School Improvement Plan - Chippewa Middle School

2024-2025

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 2024…334 out of 660 student (51%) were Meet or Exceeds on IAR

• In 2025… 363 out of 660 student (55%) will Meet or Exceeds on IAR

English Learners

• In 2024… 14 out of 182 student (8%) were Meet or Exceeds on IAR

• In 2024… 12 out of 172 students (7%) exited EL services through ACCESS

• In 2025… 29 out of 182 student (16%) will Meet or Exceeds on IAR

• In 2025… 25 out of 168 students (15%) will exit EL services through ACCESS

Students with IEPs

• In 2024…9 out of 88 student (10%) were Meet or Exceeds on IAR

• In 2025… 16 out of 88 student (18%) will Meet or Exceeds on IAR

Specific Action Step	Timeline & Setting	Point Person
Use new Special Education curriculum with fidelity and progress monitor	Weekly or bi-weekly progress monitoring with quarterly benchmarks	SpEd Teachers Core Teachers
Implement Tier 1 instructional practices in, ELA curriculum maps with fidelity, and implement learning from ELA consultant and instructional coaches.	PLC planning time weekly Daily in class	ELA Teachers SpEd Co-Teachers
Increase the number of students in reading intervention and students	Progress monitoring weekly or bi-weekly with Fall and Winter Benchmarks and EOY progress monitoring data	Reading Interventionists
Continue to provide opportunities for specifically EL students to improve in listening, speaking, reading, and writing domain areas through classroom activities (e.g. Student Discourse, Writer’s Workshop, math writing activities, language objective, etc.)	PLCs at least once per week Monthly Building Meetings	Core Teachers EL Teachers SpEd Teachers Principals
Silent Sustained Reading (SSR) or iReady Reading for 15 minutes in all WIN classes	Daily	WIN Teachers

Student academic learning: Math

SMART Goal Specific, measurable, attainable, relevant

ALL Students

• In 2024…197 out of 660 student (30%) were Meet or Exceeds on IAR

• In 2025… 244 out of 660 student (37%) will Meet or Exceeds on IAR

English Learners

• In 2024… 9 out of 182 student (5%) were Meet or Exceeds on IAR

• In 2025… 27 out of 182 student (15%) will Meet or Exceeds on IAR

Students with IEPs

• In 2024…4 out of 88 student (5%) were Meet or Exceeds on IAR

• In 2025… 13 out of 88 student (15%) will Meet or Exceeds on IAR

Specific Action Step	Timeline & Setting	Point Person
Use new Special Education curriculum with fidelity and progress monitor	Weekly or bi-weekly progress monitoring with quarterly benchmarks	Special Education Teachers Co-taught Teachers
Increase student engagement in math class using a variety of math structure (e.g. vertical learning, cooperative learning strategies, total participation techniques)	Daily	Core Teachers EL Teachers SpEd Teachers Instructional coach
Intentionally assess EL student language levels during math discourse with the intent to be responsive and create the appropriate language objectives, scaffolds, sentence stems, and math vocabulary use via co-planning in PLCS and monthly building meetings	Daily	Core Teachers EL Teachers SpEd Teachers Instructional coach

Specific Action Step

Timeline & Setting

Point Person

Use new Special Education curriculum with fidelity and progress monitor

Weekly or bi-weekly progress monitoring with quarterly benchmarks

Special Education Teachers

Co-taught Teachers

Increase student engagement in math class using a variety of math structure (e.g. vertical learning, cooperative learning strategies, total participation techniques)

Daily

Core Teachers

EL Teachers

SpEd Teachers

Instructional coach

Intentionally assess EL student language levels during math discourse with the intent to be responsive and create the appropriate language objectives, scaffolds, sentence stems, and math vocabulary use via co-planning in PLCS and monthly building meetings

Daily

Core Teachers

EL Teachers

SpEd Teachers

Instructional coach

Student social emotional well-being

SMART Goal Specific, measurable, attainable, relevant

Current Data as of August 2024:

• In August 2024, Chippewa Middle School teacher leaders scored our school as 63% fully implemented on the Tier 1 Fidelity Inventory (TFI).

• During the 2023-2024 school year, Chippewa Middle School had 85 students with 18+ absences.

SMART Goal for May 2025:

• By May 2025, Chippewa Middle School teacher leaders will score our school as 80% fully implemented on the Tier 1 Fidelity Inventory (TFI).

• During the 2024-2025 school year, Chippewa Middle School will have no more than 45 students with 18+ absences.

Specific Action Step	Timeline & Setting	Point Person
Ensure consistent PBIS implementation by… Creating a schedule to teach expected behaviors Repeating expectations on school announcements Monthly review with teachers on the behavior procedure flow chart Asking students to identify what expectation was not met when a behavior occurs Setting PBIS point goals for teacher to encourage them to positively reinforce behaviors Explicitly connect expected behaviors to the quarterly PBIS celebrations Monthly behavior data share out with staff	Chip Camp Advisory Lessons Behavior Forms Posters PBIS Rewards	Teachers Principals
Decrease student absences by… Monthly attendance parent education in school newsletter Student Advocate will work with 25-30 of the most significant attendance cases Increase the sense of belonging and positive school culture with daily, monthly and quarterly Advisory activities, Student Council programs, and PBIS celebrations	Chip Camp Advisory Assemblies PBIS Rewards	Teachers Principals Student Council PBIS Team

Specific Action Step

Timeline & Setting

Point Person

Ensure consistent PBIS implementation by…

Creating a schedule to teach expected behaviors
Repeating expectations on school announcements
Monthly review with teachers on the behavior procedure flow chart
Asking students to identify what expectation was not met when a behavior occurs
Setting PBIS point goals for teacher to encourage them to positively reinforce behaviors
Explicitly connect expected behaviors to the quarterly PBIS celebrations
Monthly behavior data share out with staff

Chip Camp

Advisory

Lessons

Behavior

Forms

Posters

PBIS Rewards

Teachers

Principals

Decrease student absences by…

Monthly attendance parent education in school newsletter
Student Advocate will work with 25-30 of the most significant attendance cases
Increase the sense of belonging and positive school culture with daily, monthly and quarterly Advisory activities, Student Council programs, and PBIS celebrations

Chip Camp

Advisory

Assemblies

PBIS Rewards

Teachers

Principals

Student Council

PBIS Team

data analysis schoolwide needs assessment

Student Group	Current Learning Data as of August 2024	SMART Goal for May 2025
ALL	334 out of 660 student (51%) were Meet or Exceeds on IAR in ELA	351 out of 650 (55%) will Meet or Exceeds on IAR in ELA
ALL	197 out of 660 student (30%) were Meet or Exceeds on IAR in Math	240 out of 650 (37%) will Meet or Exceeds on IAR in Math
IEP	9 out of 88 student (10%) were Meet or Exceeds on IAR in ELA	18 out of 106 (17%) will Meet or Exceeds on IAR in ELA
IEP	4 out of 88 student (5%) were Meet or Exceeds on IAR in Math	10 out of 106 (9%) will Meet or Exceeds on IAR in Math
EL	14 out of 182 student (8%) were Meet or Exceeds on IAR in ELA	28 out of 168 (16%) will Meet or Exceeds on IAR in ELA
EL	9 out of 182 student (5%) were Meet or Exceeds on IAR in Math	18 out of 168 (11%) will Meet or Exceeds on IAR in Math
EL	12 out of 172 students (7%) exited EL services through ACCESS	25 out of 168 (15%) will exited EL services through ACCESS

building leadership team

Team Member Name/Role
Jincey Abraham - 8A House Leader	Megan Fey - EL Facilitator	Lorence Reid - Assistant Principal
Mike Addante - 7A House Leader	Liz Gauna - EL Facilitator, Newcomer Team Leader	Helen Rodis - 7th SC/SS, PLC Leader
Mandii Krasinski - 6C House Leader	Caitlin Hatta - 8th SC/SS, PLC Leader, SC/SS Facilitator	Erin Shanahan - 6th ELA, PLC Leader, ELA Facilitator
Jackie Anderson - 6A House Leader	Emily Heslop - 8C House Leader	Wendy Spyrison - 6th SC/SS, PLC Leader
Maureen Cervantes - 7B House Leader	Grace Kachan - 7th Math, PLC Leader	Alex Suriano - 8th Math PLC Leader
Erica Cohen - 8B House Leader	Amanda Krasinski - 6C House Leader	Juliana Visserning - Principal
Brooke Dankowski - 8th ELA, PLC Leader	Melissa Kuczaj - 7A House Leader	Briana Zelm - Encore Team Leader
Susan Dixon - 7C House Leader	Jen Mandl - 6th Math, PLC Leader	Jori Zepeda - SST / ELS / BEST Team Leader
Beth Donoghue - SC/SS Facilitator	Mark Pearson - PE Team Leader	Sara Kranz and Lindsay Soltani - Instructional coaches