School Improvement Plan
2025-2026
A School Improvement Plan (SIP) or School Development Plan (SDP) is a central document used by Senior Leadership teams to map out their strategic plans for the development of their school.
Student Academic Learning: Literacy/writing
SMART Goal Specific, measurable, attainable, relevant
ALL Students
•In 2025, 46% of students met or exceeded ELA standards on IAR.
•In 2026, 56% of students will meet/ exceed ELA standards on IAR.
Multilingual Learners
•In 2025, 18.6% of EL students meet/exceed ELA standards on IAR.
•In 2026, 28.6% of EL students will meet/exceed ELA standards on IAR.
•In 2025, 3.96% exited EL services through ACCESS.
•In 2026, 14% will exit EL services through ACCESS.
Students with IEPs
•In 2025, 18.6% of students with an IEP met or exceeded ELA standards on IAR.
•In 2026, 28.6% of students with an IEP will meet/ exceed ELA standards on IAR.
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Specific Action Step |
Timeline & Setting | Point Person |
|---|---|---|
| All teachers will use language objectives and content objectives when developing lessons, which will include opportunities to build oracy (student discussion). | Daily, Classrooms |
Teachers |
| Department PLCs will focus on data analysis and instructional strategies that are responsive to what the data says. |
Weekly, PLC Meetings |
Teachers PLC Leaders Principals |
| All teachers will provide explicit vocabulary instruction on key content and academic terms. | Each unit of instruction | Teachers |
| Professional development on instructional strategies for vocabulary instruction and building oracy to support all learners in our classrooms during staff meetings and district department meetings. |
Bi-weekly in PLC Leader Meetings, Bi-monthly staff meetings |
Principals PLC Leaders Team Leaders |
| Engage families in literacy instruction by providing parent education in the Chippewa Corner at least quarterly and hosting our annual family literacy night Chip Lit. |
February - Chip Lit Family Night |
Principals Staff |
Student academic learning: Math
SMART Goal Specific, measurable, attainable, relevant
ALL Students
• In 2025, 33.8% of students met/exceeded Math standards on iar.
• In 2026, 45% of students met/exceeded Math standards on iar.
multilingual Learners
In 2025, 10% of ML students met/exceeded Math standards on IAR.
In 2026, 20% of ML students will meet/exceed Math standards on IAR.
Students with IEPs
In 2025, 9.3% of students with an IEP met/exceeded Math standards on IAR.
In 2026, 20% of students with an IEP will meet/exceed Math standards on IAR.
| Specific Action Step | Timeline & Setting | Point Person |
|---|---|---|
| All teachers will use language objectives and content objectives when developing lessons, which will include opportunities to build oracy (student discussion). |
Daily, Classrooms |
Teachers |
| Department PLCs will focus on data analysis and instructional strategies that are responsive to what the data says. |
Weekly, PLC Meetings |
Teachers PLC Leaders Principals |
| All teachers will provide explicit vocabulary instruction on key content and academic terms. |
Each Unit of Instruction |
Teachers |
| Provide opportunities to practice oracy skills in math to support learning and increase student engagement by utilizing Building Thinking Classrooms and Kagan Strategies. | Each Unit of Instruction |
Principal Teachers |
| Engage families in mathematics instruction by hosting our annual family STEAM Night. | October - STEAM Night |
Principal staff |
Student social emotional well-being
SMART Goal Specific, measurable, attainable, relevant
Current Data as of August 2025:
in the fall of 2025, 79% of the Tiered Fidelity Inventory (TFI), assessing alignment to specific features of Tier 1 PBIS, was Fully implemented at Chippewa.
SMART Goal for May 2026:
By may of 2026, 83% of the Tiered Fidelity Inventory (TFI) will be fully implemented for PBIS.
| Specific Action Step | Timeline & Setting | Point Person |
|---|---|---|
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All staff will focus on Tier 1 SEL practices of encouraging appropriate student behavior and responding to inappropriate behavior. (TFI 1.6, 1.8, 1.9) |
Daily Email, Monthly Staff Meetings |
Staff Principals |
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Team Leaders and the PBIS Team will use the TFI 1.9 Fidelity Prompts to ensure a formal system of acknowledgement is in place and used by at least 90% of a sample of staff and received by at least 50% of a sample of students. |
Aug, Jan, May in Team Leader Meeting |
Staff Team Leaders Principals |
| Implement Check In Check Out (CICO) interventions for identified Tier 2 SEL students. | Roll out Oct 2025 |
Teachers T2 Coordinator |
| Professional development on instructional strategies to support all learners in our classrooms during staff meetings. (TFI 1.7) | Monthly Staff Meetings | Principals |
| Create a family engagement plan for education through PBIS at Home Handout, info in the weekly newsletter, and individual parent conversations. | Quarterly in Chip Corner |
Principals Staff |
data analysis schoolwide needs assessment
| Student Group | Current Learning Data as of August 2025 | SMART Goal for May 2026 |
|---|---|---|
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ALL |
In 2025, 46% of students met or exceeded ELA standards on IAR. In 2025, 38.8% of students met or exceeded Math standards on IAR. |
In 2026, 56% of students will meet/ exceed ELA standards on IAR. In 2026, 45% of students will meet/exceed Math standards on IAR. |
| ML | In 2025, 18.6% of EL students met or exceeded ELA standards on IAR. In 2025, 10% of EL students met or exceeded Math standards on IAR. |
In 2026, 28.6% of EL students will meet/exceed ELA standards on IAR. In 2026, 20% of EL students will meet/exceed Math standards on IAR. |
| IEP | In 2025, 18.6% of students with an IEP met or exceeded ELA standards on IAR. In 2025, 9.3% of students with an IEP met or exceeded Math standards on IAR. |
In 2026, 28.6% of students with an IEP will meet/ exceed ELA standards on IAR. In 2026, 20% of students with an IEP will meet/exceed Math standards on IAR. |
building leadership team
| Team Member Name/Role | |
|---|---|
| Juliana Vissering - Principal |
Michael Addante - 8B Team Leader |
| Lorence Reid - Assistant Principal |
Erin Shanahan - 8C Team Leader |
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Charity Adaro - 6A Team Leader |
Carli Kanter - Encore Team Leader |
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Diana Schoblocher - 6B Team Leader |
Joanna Karlos - PE Team Leader |
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Samantha Rhoney - 6C Team Leader |
Jori Zepeda - SST/Programs Team Leader |
| Caitlin Hatta - 7A Team Leader |
Rania Lutfallah- Newcomers Team Leader |
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Melissa Kuczaj - 7B Team Leader |
Sarah Kranz - Instructional Coach |
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Maureen Cervantes - 7C TeamLeader |
LIndsey Soltani - Instructional Coach |
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Grace Kachan - 8A Team Leader |
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