meet with students who are failing with D/F grades | Quarterly review of student’s grades. Mrs. Stevens connects with Mrs. Luiz and/or Mr. DiStefano. |
Student participation in state assessments: Provide opportunities during the school day. Running Start students can take assessments at Clark & LCC. Provide after school testing periods. Alternate pathways provided at LCHS such as SAT and ASVAB testing. Another alt. pathway is Cascadia Tech. | 95% or more of students will take the state assessments during each testing periods. | Notify students and parents in advance of multiple opportunities. | Make arrangements with students and parents of makeup times during the testing window. | Kurt Gray and Carol Patton will set the testing windows at the beginning of the school year. Notices and trainings will be sent to all stakeholders. |
Improve Communication with Running Start Students: Provide calendar access, emails and notifications of events, meetings with counselors, and testing windows. | Data will show that senior students are on track to graduate or have a plan in place for graduation. | Confirmation on scheduling for RS classes, meeting grad. requirements and completing state testing. | Contacting parents and students by phone to set meeting times. | Carol Patton, Kurt Gray, Timm DiStefano and Valerie Luiz will be responsible to help improve these important communications and schedules. |
Credit Recovery: Provide appropriate semester long opportunity for students year round. | 100% of students will successfully complete their credit recovery course(s). | During summer school and during the school year, students who are engaged in Credit Recovery will work with Mr. Hill and LCHS staff to complete their class(es). | Based on plan developed with student, parent, admin, and counselor, student will complete the needed credit recovery classes to get back on track for on-time graduation. | Carol Patton, Kurt Gray, Timm DiStefano, and Valerie Luiz will be responsible for meeting with students/parents to develop the student’s plan. Bob Hill will support student learning and course completion. All named here will be involved in communicating with students and families. |
Attendance: Improve student attendance. | Reduce the number of unexcused absences by 10% from the previous year. | 100% adherence to the state and LCSD attendance process. | Patton/Gray conduct meetings with student and parents. Denise will send notifications to home address with mtg times. | Admin. will make appointments 2 times a month. |
Skyward Training available for parents as requested. | Provide handouts on navigating Skyward, meetings with parents as requested, and support through emails. | Office staff, Counselors, and Administration will provide support for parents. | Updates to Skyward will be provided by ESD 112. | Carol Patton will get the information from ESD 112 and have Bill H. put on the high school webpage. |
La Center High School
2019-2020
Smart Goal #2
SMART Goal: Improve opportunities for student readiness toward college and career.
Measurement: Pre and post survey data for all stakeholders.
Specific: What are we looking for? | Measurable: How will we measure the specific? | Accountability: | Reasonable: | Time based: Who is responsible and when is it due? |
Healthy Youth Survey: Data gathered will help our school identify areas of concern, needs and help when applying for grants. | Data results provided by the HYS. | Provide students with counselor support, educational workshops on health and substance abuse issues, and outside support groups. | Counselors and the health classes address areas in need according to the student data from the HYS. | Teachers, counselors, Community Services NW, and administrators collaborate with results from data. Items identified and complete by the end of year.. |
Career Fair Data: Provide a wide variety of career options presented. | Survey students prior to the Career Fair to collect career areas of interest. Survey afterwards to determine success. | 100% of students complete pre and post survey. | Counselors and admin. inform students via email, announcements and person contact. | Designated adult to run Career Fair will survey 45 days prior to identify specific volunteers. Post survey following Career Fair. |
Student Led Conferences: designed for seniors. Are they prepared for post high school? | Survey 100% graduating seniors post SLC. | Complete survey by last senior class meeting. | Counselors, senior class advisor and admin will hold seniors responsible and send out last year’s seniors a survey. | Counselors and admin will complete survey data by end of the school year. The post graduates will be surveyed by May. |
Project Based Learning/STEM: Students working collaboratively on overarching issues. | For those teachers collaborating on a PBL/STEM project, data from student work will be evaluated to determine successes of the PBL across departments. | Teachers will work with students to complete their PBL/STEM project using the rubric established for both classes. | Students will be held responsible to complete PBL/STEM project based on the established rubrics. | Teams of teachers will complete data to determine whether students have met/exceeded state standards by the end of each semester. |
Xello: Focus on job opportunities for post-high school careers. | End of year, data determines job interests that link to Career Fair presenters and course offerings. | 100% of students participate in Xello. | Counselors require students to complete the Xello program during class time. | Counselors share data with admin. and SIP team. |
WAC: Variety of students from all grades and groups to work on improvement of LCHS climate and culture. | 30 students selected by staff and admin. that represent various groups/clicks within the building. | 100% of selected students participate in meetings and goal setting. | Patton/Gray/Luiz work with student group on their issues, concerns and goals. | Sept. select students. Meet monthly with students. |
Survey Stakeholders: to help identify specific needs from Staff, Students, and Parents that will support student readiness for college and careers. | Surveys of identified needs to all stakeholders. Data from post high school students, assessments, attendance, grad.rate, 9th grade success rate. | Each semester provide surveys to stakeholders. | Patton/Gray will be responsible for collecting data from stakeholders. | Surveys completed in January and May. |