Wildwood School Improvement Plan

2005-2007

 

 Goal 1: Provide an appropriate level of challenge for each child at every grade level.

Strategies for achieving this goal:

  • Identify and coordinate the curriculum and benchmarks for student progress.
    • Within grade levels
    • Between grade levels
  • Use the identified benchmarks as a means for assessing progress.
  • Implement differentiated instructional practices to meet the needs of all students.
    • Provide staff development opportunities, with topics including student literacy skills and SIOP.
    • Focus on cultural aspects of learning when determining instructional methods and materials.
    • Encourage teachers to share their best practices in differentiating curriculum.
  • Refine progress-monitoring procedures and the coill1ection to standardized test results, including the development of individual student success plans.
  • Involve the Wildwood community in development of a world language program at the school.

 

Goal 2: Strengthen Wildwood community commitment to including and involving all children and their families.

Strategies for achieving this goal:

  • Develop a coordinated approach, with staff, PTO, and Diversity Group, to ensure that all families feel included, important, and involved.
    • Continue ongoing projects such as PTO Class Parents, the Wildwood Window, the Wildwood Wire, the web site, and opportunities for face-to­-face contact.
    • Develop programming for parents, including topics presented by staff.
  • Ensure that all written materials distributed by the school community are accessible in the languages read by families.

 

Goal 3: Improve all elements of the dining experience at Wildwood.

Strategies for achieving this goal:

  • Advocate improvement of nutritional value and variety of meals. Advocate serving more locally grown and fresh foods.
  • Create community through positive dining experiences.
    • Promote pro-social behaviors.
    • Reduce stress, noise, rushing, and confinement.
    • Teach the value of good nutrition in conjunction with food service improvements.

 

Goal 4: Improve the physical environment.

  • Begin planning for future renovation, addressing such issues as air quality, access to sunlight, and noise reduction.
  • Identify simple, inexpensive opportunities for improvement to the physical environment