District Improvement Plan Grand Rapids Public Schools

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District Improvement Plan Grand Rapids Public Schools
District Improvement Plan
Grand Rapids Public Schools
Mrs. Teresa Weatherall Neal, Superintendent
1331 Franklin St SE
P.O. Box 117
Grand Rapids, MI 49501-0117
Document Generated On January 21, 2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
1
Executive Summary
Introduction
3
Description of the School System
4
System's Purpose
6
Notable Achievements and Areas of Improvement
7
Additional Information
9
Improvement Plan Stakeholder Involvement
Introduction
11
Improvement Planning Process
12
District Additional Requirements Diagnostic
Introduction
15
District Additional Requirements Diagnostic
16
DIP 2014-15
Overview
20
Goals Summary
21
Goal 1: All programs in Grand Rapids Public Schools will increase their parent/community involvement.
22
Goal 2: All schools will improve the academic learning behaviors and environment for all students.
26
Goal 3: The District will support all school administrators and teachers in the Teacher Evaluation Process
27
Goal 4: All students in Grand Rapids Public Schools will be proficient readers.
28
Goal 5: All students in Grand Rapids Public Schools will be supported by an adult.
244
Goal 6: All students in Grand Rapids Public Schools will be proficient in Mathematics.
248
Goal 7: All students in Grand Rapids Public Schools will be proficient in Science.
486
Goal 8: All students in Grand Rapids Public Schools will be proficient writers.
636
Goal 9: All students in Grand Rapids Public Schools will be proficient in Social Studies
762
Goal 10: Adults in the District will be supported through leadership opportunitites
820
Activity Summary by Funding Source
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Activity Summary by School
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District Improvement Plan
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Introduction
The District Improvement Plan (DIP) has been designed to provide schools and districts with a common planning template that
addresses student learning and system needs that have been identified through the schools' Comprehensive Needs
Assessment. It has also been designed to address any federal, state and locally required elements that must be contained in a
School Improvement Plan.
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Executive Summary
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Introduction
Every school system has its own story to tell. The context in which teaching and learning takes place influences the processes and
procedures by which the school system makes decisions around curriculum, instruction, and assessment. The context also impacts the way
a school system stays faithful to its vision. Many factors contribute to the overall narrative such as an identification of stakeholders, a
description of stakeholder engagement, the trends and issues affecting the school system, and the kinds of programs and services that a
school system implements to support student learning. <br><br> The purpose of the Executive Summary (ES) is to provide a school system
with an opportunity to describe in narrative form the strengths and challenges it encounters. By doing so, the public and members of the
community will have a more complete picture of how the school system perceives itself and the process of self-reflection for continuous
improvement. This summary is structured for the school system to reflect on how it provides teaching and learning on a day to day basis.
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Description of the School System
Describe the school system's size, community/communities, location, and changes it has experienced in the last three years.
Include demographic information about the students, staff, and community at large. What unique features and challenges are
associated with the community/communities the school system serves?
Grand Rapids Public Schools (GRPS) located in the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan is the state's fifth largest public school district and the
third largest employer in the City of Grand Rapids, serving more than 17,000 students with 2,800 employees, including 1,500 dedicated
teachers. The student population is 36% Latino/Hispanic, 33% African American, and 22% Caucasian; representing nearly 70 countries with
49 different languages spoken.
Our mission is to ensure that all students are educated, self-directed and productive members of society! To achieve this, GRPS proudly
offers the largest selection of school choices, programs, and services in all of West Michigan to meet the needs of every single child
regardless of age, income, ability, or native language. These choices include: the top performing school in West Michigan (City High-Middle),
theme schools (Zoo, Blandford, environmental, creative arts, math/science/technology, college prep, global studies, Montessori, dual
immersion), Centers of Innovation (design and construction, health science, engineering and bio-medical, business and entrepreneurship,
university prep), Language Centers for English Language Learners, schools requiring student uniforms, "community schools" with social,
health and mental health services embedded, all day preschool, all day kindergarten, neighborhood schools, center-based special education
schools serving all of Kent County, comprehensive athletics K-12, dual enrollment, Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate Middle
Years and Diploma Programmes, and much more.
Notable achievements and areas of improvement:
GRPS has earned state and national recognition as a "model" urban school district for its bold and innovative education reforms that are
producing notable academic gains. The systemic changes and improvements happening throughout the district are being driven by a
nationally acclaimed "effort-based learning" model that was initiated in 2007 thanks to the generous support of the Doug and Maria DeVos
Foundation and a partnership with the University of Pittsburgh's Institute for Learning. In December 2012, the Grand Rapids Board of
Education unanimously approved a bold and comprehensive Transformation Plan that focuses on 1) re-investing in, replicating and
expanding schools that are succeeding 2) recruiting, retaining, and developing the top principals and teachers and 3) strengthening a culture
of high expectations and quality schools for all. The plan is available at www.grps.org/transformationplan.
In just two and a half years since Teresa Weatherall Neal was appointed Superintendent, the district has experienced notable academic
gains. Twenty seven of the districts forty one schools improved their ranking on the state's Top to Bottom list. Four schools ranked in the top
5% (City High-Middle, Blandford, Zoo, and Center for Economicology).
The district also saw a three percent gain in its graduation rate district wide and a five percent gain in the graduate rate for all comprehensive
(non-alternative) schools (73.88% up to 78.57%). Two standouts are Grand Rapids Montessori and Ottawa Hills High Schools that saw
graduation rates increase by more than ten percentage points. The district is expecting across the board gains again for the 2013-2014
school year.
ACT/MME scores also improved for the third consecutive year with students posting the highest MME scores since the test was first
administered. Every high school, save for one, saw ACT scores increase with year to year growth. City High-Middle posted the regions
highest ACT composite score of 26.3 a 2.4 point increase from the year before.
Another point of improvement is the district's overall attendance rate. In 2013-2014, Superintendent Neal launched the Attendance Challenge
district wide with the goal of reducing chronic absenteeism. In the first year, the district experienced a 2% reduction.
GRPS is also a leader in Michigan on consolidation and cost-sharing services. GRPS currently manages center-based special education
programs for all the schools in the Kent Intermediate School District; food services for East Grand Rapids Public Schools, Grand Rapids
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Christian Schools, Grand Rapids Child Discovery Center, and two Grand Rapids Catholic Schools; and public safety training for several
public and private schools in the area. The district's public safety department has received numerous awards and is recognized as one of the
leading school public safety departments that have utilized technology, training, and relationship building to reduce the number of major
school incidents for five consecutive years.
GRPS has earned a reputation for its sound fiscal management and stewardship. Most recently, Standard & Poor's and Moody's improved
the district's bond rating from negative to stable. According to S&P, "The outlook revision is due to our view of the district's improved reserve
position and management's ability to implement budgetary adjustments in response to declining enrollment and the uncertainty of state
funding."
Thanks to a voter approved bond, ten schools are new, state of the art elementary and middle schools buildings with the latest technology
and educational designs to support instruction and learning. Eight of the schools are green-built and five are LEED certified; making GRPS a
leader in the state and nation on green built schools.
Areas of Improvement
While GRPS has made notable gains in student growth, ACT/MME, and school/district wide graduation rates, the district still has more work
to do. The MEAP scores have remained relatively flat with mixed gains varying by school, grade level, and subject area. The graduation rate
is continuing to increase, but the district's alternative education graduation rate is far lower than the state average. There is also far too wide
of an achievement gap that exists between Caucasian, African American, and Latino/Hispanic students and the district has been challenged
by the federal government due to disproportionately high suspension rates for African American students.
Chronic absenteeism is still a major struggle and more effort will be required to significantly improve the overall attendance rate which in turn
is expected to have a positive impact on academic achievement.
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System's Purpose
Provide the school system's purpose statement and ancillary content such as mission, vision, values, and/or beliefs. Describe how
the school system embodies its purpose through its program offerings and expectations for students.
VISION STATEMENT
The GRPS will be a place where ALL students become educated, self-directed, and productive members of society.
Upon graduation, all students will be:
Educated, and therefore able to:
-Apply skills and knowledge learned from a rigorous and relevant core curriculum.
-Demonstrate proficiency in current technologies.
-Transfer career and employability skills across multiple settings.
-Pursue life-long learning to succeed in a changing global community.
Self-Directed and therefore able to:
-Use a high degree of self-awareness to facilitate making life-directing decisions.
-Identify and initiate career-appropriate post-secondary options.
Productive, and therefore able to:
-Appreciate and respect cultural and individual diversity.
-Actively participate as productive members of a democratic society.
Graduates will meet the specific credit requirements as defined by the rules of this policy. These requirements will meet or exceed the
minimum graduation requirements as defined by the State of Michigan.
MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of the GRPS is to ensure that ALL students are educated, self-directed and productive members of society by:
-Ensuring the achievement of high academic standards by ALL students leading to on-time graduation;
-Providing rigorous, high-quality instruction supported by an environment conducive to learning;
-Equipping students to successfully meet the demands of a workforce in a technological and global society;
-Involving parents and community;
-Providing a safe and secure environment conducive to learning.
BELIEF STATEMENT
Grand Rapids Public Schools belief is that all children can achieve their academic potential through effort, high expectations and quality
teaching.
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Notable Achievements and Areas of Improvement
Describe the school system's notable achievements and areas of improvement in the last three years. Additionally, describe areas
for improvement that the school system is striving to achieve in the next three years.
Grand Rapids Public Schools (GRPS) located in the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan is the state's fifth largest public school district and the
third largest employer in the City of Grand Rapids, serving more than 17,000 students with 2,800 employees, including 1,500 dedicated
teachers. The student population is 36% Latino/Hispanic, 33% African American, and 22% Caucasian; representing nearly 70 countries with
49 different languages spoken.
Our mission is to ensure that all students are educated, self-directed and productive members of society! To achieve this, GRPS proudly
offers the largest selection of school choices, programs, and services in all of West Michigan to meet the needs of every single child
regardless of age, income, ability, or native language. These choices include: the top performing school in West Michigan (City High-Middle),
theme schools (Zoo, Blandford, environmental, creative arts, math/science/technology, college prep, global studies, Montessori, dual
immersion), Centers of Innovation (design and construction, health science, engineering and biomedical, business and entrepreneurship,
university prep), Language Centers for English Language Learners, schools requiring student uniforms, "community schools" with social,
health and mental health services embedded, all day preschool, all day kindergarten, neighborhood schools, center-based special education
schools serving all of Kent County, comprehensive athletics K-12, dual enrollment, Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate Middle
Years and Diploma Programmes, and much more.
Notable achievements and areas of improvement:
GRPS has earned state and national recognition as a "model" urban school district for its bold and innovative education reforms that are
producing notable academic gains. The systemic changes and improvements happening throughout the district are being driven by a
nationally acclaimed "effort-based learning" model that was initiated in 2007 thanks to the generous support of the Doug and Maria DeVos
Foundation and a partnership with the University of Pittsburgh's Institute for Learning. In December 2012, the Grand Rapids Board of
Education unanimously approved a bold and comprehensive Transformation Plan that focuses on 1) re-investing in, replicating and
expanding schools that are succeeding 2) recruiting, retaining, and developing the top principals and teachers and 3) strengthening a culture
of high expectations and quality schools for all. The plan is available at www.grps.org/transformation plan.
In just two and a half years since Teresa Weatherall Neal was appointed Superintendent, the district has experienced notable academic
gains. Twenty seven of the districts forty one schools improved their ranking on the state's Top to Bottom list, five schools (Union High
School, Alger Middle, Brookside Elementary, Mulick Park Elementary, and Westwood Middle) were removed from the bottom 5% Priority list,
four schools ranked in the top 5% (City High-Middle, Blandford, Zoo, and Center for Economicology), and one school (Shawmut Hills) was
removed from the Focus Schools list.
The district also saw a three percent gain in its graduation rate district wide and a five percent gain in the graduate rate for all comprehensive
(non-alternative) schools (73.88% up to 78.57%). Two standouts are Grand Rapids Montessori and Ottawa Hills High Schools that saw
graduation rates increase by more than ten percentage points. The district is expecting across the board gains again for the 2013-2014
school year.
ACT/MME scores also improved for the third consecutive year with students posting the highest MME scores since the test was first
administered. Every high school, save for one, saw ACT scores increase with year to year growth. City High-Middle posted the regions
highest ACT composite score of 26.3 a 2.4 point increase from the year before.
Another point of improvement is the district's overall attendance rate. In 2013-2014, Superintendent Neal launched the Attendance Challenge
district wide with the goal of reducing chronic absenteeism. In the first year, the district experienced a 2% reduction.
GRPS is also a leader in Michigan on consolidation and cost-sharing services. GRPS currently manages center-based special education
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programs for all the schools in the Kent Intermediate School District; food services for East Grand Rapids Public Schools, Grand Rapids
Christian Schools, Grand Rapids Child Discovery Center, and two Grand Rapids Catholic Schools; and public safety training for several
public and private schools in the area. The district's public safety department has received numerous awards and is recognized as one of the
leading school public safety departments that have utilized technology, training, and relationship building to reduce the number of major
school incidents for five consecutive years.
GRPS has earned a reputation for its sound fiscal management and stewardship. Most recently, Standard & Poor's and Moody's improved
the district's bond rating from negative to stable. According to S&P, "The outlook revision is due to our view of the district's improved reserve
position and management's ability to implement budgetary adjustments in response to declining enrollment and the uncertainty of state
funding."
Thanks to a voter approved bond, ten schools are new, state of the art elementary and middle schools buildings with the latest technology
and educational designs to support instruction and learning. Eight of the schools are green-built and five are LEED certified; making GRPS a
leader in the state and nation on green built schools.
Areas of Improvement
While GRPS has made notable gains in student growth, ACT/MME, and school/district wide graduation rates, the district still has more work
to do. The MEAP scores have remained relatively flat with mixed gains varying by school, grade level, and subject area. The graduation rate
is continuing to increase, but the district's alternative education graduation rate is far lower than the state average. There is also far too wide
of an achievement gap that exists between Caucasian, African American, and Latino/Hispanic students and the district has been challenged
by the federal government due to disproportionately high suspension rates for African American students.
Chronic absenteeism is still a major struggle and more effort will be required to significantly improve the overall attendance rate which in turn
is expected to have a positive impact on academic achievement.
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Additional Information
Provide any additional information you would like to share with the public and community that were not prompted in the previous
sections.
All pertinent information has been included under the previous question.
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Improvement Plan Stakeholder Involvement
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Introduction
The responses should be brief, descriptive, and appropriate for the specific section. It is recommended that the responses are written offline
and then transferred into the sections below.
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Improvement Planning Process
Improvement Planning Process
Describe the process used to engage a variety of stakeholders in the development of the institution's improvement plan. Include
information on how stakeholders were selected and informed of their roles, and how meetings were scheduled to accommodate
them.
GRPS values quality teaching and learning. Therefore, stakeholders were chosen who had the greatest impact on teaching and learning and
the overall success of the students we serve.
The Assessment and Evaluation Department reviews and analyzes District and State data identifying trends found within the content or
different subgroups. A&E shares their findings with the Superintendent and Cabinet (Divisional Executive Directors; Business Offfice, Human
Resources, Security, Organizational Learning, Community Affairs and Student Services, Facilities and Operations, Academic and Curriculum
Directors) the GRPS Board of Education,and Principals in the following divisions: Elementary, K-8/Middle Schools and High Schools, and the
Curriculum Supervisors.
The District Curriculum Supervisors and Deputy Superintendent of Curriculum use the data findings to begin identifying possible strategies or
activities which will improve student achievement across all five content areas (reading, writing, mathematics, science and social studies).
The Academic Team (consisting of the Deputy Superintendent of Curriculum, Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources and General
Counsel, Assistant Superintendent of Organizational Learning, Executive Directors of Community and Student Affairs, Special Education,
Facilities and Operations,ELL, Elementary, K-8/Middle and High School) use the data from A&E and the ideas from the Curriculum
Supervisors to begin developing the District's Academic Plan. Once a draft of the Academic Plan is created, it is shared with building
administrators and teachers in order for them to provide suggestions and feedback. Most of the information found within the Academic Plan
becomes the information that is input into both the District Improvement Plan and the individual buildings' School Improvement Plans.The
Business Office shares the yearly budget with all stakeholders to determine how funds will be spent and to ensure an alignment with the
District Improvement Plan. More often than not, these stakeholders meet multiple times over the course of a month, being scheduled when
most individuals have availability in their schedules. However, there are some meetings that occur on a more regular basis where these
topics can be discussed: during regularly scheduled principal meetings at each division, weekly Cabinet meetings and staff meetings
occurring in the individual buildings every 1st and 3rd Monday of each month.
Describe the representations from stakeholder groups that participated in the development of the improvement plan and their
responsibilities in this process.
The Superintendent reviews District data and provides input and approval for the Academic Plan, District budgets, and District Improvement
Plan.The Board of Education reviews District data, and provides input and approval for the Academic Plan. The Cabinet reviews all District
data, participates in designing the Academic Plan and reviews and provides feedback on the District Improvement Plan. The Assistant
Superintendent of Organizational Learning reviews District data, leads and participates in the design of the Academic Plan, provides
professional development to District and school level staff to support the District Improvement and Academic Improvement Plan.The
Executive Director of Special Education reviews District data for all students and communicates the plans for the Special Education
Department K-12 to be included in the District Improvement Plan. The Assessment and Evaluation Department compiles and analyzes
District-level data (MEAP, NWEA/MAP and MME) and communicates to multiple stakeholder groups. District Curriculum Supervisors use
data findings to begin identifying possible strategies or activities which might help improve student achievement across all five content areas
(reading, writing, mathematics, science and social studies) and provides input for the development of the DIP. The School Reform Facilitators
review District and building level data, applies information from the Academic Plan into the District Improvement Plan and modifies the
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District Improvement Plan after receiving Feedback from multiple stakeholders, and provides professional development to school level staff
to support School Improvement, District Improvement and Academic Improvement Plans. Building Administrators receive District-level data,
provides input/feedback for the Academic Plan and receives a copy of the District Improvement Plan aligned to their school level plans.
Teachers receive District-level data through their building administrator, provide input/feedback on the Academic Plan during a staff meetings
and may receive a copy of the District Improvement Plan from their building administrator or from the GRPS website.
Explain how the final improvement plan was communicated to all stakeholders, and the method and frequency in which
stakeholders receive information on its progress.
The creation of the District Plan is part of a continuous cycle of reflection and improvement. It is a process that is ongoing throughout the
school year. The response provided in the first question lays out what this process looks like in GRPS. The vision and thinking from multiple
stakeholders goes into the development of the District Improvement Plan. Pieces of the District Improvement Plan are created throughout the
school year and are reviewed by the multiple stakeholders where they provide input and feedback. Once each section has been approved, it
is placed in the official ASSIST platform. Updates on progress have been ongoing as pieces of the District Improvement Plan have been
completed and approved. The Superintendent and her Cabinet will receive electronic copies of the District Improvement Plan once it is
completed. A copy of the District Improvement Plan will be placed on the GRPS website.
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District Additional Requirements Diagnostic
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Introduction
This diagnostic contains certification requirements for Michigan districts. This diagnostic must be completed by all districts.
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District Additional Requirements Diagnostic
This diagnostic contains certification requirements for Michigan districts. This diagnostic must be completed by all districts.
Label
Assurance
Response
The District School Improvement Team reviews Yes
the CIMS data.
Comment
The District Improvement team
includes and reviews CIMS data
with the special education office.
Attachment
Label
Assurance
CIMS data is used to prepare our District
Improvement Plan.
Comment
The District Improvement Team
has reviewed CIMS data to
improve outcomes for students
with IEPs.
Attachment
Label
Assurance
Response
The District Technology Protection Measure
Yes
blocks or filters adult and student internet
access to inappropriate materials (visual
depictions that are obscene, child pornography,
or harmful to minors).
Comment
Attachment
The District uses a software filter Filtering Software
which will prompt users that their
action is being denied due to
inappropriate content. Computer
Labs in the school buildings have
been connected to LAN School
which enables staff to view and
manage what all students in the
lab have on their computer
screens (desk top and laptops).
Label
Assurance
The district has a process to monitor adult and
student use of the internet.
Response
Yes
Comment
Attachment
LAN School is used in the
Technology Use
Computer Labs in the schools to Policy
allow staff to view and manage
what is being viewed on student's
and adult computers (desktop
and laptop).
Label
Assurance
The district has an Internet Safety Policy in
place.
Response
Yes
Comment
Attachment
Technology Use
Policy
Label
Assurance
The Internet Safety Policy meets the
requirements as outlined in the state
Technology Planning and CIPA requirements.
Response
Yes
Comment
Attachment
Response
Yes
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Label
Assurance
The district uses school-wide assessments to
determine the telecommunication services and
hardware support that are needed to support
teaching and learning in all schools.
Response
Yes
Comment
Attachment
The District's MIS Department
assesses the technology needs
and upgrades required in our
buildings to support teaching and
learning.
Label
Assurance
Response
The district uses the school-wide assessment
Yes
data to identify the needs of the schools in the
following areas: infrastructure (wiring, internet
connections T1, etc.) in all classrooms, in all
labs, in all media centers, in the main office, in
counseling offices, in support staff offices;
hardware; software; professional development.
If "yes," specify the needs in the comments
section.
Comment
Attachment
The District engages in ongoing
assessment of school-based
technology needs . These needs
are detailed and specific for each
site, and aggregated where
necessary at the District level.
Label
Assurance
Response
The district has identified specific actions that
Yes
promote curriculum and teaching strategies to
effectively integrate technology. If "yes," specify
the actions in the comments section.
Comment
See attached listing for District
and Building Level Educational
Technology and Software.
Label
Assurance
The district adjusts its curriculum to include
technology literacy for all students.
Comment
Attachment
The District's Curriculum
Supervisors continue to adjust
and modify the curriculum in
grades K-12 to include and
integrate increased technology
usage and literacy for all staff and
students in order to meet the new
CCSS standards. The most
recent change is Overdrive
library. This allows students to
check books out on-line and read
on-line. The partnership with the
Grand Rapids Public Library
allows all our students and staff
members to access the GRPL
databases for teaching and
learning. The teachers can
access these databases even if
they do not reside in the city of
Grand Rapids.
Response
Yes
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Technology
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Label
Assurance
Response
The district adjusts its instructional program to Yes
promote technology literacy. If "yes," specify the
adjustments in the comments section.
Comment
Attachment
Reading Street Program includes
on-line components for instruction
and assessments, Use of Gaggle
and Kidblog software for students
to submit assignments, blog,
work collaboratively with peers
and showcase their work,
MOODLE and its learning are
used as a course management
tool at the secondary level,
Symbaloo training provided to
staff to allow for a simple system
of linking students, teachers and
parents to classroom
assignments. In partnership with
the GR Public Library system
GRPS uses Overdrive to allow
students and staff to read and
checkout books on line.
Label
Assurance
Response
The institution complies with all federal laws
Yes
and regulations prohibiting discrimination and
with all requirements and regulations of the
U.S. Department of Education. It is the policy of
this institution that no person on the basis of
race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry,
age, gender, height, weight, marital status or
disability shall be subjected to discrimination in
any program, service or activity for which the
institution is responsible, or for which it receives
financial assistance from the U.S. Department
of Education.
Comment
Attachment
Non-Discrimination
Policy
Label
Assurance
The institution has designated an employee to
coordinate efforts to comply with and carry out
non-discrimination responsibilities. If "yes," list
the name, position, address and telephone
number of the employee in the comments
section.
Response
Yes
Comment
Sharron Pitts
Grand Rapids Public Schools
Assistant Superintendent of
Human Resources and General
Counsel
1331 Franklin St. SE
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49506
(616) 819-2022
Attachment
Label
Assurance
The District has a District Board Policy that is
related to Parent Involvement.
Response
Yes
Comment
Attachment
Parent-Guardian
Involvement Policy
Label
Assurance
The District has additional information
necessary to support your improvement plan.
Response
Yes
Comment
GRPS Academic Plan attached
Attachment
2014-15 Academic
Plan
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Overview
Plan Name
DIP 2014-15
Plan Description
Revised 12.18.14
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Goals Summary
The following is a summary of the goals encompassed in this plan. The details for each goal are available in the next section.
#
1
Goal Name
All programs in Grand Rapids Public Schools will
increase their parent/community involvement.
2
All schools will improve the academic learning
behaviors and environment for all students.
3
The District will support all school administrators
and teachers in the Teacher Evaluation Process
4
All students in Grand Rapids Public Schools will be
proficient readers.
5
All students in Grand Rapids Public Schools will be
supported by an adult.
6
All students in Grand Rapids Public Schools will be
proficient in Mathematics.
7
All students in Grand Rapids Public Schools will be
proficient in Science.
8
All students in Grand Rapids Public Schools will be
proficient writers.
9
All students in Grand Rapids Public Schools will be
proficient in Social Studies
10
Adults in the District will be supported through
leadership opportunitites
Goal Details
Objectives:1
Strategies:1
Activities:5
Objectives:1
Strategies:1
Activities:3
Objectives:1
Strategies:1
Activities:1
Objectives:24
Strategies:5
Activities:28
Objectives:1
Strategies:1
Activities:12
Objectives:26
Strategies:5
Activities:28
Objectives:21
Strategies:3
Activities:21
Objectives:14
Strategies:3
Activities:22
Objectives:7
Strategies:3
Activities:21
Objectives:1
Strategies:1
Activities:7
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Organizational
Total Funding
$727500
Organizational
$1005000
Organizational
$0
Academic
$6666349
Organizational
$3703638
Academic
$714000
Academic
$0
Academic
$0
Academic
$0
Organizational
$428201
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Goal 1: All programs in Grand Rapids Public Schools will increase their parent/community
involvement.
Measurable Objective 1:
collaborate to increase parent and community involvement in our programs by 06/06/2014 as measured by Sign-in Sheets .
Strategy 1:
Parent/Community Involvement - The District will provide and support a variety of opportunities that will increase parent and community involvement within our
programs by providing KSSN workers in some of our programs, scheduling PTCC (Parent Teacher Community Council) meetings and Parent University Events.
The 2014-15 Parent Engagement Goals are :
1. Improve student attendance by reducing chronic absenteeism by 10%
2. Increase parental engagement in support of student success
Research Cited: Epstein, J. (1995). School/family/community partnerships: Caring for the children we share. Phi Delta Kappan, 72(5), 701-712.
“Communicating with parents is one of six major types of parent involvement practices critical to establishing strong working relationships between teachers and
parents. Cultivating the teacher-parent relationship is also considered vital to the development of schools as learning communities.”
Tier:
Activity - Parent Engagement Office
Activity
Type
Tier
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The District will employ individuals who support and develop
partnerships of families, schools and community.
Parent
Involvemen
t
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $85000
Other
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The Office of Parent Engagement will support the work of
school, parent and community partnerships.
The Parent E
Mission will partner together for student success. The Parent
Engagement Office oversees the following components of the
GRPS Parnet Engagement Plan:
Parent Action Leader, Parent University, Parent Engagement
Collaborative
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Parent Teacher Community Council (PTCC)
Activity
Type
The District will provide an avenue and structure for parental
involvement at each school which will provide for parental
advocacy and leadership, teacher awareness (to increase
partnerships with parents), and support of the communityschool culture.
Parent
Involvemen
t
Tier
Phase
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Parent Action Leader (P.A.L.)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
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Executive
Director of
Community
and
Student
Affairs,
Counselor
Coordinator
,
Supervisor
of
Community
and
Student
Services,
Parent
Engageme
nt
Coordinator
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Director of
Community
and
Student
Affairs,
Counselor
Coordinator
,
Supervisor
of
Community
and
Student
Services,
Parent
Engageme
nt
Coordinator
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
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The District will pay one parent per building a stipend who will
serve as the liaison between families, schools and the District.
Parent
Involvemen
t
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $35000
General
Fund
Executive
Director of
Community
and
Student
Affairs,
Counselor
Coordinator
,
Supervisor
of
Community
and
Student
Services,
Parent
Engageme
nt
Coordinator
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Parent University
Activity
Type
Tier
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At the request of parents, Grand Rapids Public Schools and
Believe 2 Become have partnered together to open the
GRPS/B2B Parent University beginning in the fall of 2013.
Other
Implement
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Title I Part
A, Other
Executive
Director of
Community
and
Student
Affairs,
Counselor
Coordinator
,
Supervisor
of
Community
and
Student
Services,
Parent
Engageme
nt
Coordinator
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
The District will facilitate skill development and opportunities
for parents to become full partners in their child's education.
The District will offer courses around the following themes:
Effective Parenting, Personal Growth and Development, Health
and Wellness and Navigating the Educational System
Parent University is a community collaborative to help parents
become full partners in their child’s education. It will offer
modules, activities, workshops, classes, conferences,
mentoring and coaching to equip parents for success.
Additionally, Parent University Ambassadors will be utilized to
assist parents with course enrollment.
Our vision is all parents will become confident advocates of
their children’s success by receiving the affirmation, support,
and reinforcement needed to strengthen their effectiveness.
We believe. . .
Parents want their children to succeed.
Parents have the potential to contribute positively to their
child’s success.
Parents want respectful partnerships with their child’s school.
Parents are looking for solutions.
.
Schools:All Schools
Activity - KSSN
Activity
Type
Tier
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The District, in conjunction with Kent Schools Services Network Parent
(KSSN), will provide socio-emotional community oriented
Involvemen
services and supports for students and their families in the
t
designated school sites where KSSN providers are assigned.
KSSN works directly with teachers to assist them in supporting
students in their classrooms who receive services from KSSN.
KSSN provides activities for staff to use with parents to build
the parental/school relationship in the hopes to increase
parental involvement.
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $402500
Title I Part
A
Schools:Coit Arts Academy, Stocking School, Cesar E. Chavez
Elementary, Dickinson School, Burton Middle School, Harrison
Park Elementary School, Southwest Community Campus
School, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy, Burton
Elementary School, Sibley School
Executive
Director of
Community
and
Student
Affairs,
Counselor
Coordinator
,
Supervisor
of
Community
and
Student
Services,
Parent
Engageme
nt
Coordinator
Goal 2: All schools will improve the academic learning behaviors and environment for all
students.
Measurable Objective 1:
collaborate to work with and support all schools as they implement PBIS within their buildings to create an environment that is conducive to learning by 06/12/2014 as
measured by SWIS data, building observations and administrative evaluations.
Strategy 1:
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports - The District will implement Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports in all schools to improve the academic
learning behaviors of students. The District will employ District staff who provide consult services to building level PBIS teams. All staff will be trained to adopt common
classroom and building-wide expectations. All students will learn and review expectations, multiple times throughout the building, over the school year. Each building
will use SWIS data to determine target areas for improvement allowing staff to differentiate training to meet student and adult identified areas of need.
Research Cited: Dunlap, Kelly; Goodman, Steve, Ph.D.; McEvoy, Chris; and Paris, Frances, Ph.D. (2010). School-wide Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports.
Implementation Guide 2010. Michigan Department of Education.
“Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports has developed into a framework that can be used by any school to help improve the social and learning behaviors of
students and decrease disruptions that interfere with instruction. School-wide Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) is a prevention model. It is based on
the premise that all students can benefit from well implemented, evidence-based practices for improving student behavior. It provides informed decision-making, based
upon data analysis that guides the process of assessing student needs and providing additional levels of behavioral support to students in need.”
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Tier:
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
The District will employ personnel who will provide
Professiona
professional learning opportunities for individuals, small groups l Learning
and whole buildings. The professional learning will be
differentiated to meet the needs for classrooms and schools
across the District who are working toward improving the
environment for students in a manner that is conducive to
learning.
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $985000
Special
Education
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Professional Learning (special education)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
The special education division will provide professional learning Professiona
for ancillary and center based program staff to support the
l Learning
development of Positive Based Intervention Support systems at
each building site
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Behavior Specialist (Focus School)
Activity
Type
The District will employ Behavior Specialists who will work in
our identified Priority Schools. They will work closely on both
academic achievement and behavioral improvement for
identified students in need of these supports.
Other
Tier
Schools:Coit Arts Academy
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $20000
Staff
Responsibl
e
Building
Administrat
ors, PBIS
District
Support
Team,
Building
PBIS
Teams
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Director of
Special
Education,
Compliance
Officer of
Special
Education,
and Special
Education
Supervisior
s
Source Of
Funding
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Behavior
Specialists,
Director of
Special
Education
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Goal 3: The District will support all school administrators and teachers in the Teacher Evaluation
Process
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Measurable Objective 1:
collaborate to improve teaching and learning across the District through the Teaching Evaluation Process by 06/06/2014 as measured by Teacher Evaluations and
Student Achievement Data .
Strategy 1:
Improvement-Focused Teacher Evaluation System - The District will collaborate with building administrators and teachers to implement and use an improvement
focused evaluation system. The Districts will train principals and teachers on the cyclical process of classroom observation using the Danielson Rubric to guide
feedback and identify areas of improvement. The purpose of the system is to identify quality teaching, provide consistent objective feedback, and targeted professional
learning to instructors, to ultimately improve the educational outcomes for GRPS students.
Research Cited: “Measures of Effective Teaching Project” January 2013, American Institutes for Research, Cambridge Education, University of Chicago, The
Danielson Group, Dartmouth College, Educational Testing Service, Empirical Education, Harvard University, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards,
National Math and Science Initiative, New Teacher Center, University of Michigan, RAND, Rutgers University, University of Southern California, Stanford University,
Teachscape, University of Texas, University of Virginia, University of Washington , and Westat.
“…guiding principles based on three years’ of study, observation, and collaboration with districts…these guiding principles …fall in to three overarching
imperatives…Measure Effective teaching; Ensure High-Quality Data; and Invest in Improvement. Well designed evaluation systems will continually improve
overtime…”
Tier:
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will provide professional learning opportunities for Professiona
building administrators and teachers on the Teacher Evaluation l Learning
Process. The District will provide training and deepen both
building administrator and teacher understanding of the
components of the Danielson Rubric and the connection to
quality teaching and learning.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Human
Required
Resources
Department
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Goal 4: All students in Grand Rapids Public Schools will be proficient readers.
Measurable Objective 1:
75% of Pre-K grade students will demonstrate a proficiency in knowing 10 or more letters in English Language Arts by 06/05/2015 as measured by the District
Preschool Assessment.
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(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction (Preschool) - The District will implement Differentiated Instruction for preschool students to ensure that they are learning skills to prepare them
for Kindergarten in a way that is developmentally appropriate for this age group.
Research Cited: Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier:
Activity - Preschool Readiness
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will employ staff who will differentiate instruction for Other
preschool students to ensure their readiness for Kindergarten
the following school year.
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Brookside School,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Campus Elementary,
Palmer School, Congress Elementary, East Leonard School,
Harrison Elementary, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Grand
Rapids Montessori Public School, Stocking School, Cesar E.
Chavez Elementary, Kent Hills School, Ken-O-Sha EC & SE
Center, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy, Southwest
Community Campus School, Sibley School, Burton Elementary
School
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $1800000
Source Of
Funding
Other
Staff
Responsibl
e
Director of
Early
Childhood
Programs
and Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning
Measurable Objective 2:
75% of Pre-K grade students will demonstrate a proficiency in knowing 10-20 letter sounds in English Language Arts by 06/05/2015 as measured by the District
Preschool Assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction (Preschool) - The District will implement Differentiated Instruction for preschool students to ensure that they are learning skills to prepare them
for Kindergarten in a way that is developmentally appropriate for this age group.
Research Cited: Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier:
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Activity - Preschool Readiness
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
The District will employ staff who will differentiate instruction for Other
preschool students to ensure their readiness for Kindergarten
the following school year.
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $1800000
Source Of
Funding
Other
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Brookside School,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Campus Elementary,
Palmer School, Congress Elementary, East Leonard School,
Harrison Elementary, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Grand
Rapids Montessori Public School, Stocking School, Cesar E.
Chavez Elementary, Kent Hills School, Ken-O-Sha EC & SE
Center, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy, Southwest
Community Campus School, Sibley School, Burton Elementary
School
Staff
Responsibl
e
Director of
Early
Childhood
Programs
and Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning
Measurable Objective 3:
57% of Third, Fourth and Fifth grade students will demonstrate a proficiency in reading content in Reading by 06/05/2015 as measured by the state assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction (K-12) - The District will implement Differentiated Instruction through the use and implementation of Professional Learning Opportunities,
Project Learning (middle/high), Fluency and Skill Development, SIOP, Data Analysis, Monitoring and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
Professiona Tier 1
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
l Learning
District. Professional Learning will be differentiated to meet the
needs of the staff who will attend.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $149000
Title II Part Assistant
A
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisor and Curriculum Writing
Curriculum Tier 1
Team will design units and lessons that will provide
Developme
opportunities throughout the school year for students to be
nt
engaged in a variety of project learning activities that support
their instructional goals. These projects will be differentiated in
nature and provide choice to students regarding the type of
project they will complete and will be rigorous and challenging
for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
Blandford Nature Center, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids
University Preparatory Academy, Riverside Middle School,
Union High School, Innovation Central High School, City High
Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will allot time in the daily schedule to allow staff to Curriculum Tier 1
use a variety of activities that will allow students to become
Developme
fluent with essential foundational skills. The students will
nt
practice these foundational skills often enough so that they can
flexibly engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
Administrat
ors and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who have populations with second language learners. Support
These individuals will train staff on how to implement the SIOP Program
framework in their classrooms to support and provide
differentiated techniques which will support the learning needs
of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $200000
Title III
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
ELL
Department
, Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Buchanan
School, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Park Elementary
School, Palmer School, Congress Elementary, Westwood
Middle School, Stocking School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary,
Burton Middle School, Union High School, Newcomers
Community School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Southwest Community Campus School, Sibley School, Burton
Elementary School
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively with Other
individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide data,
design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement.
Tier 1
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $560860
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I Part Data
A, Title II
Support
Part A, Title Specialist,
I Part A
Assessmen
t and
Evaluation
Department
, Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or,Student
Information
Services
and
Teaching
Staff.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/04/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Activity - Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will implement PLCs to develop staff capacity in
providing effective research-based instruction by engaging
teachers in frequent collaboration and dialogue. PLCs are an
embedded professional development model which includes:
the examination of instructional practices, including
differentiation, student work, strategies for at-risk students,
LearningWalks, Content Focused Coaching, observation and
feedback conferences. Participants of PLCs include but are
not limited to: District Curriculum Supervisors, Content
Coaches, teaching staff and building principals.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $204000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $183829
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Specialist Teacher
The District will employ Reading Specialist Teachers within
Academic
identified Priority Schools who will deliver supplementary
Support
instruction to identified students. This instructional support will Program
reflect state and district content expectations through the use of
effective strategies in management, instruction, student
motivation and curriculum planning.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Specialist
Teacher
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
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Staff
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The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $92000
Title I Part
A
Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $108800
Title III,
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $334860
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Teacher (Alger and Westwood)
Activity
Type
The District will place teachers who will be responsible for
Academic
providing technical expertise in reading instruction.
Support
The teachers will be responsible for ensuring that researched- Program
based best practices are implemented in grade levels 6-8. This
may include conducting model/demonstration lessons in
classrooms, coaching and assisting teachers, designing
lessons for teachers and providing regular ongoing professional
development in reading methods for all staff. The teachers will
be responsible for testing students, diagnosing reading
problems, and recommending and implementing effective
intervention strategies.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Teacher,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Alger Middle School
Activity - Reading Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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The District will employ coaches in order to support Priority
Professiona Tier 2
Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Reading Coaches l Learning
will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in successfully
implementing best practices as identified in their Reform &
Redesign Plans. Reading Coaches will provide leadership for
teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing, modeling and
facilitating change to improve the instructional program.
Reading Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $276000
Title I Part
A
Reading
Coach,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Instructiona
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Resource
Assigned
The District will hire an Instructional Improvement Coach, who
under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $89000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $128000
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Literacy Para Professional (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Literacy Para Professionals who will be Academic
responsible for assisting with promotion of literacy in
Support
elementary and K-8 buildings by working as a team member
Program
with the school staff, principal and library director in providing a
quality educational program. Responsible for concept/skill
reinforcement tasks and providing students the opportunity for
additional adult/student relationships.
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Aberdeen
Elementary, Campus Elementary
Resource
Assigned
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Literacy
Para
Professiona
ls, Building
Administrat
ors, Library
Director,
and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
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“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Other
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
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Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Academic
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Support
been developed through teacher training provided by the
Program
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Other
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper
understanding of the content being taught.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim, Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Support
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
Program
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, Riverside
Middle School, CA Frost Environmental Science Academy,
Harrison Park Elementary School, Aberdeen Elementary
School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School, Center for
Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Support
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable Program
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, CA Frost Environmental
Science Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison
Elementary, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills
School, Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Innovation Central High School, Southwest
Community Campus School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Close and Critical Reading (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop units/lessons Academic
which will incorporate close and critical reading. The teaching Support
staff will use these units/lessons to teach students how to read Program
text closely and to begin to think critically about the content
within the text. Teaching staff will utilize the guided highlighted
reading technique which will support students’ ability to
summarize, retell and synthesize complex text and increase
their ability to engage with the text. Teachers will assist
students in deepening their academic vocabulary by using it in
the context as it appears in the text.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $40000
Title I Part
A
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Dickinson School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Innovation Central
High School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin
Luther King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School,
Center for Economicology
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
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Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Other
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
(shared) Strategy 3:
Learning Targets (K-5) - The District will implement the use of Learning Targets to ensure consistent focus of learning objectives and that standards are being taught.
Research Cited: Brookhart, Susan M., and Moss, Connie M. (2012). Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today’s Lesson. ASCD.
“The most effective teaching and the most meaningful student learning happen when teachers design the right learning targets for today’s lesson and use it along with
their students to aim for and assess understanding. Learning targets are student-friendly descriptors of what you intend students to learn or accomplish in a given
lesson. When shared, meaningfully, they become actual targets that students can see and direct their efforts toward. They also serve as targets for the adults in the
school whose responsibility it is to plan, monitor, and assess, and improve the quality of learning opportunities to raise the achievement of all students.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Curriculum Maps
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop curriculum
maps which highlight instructional goals around grade-level
learning targets that are student-friendly and specific to the
needs of individual students in the classroom.
Other
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Congress Elementary, East Leonard School,
Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School,
Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills
School, Shawmut Hills School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy, Sibley
School, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Campus Elementary,
Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Coit Arts
Academy, Stocking School, Ken-O-Sha Park Elementary,
Southwest Community Campus School, Burton Elementary
School
Activity - Monitoring
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators and
Curriculum Supervisors will monitor the level of use and
effectiveness of Learning Targets in the classrooms through
LearningWalks, Classroom Observations, and through the
teacher evaluation process.
Other
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Congress Elementary, East Leonard School,
Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School,
Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills
School, Shawmut Hills School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy, Sibley
School, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Campus Elementary,
Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Coit Arts
Academy, Stocking School, Ken-O-Sha Park Elementary,
Southwest Community Campus School, Burton Elementary
School
No Funding District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Measurable Objective 4:
A 15% increase of Kindergarten grade students will demonstrate a proficiency of content in Reading by 06/05/2015 as measured by NWEA/MAP.
Strategy 1:
All Day Kindergarten - The District will implement all day kindergarten across the system. The District will monitor the progress of students who participate in all day
kindergarten to determine if their academic achievement is improving over time and what rate. In addition, the District will closely monitor the strategies and tools being
used by kindergarten classroom teachers who have the highest success rate for the purpose of replicating high quality instructional methods.
Research Cited: National Education Association and Collaborative Communications Group (2006). Full Day Kindergarten: An Advocacy Guide. NEA
NEA recognizes that full-day kindergarten programs close achievement gaps between young children from minority and low-income families and their peers. By
providing a solid foundation of learning to children from all backgrounds, full-day kindergarten programs ensure all students' academic, social, and emotional success.
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Evaluate
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
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Source Of
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The District will evaluate the current all day kindergarten
Other
program and the impact it has on overall student achievement.
In addition, the District will closely monitor the strategies and
tools being used by kindergarten classroom teachers who have
the highest success rate for the purpose of replicating high
quality instructional methods.
Tier 1
Evaluate
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $2500000
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Congress Elementary, East Leonard School,
Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School,
Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills
School, Shawmut Hills School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy, Sibley
School, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Campus Elementary,
Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Coit Arts
Academy, Stocking School, Ken-O-Sha Park Elementary,
Southwest Community Campus School, Burton Elementary
School
Title I Part
A
The
Executive
Director of
Community
and
Student
Services,
Director to
Elementary
Schools,
Executive
Director of
K-8/Middle
Schools,
and
Elementary
and K8/Middle
School
Reform
Facilitators.
Measurable Objective 5:
50% of Third, Fourth and Fifth grade Black or African-American students will demonstrate a proficiency in concepts in Reading by 06/05/2015 as measured by the
state assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction (K-12) - The District will implement Differentiated Instruction through the use and implementation of Professional Learning Opportunities,
Project Learning (middle/high), Fluency and Skill Development, SIOP, Data Analysis, Monitoring and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
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Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will employ individuals who organize the
Professiona Tier 1
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
l Learning
District. Professional Learning will be differentiated to meet the
needs of the staff who will attend.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $149000
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
Administrat
ors and
Teaching
Staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisor and Curriculum Writing
Curriculum Tier 1
Team will design units and lessons that will provide
Developme
opportunities throughout the school year for students to be
nt
engaged in a variety of project learning activities that support
their instructional goals. These projects will be differentiated in
nature and provide choice to students regarding the type of
project they will complete and will be rigorous and challenging
for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
Blandford Nature Center, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids
University Preparatory Academy, Riverside Middle School,
Union High School, Innovation Central High School, City High
Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will allot time in the daily schedule to allow staff to Curriculum Tier 1
use a variety of activities that will allow students to become
Developme
fluent with essential foundational skills. The students will
nt
practice these foundational skills often enough so that they can
flexibly engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title II Part Assistant
A
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who have populations with second language learners. Support
These individuals will train staff on how to implement the SIOP Program
framework in their classrooms to support and provide
differentiated techniques which will support the learning needs
of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $200000
Title III
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
ELL
Department
, Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Buchanan
School, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Park Elementary
School, Palmer School, Congress Elementary, Westwood
Middle School, Stocking School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary,
Burton Middle School, Union High School, Newcomers
Community School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Southwest Community Campus School, Sibley School, Burton
Elementary School
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively with Other
individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide data,
design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement.
Tier 1
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $560860
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I Part Data
A, Title II
Support
Part A, Title Specialist,
I Part A
Assessmen
t and
Evaluation
Department
, Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or,Student
Information
Services
and
Teaching
Staff.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/04/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Activity - Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will implement PLCs to develop staff capacity in
providing effective research-based instruction by engaging
teachers in frequent collaboration and dialogue. PLCs are an
embedded professional development model which includes:
the examination of instructional practices, including
differentiation, student work, strategies for at-risk students,
LearningWalks, Content Focused Coaching, observation and
feedback conferences. Participants of PLCs include but are
not limited to: District Curriculum Supervisors, Content
Coaches, teaching staff and building principals.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $204000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $183829
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Specialist Teacher
The District will employ Reading Specialist Teachers within
Academic
identified Priority Schools who will deliver supplementary
Support
instruction to identified students. This instructional support will Program
reflect state and district content expectations through the use of
effective strategies in management, instruction, student
motivation and curriculum planning.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Specialist
Teacher
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
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Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $92000
Title I Part
A
Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $108800
Title III,
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $334860
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Teacher (Alger and Westwood)
Activity
Type
The District will place teachers who will be responsible for
Academic
providing technical expertise in reading instruction.
Support
The teachers will be responsible for ensuring that researched- Program
based best practices are implemented in grade levels 6-8. This
may include conducting model/demonstration lessons in
classrooms, coaching and assisting teachers, designing
lessons for teachers and providing regular ongoing professional
development in reading methods for all staff. The teachers will
be responsible for testing students, diagnosing reading
problems, and recommending and implementing effective
intervention strategies.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Teacher,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Alger Middle School
Activity - Reading Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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Staff
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The District will employ coaches in order to support Priority
Professiona Tier 2
Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Reading Coaches l Learning
will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in successfully
implementing best practices as identified in their Reform &
Redesign Plans. Reading Coaches will provide leadership for
teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing, modeling and
facilitating change to improve the instructional program.
Reading Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $276000
Title I Part
A
Reading
Coach,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Instructiona
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Resource
Assigned
The District will hire an Instructional Improvement Coach, who
under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $89000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $128000
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Literacy Para Professional (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Literacy Para Professionals who will be Academic
responsible for assisting with promotion of literacy in
Support
elementary and K-8 buildings by working as a team member
Program
with the school staff, principal and library director in providing a
quality educational program. Responsible for concept/skill
reinforcement tasks and providing students the opportunity for
additional adult/student relationships.
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Aberdeen
Elementary, Campus Elementary
Resource
Assigned
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Literacy
Para
Professiona
ls, Building
Administrat
ors, Library
Director,
and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
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“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Other
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
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Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Academic
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Support
been developed through teacher training provided by the
Program
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Other
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper
understanding of the content being taught.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim, Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Support
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
Program
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, Riverside
Middle School, CA Frost Environmental Science Academy,
Harrison Park Elementary School, Aberdeen Elementary
School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School, Center for
Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
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Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Support
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable Program
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, CA Frost Environmental
Science Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison
Elementary, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills
School, Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Innovation Central High School, Southwest
Community Campus School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Close and Critical Reading (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop units/lessons Academic
which will incorporate close and critical reading. The teaching Support
staff will use these units/lessons to teach students how to read Program
text closely and to begin to think critically about the content
within the text. Teaching staff will utilize the guided highlighted
reading technique which will support students’ ability to
summarize, retell and synthesize complex text and increase
their ability to engage with the text. Teachers will assist
students in deepening their academic vocabulary by using it in
the context as it appears in the text.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $40000
Title I Part
A
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Dickinson School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Innovation Central
High School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin
Luther King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School,
Center for Economicology
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Other
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
(shared) Strategy 3:
Learning Targets (K-5) - The District will implement the use of Learning Targets to ensure consistent focus of learning objectives and that standards are being taught.
Research Cited: Brookhart, Susan M., and Moss, Connie M. (2012). Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today’s Lesson. ASCD.
“The most effective teaching and the most meaningful student learning happen when teachers design the right learning targets for today’s lesson and use it along with
their students to aim for and assess understanding. Learning targets are student-friendly descriptors of what you intend students to learn or accomplish in a given
lesson. When shared, meaningfully, they become actual targets that students can see and direct their efforts toward. They also serve as targets for the adults in the
school whose responsibility it is to plan, monitor, and assess, and improve the quality of learning opportunities to raise the achievement of all students.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Curriculum Maps
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop curriculum
maps which highlight instructional goals around grade-level
learning targets that are student-friendly and specific to the
needs of individual students in the classroom.
Other
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Congress Elementary, East Leonard School,
Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School,
Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills
School, Shawmut Hills School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy, Sibley
School, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Campus Elementary,
Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Coit Arts
Academy, Stocking School, Ken-O-Sha Park Elementary,
Southwest Community Campus School, Burton Elementary
School
Activity - Monitoring
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Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators and
Curriculum Supervisors will monitor the level of use and
effectiveness of Learning Targets in the classrooms through
LearningWalks, Classroom Observations, and through the
teacher evaluation process.
Other
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Congress Elementary, East Leonard School,
Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School,
Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills
School, Shawmut Hills School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy, Sibley
School, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Campus Elementary,
Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Coit Arts
Academy, Stocking School, Ken-O-Sha Park Elementary,
Southwest Community Campus School, Burton Elementary
School
No Funding District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Measurable Objective 6:
52% of Third, Fourth and Fifth grade Hispanic or Latino students will demonstrate a proficiency in concepts in Reading by 06/05/2015 as measured by the state
assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction (K-12) - The District will implement Differentiated Instruction through the use and implementation of Professional Learning Opportunities,
Project Learning (middle/high), Fluency and Skill Development, SIOP, Data Analysis, Monitoring and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
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Source Of
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
Professiona Tier 1
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
l Learning
District. Professional Learning will be differentiated to meet the
needs of the staff who will attend.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $149000
Title II Part Assistant
A
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisor and Curriculum Writing
Curriculum Tier 1
Team will design units and lessons that will provide
Developme
opportunities throughout the school year for students to be
nt
engaged in a variety of project learning activities that support
their instructional goals. These projects will be differentiated in
nature and provide choice to students regarding the type of
project they will complete and will be rigorous and challenging
for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
Blandford Nature Center, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids
University Preparatory Academy, Riverside Middle School,
Union High School, Innovation Central High School, City High
Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will allot time in the daily schedule to allow staff to Curriculum Tier 1
use a variety of activities that will allow students to become
Developme
fluent with essential foundational skills. The students will
nt
practice these foundational skills often enough so that they can
flexibly engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
Administrat
ors and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Source Of
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who have populations with second language learners. Support
These individuals will train staff on how to implement the SIOP Program
framework in their classrooms to support and provide
differentiated techniques which will support the learning needs
of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $200000
Title III
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
ELL
Department
, Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Buchanan
School, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Park Elementary
School, Palmer School, Congress Elementary, Westwood
Middle School, Stocking School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary,
Burton Middle School, Union High School, Newcomers
Community School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Southwest Community Campus School, Sibley School, Burton
Elementary School
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively with Other
individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide data,
design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement.
Tier 1
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $560860
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
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Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I Part Data
A, Title II
Support
Part A, Title Specialist,
I Part A
Assessmen
t and
Evaluation
Department
, Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or,Student
Information
Services
and
Teaching
Staff.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/04/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Activity - Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will implement PLCs to develop staff capacity in
providing effective research-based instruction by engaging
teachers in frequent collaboration and dialogue. PLCs are an
embedded professional development model which includes:
the examination of instructional practices, including
differentiation, student work, strategies for at-risk students,
LearningWalks, Content Focused Coaching, observation and
feedback conferences. Participants of PLCs include but are
not limited to: District Curriculum Supervisors, Content
Coaches, teaching staff and building principals.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $204000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $183829
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Specialist Teacher
The District will employ Reading Specialist Teachers within
Academic
identified Priority Schools who will deliver supplementary
Support
instruction to identified students. This instructional support will Program
reflect state and district content expectations through the use of
effective strategies in management, instruction, student
motivation and curriculum planning.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Specialist
Teacher
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
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Staff
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The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $92000
Title I Part
A
Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $108800
Title III,
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $334860
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Teacher (Alger and Westwood)
Activity
Type
The District will place teachers who will be responsible for
Academic
providing technical expertise in reading instruction.
Support
The teachers will be responsible for ensuring that researched- Program
based best practices are implemented in grade levels 6-8. This
may include conducting model/demonstration lessons in
classrooms, coaching and assisting teachers, designing
lessons for teachers and providing regular ongoing professional
development in reading methods for all staff. The teachers will
be responsible for testing students, diagnosing reading
problems, and recommending and implementing effective
intervention strategies.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Teacher,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Alger Middle School
Activity - Reading Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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The District will employ coaches in order to support Priority
Professiona Tier 2
Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Reading Coaches l Learning
will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in successfully
implementing best practices as identified in their Reform &
Redesign Plans. Reading Coaches will provide leadership for
teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing, modeling and
facilitating change to improve the instructional program.
Reading Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $276000
Title I Part
A
Reading
Coach,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Instructiona
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Resource
Assigned
The District will hire an Instructional Improvement Coach, who
under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $89000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $128000
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Literacy Para Professional (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Literacy Para Professionals who will be Academic
responsible for assisting with promotion of literacy in
Support
elementary and K-8 buildings by working as a team member
Program
with the school staff, principal and library director in providing a
quality educational program. Responsible for concept/skill
reinforcement tasks and providing students the opportunity for
additional adult/student relationships.
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Aberdeen
Elementary, Campus Elementary
Resource
Assigned
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Literacy
Para
Professiona
ls, Building
Administrat
ors, Library
Director,
and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
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“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Other
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Academic
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Support
been developed through teacher training provided by the
Program
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Other
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper
understanding of the content being taught.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim, Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Support
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
Program
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, Riverside
Middle School, CA Frost Environmental Science Academy,
Harrison Park Elementary School, Aberdeen Elementary
School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School, Center for
Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Support
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable Program
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, CA Frost Environmental
Science Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison
Elementary, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills
School, Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Innovation Central High School, Southwest
Community Campus School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Close and Critical Reading (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop units/lessons Academic
which will incorporate close and critical reading. The teaching Support
staff will use these units/lessons to teach students how to read Program
text closely and to begin to think critically about the content
within the text. Teaching staff will utilize the guided highlighted
reading technique which will support students’ ability to
summarize, retell and synthesize complex text and increase
their ability to engage with the text. Teachers will assist
students in deepening their academic vocabulary by using it in
the context as it appears in the text.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $40000
Title I Part
A
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Dickinson School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Innovation Central
High School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin
Luther King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School,
Center for Economicology
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Other
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
(shared) Strategy 3:
Learning Targets (K-5) - The District will implement the use of Learning Targets to ensure consistent focus of learning objectives and that standards are being taught.
Research Cited: Brookhart, Susan M., and Moss, Connie M. (2012). Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today’s Lesson. ASCD.
“The most effective teaching and the most meaningful student learning happen when teachers design the right learning targets for today’s lesson and use it along with
their students to aim for and assess understanding. Learning targets are student-friendly descriptors of what you intend students to learn or accomplish in a given
lesson. When shared, meaningfully, they become actual targets that students can see and direct their efforts toward. They also serve as targets for the adults in the
school whose responsibility it is to plan, monitor, and assess, and improve the quality of learning opportunities to raise the achievement of all students.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Curriculum Maps
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop curriculum
maps which highlight instructional goals around grade-level
learning targets that are student-friendly and specific to the
needs of individual students in the classroom.
Other
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Congress Elementary, East Leonard School,
Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School,
Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills
School, Shawmut Hills School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy, Sibley
School, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Campus Elementary,
Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Coit Arts
Academy, Stocking School, Ken-O-Sha Park Elementary,
Southwest Community Campus School, Burton Elementary
School
Activity - Monitoring
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators and
Curriculum Supervisors will monitor the level of use and
effectiveness of Learning Targets in the classrooms through
LearningWalks, Classroom Observations, and through the
teacher evaluation process.
Other
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Congress Elementary, East Leonard School,
Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School,
Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills
School, Shawmut Hills School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy, Sibley
School, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Campus Elementary,
Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Coit Arts
Academy, Stocking School, Ken-O-Sha Park Elementary,
Southwest Community Campus School, Burton Elementary
School
No Funding District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Measurable Objective 7:
73% of Third, Fourth and Fifth grade White students will demonstrate a proficiency in concepts in Reading by 06/05/2015 as measured by the state assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction (K-12) - The District will implement Differentiated Instruction through the use and implementation of Professional Learning Opportunities,
Project Learning (middle/high), Fluency and Skill Development, SIOP, Data Analysis, Monitoring and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
Professiona Tier 1
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
l Learning
District. Professional Learning will be differentiated to meet the
needs of the staff who will attend.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $149000
Title II Part Assistant
A
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisor and Curriculum Writing
Curriculum Tier 1
Team will design units and lessons that will provide
Developme
opportunities throughout the school year for students to be
nt
engaged in a variety of project learning activities that support
their instructional goals. These projects will be differentiated in
nature and provide choice to students regarding the type of
project they will complete and will be rigorous and challenging
for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
Blandford Nature Center, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids
University Preparatory Academy, Riverside Middle School,
Union High School, Innovation Central High School, City High
Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will allot time in the daily schedule to allow staff to Curriculum Tier 1
use a variety of activities that will allow students to become
Developme
fluent with essential foundational skills. The students will
nt
practice these foundational skills often enough so that they can
flexibly engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
Administrat
ors and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who have populations with second language learners. Support
These individuals will train staff on how to implement the SIOP Program
framework in their classrooms to support and provide
differentiated techniques which will support the learning needs
of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $200000
Title III
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
ELL
Department
, Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Buchanan
School, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Park Elementary
School, Palmer School, Congress Elementary, Westwood
Middle School, Stocking School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary,
Burton Middle School, Union High School, Newcomers
Community School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Southwest Community Campus School, Sibley School, Burton
Elementary School
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively with Other
individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide data,
design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement.
Tier 1
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $560860
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title II Part Data
A, Title I
Support
Part A, Title Specialist,
I Part A
Assessmen
t and
Evaluation
Department
, Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or,Student
Information
Services
and
Teaching
Staff.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/04/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Activity - Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will implement PLCs to develop staff capacity in
providing effective research-based instruction by engaging
teachers in frequent collaboration and dialogue. PLCs are an
embedded professional development model which includes:
the examination of instructional practices, including
differentiation, student work, strategies for at-risk students,
LearningWalks, Content Focused Coaching, observation and
feedback conferences. Participants of PLCs include but are
not limited to: District Curriculum Supervisors, Content
Coaches, teaching staff and building principals.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $204000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $183829
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Specialist Teacher
The District will employ Reading Specialist Teachers within
Academic
identified Priority Schools who will deliver supplementary
Support
instruction to identified students. This instructional support will Program
reflect state and district content expectations through the use of
effective strategies in management, instruction, student
motivation and curriculum planning.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Specialist
Teacher
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $92000
Title I Part
A
Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $108800
Title III,
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $334860
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Teacher (Alger and Westwood)
Activity
Type
The District will place teachers who will be responsible for
Academic
providing technical expertise in reading instruction.
Support
The teachers will be responsible for ensuring that researched- Program
based best practices are implemented in grade levels 6-8. This
may include conducting model/demonstration lessons in
classrooms, coaching and assisting teachers, designing
lessons for teachers and providing regular ongoing professional
development in reading methods for all staff. The teachers will
be responsible for testing students, diagnosing reading
problems, and recommending and implementing effective
intervention strategies.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Teacher,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Alger Middle School
Activity - Reading Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ coaches in order to support Priority
Professiona Tier 2
Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Reading Coaches l Learning
will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in successfully
implementing best practices as identified in their Reform &
Redesign Plans. Reading Coaches will provide leadership for
teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing, modeling and
facilitating change to improve the instructional program.
Reading Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $276000
Title I Part
A
Reading
Coach,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Instructiona
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Resource
Assigned
The District will hire an Instructional Improvement Coach, who
under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $89000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $128000
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Literacy Para Professional (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Literacy Para Professionals who will be Academic
responsible for assisting with promotion of literacy in
Support
elementary and K-8 buildings by working as a team member
Program
with the school staff, principal and library director in providing a
quality educational program. Responsible for concept/skill
reinforcement tasks and providing students the opportunity for
additional adult/student relationships.
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Aberdeen
Elementary, Campus Elementary
Resource
Assigned
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Literacy
Para
Professiona
ls, Building
Administrat
ors, Library
Director,
and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
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“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Other
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Academic
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Support
been developed through teacher training provided by the
Program
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Other
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper
understanding of the content being taught.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim, Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Support
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
Program
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, Riverside
Middle School, CA Frost Environmental Science Academy,
Harrison Park Elementary School, Aberdeen Elementary
School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School, Center for
Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Support
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable Program
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, CA Frost Environmental
Science Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison
Elementary, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills
School, Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Innovation Central High School, Southwest
Community Campus School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Close and Critical Reading (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop units/lessons Academic
which will incorporate close and critical reading. The teaching Support
staff will use these units/lessons to teach students how to read Program
text closely and to begin to think critically about the content
within the text. Teaching staff will utilize the guided highlighted
reading technique which will support students’ ability to
summarize, retell and synthesize complex text and increase
their ability to engage with the text. Teachers will assist
students in deepening their academic vocabulary by using it in
the context as it appears in the text.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $40000
Title I Part
A
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Dickinson School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Innovation Central
High School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin
Luther King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School,
Center for Economicology
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Other
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
(shared) Strategy 3:
Learning Targets (K-5) - The District will implement the use of Learning Targets to ensure consistent focus of learning objectives and that standards are being taught.
Research Cited: Brookhart, Susan M., and Moss, Connie M. (2012). Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today’s Lesson. ASCD.
“The most effective teaching and the most meaningful student learning happen when teachers design the right learning targets for today’s lesson and use it along with
their students to aim for and assess understanding. Learning targets are student-friendly descriptors of what you intend students to learn or accomplish in a given
lesson. When shared, meaningfully, they become actual targets that students can see and direct their efforts toward. They also serve as targets for the adults in the
school whose responsibility it is to plan, monitor, and assess, and improve the quality of learning opportunities to raise the achievement of all students.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Curriculum Maps
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop curriculum
maps which highlight instructional goals around grade-level
learning targets that are student-friendly and specific to the
needs of individual students in the classroom.
Other
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Congress Elementary, East Leonard School,
Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School,
Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills
School, Shawmut Hills School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy, Sibley
School, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Campus Elementary,
Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Coit Arts
Academy, Stocking School, Ken-O-Sha Park Elementary,
Southwest Community Campus School, Burton Elementary
School
Activity - Monitoring
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators and
Curriculum Supervisors will monitor the level of use and
effectiveness of Learning Targets in the classrooms through
LearningWalks, Classroom Observations, and through the
teacher evaluation process.
Other
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Congress Elementary, East Leonard School,
Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School,
Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills
School, Shawmut Hills School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy, Sibley
School, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Campus Elementary,
Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Coit Arts
Academy, Stocking School, Ken-O-Sha Park Elementary,
Southwest Community Campus School, Burton Elementary
School
No Funding District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Measurable Objective 8:
54% of Third, Fourth and Fifth grade Economically Disadvantaged students will demonstrate a proficiency in concepts in Reading by 06/05/2015 as measured by the
state assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction (K-12) - The District will implement Differentiated Instruction through the use and implementation of Professional Learning Opportunities,
Project Learning (middle/high), Fluency and Skill Development, SIOP, Data Analysis, Monitoring and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
Professiona Tier 1
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
l Learning
District. Professional Learning will be differentiated to meet the
needs of the staff who will attend.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $149000
Title II Part Assistant
A
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisor and Curriculum Writing
Curriculum Tier 1
Team will design units and lessons that will provide
Developme
opportunities throughout the school year for students to be
nt
engaged in a variety of project learning activities that support
their instructional goals. These projects will be differentiated in
nature and provide choice to students regarding the type of
project they will complete and will be rigorous and challenging
for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
Blandford Nature Center, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids
University Preparatory Academy, Riverside Middle School,
Union High School, Innovation Central High School, City High
Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will allot time in the daily schedule to allow staff to Curriculum Tier 1
use a variety of activities that will allow students to become
Developme
fluent with essential foundational skills. The students will
nt
practice these foundational skills often enough so that they can
flexibly engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
Administrat
ors and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who have populations with second language learners. Support
These individuals will train staff on how to implement the SIOP Program
framework in their classrooms to support and provide
differentiated techniques which will support the learning needs
of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $200000
Title III
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
ELL
Department
, Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Buchanan
School, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Park Elementary
School, Palmer School, Congress Elementary, Westwood
Middle School, Stocking School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary,
Burton Middle School, Union High School, Newcomers
Community School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Southwest Community Campus School, Sibley School, Burton
Elementary School
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively with Other
individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide data,
design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement.
Tier 1
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $560860
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I Part Data
A, Title II
Support
Part A, Title Specialist,
I Part A
Assessmen
t and
Evaluation
Department
, Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or,Student
Information
Services
and
Teaching
Staff.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/04/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Activity - Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will implement PLCs to develop staff capacity in
providing effective research-based instruction by engaging
teachers in frequent collaboration and dialogue. PLCs are an
embedded professional development model which includes:
the examination of instructional practices, including
differentiation, student work, strategies for at-risk students,
LearningWalks, Content Focused Coaching, observation and
feedback conferences. Participants of PLCs include but are
not limited to: District Curriculum Supervisors, Content
Coaches, teaching staff and building principals.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $204000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $183829
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Specialist Teacher
The District will employ Reading Specialist Teachers within
Academic
identified Priority Schools who will deliver supplementary
Support
instruction to identified students. This instructional support will Program
reflect state and district content expectations through the use of
effective strategies in management, instruction, student
motivation and curriculum planning.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Specialist
Teacher
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $92000
Title I Part
A
Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $108800
Title I Part
A, Title III
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $334860
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Teacher (Alger and Westwood)
Activity
Type
The District will place teachers who will be responsible for
Academic
providing technical expertise in reading instruction.
Support
The teachers will be responsible for ensuring that researched- Program
based best practices are implemented in grade levels 6-8. This
may include conducting model/demonstration lessons in
classrooms, coaching and assisting teachers, designing
lessons for teachers and providing regular ongoing professional
development in reading methods for all staff. The teachers will
be responsible for testing students, diagnosing reading
problems, and recommending and implementing effective
intervention strategies.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Teacher,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Alger Middle School
Activity - Reading Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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Resource
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Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ coaches in order to support Priority
Professiona Tier 2
Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Reading Coaches l Learning
will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in successfully
implementing best practices as identified in their Reform &
Redesign Plans. Reading Coaches will provide leadership for
teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing, modeling and
facilitating change to improve the instructional program.
Reading Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $276000
Title I Part
A
Reading
Coach,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Instructiona
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Resource
Assigned
The District will hire an Instructional Improvement Coach, who
under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $89000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $128000
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Literacy Para Professional (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Literacy Para Professionals who will be Academic
responsible for assisting with promotion of literacy in
Support
elementary and K-8 buildings by working as a team member
Program
with the school staff, principal and library director in providing a
quality educational program. Responsible for concept/skill
reinforcement tasks and providing students the opportunity for
additional adult/student relationships.
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Aberdeen
Elementary, Campus Elementary
Resource
Assigned
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Literacy
Para
Professiona
ls, Building
Administrat
ors, Library
Director,
and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
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“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Other
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Academic
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Support
been developed through teacher training provided by the
Program
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Other
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper
understanding of the content being taught.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim, Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Support
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
Program
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, Riverside
Middle School, CA Frost Environmental Science Academy,
Harrison Park Elementary School, Aberdeen Elementary
School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School, Center for
Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Support
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable Program
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, CA Frost Environmental
Science Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison
Elementary, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills
School, Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Innovation Central High School, Southwest
Community Campus School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Close and Critical Reading (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop units/lessons Academic
which will incorporate close and critical reading. The teaching Support
staff will use these units/lessons to teach students how to read Program
text closely and to begin to think critically about the content
within the text. Teaching staff will utilize the guided highlighted
reading technique which will support students’ ability to
summarize, retell and synthesize complex text and increase
their ability to engage with the text. Teachers will assist
students in deepening their academic vocabulary by using it in
the context as it appears in the text.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $40000
Title I Part
A
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Dickinson School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Innovation Central
High School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin
Luther King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School,
Center for Economicology
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Other
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
(shared) Strategy 3:
Learning Targets (K-5) - The District will implement the use of Learning Targets to ensure consistent focus of learning objectives and that standards are being taught.
Research Cited: Brookhart, Susan M., and Moss, Connie M. (2012). Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today’s Lesson. ASCD.
“The most effective teaching and the most meaningful student learning happen when teachers design the right learning targets for today’s lesson and use it along with
their students to aim for and assess understanding. Learning targets are student-friendly descriptors of what you intend students to learn or accomplish in a given
lesson. When shared, meaningfully, they become actual targets that students can see and direct their efforts toward. They also serve as targets for the adults in the
school whose responsibility it is to plan, monitor, and assess, and improve the quality of learning opportunities to raise the achievement of all students.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Curriculum Maps
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop curriculum
maps which highlight instructional goals around grade-level
learning targets that are student-friendly and specific to the
needs of individual students in the classroom.
Other
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Congress Elementary, East Leonard School,
Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School,
Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills
School, Shawmut Hills School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy, Sibley
School, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Campus Elementary,
Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Coit Arts
Academy, Stocking School, Ken-O-Sha Park Elementary,
Southwest Community Campus School, Burton Elementary
School
Activity - Monitoring
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators and
Curriculum Supervisors will monitor the level of use and
effectiveness of Learning Targets in the classrooms through
LearningWalks, Classroom Observations, and through the
teacher evaluation process.
Other
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Congress Elementary, East Leonard School,
Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School,
Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills
School, Shawmut Hills School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy, Sibley
School, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Campus Elementary,
Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Coit Arts
Academy, Stocking School, Ken-O-Sha Park Elementary,
Southwest Community Campus School, Burton Elementary
School
No Funding District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Measurable Objective 9:
41% of Third, Fourth and Fifth grade English Learners students will demonstrate a proficiency in concepts in Reading by 06/05/2015 as measured by the state
assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction (K-12) - The District will implement Differentiated Instruction through the use and implementation of Professional Learning Opportunities,
Project Learning (middle/high), Fluency and Skill Development, SIOP, Data Analysis, Monitoring and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
Professiona Tier 1
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
l Learning
District. Professional Learning will be differentiated to meet the
needs of the staff who will attend.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $149000
Title II Part Assistant
A
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisor and Curriculum Writing
Curriculum Tier 1
Team will design units and lessons that will provide
Developme
opportunities throughout the school year for students to be
nt
engaged in a variety of project learning activities that support
their instructional goals. These projects will be differentiated in
nature and provide choice to students regarding the type of
project they will complete and will be rigorous and challenging
for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
Blandford Nature Center, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids
University Preparatory Academy, Riverside Middle School,
Union High School, Innovation Central High School, City High
Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will allot time in the daily schedule to allow staff to Curriculum Tier 1
use a variety of activities that will allow students to become
Developme
fluent with essential foundational skills. The students will
nt
practice these foundational skills often enough so that they can
flexibly engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
Administrat
ors and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Source Of
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who have populations with second language learners. Support
These individuals will train staff on how to implement the SIOP Program
framework in their classrooms to support and provide
differentiated techniques which will support the learning needs
of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $200000
Title III
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
ELL
Department
, Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Buchanan
School, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Park Elementary
School, Palmer School, Congress Elementary, Westwood
Middle School, Stocking School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary,
Burton Middle School, Union High School, Newcomers
Community School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Southwest Community Campus School, Sibley School, Burton
Elementary School
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively with Other
individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide data,
design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement.
Tier 1
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $560860
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I Part Data
A, Title I
Support
Part A, Title Specialist,
II Part A
Assessmen
t and
Evaluation
Department
, Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or,Student
Information
Services
and
Teaching
Staff.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/04/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Activity - Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will implement PLCs to develop staff capacity in
providing effective research-based instruction by engaging
teachers in frequent collaboration and dialogue. PLCs are an
embedded professional development model which includes:
the examination of instructional practices, including
differentiation, student work, strategies for at-risk students,
LearningWalks, Content Focused Coaching, observation and
feedback conferences. Participants of PLCs include but are
not limited to: District Curriculum Supervisors, Content
Coaches, teaching staff and building principals.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $204000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $183829
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Specialist Teacher
The District will employ Reading Specialist Teachers within
Academic
identified Priority Schools who will deliver supplementary
Support
instruction to identified students. This instructional support will Program
reflect state and district content expectations through the use of
effective strategies in management, instruction, student
motivation and curriculum planning.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Specialist
Teacher
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
SY 2013-2014
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Staff
Responsibl
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The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $92000
Title I Part
A
Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $108800
Title III,
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $334860
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Teacher (Alger and Westwood)
Activity
Type
The District will place teachers who will be responsible for
Academic
providing technical expertise in reading instruction.
Support
The teachers will be responsible for ensuring that researched- Program
based best practices are implemented in grade levels 6-8. This
may include conducting model/demonstration lessons in
classrooms, coaching and assisting teachers, designing
lessons for teachers and providing regular ongoing professional
development in reading methods for all staff. The teachers will
be responsible for testing students, diagnosing reading
problems, and recommending and implementing effective
intervention strategies.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Teacher,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Alger Middle School
Activity - Reading Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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Staff
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The District will employ coaches in order to support Priority
Professiona Tier 2
Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Reading Coaches l Learning
will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in successfully
implementing best practices as identified in their Reform &
Redesign Plans. Reading Coaches will provide leadership for
teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing, modeling and
facilitating change to improve the instructional program.
Reading Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $276000
Title I Part
A
Reading
Coach,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Instructiona
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Resource
Assigned
The District will hire an Instructional Improvement Coach, who
under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $89000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $128000
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Literacy Para Professional (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Literacy Para Professionals who will be Academic
responsible for assisting with promotion of literacy in
Support
elementary and K-8 buildings by working as a team member
Program
with the school staff, principal and library director in providing a
quality educational program. Responsible for concept/skill
reinforcement tasks and providing students the opportunity for
additional adult/student relationships.
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Aberdeen
Elementary, Campus Elementary
Resource
Assigned
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Literacy
Para
Professiona
ls, Building
Administrat
ors, Library
Director,
and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
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“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Other
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Academic
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Support
been developed through teacher training provided by the
Program
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Other
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper
understanding of the content being taught.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim, Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Support
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
Program
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, Riverside
Middle School, CA Frost Environmental Science Academy,
Harrison Park Elementary School, Aberdeen Elementary
School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School, Center for
Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Support
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable Program
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, CA Frost Environmental
Science Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison
Elementary, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills
School, Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Innovation Central High School, Southwest
Community Campus School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Close and Critical Reading (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop units/lessons Academic
which will incorporate close and critical reading. The teaching Support
staff will use these units/lessons to teach students how to read Program
text closely and to begin to think critically about the content
within the text. Teaching staff will utilize the guided highlighted
reading technique which will support students’ ability to
summarize, retell and synthesize complex text and increase
their ability to engage with the text. Teachers will assist
students in deepening their academic vocabulary by using it in
the context as it appears in the text.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $40000
Title I Part
A
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Dickinson School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Innovation Central
High School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin
Luther King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School,
Center for Economicology
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Other
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
(shared) Strategy 3:
Learning Targets (K-5) - The District will implement the use of Learning Targets to ensure consistent focus of learning objectives and that standards are being taught.
Research Cited: Brookhart, Susan M., and Moss, Connie M. (2012). Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today’s Lesson. ASCD.
“The most effective teaching and the most meaningful student learning happen when teachers design the right learning targets for today’s lesson and use it along with
their students to aim for and assess understanding. Learning targets are student-friendly descriptors of what you intend students to learn or accomplish in a given
lesson. When shared, meaningfully, they become actual targets that students can see and direct their efforts toward. They also serve as targets for the adults in the
school whose responsibility it is to plan, monitor, and assess, and improve the quality of learning opportunities to raise the achievement of all students.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Curriculum Maps
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop curriculum
maps which highlight instructional goals around grade-level
learning targets that are student-friendly and specific to the
needs of individual students in the classroom.
Other
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Congress Elementary, East Leonard School,
Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School,
Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills
School, Shawmut Hills School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy, Sibley
School, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Campus Elementary,
Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Coit Arts
Academy, Stocking School, Ken-O-Sha Park Elementary,
Southwest Community Campus School, Burton Elementary
School
Activity - Monitoring
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators and
Curriculum Supervisors will monitor the level of use and
effectiveness of Learning Targets in the classrooms through
LearningWalks, Classroom Observations, and through the
teacher evaluation process.
Other
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Congress Elementary, East Leonard School,
Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School,
Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills
School, Shawmut Hills School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy, Sibley
School, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Campus Elementary,
Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Coit Arts
Academy, Stocking School, Ken-O-Sha Park Elementary,
Southwest Community Campus School, Burton Elementary
School
No Funding District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Measurable Objective 10:
41% of Third, Fourth and Fifth grade Students with Disabilities students will demonstrate a proficiency in concepts in Reading by 06/05/2015 as measured by the
state assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction (K-12) - The District will implement Differentiated Instruction through the use and implementation of Professional Learning Opportunities,
Project Learning (middle/high), Fluency and Skill Development, SIOP, Data Analysis, Monitoring and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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Begin Date End Date
Resource
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Source Of
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
Professiona Tier 1
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
l Learning
District. Professional Learning will be differentiated to meet the
needs of the staff who will attend.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $149000
Title II Part Assistant
A
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisor and Curriculum Writing
Curriculum Tier 1
Team will design units and lessons that will provide
Developme
opportunities throughout the school year for students to be
nt
engaged in a variety of project learning activities that support
their instructional goals. These projects will be differentiated in
nature and provide choice to students regarding the type of
project they will complete and will be rigorous and challenging
for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
Blandford Nature Center, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids
University Preparatory Academy, Riverside Middle School,
Union High School, Innovation Central High School, City High
Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will allot time in the daily schedule to allow staff to Curriculum Tier 1
use a variety of activities that will allow students to become
Developme
fluent with essential foundational skills. The students will
nt
practice these foundational skills often enough so that they can
flexibly engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
Administrat
ors and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who have populations with second language learners. Support
These individuals will train staff on how to implement the SIOP Program
framework in their classrooms to support and provide
differentiated techniques which will support the learning needs
of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $200000
Title III
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
ELL
Department
, Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Buchanan
School, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Park Elementary
School, Palmer School, Congress Elementary, Westwood
Middle School, Stocking School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary,
Burton Middle School, Union High School, Newcomers
Community School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Southwest Community Campus School, Sibley School, Burton
Elementary School
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively with Other
individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide data,
design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement.
Tier 1
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $560860
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title II Part Data
A, Title I
Support
Part A, Title Specialist,
I Part A
Assessmen
t and
Evaluation
Department
, Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or,Student
Information
Services
and
Teaching
Staff.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/04/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Activity - Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will implement PLCs to develop staff capacity in
providing effective research-based instruction by engaging
teachers in frequent collaboration and dialogue. PLCs are an
embedded professional development model which includes:
the examination of instructional practices, including
differentiation, student work, strategies for at-risk students,
LearningWalks, Content Focused Coaching, observation and
feedback conferences. Participants of PLCs include but are
not limited to: District Curriculum Supervisors, Content
Coaches, teaching staff and building principals.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $204000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $183829
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Specialist Teacher
The District will employ Reading Specialist Teachers within
Academic
identified Priority Schools who will deliver supplementary
Support
instruction to identified students. This instructional support will Program
reflect state and district content expectations through the use of
effective strategies in management, instruction, student
motivation and curriculum planning.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Specialist
Teacher
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
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Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $92000
Title I Part
A
Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $108800
Title I Part
A, Title III
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $334860
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Teacher (Alger and Westwood)
Activity
Type
The District will place teachers who will be responsible for
Academic
providing technical expertise in reading instruction.
Support
The teachers will be responsible for ensuring that researched- Program
based best practices are implemented in grade levels 6-8. This
may include conducting model/demonstration lessons in
classrooms, coaching and assisting teachers, designing
lessons for teachers and providing regular ongoing professional
development in reading methods for all staff. The teachers will
be responsible for testing students, diagnosing reading
problems, and recommending and implementing effective
intervention strategies.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Teacher,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Alger Middle School
Activity - Reading Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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Staff
Responsibl
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The District will employ coaches in order to support Priority
Professiona Tier 2
Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Reading Coaches l Learning
will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in successfully
implementing best practices as identified in their Reform &
Redesign Plans. Reading Coaches will provide leadership for
teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing, modeling and
facilitating change to improve the instructional program.
Reading Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $276000
Title I Part
A
Reading
Coach,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Instructiona
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Resource
Assigned
The District will hire an Instructional Improvement Coach, who
under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $89000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $128000
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Literacy Para Professional (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Literacy Para Professionals who will be Academic
responsible for assisting with promotion of literacy in
Support
elementary and K-8 buildings by working as a team member
Program
with the school staff, principal and library director in providing a
quality educational program. Responsible for concept/skill
reinforcement tasks and providing students the opportunity for
additional adult/student relationships.
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Aberdeen
Elementary, Campus Elementary
Resource
Assigned
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Literacy
Para
Professiona
ls, Building
Administrat
ors, Library
Director,
and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
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“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Other
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Academic
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Support
been developed through teacher training provided by the
Program
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Other
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper
understanding of the content being taught.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim, Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Support
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
Program
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, Riverside
Middle School, CA Frost Environmental Science Academy,
Harrison Park Elementary School, Aberdeen Elementary
School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School, Center for
Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Support
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable Program
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, CA Frost Environmental
Science Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison
Elementary, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills
School, Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Innovation Central High School, Southwest
Community Campus School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Close and Critical Reading (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop units/lessons Academic
which will incorporate close and critical reading. The teaching Support
staff will use these units/lessons to teach students how to read Program
text closely and to begin to think critically about the content
within the text. Teaching staff will utilize the guided highlighted
reading technique which will support students’ ability to
summarize, retell and synthesize complex text and increase
their ability to engage with the text. Teachers will assist
students in deepening their academic vocabulary by using it in
the context as it appears in the text.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $40000
Title I Part
A
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Dickinson School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Innovation Central
High School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin
Luther King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School,
Center for Economicology
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Other
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
(shared) Strategy 3:
Learning Targets (K-5) - The District will implement the use of Learning Targets to ensure consistent focus of learning objectives and that standards are being taught.
Research Cited: Brookhart, Susan M., and Moss, Connie M. (2012). Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today’s Lesson. ASCD.
“The most effective teaching and the most meaningful student learning happen when teachers design the right learning targets for today’s lesson and use it along with
their students to aim for and assess understanding. Learning targets are student-friendly descriptors of what you intend students to learn or accomplish in a given
lesson. When shared, meaningfully, they become actual targets that students can see and direct their efforts toward. They also serve as targets for the adults in the
school whose responsibility it is to plan, monitor, and assess, and improve the quality of learning opportunities to raise the achievement of all students.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Curriculum Maps
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop curriculum
maps which highlight instructional goals around grade-level
learning targets that are student-friendly and specific to the
needs of individual students in the classroom.
Other
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Congress Elementary, East Leonard School,
Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School,
Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills
School, Shawmut Hills School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy, Sibley
School, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Campus Elementary,
Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Coit Arts
Academy, Stocking School, Ken-O-Sha Park Elementary,
Southwest Community Campus School, Burton Elementary
School
Activity - Monitoring
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Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators and
Curriculum Supervisors will monitor the level of use and
effectiveness of Learning Targets in the classrooms through
LearningWalks, Classroom Observations, and through the
teacher evaluation process.
Other
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Congress Elementary, East Leonard School,
Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School,
Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills
School, Shawmut Hills School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy, Sibley
School, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Campus Elementary,
Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Coit Arts
Academy, Stocking School, Ken-O-Sha Park Elementary,
Southwest Community Campus School, Burton Elementary
School
No Funding District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Measurable Objective 11:
50% of All Students will demonstrate a proficiency ,defined as a Fall to Spring CGI increase of 0.1 compared to the previous year (or an overall schoolwide average
CGI of 0.3), in Reading by 06/05/2015 as measured by NWEA/MAP.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction (K-12) - The District will implement Differentiated Instruction through the use and implementation of Professional Learning Opportunities,
Project Learning (middle/high), Fluency and Skill Development, SIOP, Data Analysis, Monitoring and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
Professiona Tier 1
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
l Learning
District. Professional Learning will be differentiated to meet the
needs of the staff who will attend.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $149000
Title II Part Assistant
A
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisor and Curriculum Writing
Curriculum Tier 1
Team will design units and lessons that will provide
Developme
opportunities throughout the school year for students to be
nt
engaged in a variety of project learning activities that support
their instructional goals. These projects will be differentiated in
nature and provide choice to students regarding the type of
project they will complete and will be rigorous and challenging
for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
Blandford Nature Center, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids
University Preparatory Academy, Riverside Middle School,
Union High School, Innovation Central High School, City High
Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will allot time in the daily schedule to allow staff to Curriculum Tier 1
use a variety of activities that will allow students to become
Developme
fluent with essential foundational skills. The students will
nt
practice these foundational skills often enough so that they can
flexibly engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
Administrat
ors and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who have populations with second language learners. Support
These individuals will train staff on how to implement the SIOP Program
framework in their classrooms to support and provide
differentiated techniques which will support the learning needs
of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $200000
Title III
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
ELL
Department
, Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Buchanan
School, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Park Elementary
School, Palmer School, Congress Elementary, Westwood
Middle School, Stocking School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary,
Burton Middle School, Union High School, Newcomers
Community School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Southwest Community Campus School, Sibley School, Burton
Elementary School
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively with Other
individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide data,
design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement.
Tier 1
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $560860
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I Part Data
A, Title I
Support
Part A, Title Specialist,
II Part A
Assessmen
t and
Evaluation
Department
, Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or,Student
Information
Services
and
Teaching
Staff.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/04/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Activity - Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will implement PLCs to develop staff capacity in
providing effective research-based instruction by engaging
teachers in frequent collaboration and dialogue. PLCs are an
embedded professional development model which includes:
the examination of instructional practices, including
differentiation, student work, strategies for at-risk students,
LearningWalks, Content Focused Coaching, observation and
feedback conferences. Participants of PLCs include but are
not limited to: District Curriculum Supervisors, Content
Coaches, teaching staff and building principals.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $204000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $183829
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Specialist Teacher
The District will employ Reading Specialist Teachers within
Academic
identified Priority Schools who will deliver supplementary
Support
instruction to identified students. This instructional support will Program
reflect state and district content expectations through the use of
effective strategies in management, instruction, student
motivation and curriculum planning.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Specialist
Teacher
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
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The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $92000
Title I Part
A
Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $108800
Title I Part
A, Title III
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $334860
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Teacher (Alger and Westwood)
Activity
Type
The District will place teachers who will be responsible for
Academic
providing technical expertise in reading instruction.
Support
The teachers will be responsible for ensuring that researched- Program
based best practices are implemented in grade levels 6-8. This
may include conducting model/demonstration lessons in
classrooms, coaching and assisting teachers, designing
lessons for teachers and providing regular ongoing professional
development in reading methods for all staff. The teachers will
be responsible for testing students, diagnosing reading
problems, and recommending and implementing effective
intervention strategies.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Teacher,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Alger Middle School
Activity - Reading Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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The District will employ coaches in order to support Priority
Professiona Tier 2
Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Reading Coaches l Learning
will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in successfully
implementing best practices as identified in their Reform &
Redesign Plans. Reading Coaches will provide leadership for
teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing, modeling and
facilitating change to improve the instructional program.
Reading Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $276000
Title I Part
A
Reading
Coach,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Instructiona
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Resource
Assigned
The District will hire an Instructional Improvement Coach, who
under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $89000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $128000
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Literacy Para Professional (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Literacy Para Professionals who will be Academic
responsible for assisting with promotion of literacy in
Support
elementary and K-8 buildings by working as a team member
Program
with the school staff, principal and library director in providing a
quality educational program. Responsible for concept/skill
reinforcement tasks and providing students the opportunity for
additional adult/student relationships.
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Aberdeen
Elementary, Campus Elementary
Resource
Assigned
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Literacy
Para
Professiona
ls, Building
Administrat
ors, Library
Director,
and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
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“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Other
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
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Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Academic
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Support
been developed through teacher training provided by the
Program
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Other
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper
understanding of the content being taught.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim, Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Support
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
Program
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, Riverside
Middle School, CA Frost Environmental Science Academy,
Harrison Park Elementary School, Aberdeen Elementary
School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School, Center for
Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
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Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Support
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable Program
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, CA Frost Environmental
Science Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison
Elementary, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills
School, Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Innovation Central High School, Southwest
Community Campus School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Close and Critical Reading (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop units/lessons Academic
which will incorporate close and critical reading. The teaching Support
staff will use these units/lessons to teach students how to read Program
text closely and to begin to think critically about the content
within the text. Teaching staff will utilize the guided highlighted
reading technique which will support students’ ability to
summarize, retell and synthesize complex text and increase
their ability to engage with the text. Teachers will assist
students in deepening their academic vocabulary by using it in
the context as it appears in the text.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $40000
Title I Part
A
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Dickinson School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Innovation Central
High School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin
Luther King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School,
Center for Economicology
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
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e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Other
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
(shared) Strategy 3:
Learning Targets (K-5) - The District will implement the use of Learning Targets to ensure consistent focus of learning objectives and that standards are being taught.
Research Cited: Brookhart, Susan M., and Moss, Connie M. (2012). Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today’s Lesson. ASCD.
“The most effective teaching and the most meaningful student learning happen when teachers design the right learning targets for today’s lesson and use it along with
their students to aim for and assess understanding. Learning targets are student-friendly descriptors of what you intend students to learn or accomplish in a given
lesson. When shared, meaningfully, they become actual targets that students can see and direct their efforts toward. They also serve as targets for the adults in the
school whose responsibility it is to plan, monitor, and assess, and improve the quality of learning opportunities to raise the achievement of all students.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Curriculum Maps
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop curriculum
maps which highlight instructional goals around grade-level
learning targets that are student-friendly and specific to the
needs of individual students in the classroom.
Other
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Congress Elementary, East Leonard School,
Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School,
Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills
School, Shawmut Hills School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy, Sibley
School, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Campus Elementary,
Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Coit Arts
Academy, Stocking School, Ken-O-Sha Park Elementary,
Southwest Community Campus School, Burton Elementary
School
Activity - Monitoring
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators and
Curriculum Supervisors will monitor the level of use and
effectiveness of Learning Targets in the classrooms through
LearningWalks, Classroom Observations, and through the
teacher evaluation process.
Other
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Congress Elementary, East Leonard School,
Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School,
Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills
School, Shawmut Hills School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy, Sibley
School, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Campus Elementary,
Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Coit Arts
Academy, Stocking School, Ken-O-Sha Park Elementary,
Southwest Community Campus School, Burton Elementary
School
No Funding District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Measurable Objective 12:
53% of Sixth, Seventh and Eighth grade students will demonstrate a proficiency with concepts in English Language Arts in Reading by 06/05/2015 as measured by
the State assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction (K-12) - The District will implement Differentiated Instruction through the use and implementation of Professional Learning Opportunities,
Project Learning (middle/high), Fluency and Skill Development, SIOP, Data Analysis, Monitoring and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
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Source Of
Funding
Staff
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e
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
Professiona Tier 1
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
l Learning
District. Professional Learning will be differentiated to meet the
needs of the staff who will attend.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $149000
Title II Part Assistant
A
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisor and Curriculum Writing
Curriculum Tier 1
Team will design units and lessons that will provide
Developme
opportunities throughout the school year for students to be
nt
engaged in a variety of project learning activities that support
their instructional goals. These projects will be differentiated in
nature and provide choice to students regarding the type of
project they will complete and will be rigorous and challenging
for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
Blandford Nature Center, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids
University Preparatory Academy, Riverside Middle School,
Union High School, Innovation Central High School, City High
Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will allot time in the daily schedule to allow staff to Curriculum Tier 1
use a variety of activities that will allow students to become
Developme
fluent with essential foundational skills. The students will
nt
practice these foundational skills often enough so that they can
flexibly engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
Administrat
ors and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Source Of
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who have populations with second language learners. Support
These individuals will train staff on how to implement the SIOP Program
framework in their classrooms to support and provide
differentiated techniques which will support the learning needs
of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $200000
Title III
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
ELL
Department
, Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Buchanan
School, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Park Elementary
School, Palmer School, Congress Elementary, Westwood
Middle School, Stocking School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary,
Burton Middle School, Union High School, Newcomers
Community School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Southwest Community Campus School, Sibley School, Burton
Elementary School
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively with Other
individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide data,
design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement.
Tier 1
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $560860
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I Part Data
A, Title II
Support
Part A, Title Specialist,
I Part A
Assessmen
t and
Evaluation
Department
, Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or,Student
Information
Services
and
Teaching
Staff.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/04/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Activity - Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will implement PLCs to develop staff capacity in
providing effective research-based instruction by engaging
teachers in frequent collaboration and dialogue. PLCs are an
embedded professional development model which includes:
the examination of instructional practices, including
differentiation, student work, strategies for at-risk students,
LearningWalks, Content Focused Coaching, observation and
feedback conferences. Participants of PLCs include but are
not limited to: District Curriculum Supervisors, Content
Coaches, teaching staff and building principals.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $204000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $183829
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Specialist Teacher
The District will employ Reading Specialist Teachers within
Academic
identified Priority Schools who will deliver supplementary
Support
instruction to identified students. This instructional support will Program
reflect state and district content expectations through the use of
effective strategies in management, instruction, student
motivation and curriculum planning.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Specialist
Teacher
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
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Staff
Responsibl
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The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $92000
Title I Part
A
Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $108800
Title III,
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $334860
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Teacher (Alger and Westwood)
Activity
Type
The District will place teachers who will be responsible for
Academic
providing technical expertise in reading instruction.
Support
The teachers will be responsible for ensuring that researched- Program
based best practices are implemented in grade levels 6-8. This
may include conducting model/demonstration lessons in
classrooms, coaching and assisting teachers, designing
lessons for teachers and providing regular ongoing professional
development in reading methods for all staff. The teachers will
be responsible for testing students, diagnosing reading
problems, and recommending and implementing effective
intervention strategies.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Teacher,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Alger Middle School
Activity - Reading Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
SY 2013-2014
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Staff
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The District will employ coaches in order to support Priority
Professiona Tier 2
Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Reading Coaches l Learning
will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in successfully
implementing best practices as identified in their Reform &
Redesign Plans. Reading Coaches will provide leadership for
teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing, modeling and
facilitating change to improve the instructional program.
Reading Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $276000
Title I Part
A
Reading
Coach,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Instructiona
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Resource
Assigned
The District will hire an Instructional Improvement Coach, who
under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $89000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $128000
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Literacy Para Professional (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Literacy Para Professionals who will be Academic
responsible for assisting with promotion of literacy in
Support
elementary and K-8 buildings by working as a team member
Program
with the school staff, principal and library director in providing a
quality educational program. Responsible for concept/skill
reinforcement tasks and providing students the opportunity for
additional adult/student relationships.
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Aberdeen
Elementary, Campus Elementary
Resource
Assigned
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Literacy
Para
Professiona
ls, Building
Administrat
ors, Library
Director,
and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
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“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Other
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Academic
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Support
been developed through teacher training provided by the
Program
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Other
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper
understanding of the content being taught.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim, Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Support
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
Program
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, Riverside
Middle School, CA Frost Environmental Science Academy,
Harrison Park Elementary School, Aberdeen Elementary
School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School, Center for
Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Support
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable Program
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, CA Frost Environmental
Science Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison
Elementary, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills
School, Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Innovation Central High School, Southwest
Community Campus School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Close and Critical Reading (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop units/lessons Academic
which will incorporate close and critical reading. The teaching Support
staff will use these units/lessons to teach students how to read Program
text closely and to begin to think critically about the content
within the text. Teaching staff will utilize the guided highlighted
reading technique which will support students’ ability to
summarize, retell and synthesize complex text and increase
their ability to engage with the text. Teachers will assist
students in deepening their academic vocabulary by using it in
the context as it appears in the text.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $40000
Title I Part
A
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Dickinson School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Innovation Central
High School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin
Luther King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School,
Center for Economicology
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
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e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Other
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Measurable Objective 13:
24% of Sixth, Seventh and Eighth grade English Learners students will demonstrate a proficiency in concepts of in Reading by 06/05/2015 as measured by State
assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction (K-12) - The District will implement Differentiated Instruction through the use and implementation of Professional Learning Opportunities,
Project Learning (middle/high), Fluency and Skill Development, SIOP, Data Analysis, Monitoring and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
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e
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
Professiona Tier 1
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
l Learning
District. Professional Learning will be differentiated to meet the
needs of the staff who will attend.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $149000
Title II Part Assistant
A
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisor and Curriculum Writing
Curriculum Tier 1
Team will design units and lessons that will provide
Developme
opportunities throughout the school year for students to be
nt
engaged in a variety of project learning activities that support
their instructional goals. These projects will be differentiated in
nature and provide choice to students regarding the type of
project they will complete and will be rigorous and challenging
for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
Blandford Nature Center, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids
University Preparatory Academy, Riverside Middle School,
Union High School, Innovation Central High School, City High
Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will allot time in the daily schedule to allow staff to Curriculum Tier 1
use a variety of activities that will allow students to become
Developme
fluent with essential foundational skills. The students will
nt
practice these foundational skills often enough so that they can
flexibly engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
Administrat
ors and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Assigned
Source Of
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e
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who have populations with second language learners. Support
These individuals will train staff on how to implement the SIOP Program
framework in their classrooms to support and provide
differentiated techniques which will support the learning needs
of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $200000
Title III
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
ELL
Department
, Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Buchanan
School, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Park Elementary
School, Palmer School, Congress Elementary, Westwood
Middle School, Stocking School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary,
Burton Middle School, Union High School, Newcomers
Community School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Southwest Community Campus School, Sibley School, Burton
Elementary School
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively with Other
individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide data,
design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement.
Tier 1
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $560860
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I Part Data
A, Title II
Support
Part A, Title Specialist,
I Part A
Assessmen
t and
Evaluation
Department
, Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or,Student
Information
Services
and
Teaching
Staff.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/04/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Activity - Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will implement PLCs to develop staff capacity in
providing effective research-based instruction by engaging
teachers in frequent collaboration and dialogue. PLCs are an
embedded professional development model which includes:
the examination of instructional practices, including
differentiation, student work, strategies for at-risk students,
LearningWalks, Content Focused Coaching, observation and
feedback conferences. Participants of PLCs include but are
not limited to: District Curriculum Supervisors, Content
Coaches, teaching staff and building principals.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $204000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $183829
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Specialist Teacher
The District will employ Reading Specialist Teachers within
Academic
identified Priority Schools who will deliver supplementary
Support
instruction to identified students. This instructional support will Program
reflect state and district content expectations through the use of
effective strategies in management, instruction, student
motivation and curriculum planning.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Specialist
Teacher
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $92000
Title I Part
A
Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $108800
Title I Part
A, Title III
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $334860
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Teacher (Alger and Westwood)
Activity
Type
The District will place teachers who will be responsible for
Academic
providing technical expertise in reading instruction.
Support
The teachers will be responsible for ensuring that researched- Program
based best practices are implemented in grade levels 6-8. This
may include conducting model/demonstration lessons in
classrooms, coaching and assisting teachers, designing
lessons for teachers and providing regular ongoing professional
development in reading methods for all staff. The teachers will
be responsible for testing students, diagnosing reading
problems, and recommending and implementing effective
intervention strategies.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Teacher,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Alger Middle School
Activity - Reading Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ coaches in order to support Priority
Professiona Tier 2
Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Reading Coaches l Learning
will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in successfully
implementing best practices as identified in their Reform &
Redesign Plans. Reading Coaches will provide leadership for
teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing, modeling and
facilitating change to improve the instructional program.
Reading Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $276000
Title I Part
A
Reading
Coach,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Instructiona
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Resource
Assigned
The District will hire an Instructional Improvement Coach, who
under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $89000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $128000
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Literacy Para Professional (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Literacy Para Professionals who will be Academic
responsible for assisting with promotion of literacy in
Support
elementary and K-8 buildings by working as a team member
Program
with the school staff, principal and library director in providing a
quality educational program. Responsible for concept/skill
reinforcement tasks and providing students the opportunity for
additional adult/student relationships.
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Aberdeen
Elementary, Campus Elementary
Resource
Assigned
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Literacy
Para
Professiona
ls, Building
Administrat
ors, Library
Director,
and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
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“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Other
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Academic
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Support
been developed through teacher training provided by the
Program
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Other
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper
understanding of the content being taught.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim, Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Support
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
Program
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, Riverside
Middle School, CA Frost Environmental Science Academy,
Harrison Park Elementary School, Aberdeen Elementary
School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School, Center for
Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Support
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable Program
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, CA Frost Environmental
Science Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison
Elementary, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills
School, Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Innovation Central High School, Southwest
Community Campus School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Close and Critical Reading (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop units/lessons Academic
which will incorporate close and critical reading. The teaching Support
staff will use these units/lessons to teach students how to read Program
text closely and to begin to think critically about the content
within the text. Teaching staff will utilize the guided highlighted
reading technique which will support students’ ability to
summarize, retell and synthesize complex text and increase
their ability to engage with the text. Teachers will assist
students in deepening their academic vocabulary by using it in
the context as it appears in the text.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $40000
Title I Part
A
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Dickinson School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Innovation Central
High School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin
Luther King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School,
Center for Economicology
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Other
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Measurable Objective 14:
26% of Sixth, Seventh and Eighth grade Students with Disabilities students will demonstrate a proficiency in concepts in Reading by 06/05/2015 as measured by the
State assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction (K-12) - The District will implement Differentiated Instruction through the use and implementation of Professional Learning Opportunities,
Project Learning (middle/high), Fluency and Skill Development, SIOP, Data Analysis, Monitoring and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
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e
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
Professiona Tier 1
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
l Learning
District. Professional Learning will be differentiated to meet the
needs of the staff who will attend.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $149000
Title II Part Assistant
A
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisor and Curriculum Writing
Curriculum Tier 1
Team will design units and lessons that will provide
Developme
opportunities throughout the school year for students to be
nt
engaged in a variety of project learning activities that support
their instructional goals. These projects will be differentiated in
nature and provide choice to students regarding the type of
project they will complete and will be rigorous and challenging
for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
Blandford Nature Center, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids
University Preparatory Academy, Riverside Middle School,
Union High School, Innovation Central High School, City High
Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will allot time in the daily schedule to allow staff to Curriculum Tier 1
use a variety of activities that will allow students to become
Developme
fluent with essential foundational skills. The students will
nt
practice these foundational skills often enough so that they can
flexibly engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
Administrat
ors and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who have populations with second language learners. Support
These individuals will train staff on how to implement the SIOP Program
framework in their classrooms to support and provide
differentiated techniques which will support the learning needs
of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $200000
Title III
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
ELL
Department
, Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Buchanan
School, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Park Elementary
School, Palmer School, Congress Elementary, Westwood
Middle School, Stocking School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary,
Burton Middle School, Union High School, Newcomers
Community School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Southwest Community Campus School, Sibley School, Burton
Elementary School
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively with Other
individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide data,
design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement.
Tier 1
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $560860
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I Part Data
A, Title II
Support
Part A, Title Specialist,
I Part A
Assessmen
t and
Evaluation
Department
, Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or,Student
Information
Services
and
Teaching
Staff.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/04/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Activity - Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will implement PLCs to develop staff capacity in
providing effective research-based instruction by engaging
teachers in frequent collaboration and dialogue. PLCs are an
embedded professional development model which includes:
the examination of instructional practices, including
differentiation, student work, strategies for at-risk students,
LearningWalks, Content Focused Coaching, observation and
feedback conferences. Participants of PLCs include but are
not limited to: District Curriculum Supervisors, Content
Coaches, teaching staff and building principals.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $204000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $183829
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Specialist Teacher
The District will employ Reading Specialist Teachers within
Academic
identified Priority Schools who will deliver supplementary
Support
instruction to identified students. This instructional support will Program
reflect state and district content expectations through the use of
effective strategies in management, instruction, student
motivation and curriculum planning.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Specialist
Teacher
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
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Staff
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e
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The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $92000
Title I Part
A
Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $108800
Title I Part
A, Title III
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $334860
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Teacher (Alger and Westwood)
Activity
Type
The District will place teachers who will be responsible for
Academic
providing technical expertise in reading instruction.
Support
The teachers will be responsible for ensuring that researched- Program
based best practices are implemented in grade levels 6-8. This
may include conducting model/demonstration lessons in
classrooms, coaching and assisting teachers, designing
lessons for teachers and providing regular ongoing professional
development in reading methods for all staff. The teachers will
be responsible for testing students, diagnosing reading
problems, and recommending and implementing effective
intervention strategies.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Teacher,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Alger Middle School
Activity - Reading Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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Staff
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e
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The District will employ coaches in order to support Priority
Professiona Tier 2
Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Reading Coaches l Learning
will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in successfully
implementing best practices as identified in their Reform &
Redesign Plans. Reading Coaches will provide leadership for
teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing, modeling and
facilitating change to improve the instructional program.
Reading Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $276000
Title I Part
A
Reading
Coach,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Instructiona
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Resource
Assigned
The District will hire an Instructional Improvement Coach, who
under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $89000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $128000
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Literacy Para Professional (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Literacy Para Professionals who will be Academic
responsible for assisting with promotion of literacy in
Support
elementary and K-8 buildings by working as a team member
Program
with the school staff, principal and library director in providing a
quality educational program. Responsible for concept/skill
reinforcement tasks and providing students the opportunity for
additional adult/student relationships.
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Aberdeen
Elementary, Campus Elementary
Resource
Assigned
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Literacy
Para
Professiona
ls, Building
Administrat
ors, Library
Director,
and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
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“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Other
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Academic
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Support
been developed through teacher training provided by the
Program
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Other
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper
understanding of the content being taught.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim, Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Support
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
Program
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, Riverside
Middle School, CA Frost Environmental Science Academy,
Harrison Park Elementary School, Aberdeen Elementary
School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School, Center for
Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Support
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable Program
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, CA Frost Environmental
Science Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison
Elementary, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills
School, Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Innovation Central High School, Southwest
Community Campus School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Close and Critical Reading (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop units/lessons Academic
which will incorporate close and critical reading. The teaching Support
staff will use these units/lessons to teach students how to read Program
text closely and to begin to think critically about the content
within the text. Teaching staff will utilize the guided highlighted
reading technique which will support students’ ability to
summarize, retell and synthesize complex text and increase
their ability to engage with the text. Teachers will assist
students in deepening their academic vocabulary by using it in
the context as it appears in the text.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $40000
Title I Part
A
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Dickinson School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Innovation Central
High School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin
Luther King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School,
Center for Economicology
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Other
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Measurable Objective 15:
70% of Sixth, Seventh and Eighth grade White students will demonstrate a proficiency in concepts in Reading by 06/05/2015 as measured by the State assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction (K-12) - The District will implement Differentiated Instruction through the use and implementation of Professional Learning Opportunities,
Project Learning (middle/high), Fluency and Skill Development, SIOP, Data Analysis, Monitoring and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
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e
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
Professiona Tier 1
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
l Learning
District. Professional Learning will be differentiated to meet the
needs of the staff who will attend.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $149000
Title II Part Assistant
A
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisor and Curriculum Writing
Curriculum Tier 1
Team will design units and lessons that will provide
Developme
opportunities throughout the school year for students to be
nt
engaged in a variety of project learning activities that support
their instructional goals. These projects will be differentiated in
nature and provide choice to students regarding the type of
project they will complete and will be rigorous and challenging
for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
Blandford Nature Center, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids
University Preparatory Academy, Riverside Middle School,
Union High School, Innovation Central High School, City High
Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will allot time in the daily schedule to allow staff to Curriculum Tier 1
use a variety of activities that will allow students to become
Developme
fluent with essential foundational skills. The students will
nt
practice these foundational skills often enough so that they can
flexibly engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
Administrat
ors and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
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Source Of
Funding
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who have populations with second language learners. Support
These individuals will train staff on how to implement the SIOP Program
framework in their classrooms to support and provide
differentiated techniques which will support the learning needs
of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $200000
Title III
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
ELL
Department
, Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Buchanan
School, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Park Elementary
School, Palmer School, Congress Elementary, Westwood
Middle School, Stocking School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary,
Burton Middle School, Union High School, Newcomers
Community School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Southwest Community Campus School, Sibley School, Burton
Elementary School
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively with Other
individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide data,
design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement.
Tier 1
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $560860
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title II Part Data
A, Title I
Support
Part A, Title Specialist,
I Part A
Assessmen
t and
Evaluation
Department
, Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or,Student
Information
Services
and
Teaching
Staff.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/04/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Activity - Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will implement PLCs to develop staff capacity in
providing effective research-based instruction by engaging
teachers in frequent collaboration and dialogue. PLCs are an
embedded professional development model which includes:
the examination of instructional practices, including
differentiation, student work, strategies for at-risk students,
LearningWalks, Content Focused Coaching, observation and
feedback conferences. Participants of PLCs include but are
not limited to: District Curriculum Supervisors, Content
Coaches, teaching staff and building principals.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $204000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $183829
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Specialist Teacher
The District will employ Reading Specialist Teachers within
Academic
identified Priority Schools who will deliver supplementary
Support
instruction to identified students. This instructional support will Program
reflect state and district content expectations through the use of
effective strategies in management, instruction, student
motivation and curriculum planning.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Specialist
Teacher
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $92000
Title I Part
A
Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $108800
Title III,
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $334860
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Teacher (Alger and Westwood)
Activity
Type
The District will place teachers who will be responsible for
Academic
providing technical expertise in reading instruction.
Support
The teachers will be responsible for ensuring that researched- Program
based best practices are implemented in grade levels 6-8. This
may include conducting model/demonstration lessons in
classrooms, coaching and assisting teachers, designing
lessons for teachers and providing regular ongoing professional
development in reading methods for all staff. The teachers will
be responsible for testing students, diagnosing reading
problems, and recommending and implementing effective
intervention strategies.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Teacher,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Alger Middle School
Activity - Reading Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
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The District will employ coaches in order to support Priority
Professiona Tier 2
Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Reading Coaches l Learning
will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in successfully
implementing best practices as identified in their Reform &
Redesign Plans. Reading Coaches will provide leadership for
teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing, modeling and
facilitating change to improve the instructional program.
Reading Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $276000
Title I Part
A
Reading
Coach,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Instructiona
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Resource
Assigned
The District will hire an Instructional Improvement Coach, who
under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $89000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $128000
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Literacy Para Professional (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Literacy Para Professionals who will be Academic
responsible for assisting with promotion of literacy in
Support
elementary and K-8 buildings by working as a team member
Program
with the school staff, principal and library director in providing a
quality educational program. Responsible for concept/skill
reinforcement tasks and providing students the opportunity for
additional adult/student relationships.
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Aberdeen
Elementary, Campus Elementary
Resource
Assigned
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Literacy
Para
Professiona
ls, Building
Administrat
ors, Library
Director,
and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
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“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Other
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Academic
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Support
been developed through teacher training provided by the
Program
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Other
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper
understanding of the content being taught.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim, Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Support
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
Program
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, Riverside
Middle School, CA Frost Environmental Science Academy,
Harrison Park Elementary School, Aberdeen Elementary
School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School, Center for
Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Support
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable Program
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, CA Frost Environmental
Science Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison
Elementary, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills
School, Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Innovation Central High School, Southwest
Community Campus School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Close and Critical Reading (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop units/lessons Academic
which will incorporate close and critical reading. The teaching Support
staff will use these units/lessons to teach students how to read Program
text closely and to begin to think critically about the content
within the text. Teaching staff will utilize the guided highlighted
reading technique which will support students’ ability to
summarize, retell and synthesize complex text and increase
their ability to engage with the text. Teachers will assist
students in deepening their academic vocabulary by using it in
the context as it appears in the text.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $40000
Title I Part
A
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Dickinson School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Innovation Central
High School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin
Luther King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School,
Center for Economicology
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Other
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Measurable Objective 16:
44% of Sixth, Seventh and Eighth grade Hispanic or Latino students will demonstrate a proficiency in concepts in Reading by 06/05/2015 as measured by the State
assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction (K-12) - The District will implement Differentiated Instruction through the use and implementation of Professional Learning Opportunities,
Project Learning (middle/high), Fluency and Skill Development, SIOP, Data Analysis, Monitoring and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
Professiona Tier 1
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
l Learning
District. Professional Learning will be differentiated to meet the
needs of the staff who will attend.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $149000
Title II Part Assistant
A
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisor and Curriculum Writing
Curriculum Tier 1
Team will design units and lessons that will provide
Developme
opportunities throughout the school year for students to be
nt
engaged in a variety of project learning activities that support
their instructional goals. These projects will be differentiated in
nature and provide choice to students regarding the type of
project they will complete and will be rigorous and challenging
for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
Blandford Nature Center, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids
University Preparatory Academy, Riverside Middle School,
Union High School, Innovation Central High School, City High
Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will allot time in the daily schedule to allow staff to Curriculum Tier 1
use a variety of activities that will allow students to become
Developme
fluent with essential foundational skills. The students will
nt
practice these foundational skills often enough so that they can
flexibly engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
Administrat
ors and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who have populations with second language learners. Support
These individuals will train staff on how to implement the SIOP Program
framework in their classrooms to support and provide
differentiated techniques which will support the learning needs
of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $200000
Title III
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
ELL
Department
, Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Buchanan
School, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Park Elementary
School, Palmer School, Congress Elementary, Westwood
Middle School, Stocking School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary,
Burton Middle School, Union High School, Newcomers
Community School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Southwest Community Campus School, Sibley School, Burton
Elementary School
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively with Other
individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide data,
design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement.
Tier 1
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $560860
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I Part Data
A, Title II
Support
Part A, Title Specialist,
I Part A
Assessmen
t and
Evaluation
Department
, Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or,Student
Information
Services
and
Teaching
Staff.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/04/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Activity - Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will implement PLCs to develop staff capacity in
providing effective research-based instruction by engaging
teachers in frequent collaboration and dialogue. PLCs are an
embedded professional development model which includes:
the examination of instructional practices, including
differentiation, student work, strategies for at-risk students,
LearningWalks, Content Focused Coaching, observation and
feedback conferences. Participants of PLCs include but are
not limited to: District Curriculum Supervisors, Content
Coaches, teaching staff and building principals.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $204000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $183829
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Specialist Teacher
The District will employ Reading Specialist Teachers within
Academic
identified Priority Schools who will deliver supplementary
Support
instruction to identified students. This instructional support will Program
reflect state and district content expectations through the use of
effective strategies in management, instruction, student
motivation and curriculum planning.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Specialist
Teacher
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $92000
Title I Part
A
Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $108800
Title I Part
A, Title III
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $334860
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Teacher (Alger and Westwood)
Activity
Type
The District will place teachers who will be responsible for
Academic
providing technical expertise in reading instruction.
Support
The teachers will be responsible for ensuring that researched- Program
based best practices are implemented in grade levels 6-8. This
may include conducting model/demonstration lessons in
classrooms, coaching and assisting teachers, designing
lessons for teachers and providing regular ongoing professional
development in reading methods for all staff. The teachers will
be responsible for testing students, diagnosing reading
problems, and recommending and implementing effective
intervention strategies.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Teacher,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Alger Middle School
Activity - Reading Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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Staff
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The District will employ coaches in order to support Priority
Professiona Tier 2
Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Reading Coaches l Learning
will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in successfully
implementing best practices as identified in their Reform &
Redesign Plans. Reading Coaches will provide leadership for
teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing, modeling and
facilitating change to improve the instructional program.
Reading Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $276000
Title I Part
A
Reading
Coach,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Instructiona
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Resource
Assigned
The District will hire an Instructional Improvement Coach, who
under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $89000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $128000
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Literacy Para Professional (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Literacy Para Professionals who will be Academic
responsible for assisting with promotion of literacy in
Support
elementary and K-8 buildings by working as a team member
Program
with the school staff, principal and library director in providing a
quality educational program. Responsible for concept/skill
reinforcement tasks and providing students the opportunity for
additional adult/student relationships.
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Aberdeen
Elementary, Campus Elementary
Resource
Assigned
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Literacy
Para
Professiona
ls, Building
Administrat
ors, Library
Director,
and
Teaching
Staff
Measurable Objective 17:
41% of Sixth, Seventh and Eighth grade Black or African-American students will demonstrate a proficiency in concepts in Reading by 06/05/2015 as measured by
the State assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction (K-12) - The District will implement Differentiated Instruction through the use and implementation of Professional Learning Opportunities,
SY 2013-2014
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Project Learning (middle/high), Fluency and Skill Development, SIOP, Data Analysis, Monitoring and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will employ individuals who organize the
Professiona Tier 1
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
l Learning
District. Professional Learning will be differentiated to meet the
needs of the staff who will attend.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $149000
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High)
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title II Part Assistant
A
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisor and Curriculum Writing
Curriculum Tier 1
Team will design units and lessons that will provide
Developme
opportunities throughout the school year for students to be
nt
engaged in a variety of project learning activities that support
their instructional goals. These projects will be differentiated in
nature and provide choice to students regarding the type of
project they will complete and will be rigorous and challenging
for all students.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
Administrat
ors and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $200000
Title III
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
Blandford Nature Center, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids
University Preparatory Academy, Riverside Middle School,
Union High School, Innovation Central High School, City High
Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will allot time in the daily schedule to allow staff to Curriculum Tier 1
use a variety of activities that will allow students to become
Developme
fluent with essential foundational skills. The students will
nt
practice these foundational skills often enough so that they can
flexibly engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who have populations with second language learners. Support
These individuals will train staff on how to implement the SIOP Program
framework in their classrooms to support and provide
differentiated techniques which will support the learning needs
of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
ELL
Department
, Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Buchanan
School, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Park Elementary
School, Palmer School, Congress Elementary, Westwood
Middle School, Stocking School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary,
Burton Middle School, Union High School, Newcomers
Community School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Southwest Community Campus School, Sibley School, Burton
Elementary School
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
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Staff
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e
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The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively with Other
individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide data,
design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement.
Tier 1
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $560860
Title I Part
A, Title I
Part A, Title
II Part A
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
Resource
Assigned
District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/04/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Data
Support
Specialist,
Assessmen
t and
Evaluation
Department
, Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or,Student
Information
Services
and
Teaching
Staff.
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will implement PLCs to develop staff capacity in
providing effective research-based instruction by engaging
teachers in frequent collaboration and dialogue. PLCs are an
embedded professional development model which includes:
the examination of instructional practices, including
differentiation, student work, strategies for at-risk students,
LearningWalks, Content Focused Coaching, observation and
feedback conferences. Participants of PLCs include but are
not limited to: District Curriculum Supervisors, Content
Coaches, teaching staff and building principals.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $204000
Title I Part
A
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $183829
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Specialist
Teacher
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Specialist Teacher
The District will employ Reading Specialist Teachers within
Academic
identified Priority Schools who will deliver supplementary
Support
instruction to identified students. This instructional support will Program
reflect state and district content expectations through the use of
effective strategies in management, instruction, student
motivation and curriculum planning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $92000
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Activity - Summer School
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The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $108800
Title III,
Title I Part
A
Title I
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $334860
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Teacher,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $276000
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Teacher (Alger and Westwood)
Activity
Type
The District will place teachers who will be responsible for
Academic
providing technical expertise in reading instruction.
Support
The teachers will be responsible for ensuring that researched- Program
based best practices are implemented in grade levels 6-8. This
may include conducting model/demonstration lessons in
classrooms, coaching and assisting teachers, designing
lessons for teachers and providing regular ongoing professional
development in reading methods for all staff. The teachers will
be responsible for testing students, diagnosing reading
problems, and recommending and implementing effective
intervention strategies.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Alger Middle School
Activity - Reading Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
The District will employ coaches in order to support Priority
Professiona Tier 2
Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Reading Coaches l Learning
will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in successfully
implementing best practices as identified in their Reform &
Redesign Plans. Reading Coaches will provide leadership for
teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing, modeling and
facilitating change to improve the instructional program.
Reading Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Resource
Assigned
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Coach,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
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Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
The District will hire an Instructional Improvement Coach, who
under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $89000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $128000
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Literacy Para Professional (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Literacy Para Professionals who will be Academic
responsible for assisting with promotion of literacy in
Support
elementary and K-8 buildings by working as a team member
Program
with the school staff, principal and library director in providing a
quality educational program. Responsible for concept/skill
reinforcement tasks and providing students the opportunity for
additional adult/student relationships.
Resource
Assigned
Title I Part
A
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Aberdeen
Elementary, Campus Elementary
Staff
Responsibl
e
Instructiona
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Staff
Responsibl
e
Literacy
Para
Professiona
ls, Building
Administrat
ors, Library
Director,
and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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Begin Date End Date
Resource
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Source Of
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Other
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Academic
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Support
been developed through teacher training provided by the
Program
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Other
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper
understanding of the content being taught.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim, Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Support
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
Program
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, Riverside
Middle School, CA Frost Environmental Science Academy,
Harrison Park Elementary School, Aberdeen Elementary
School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School, Center for
Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Support
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable Program
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, CA Frost Environmental
Science Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison
Elementary, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills
School, Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Innovation Central High School, Southwest
Community Campus School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
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Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Close and Critical Reading (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop units/lessons Academic
which will incorporate close and critical reading. The teaching Support
staff will use these units/lessons to teach students how to read Program
text closely and to begin to think critically about the content
within the text. Teaching staff will utilize the guided highlighted
reading technique which will support students’ ability to
summarize, retell and synthesize complex text and increase
their ability to engage with the text. Teachers will assist
students in deepening their academic vocabulary by using it in
the context as it appears in the text.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Dickinson School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Innovation Central
High School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin
Luther King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School,
Center for Economicology
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $40000
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Other
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Resource
Assigned
District
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Measurable Objective 18:
51% of Eleventh grade students will demonstrate a proficiency in Comprehension in Reading by 06/05/2015 as measured by the state assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction (K-12) - The District will implement Differentiated Instruction through the use and implementation of Professional Learning Opportunities,
Project Learning (middle/high), Fluency and Skill Development, SIOP, Data Analysis, Monitoring and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
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Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will employ individuals who organize the
Professiona Tier 1
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
l Learning
District. Professional Learning will be differentiated to meet the
needs of the staff who will attend.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $149000
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisor and Curriculum Writing
Curriculum Tier 1
Team will design units and lessons that will provide
Developme
opportunities throughout the school year for students to be
nt
engaged in a variety of project learning activities that support
their instructional goals. These projects will be differentiated in
nature and provide choice to students regarding the type of
project they will complete and will be rigorous and challenging
for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
Blandford Nature Center, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids
University Preparatory Academy, Riverside Middle School,
Union High School, Innovation Central High School, City High
Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will allot time in the daily schedule to allow staff to Curriculum Tier 1
use a variety of activities that will allow students to become
Developme
fluent with essential foundational skills. The students will
nt
practice these foundational skills often enough so that they can
flexibly engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title II Part Assistant
A
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
Administrat
ors and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
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Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who have populations with second language learners. Support
These individuals will train staff on how to implement the SIOP Program
framework in their classrooms to support and provide
differentiated techniques which will support the learning needs
of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $200000
Title III
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
ELL
Department
, Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Buchanan
School, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Park Elementary
School, Palmer School, Congress Elementary, Westwood
Middle School, Stocking School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary,
Burton Middle School, Union High School, Newcomers
Community School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Southwest Community Campus School, Sibley School, Burton
Elementary School
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively with Other
individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide data,
design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement.
Tier 1
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $560860
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I Part Data
A, Title I
Support
Part A, Title Specialist,
II Part A
Assessmen
t and
Evaluation
Department
, Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or,Student
Information
Services
and
Teaching
Staff.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/04/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Activity - Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will implement PLCs to develop staff capacity in
providing effective research-based instruction by engaging
teachers in frequent collaboration and dialogue. PLCs are an
embedded professional development model which includes:
the examination of instructional practices, including
differentiation, student work, strategies for at-risk students,
LearningWalks, Content Focused Coaching, observation and
feedback conferences. Participants of PLCs include but are
not limited to: District Curriculum Supervisors, Content
Coaches, teaching staff and building principals.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $204000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $183829
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Specialist Teacher
The District will employ Reading Specialist Teachers within
Academic
identified Priority Schools who will deliver supplementary
Support
instruction to identified students. This instructional support will Program
reflect state and district content expectations through the use of
effective strategies in management, instruction, student
motivation and curriculum planning.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Specialist
Teacher
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $92000
Title I Part
A
Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $108800
Title I Part
A, Title III
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $334860
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Teacher (Alger and Westwood)
Activity
Type
The District will place teachers who will be responsible for
Academic
providing technical expertise in reading instruction.
Support
The teachers will be responsible for ensuring that researched- Program
based best practices are implemented in grade levels 6-8. This
may include conducting model/demonstration lessons in
classrooms, coaching and assisting teachers, designing
lessons for teachers and providing regular ongoing professional
development in reading methods for all staff. The teachers will
be responsible for testing students, diagnosing reading
problems, and recommending and implementing effective
intervention strategies.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Teacher,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Alger Middle School
Activity - Reading Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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The District will employ coaches in order to support Priority
Professiona Tier 2
Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Reading Coaches l Learning
will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in successfully
implementing best practices as identified in their Reform &
Redesign Plans. Reading Coaches will provide leadership for
teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing, modeling and
facilitating change to improve the instructional program.
Reading Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $276000
Title I Part
A
Reading
Coach,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Instructiona
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Resource
Assigned
The District will hire an Instructional Improvement Coach, who
under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $89000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $128000
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Literacy Para Professional (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Literacy Para Professionals who will be Academic
responsible for assisting with promotion of literacy in
Support
elementary and K-8 buildings by working as a team member
Program
with the school staff, principal and library director in providing a
quality educational program. Responsible for concept/skill
reinforcement tasks and providing students the opportunity for
additional adult/student relationships.
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Aberdeen
Elementary, Campus Elementary
Resource
Assigned
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Literacy
Para
Professiona
ls, Building
Administrat
ors, Library
Director,
and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
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“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Other
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
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Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Academic
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Support
been developed through teacher training provided by the
Program
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Other
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper
understanding of the content being taught.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim, Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Support
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
Program
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, Riverside
Middle School, CA Frost Environmental Science Academy,
Harrison Park Elementary School, Aberdeen Elementary
School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School, Center for
Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
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Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Support
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable Program
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, CA Frost Environmental
Science Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison
Elementary, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills
School, Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Innovation Central High School, Southwest
Community Campus School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Close and Critical Reading (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop units/lessons Academic
which will incorporate close and critical reading. The teaching Support
staff will use these units/lessons to teach students how to read Program
text closely and to begin to think critically about the content
within the text. Teaching staff will utilize the guided highlighted
reading technique which will support students’ ability to
summarize, retell and synthesize complex text and increase
their ability to engage with the text. Teachers will assist
students in deepening their academic vocabulary by using it in
the context as it appears in the text.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $40000
Title I Part
A
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Dickinson School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Innovation Central
High School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin
Luther King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School,
Center for Economicology
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Other
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Measurable Objective 19:
40% of Eleventh grade Black or African-American students will demonstrate a proficiency in Comprehension in Reading by 06/05/2015 as measured by the state
assessment..
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction (K-12) - The District will implement Differentiated Instruction through the use and implementation of Professional Learning Opportunities,
Project Learning (middle/high), Fluency and Skill Development, SIOP, Data Analysis, Monitoring and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
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Source Of
Funding
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
Professiona Tier 1
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
l Learning
District. Professional Learning will be differentiated to meet the
needs of the staff who will attend.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $149000
Title II Part Assistant
A
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisor and Curriculum Writing
Curriculum Tier 1
Team will design units and lessons that will provide
Developme
opportunities throughout the school year for students to be
nt
engaged in a variety of project learning activities that support
their instructional goals. These projects will be differentiated in
nature and provide choice to students regarding the type of
project they will complete and will be rigorous and challenging
for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
Blandford Nature Center, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids
University Preparatory Academy, Riverside Middle School,
Union High School, Innovation Central High School, City High
Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will allot time in the daily schedule to allow staff to Curriculum Tier 1
use a variety of activities that will allow students to become
Developme
fluent with essential foundational skills. The students will
nt
practice these foundational skills often enough so that they can
flexibly engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
Administrat
ors and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Source Of
Funding
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who have populations with second language learners. Support
These individuals will train staff on how to implement the SIOP Program
framework in their classrooms to support and provide
differentiated techniques which will support the learning needs
of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $200000
Title III
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
ELL
Department
, Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Buchanan
School, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Park Elementary
School, Palmer School, Congress Elementary, Westwood
Middle School, Stocking School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary,
Burton Middle School, Union High School, Newcomers
Community School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Southwest Community Campus School, Sibley School, Burton
Elementary School
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively with Other
individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide data,
design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement.
Tier 1
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $560860
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I Part Data
A, Title I
Support
Part A, Title Specialist,
II Part A
Assessmen
t and
Evaluation
Department
, Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or,Student
Information
Services
and
Teaching
Staff.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/04/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Activity - Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will implement PLCs to develop staff capacity in
providing effective research-based instruction by engaging
teachers in frequent collaboration and dialogue. PLCs are an
embedded professional development model which includes:
the examination of instructional practices, including
differentiation, student work, strategies for at-risk students,
LearningWalks, Content Focused Coaching, observation and
feedback conferences. Participants of PLCs include but are
not limited to: District Curriculum Supervisors, Content
Coaches, teaching staff and building principals.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $204000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $183829
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Specialist Teacher
The District will employ Reading Specialist Teachers within
Academic
identified Priority Schools who will deliver supplementary
Support
instruction to identified students. This instructional support will Program
reflect state and district content expectations through the use of
effective strategies in management, instruction, student
motivation and curriculum planning.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Specialist
Teacher
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $92000
Title I Part
A
Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $108800
Title III,
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $334860
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Teacher (Alger and Westwood)
Activity
Type
The District will place teachers who will be responsible for
Academic
providing technical expertise in reading instruction.
Support
The teachers will be responsible for ensuring that researched- Program
based best practices are implemented in grade levels 6-8. This
may include conducting model/demonstration lessons in
classrooms, coaching and assisting teachers, designing
lessons for teachers and providing regular ongoing professional
development in reading methods for all staff. The teachers will
be responsible for testing students, diagnosing reading
problems, and recommending and implementing effective
intervention strategies.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Teacher,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Alger Middle School
Activity - Reading Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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Staff
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The District will employ coaches in order to support Priority
Professiona Tier 2
Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Reading Coaches l Learning
will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in successfully
implementing best practices as identified in their Reform &
Redesign Plans. Reading Coaches will provide leadership for
teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing, modeling and
facilitating change to improve the instructional program.
Reading Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $276000
Title I Part
A
Reading
Coach,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Instructiona
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Resource
Assigned
The District will hire an Instructional Improvement Coach, who
under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $89000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $128000
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Literacy Para Professional (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Literacy Para Professionals who will be Academic
responsible for assisting with promotion of literacy in
Support
elementary and K-8 buildings by working as a team member
Program
with the school staff, principal and library director in providing a
quality educational program. Responsible for concept/skill
reinforcement tasks and providing students the opportunity for
additional adult/student relationships.
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Aberdeen
Elementary, Campus Elementary
Resource
Assigned
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Literacy
Para
Professiona
ls, Building
Administrat
ors, Library
Director,
and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
SY 2013-2014
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“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Other
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Academic
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Support
been developed through teacher training provided by the
Program
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Other
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper
understanding of the content being taught.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim, Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Support
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
Program
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, Riverside
Middle School, CA Frost Environmental Science Academy,
Harrison Park Elementary School, Aberdeen Elementary
School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School, Center for
Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Support
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable Program
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, CA Frost Environmental
Science Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison
Elementary, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills
School, Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Innovation Central High School, Southwest
Community Campus School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Close and Critical Reading (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop units/lessons Academic
which will incorporate close and critical reading. The teaching Support
staff will use these units/lessons to teach students how to read Program
text closely and to begin to think critically about the content
within the text. Teaching staff will utilize the guided highlighted
reading technique which will support students’ ability to
summarize, retell and synthesize complex text and increase
their ability to engage with the text. Teachers will assist
students in deepening their academic vocabulary by using it in
the context as it appears in the text.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $40000
Title I Part
A
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Dickinson School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Innovation Central
High School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin
Luther King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School,
Center for Economicology
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Other
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Measurable Objective 20:
48% of Eleventh grade Hispanic or Latino students will demonstrate a proficiency in Comprehension in Reading by 06/05/2015 as measured by the state
assessment..
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction (K-12) - The District will implement Differentiated Instruction through the use and implementation of Professional Learning Opportunities,
Project Learning (middle/high), Fluency and Skill Development, SIOP, Data Analysis, Monitoring and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
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Source Of
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
Professiona Tier 1
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
l Learning
District. Professional Learning will be differentiated to meet the
needs of the staff who will attend.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $149000
Title II Part Assistant
A
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisor and Curriculum Writing
Curriculum Tier 1
Team will design units and lessons that will provide
Developme
opportunities throughout the school year for students to be
nt
engaged in a variety of project learning activities that support
their instructional goals. These projects will be differentiated in
nature and provide choice to students regarding the type of
project they will complete and will be rigorous and challenging
for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
Blandford Nature Center, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids
University Preparatory Academy, Riverside Middle School,
Union High School, Innovation Central High School, City High
Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will allot time in the daily schedule to allow staff to Curriculum Tier 1
use a variety of activities that will allow students to become
Developme
fluent with essential foundational skills. The students will
nt
practice these foundational skills often enough so that they can
flexibly engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
Administrat
ors and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Assigned
Source Of
Funding
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who have populations with second language learners. Support
These individuals will train staff on how to implement the SIOP Program
framework in their classrooms to support and provide
differentiated techniques which will support the learning needs
of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $200000
Title III
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
ELL
Department
, Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Buchanan
School, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Park Elementary
School, Palmer School, Congress Elementary, Westwood
Middle School, Stocking School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary,
Burton Middle School, Union High School, Newcomers
Community School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Southwest Community Campus School, Sibley School, Burton
Elementary School
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively with Other
individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide data,
design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement.
Tier 1
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $560860
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I Part Data
A, Title I
Support
Part A, Title Specialist,
II Part A
Assessmen
t and
Evaluation
Department
, Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or,Student
Information
Services
and
Teaching
Staff.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/04/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Activity - Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will implement PLCs to develop staff capacity in
providing effective research-based instruction by engaging
teachers in frequent collaboration and dialogue. PLCs are an
embedded professional development model which includes:
the examination of instructional practices, including
differentiation, student work, strategies for at-risk students,
LearningWalks, Content Focused Coaching, observation and
feedback conferences. Participants of PLCs include but are
not limited to: District Curriculum Supervisors, Content
Coaches, teaching staff and building principals.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $204000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $183829
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Specialist Teacher
The District will employ Reading Specialist Teachers within
Academic
identified Priority Schools who will deliver supplementary
Support
instruction to identified students. This instructional support will Program
reflect state and district content expectations through the use of
effective strategies in management, instruction, student
motivation and curriculum planning.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Specialist
Teacher
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
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Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $92000
Title I Part
A
Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $108800
Title III,
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $334860
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Teacher (Alger and Westwood)
Activity
Type
The District will place teachers who will be responsible for
Academic
providing technical expertise in reading instruction.
Support
The teachers will be responsible for ensuring that researched- Program
based best practices are implemented in grade levels 6-8. This
may include conducting model/demonstration lessons in
classrooms, coaching and assisting teachers, designing
lessons for teachers and providing regular ongoing professional
development in reading methods for all staff. The teachers will
be responsible for testing students, diagnosing reading
problems, and recommending and implementing effective
intervention strategies.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Teacher,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Alger Middle School
Activity - Reading Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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Staff
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The District will employ coaches in order to support Priority
Professiona Tier 2
Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Reading Coaches l Learning
will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in successfully
implementing best practices as identified in their Reform &
Redesign Plans. Reading Coaches will provide leadership for
teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing, modeling and
facilitating change to improve the instructional program.
Reading Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $276000
Title I Part
A
Reading
Coach,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Instructiona
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Resource
Assigned
The District will hire an Instructional Improvement Coach, who
under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $89000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $128000
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Literacy Para Professional (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Literacy Para Professionals who will be Academic
responsible for assisting with promotion of literacy in
Support
elementary and K-8 buildings by working as a team member
Program
with the school staff, principal and library director in providing a
quality educational program. Responsible for concept/skill
reinforcement tasks and providing students the opportunity for
additional adult/student relationships.
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Aberdeen
Elementary, Campus Elementary
Resource
Assigned
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Literacy
Para
Professiona
ls, Building
Administrat
ors, Library
Director,
and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
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“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Other
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Academic
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Support
been developed through teacher training provided by the
Program
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Other
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper
understanding of the content being taught.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim, Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Support
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
Program
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, Riverside
Middle School, CA Frost Environmental Science Academy,
Harrison Park Elementary School, Aberdeen Elementary
School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School, Center for
Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Support
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable Program
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, CA Frost Environmental
Science Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison
Elementary, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills
School, Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Innovation Central High School, Southwest
Community Campus School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Close and Critical Reading (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop units/lessons Academic
which will incorporate close and critical reading. The teaching Support
staff will use these units/lessons to teach students how to read Program
text closely and to begin to think critically about the content
within the text. Teaching staff will utilize the guided highlighted
reading technique which will support students’ ability to
summarize, retell and synthesize complex text and increase
their ability to engage with the text. Teachers will assist
students in deepening their academic vocabulary by using it in
the context as it appears in the text.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $40000
Title I Part
A
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Dickinson School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Innovation Central
High School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin
Luther King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School,
Center for Economicology
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Other
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Measurable Objective 21:
72% of Eleventh grade White students will demonstrate a proficiency in Comprehension in Reading by 06/05/2015 as measured by the state assessment..
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction (K-12) - The District will implement Differentiated Instruction through the use and implementation of Professional Learning Opportunities,
Project Learning (middle/high), Fluency and Skill Development, SIOP, Data Analysis, Monitoring and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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Begin Date End Date
Resource
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Source Of
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Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
Professiona Tier 1
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
l Learning
District. Professional Learning will be differentiated to meet the
needs of the staff who will attend.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $149000
Title II Part Assistant
A
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisor and Curriculum Writing
Curriculum Tier 1
Team will design units and lessons that will provide
Developme
opportunities throughout the school year for students to be
nt
engaged in a variety of project learning activities that support
their instructional goals. These projects will be differentiated in
nature and provide choice to students regarding the type of
project they will complete and will be rigorous and challenging
for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
Blandford Nature Center, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids
University Preparatory Academy, Riverside Middle School,
Union High School, Innovation Central High School, City High
Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will allot time in the daily schedule to allow staff to Curriculum Tier 1
use a variety of activities that will allow students to become
Developme
fluent with essential foundational skills. The students will
nt
practice these foundational skills often enough so that they can
flexibly engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
Administrat
ors and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who have populations with second language learners. Support
These individuals will train staff on how to implement the SIOP Program
framework in their classrooms to support and provide
differentiated techniques which will support the learning needs
of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $200000
Title III
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
ELL
Department
, Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Buchanan
School, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Park Elementary
School, Palmer School, Congress Elementary, Westwood
Middle School, Stocking School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary,
Burton Middle School, Union High School, Newcomers
Community School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Southwest Community Campus School, Sibley School, Burton
Elementary School
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively with Other
individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide data,
design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement.
Tier 1
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $560860
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I Part Data
A, Title II
Support
Part A, Title Specialist,
I Part A
Assessmen
t and
Evaluation
Department
, Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or,Student
Information
Services
and
Teaching
Staff.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/04/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Activity - Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will implement PLCs to develop staff capacity in
providing effective research-based instruction by engaging
teachers in frequent collaboration and dialogue. PLCs are an
embedded professional development model which includes:
the examination of instructional practices, including
differentiation, student work, strategies for at-risk students,
LearningWalks, Content Focused Coaching, observation and
feedback conferences. Participants of PLCs include but are
not limited to: District Curriculum Supervisors, Content
Coaches, teaching staff and building principals.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $204000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $183829
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Specialist Teacher
The District will employ Reading Specialist Teachers within
Academic
identified Priority Schools who will deliver supplementary
Support
instruction to identified students. This instructional support will Program
reflect state and district content expectations through the use of
effective strategies in management, instruction, student
motivation and curriculum planning.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Specialist
Teacher
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
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Resource
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Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $92000
Title I Part
A
Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $108800
Title III,
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $334860
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Teacher (Alger and Westwood)
Activity
Type
The District will place teachers who will be responsible for
Academic
providing technical expertise in reading instruction.
Support
The teachers will be responsible for ensuring that researched- Program
based best practices are implemented in grade levels 6-8. This
may include conducting model/demonstration lessons in
classrooms, coaching and assisting teachers, designing
lessons for teachers and providing regular ongoing professional
development in reading methods for all staff. The teachers will
be responsible for testing students, diagnosing reading
problems, and recommending and implementing effective
intervention strategies.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Teacher,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Alger Middle School
Activity - Reading Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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Staff
Responsibl
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The District will employ coaches in order to support Priority
Professiona Tier 2
Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Reading Coaches l Learning
will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in successfully
implementing best practices as identified in their Reform &
Redesign Plans. Reading Coaches will provide leadership for
teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing, modeling and
facilitating change to improve the instructional program.
Reading Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $276000
Title I Part
A
Reading
Coach,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Instructiona
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Resource
Assigned
The District will hire an Instructional Improvement Coach, who
under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $89000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $128000
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Literacy Para Professional (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Literacy Para Professionals who will be Academic
responsible for assisting with promotion of literacy in
Support
elementary and K-8 buildings by working as a team member
Program
with the school staff, principal and library director in providing a
quality educational program. Responsible for concept/skill
reinforcement tasks and providing students the opportunity for
additional adult/student relationships.
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Aberdeen
Elementary, Campus Elementary
Resource
Assigned
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Literacy
Para
Professiona
ls, Building
Administrat
ors, Library
Director,
and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
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“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Other
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Academic
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Support
been developed through teacher training provided by the
Program
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Other
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper
understanding of the content being taught.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim, Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Support
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
Program
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, Riverside
Middle School, CA Frost Environmental Science Academy,
Harrison Park Elementary School, Aberdeen Elementary
School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School, Center for
Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Support
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable Program
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, CA Frost Environmental
Science Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison
Elementary, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills
School, Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Innovation Central High School, Southwest
Community Campus School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Close and Critical Reading (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop units/lessons Academic
which will incorporate close and critical reading. The teaching Support
staff will use these units/lessons to teach students how to read Program
text closely and to begin to think critically about the content
within the text. Teaching staff will utilize the guided highlighted
reading technique which will support students’ ability to
summarize, retell and synthesize complex text and increase
their ability to engage with the text. Teachers will assist
students in deepening their academic vocabulary by using it in
the context as it appears in the text.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $40000
Title I Part
A
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Dickinson School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Innovation Central
High School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin
Luther King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School,
Center for Economicology
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Other
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Measurable Objective 22:
46% of Eleventh grade Economically Disadvantaged students will demonstrate a proficiency in Comprehension in Reading by 06/05/2015 as measured by the state
assessment..
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction (K-12) - The District will implement Differentiated Instruction through the use and implementation of Professional Learning Opportunities,
Project Learning (middle/high), Fluency and Skill Development, SIOP, Data Analysis, Monitoring and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
Professiona Tier 1
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
l Learning
District. Professional Learning will be differentiated to meet the
needs of the staff who will attend.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $149000
Title II Part Assistant
A
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisor and Curriculum Writing
Curriculum Tier 1
Team will design units and lessons that will provide
Developme
opportunities throughout the school year for students to be
nt
engaged in a variety of project learning activities that support
their instructional goals. These projects will be differentiated in
nature and provide choice to students regarding the type of
project they will complete and will be rigorous and challenging
for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
Blandford Nature Center, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids
University Preparatory Academy, Riverside Middle School,
Union High School, Innovation Central High School, City High
Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will allot time in the daily schedule to allow staff to Curriculum Tier 1
use a variety of activities that will allow students to become
Developme
fluent with essential foundational skills. The students will
nt
practice these foundational skills often enough so that they can
flexibly engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
Administrat
ors and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Source Of
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who have populations with second language learners. Support
These individuals will train staff on how to implement the SIOP Program
framework in their classrooms to support and provide
differentiated techniques which will support the learning needs
of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $200000
Title III
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
ELL
Department
, Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Buchanan
School, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Park Elementary
School, Palmer School, Congress Elementary, Westwood
Middle School, Stocking School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary,
Burton Middle School, Union High School, Newcomers
Community School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Southwest Community Campus School, Sibley School, Burton
Elementary School
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively with Other
individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide data,
design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement.
Tier 1
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $560860
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I Part Data
A, Title I
Support
Part A, Title Specialist,
II Part A
Assessmen
t and
Evaluation
Department
, Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or,Student
Information
Services
and
Teaching
Staff.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/04/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Activity - Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will implement PLCs to develop staff capacity in
providing effective research-based instruction by engaging
teachers in frequent collaboration and dialogue. PLCs are an
embedded professional development model which includes:
the examination of instructional practices, including
differentiation, student work, strategies for at-risk students,
LearningWalks, Content Focused Coaching, observation and
feedback conferences. Participants of PLCs include but are
not limited to: District Curriculum Supervisors, Content
Coaches, teaching staff and building principals.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $204000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $183829
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Specialist Teacher
The District will employ Reading Specialist Teachers within
Academic
identified Priority Schools who will deliver supplementary
Support
instruction to identified students. This instructional support will Program
reflect state and district content expectations through the use of
effective strategies in management, instruction, student
motivation and curriculum planning.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Specialist
Teacher
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
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The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $92000
Title I Part
A
Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $108800
Title III,
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $334860
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Teacher (Alger and Westwood)
Activity
Type
The District will place teachers who will be responsible for
Academic
providing technical expertise in reading instruction.
Support
The teachers will be responsible for ensuring that researched- Program
based best practices are implemented in grade levels 6-8. This
may include conducting model/demonstration lessons in
classrooms, coaching and assisting teachers, designing
lessons for teachers and providing regular ongoing professional
development in reading methods for all staff. The teachers will
be responsible for testing students, diagnosing reading
problems, and recommending and implementing effective
intervention strategies.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Teacher,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Alger Middle School
Activity - Reading Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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Staff
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The District will employ coaches in order to support Priority
Professiona Tier 2
Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Reading Coaches l Learning
will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in successfully
implementing best practices as identified in their Reform &
Redesign Plans. Reading Coaches will provide leadership for
teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing, modeling and
facilitating change to improve the instructional program.
Reading Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $276000
Title I Part
A
Reading
Coach,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Instructiona
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Resource
Assigned
The District will hire an Instructional Improvement Coach, who
under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $89000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $128000
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Literacy Para Professional (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Literacy Para Professionals who will be Academic
responsible for assisting with promotion of literacy in
Support
elementary and K-8 buildings by working as a team member
Program
with the school staff, principal and library director in providing a
quality educational program. Responsible for concept/skill
reinforcement tasks and providing students the opportunity for
additional adult/student relationships.
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Aberdeen
Elementary, Campus Elementary
Resource
Assigned
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Literacy
Para
Professiona
ls, Building
Administrat
ors, Library
Director,
and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
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“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Other
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Academic
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Support
been developed through teacher training provided by the
Program
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Other
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper
understanding of the content being taught.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim, Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Support
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
Program
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, Riverside
Middle School, CA Frost Environmental Science Academy,
Harrison Park Elementary School, Aberdeen Elementary
School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School, Center for
Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Support
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable Program
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, CA Frost Environmental
Science Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison
Elementary, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills
School, Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Innovation Central High School, Southwest
Community Campus School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Close and Critical Reading (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop units/lessons Academic
which will incorporate close and critical reading. The teaching Support
staff will use these units/lessons to teach students how to read Program
text closely and to begin to think critically about the content
within the text. Teaching staff will utilize the guided highlighted
reading technique which will support students’ ability to
summarize, retell and synthesize complex text and increase
their ability to engage with the text. Teachers will assist
students in deepening their academic vocabulary by using it in
the context as it appears in the text.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $40000
Title I Part
A
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Dickinson School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Innovation Central
High School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin
Luther King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School,
Center for Economicology
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Staff
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e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Other
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Measurable Objective 23:
27% of Eleventh grade English Learners students will demonstrate a proficiency in Comprehension in Reading by 06/05/2015 as measured by the state
assessment..
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction (K-12) - The District will implement Differentiated Instruction through the use and implementation of Professional Learning Opportunities,
Project Learning (middle/high), Fluency and Skill Development, SIOP, Data Analysis, Monitoring and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
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Responsibl
e
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
Professiona Tier 1
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
l Learning
District. Professional Learning will be differentiated to meet the
needs of the staff who will attend.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $149000
Title II Part Assistant
A
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisor and Curriculum Writing
Curriculum Tier 1
Team will design units and lessons that will provide
Developme
opportunities throughout the school year for students to be
nt
engaged in a variety of project learning activities that support
their instructional goals. These projects will be differentiated in
nature and provide choice to students regarding the type of
project they will complete and will be rigorous and challenging
for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
Blandford Nature Center, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids
University Preparatory Academy, Riverside Middle School,
Union High School, Innovation Central High School, City High
Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will allot time in the daily schedule to allow staff to Curriculum Tier 1
use a variety of activities that will allow students to become
Developme
fluent with essential foundational skills. The students will
nt
practice these foundational skills often enough so that they can
flexibly engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
Administrat
ors and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who have populations with second language learners. Support
These individuals will train staff on how to implement the SIOP Program
framework in their classrooms to support and provide
differentiated techniques which will support the learning needs
of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $200000
Title III
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
ELL
Department
, Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Buchanan
School, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Park Elementary
School, Palmer School, Congress Elementary, Westwood
Middle School, Stocking School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary,
Burton Middle School, Union High School, Newcomers
Community School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Southwest Community Campus School, Sibley School, Burton
Elementary School
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively with Other
individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide data,
design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement.
Tier 1
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $560860
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I Part Data
A, Title I
Support
Part A, Title Specialist,
II Part A
Assessmen
t and
Evaluation
Department
, Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or,Student
Information
Services
and
Teaching
Staff.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/04/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Activity - Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will implement PLCs to develop staff capacity in
providing effective research-based instruction by engaging
teachers in frequent collaboration and dialogue. PLCs are an
embedded professional development model which includes:
the examination of instructional practices, including
differentiation, student work, strategies for at-risk students,
LearningWalks, Content Focused Coaching, observation and
feedback conferences. Participants of PLCs include but are
not limited to: District Curriculum Supervisors, Content
Coaches, teaching staff and building principals.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $204000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $183829
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Specialist Teacher
The District will employ Reading Specialist Teachers within
Academic
identified Priority Schools who will deliver supplementary
Support
instruction to identified students. This instructional support will Program
reflect state and district content expectations through the use of
effective strategies in management, instruction, student
motivation and curriculum planning.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Specialist
Teacher
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
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Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $92000
Title I Part
A
Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $108800
Title III,
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $334860
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Teacher (Alger and Westwood)
Activity
Type
The District will place teachers who will be responsible for
Academic
providing technical expertise in reading instruction.
Support
The teachers will be responsible for ensuring that researched- Program
based best practices are implemented in grade levels 6-8. This
may include conducting model/demonstration lessons in
classrooms, coaching and assisting teachers, designing
lessons for teachers and providing regular ongoing professional
development in reading methods for all staff. The teachers will
be responsible for testing students, diagnosing reading
problems, and recommending and implementing effective
intervention strategies.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Teacher,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Alger Middle School
Activity - Reading Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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Staff
Responsibl
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The District will employ coaches in order to support Priority
Professiona Tier 2
Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Reading Coaches l Learning
will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in successfully
implementing best practices as identified in their Reform &
Redesign Plans. Reading Coaches will provide leadership for
teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing, modeling and
facilitating change to improve the instructional program.
Reading Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $276000
Title I Part
A
Reading
Coach,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Instructiona
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Resource
Assigned
The District will hire an Instructional Improvement Coach, who
under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $89000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $128000
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Literacy Para Professional (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Literacy Para Professionals who will be Academic
responsible for assisting with promotion of literacy in
Support
elementary and K-8 buildings by working as a team member
Program
with the school staff, principal and library director in providing a
quality educational program. Responsible for concept/skill
reinforcement tasks and providing students the opportunity for
additional adult/student relationships.
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Aberdeen
Elementary, Campus Elementary
Resource
Assigned
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Literacy
Para
Professiona
ls, Building
Administrat
ors, Library
Director,
and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
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“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Other
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Academic
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Support
been developed through teacher training provided by the
Program
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Other
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper
understanding of the content being taught.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim, Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Support
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
Program
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, Riverside
Middle School, CA Frost Environmental Science Academy,
Harrison Park Elementary School, Aberdeen Elementary
School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School, Center for
Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Support
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable Program
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, CA Frost Environmental
Science Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison
Elementary, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills
School, Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Innovation Central High School, Southwest
Community Campus School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Close and Critical Reading (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop units/lessons Academic
which will incorporate close and critical reading. The teaching Support
staff will use these units/lessons to teach students how to read Program
text closely and to begin to think critically about the content
within the text. Teaching staff will utilize the guided highlighted
reading technique which will support students’ ability to
summarize, retell and synthesize complex text and increase
their ability to engage with the text. Teachers will assist
students in deepening their academic vocabulary by using it in
the context as it appears in the text.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $40000
Title I Part
A
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Dickinson School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Innovation Central
High School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin
Luther King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School,
Center for Economicology
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Other
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Measurable Objective 24:
28% of Eleventh grade Students with Disabilities students will demonstrate a proficiency in Comprehension in Reading by 06/05/2015 as measured by the state
assessment..
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction (K-12) - The District will implement Differentiated Instruction through the use and implementation of Professional Learning Opportunities,
Project Learning (middle/high), Fluency and Skill Development, SIOP, Data Analysis, Monitoring and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
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Source Of
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
Professiona Tier 1
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
l Learning
District. Professional Learning will be differentiated to meet the
needs of the staff who will attend.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $149000
Title II Part Assistant
A
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisor and Curriculum Writing
Curriculum Tier 1
Team will design units and lessons that will provide
Developme
opportunities throughout the school year for students to be
nt
engaged in a variety of project learning activities that support
their instructional goals. These projects will be differentiated in
nature and provide choice to students regarding the type of
project they will complete and will be rigorous and challenging
for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
Blandford Nature Center, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids
University Preparatory Academy, Riverside Middle School,
Union High School, Innovation Central High School, City High
Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will allot time in the daily schedule to allow staff to Curriculum Tier 1
use a variety of activities that will allow students to become
Developme
fluent with essential foundational skills. The students will
nt
practice these foundational skills often enough so that they can
flexibly engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
teaching
staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
Administrat
ors and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Assigned
Source Of
Funding
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e
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who have populations with second language learners. Support
These individuals will train staff on how to implement the SIOP Program
framework in their classrooms to support and provide
differentiated techniques which will support the learning needs
of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $200000
Title III
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
ELL
Department
, Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Buchanan
School, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Park Elementary
School, Palmer School, Congress Elementary, Westwood
Middle School, Stocking School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary,
Burton Middle School, Union High School, Newcomers
Community School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Southwest Community Campus School, Sibley School, Burton
Elementary School
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively with Other
individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide data,
design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement.
Tier 1
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $560860
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title II Part Data
A, Title I
Support
Part A, Title Specialist,
I Part A
Assessmen
t and
Evaluation
Department
, Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or,Student
Information
Services
and
Teaching
Staff.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/04/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Activity - Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will implement PLCs to develop staff capacity in
providing effective research-based instruction by engaging
teachers in frequent collaboration and dialogue. PLCs are an
embedded professional development model which includes:
the examination of instructional practices, including
differentiation, student work, strategies for at-risk students,
LearningWalks, Content Focused Coaching, observation and
feedback conferences. Participants of PLCs include but are
not limited to: District Curriculum Supervisors, Content
Coaches, teaching staff and building principals.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $204000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $183829
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Specialist Teacher
The District will employ Reading Specialist Teachers within
Academic
identified Priority Schools who will deliver supplementary
Support
instruction to identified students. This instructional support will Program
reflect state and district content expectations through the use of
effective strategies in management, instruction, student
motivation and curriculum planning.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Specialist
Teacher
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Schools:Brookside School, Dickinson School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $92000
Title I Part
A
Coaches,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $108800
Title III,
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title I
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $334860
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Reading Teacher (Alger and Westwood)
Activity
Type
The District will place teachers who will be responsible for
Academic
providing technical expertise in reading instruction.
Support
The teachers will be responsible for ensuring that researched- Program
based best practices are implemented in grade levels 6-8. This
may include conducting model/demonstration lessons in
classrooms, coaching and assisting teachers, designing
lessons for teachers and providing regular ongoing professional
development in reading methods for all staff. The teachers will
be responsible for testing students, diagnosing reading
problems, and recommending and implementing effective
intervention strategies.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Reading
Teacher,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Alger Middle School
Activity - Reading Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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The District will employ coaches in order to support Priority
Professiona Tier 2
Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Reading Coaches l Learning
will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in successfully
implementing best practices as identified in their Reform &
Redesign Plans. Reading Coaches will provide leadership for
teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing, modeling and
facilitating change to improve the instructional program.
Reading Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $276000
Title I Part
A
Reading
Coach,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Instructiona
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Resource
Assigned
The District will hire an Instructional Improvement Coach, who
under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $89000
Title I Part
A
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $128000
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Literacy Para Professional (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Literacy Para Professionals who will be Academic
responsible for assisting with promotion of literacy in
Support
elementary and K-8 buildings by working as a team member
Program
with the school staff, principal and library director in providing a
quality educational program. Responsible for concept/skill
reinforcement tasks and providing students the opportunity for
additional adult/student relationships.
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Aberdeen
Elementary, Campus Elementary
Resource
Assigned
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Literacy
Para
Professiona
ls, Building
Administrat
ors, Library
Director,
and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
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“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Other
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
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Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Academic
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Support
been developed through teacher training provided by the
Program
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Other
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper
understanding of the content being taught.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim, Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Support
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
Program
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, Riverside
Middle School, CA Frost Environmental Science Academy,
Harrison Park Elementary School, Aberdeen Elementary
School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School, Center for
Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
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Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Academic
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Support
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable Program
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Blandford Nature Center, CA Frost Environmental
Science Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison
Elementary, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle
School, Alger Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public
School, Burton Middle School, Grand Rapids University
Preparatory Academy, Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills
School, Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Innovation Central High School, Southwest
Community Campus School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Close and Critical Reading (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Coaches,
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop units/lessons Academic
which will incorporate close and critical reading. The teaching Support
staff will use these units/lessons to teach students how to read Program
text closely and to begin to think critically about the content
within the text. Teaching staff will utilize the guided highlighted
reading technique which will support students’ ability to
summarize, retell and synthesize complex text and increase
their ability to engage with the text. Teachers will assist
students in deepening their academic vocabulary by using it in
the context as it appears in the text.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Instruction,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $40000
Title I Part
A
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Ottawa Hills High
School, Dickinson School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Riverside Middle School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Aberdeen Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Union High
School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Innovation Central
High School, Southwest Community Campus School, Martin
Luther King Leadership Academy, City High Middle School,
Center for Economicology
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Other
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:All Schools
Goal 5: All students in Grand Rapids Public Schools will be supported by an adult.
Measurable Objective 1:
collaborate to support the needs of the whole student by 06/05/2015 as measured by Attendance Data, Suspension/Expulsion Data, Course Grades and Graduation
Rate.
Strategy 1:
School Connectedness - The District will implement School Connectedness with the belief that students who are supported by important adults in their lives are likely to
be more engaged in school and learning. Students will be provided this support through the following structures and people: counseling services, School Improvement
Facilitator, wheel of support, youth advocates, and the Superintendent’s Drop-Out Challenge.
Research Cited: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. School Connectedness: Strategies for Increasing Protective Factors Among Youth. Atlanta, GA: U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services. 2009.
“School Connectedness is the belief by students that adults and peers in the school care about their learning as well as about them as individuals. Children and
adolescents’ beliefs about themselves and their abilities are shaped by the extent to which they perceive that the adults in their lives care about them and are involved
in their lives. Children and adolescents who feel supported by important adults in their lives are likely to be more engaged in school and learning. In the school setting,
students feel supported and cared for when they see school staff dedicating their time, interest, attention, and emotional support to them. Students need to feel that
adults care about them as individuals as well as about their academic achievement. “
Tier:
Activity - Youth Advocate (Middle and High)
Activity
Type
Tier
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The District will employ Youth Advocates (Middle and High) to
support students with academic and social needs. Youth
Advocates will maintain a caseload of students and monitor
academic and social progress in school utilizing the Safe and
Civil School "Interventions" resource to provide targeted
interventions to support and meet student needs.
Other
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $675500
Title I Part
A, Section
31a
Building
Administrat
ors,
Teaching
Staff, and
Youth
Advocates
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Building
Administrat
ors,
Teaching
Staff, and
Counselors
Schools:Transition Center at Mayfield, Ottawa Hills High
School, CA Frost Environmental Science Academy, Harrison
Elementary, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School,
Southeast Career Pathways, Grand Rapids Learning Center,
Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy, Union High
School, Bethany Based School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, Alger Middle School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, North Park Montessori Academy, Dickinson School,
Kent Educational Center South, Riverside Middle School,
Aberdeen Elementary School, Westwood Middle School,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, City Middle/High School, Burton
Middle School, Home Education Site, Southwest Community
Campus School, Innovation Central High School
Activity - Counseling Services (Middle and High)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
The District will employ counselors who will monitor student's
Other
academic achievement and will communicate with
administrators and staff to ensure that students are being
supported academically. Counselors will support individual
students on an as needed bases. Counselors will monitor
student's Educational Development Plan and communicate
with families regarding students's academic and college/career
readiness.
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $490000
Title I Part
A
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - School Improvement Facilitator
Activity
Type
The District will employ School Improvement Facilitators to
monitor classroom instruction, conduct Instructional
conversation with teachers and provide feedback on teaching
practices. School Improvement Facilitators will ensure that
students are bieng supported academically
Other
Tier
Phase
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $405000
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Superintendent's Drop Out Challenge
Activity
Type
Tier
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Title II Part Building
A
Administrat
or and
School
Improveme
nt
Facilitators
Source Of
Funding
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e
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The District will support Priority Schools who are participating in Other
the Superintendent's Drop Out Challenge. The District will put
together a Data File for the identified students through the
School Information System (SIS) Department.
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Building
Required
Administrat
or,
Teaching
Staff, and
SIS Staff
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Wheel Of Support (Middle and High)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
The District will employ Public Safety Officers who will
Other
participate in the "Wheel of Support" in secondary schools.
The Public Safety Officers will maintain a caseload of students
and will monitor their academic and social progress in school
utilizing the Safe and Civil School "Interventions" resources to
provide targeted interventions to support and meet students
needs.
Resource
Assigned
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $1432000
Schools:All Schools
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
General
Building
Fund,
Administrat
Section 31a ors, District
Public
Safety
Office,
Public
Safety
Officers,
and District
Counselor
Coordinator
Activity - Family Support Specialist (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ Family Support Specialists whose role
is to provide intervention for identified at risk students, assist
those students in reaching proficiency, and empower the
families to support their children's success in school.
Other
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $359000
Section
31a, Title I
Part A
Activity - Support for Homeless Students
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District's Homeless Liaison will collaborate to ensure that
identified homeless students enrolled in non-Title Schools, will
receive transportation services to ensure that continued
academic opportunities are provided for these students.
Other
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $1250
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Westwood Middle School, Ottawa
Hills High School, Alger Middle School, Brookside School,
Dickinson School, Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School,
Campus Elementary, Union High School, Martin Luther King
Leadership Academy
Resource
Assigned
Title I Part
A
Staff
Responsibl
e
Family
Support
Specialist
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Staff
Responsibl
e
District
Homeless
Liaison
Schools:City Middle/High School, Blandford Nature Center,
John Ball Park Zoo School
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Activity - Support for limited English proficient students.
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
The district will employ tutors to support the academic needs of Academic
students.
Support
Program
Schools:Burton Middle School
Tier 3
Implement
11/13/2014 06/05/2015 $27897
Title III
Activity - Migrant Tutor
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
GRPS will employ migrant tutors to support migrant students
and families
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 3
Implement
11/13/2014 06/05/2015 $53012
Title III
Activity - Immigrant Tutors and Supplies
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
GRPS will employ immigrant tutors and purchase supplies to
support immigrant student academic needs
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 3
Implement
11/13/2014 06/05/2015 $34109
Title III
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 3
Implement
11/13/2014 06/05/2015 $163503
Title I Part
D
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Burton Middle School
Activity - Instructional Intervention Support
GRPS will employ tutors, a teacher, supervisor and purchase
Academic
instructional software/supplies to meet the needs of students at Support
the Kent County Correctional Facility
Program
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Kent Co. Correction Facility
Activity - Intervention Instructional Support
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Executive
Director of
Middle
School, K-8
and ELL
programs.
Staff
Responsibl
e
Executive
Director of
Middle
Schools, K8 and ELL
Programs
Staff
Responsibl
e
Executive
Director of
Middle
Schools, K8 and ELL,
building
prinicpal
Staff
Responsibl
e
Executive
Director of
High
Schools
and
Alternative
Education
Staff
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GRPS will employ tutors, supervisor and purchase supplies
and materials for the Bethaney program
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 3
Implement
11/13/2014 06/05/2015 $62367
Title I Part
D
Schools:Bethany Based School
Executive
Director of
High
School and
Alternative
Education
programs
Goal 6: All students in Grand Rapids Public Schools will be proficient in Mathematics.
Measurable Objective 1:
53% of Sixth, Seventh and Eighth grade students will demonstrate a proficiency in concepts in Mathematics by 06/05/2015 as measured by as measured on the
State of Michigan assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction - School level staff will implement and participate in a variety of activities such as: professional learning, academic rigor, project learning,
fluency and skill development, SIOP, data analysis, and use PLCs to enable them to differentiate instruction to meet the individualized needs of all students. The
teaching staff will develop lessons and units that have a clear structure which allows for different pathways according to student needs.
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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All staff will actively participate in professional learning which
supports differentiation at their specific grade level and
program.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Executive
Directors of
Elementary
, MS/K-8,
High
School/Alte
rnative
Schools,
Principals
and
instructiona
l staff
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Based Learning
Tier
All staff will provide opportunities throughout the school year for Curriculum Tier 1
students to be engaged in a variety of project learning activities Developme
that support the instructional goals. These projects will be
nt
differentiated in nature and provide choice to students
regarding the type of project they will complete and will be
rigorous and challenging for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Alger Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Aberdeen Elementary
School, John Ball Park Zoo School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Innovation Central High School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
the
Elementary
, Middle
School, K8, High
School,
Alternative
Schools,
Special
Education,
Curriculum
Specialists,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
building
principals
and
teachers.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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Fluency and Skill Development: The staff will use a variety of Curriculum Tier 1
activities that will allow students to become fluent with essential Developme
foundational skills. The students will practice these
nt
foundational skills often enough so that they can flexibly
engage with the content at a higher level.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Building
Required
administrat
or and
teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Evaluate
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observational Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who
Support
have populations with second language learners. These
Program
individuals will
train staff on how to implement the SIOP framework in their
classrooms to
support and provide differentiated techniques which will support
the
learning needs of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding ELL
Required
Department
,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
: The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively
Other
with individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide
data, design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement. The District will employ a Data
Support Specialist who will work solely with our identified
Priority Schools to support staff in understanding their schoolwide data and ways to use this data to differentiate instruction
in order to meet student needs.
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
A&E
Department
,
Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
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Source Of
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
Elementary
,Middle , K8, High and
Alternative
Schools,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
and
Building
Prinicpals
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
The District will support the use of technology across the
Curriculum Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support Developme
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
nt
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Technology
and
Curriculum
Integration
and
Instructiona
l Support
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
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Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High Schools)
Activity
Type
Resource
Assigned
Instructional Coaches: The District will employ Instructional
Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding and District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Union High School, Campus Elementary School, Aberdeen
Elementary School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Math Lab (Middle)
Activity
Type
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Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding itle I
Required
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
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Comprehensive Middle Schools will implement the use of an
tier two supplemental math intervention course for identified
students address missing skills and gaps in math knowledge.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $134000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ an Instructional Improvement Coach,
who under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $310000
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Math Specialist Teacher (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Math Specialist Teachers who delivers Academic
supplementary instruction to identified students This
Support
instructional support reflects State and District content
Program
expectations through the use of effective strategies in
management, instruction, student motivation and curriculum
planning and is delivered through “In School” push in and/or
pull out interventions and/or after school intervention programs.
The teachers makes knowledge accessible to all students;
develops students’ cognitive capacity and respect for learning;
and fosters students’ self-esteem, motivation and sense of civic
responsibility.
Resource
Assigned
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Specialists,
and
Executive
Director of
Middle
School and
K-8
division.
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Specialist
Teacher,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Dickinson
School, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy
Activity - Math Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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The District will employ Math Coaches in order to support
Priority Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Math
Coaches will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in
successfully implementing best practices as identified in their
Reform & Redesign Plans. Math Coaches will provide
leadership for teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing,
modeling and facilitating change to improve the instructional
program. Math Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $270000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Math
Coaches,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l Coach,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality
Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by Developme
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
nt
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Developme
been developed through teacher training provided by the
nt
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Curriculum
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper Developme
understanding of the content being taught.
nt
Schools:All Schools
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
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Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, School
Reform
Facilitators,
Instructiona
l
Coaches
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Instructiona
l
Technology
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
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Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Developme
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
nt
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
City Middle/High School, Burton Middle School, Riverside
Middle School, Union High School, Innovation Central High
School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Developme
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable nt
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Grand
Rapids Montessori Public School, Ottawa Hills High School,
City Middle/High School, Southeast Career Pathways, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School, Union High School,
Innovation Central High School, Center for Economicology
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
(shared) Strategy 3:
Learning Targets - The District will implement and modify Learning Targets in the Elementary Division through the development of Curriculum Maps and through the
use of Monitoring.
Research Cited: Brookhart, Susan M., and Moss, Connie M. (2012). Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today’s Lesson. ASCD. “The most
effective teaching and the most meaningful student learning happen when teachers design the right learning targets for today’s lesson and use it along with
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their students to aim for and assess understanding. Learning targets are student-friendly descriptors of what you intend students to learn or accomplish in a given
lesson. When shared, meaningfully, they become actual targets that students can see and direct their efforts toward. They also serve as targets for the adults in the
school whose responsibility it is to plan, monitor, and assess, and improve the quality of learning opportunities to raise the achievement of all students.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Curriculum Maps
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop curriculum
maps which highlight instructional goals around grade-level
learning targets that are student-friendly and specific to the
needs of individual students in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity - Monitor
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators and
Curriculum Supervisors will monitor the level of use and
effectiveness of Learning Targets in the classrooms through
LearningWalks, Classroom Observations, and through the
teacher evaluation process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Campus Elementary School, Congress Elementary,
East Leonard School, Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids
Montessori Public School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Kent
Hills School, Shawmut Hills School, Martin Luther King
Leadership Academy, Sibley School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Eastern Elementary,
Aberdeen Elementary School, Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford
K8 Academy, Coit Arts Academy, Stocking Elementary, Ken-OSha Park Elementary, Southwest Community Campus School,
Burton Elementary School
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Mulick
Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy, Brookside
School, Dickinson School, Buchanan School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Campus Elementary School,
Aberdeen Elementary School, East Leonard School, Harrison
Elementary, Coit Arts Academy, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Stocking Elementary, Kent Hills School, Ken-OSha Park Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, Sibley School, Burton Elementary
School
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Elementary
Required
Executive
Director,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Measurable Objective 2:
15% of Kindergarten grade students will demonstrate a proficiency of concepts in Mathematics by 06/05/2015 as measured by NWEA/MAP.
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Strategy 1:
All Day Kindergarten - The District will implement all day kindergarten across the system. The District will monitor the progress of students who participate in all day
kindergarten to determine if their academic achievement is improving over time and what rate. In addition, the District will closely monitor the strategies and tools being
used by kindergarten classroom teachers who have the highest success rate for the purpose of replicating high quality instructional methods.
Research Cited: National Education Association and Collaborative Communications Group (2006). Full Day Kindergarten: An Advocacy Guide. NEA
NEA recognizes that full-day kindergarten programs close achievement gaps between young children from minority and low-income families and their peers. By
providing a solid foundation of learning to children from all backgrounds, full-day kindergarten programs ensure all students' academic, social, and emotional success.
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Evaluate
Activity
Type
The District will evaluate the current all day kindergarten
Other
program and the impact it has on overall student achievement.
In addition, the District will closely monitor the strategies and
tools being used by kindergarten classroom teachers who have
the highest success rate for the purpose of replicating high
quality instructional methods.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Evaluate
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Congress Elementary, East Leonard School,
Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School,
Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills
School, Shawmut Hills School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy, Sibley
School, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Campus Elementary,
Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Coit Arts
Academy, Stocking Elementary, Ken-O-Sha Park Elementary,
Southwest Community Campus School, Burton Elementary
School
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding The
Required
Executive
Director of
Community
and
Student
Services,
Director to
Elementary
Schools,
Executive
Director of
K-8/Middle
Schools,
and
Elementary
and K8/Middle
School
Reform
Facilitators.
Measurable Objective 3:
63% of Pre-K grade students will demonstrate a proficiency in counting to 20 in Mathematics by 06/05/2015 as measured by the District Preschool Assessment.
Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction (Pre-K) - The District will implement Differentiated Instruction for preschool students to ensure that they are learning skills to prepare them for
Kindergarten in a way that is developmentally appropriate for this age group.
Research Cited: Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
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school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Preschool Readiness
Activity
Type
The District will employ staff who will differentiate instruction for Other
preschool students to ensure their readiness for Kindergarten
the following school year.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:North Park Montessori Academy, Brookside School,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Campus Elementary,
Palmer School, Congress Elementary, East Leonard School,
Harrison Elementary, Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Grand
Rapids Montessori Public School, Stocking School, Cesar E.
Chavez Elementary, Kent Hills School, Ken-O-Sha EC & SE
Center, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy, Southwest
Community Campus School, Sibley School, Burton Elementary
School
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Director of
Required
Early
Childhood
Programs
and Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning
Measurable Objective 4:
50% of All Students will demonstrate a proficiency , defined as a Fall to Spring CGI increase of 0.1 compared to the previous year (or an overall schoolwide average
CGI of 0.3), in Mathematics by 06/05/2015 as measured by NWEA/MAP.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction - School level staff will implement and participate in a variety of activities such as: professional learning, academic rigor, project learning,
fluency and skill development, SIOP, data analysis, and use PLCs to enable them to differentiate instruction to meet the individualized needs of all students. The
teaching staff will develop lessons and units that have a clear structure which allows for different pathways according to student needs.
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
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Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
All staff will actively participate in professional learning which
supports differentiation at their specific grade level and
program.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Based Learning
Tier
All staff will provide opportunities throughout the school year for Curriculum Tier 1
students to be engaged in a variety of project learning activities Developme
that support the instructional goals. These projects will be
nt
differentiated in nature and provide choice to students
regarding the type of project they will complete and will be
rigorous and challenging for all students.
Schools:Alger Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Aberdeen Elementary
School, John Ball Park Zoo School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Innovation Central High School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Executive
Directors of
Elementary
, MS/K-8,
High
School/Alte
rnative
Schools,
Principals
and
instructiona
l staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
the
Elementary
, Middle
School, K8, High
School,
Alternative
Schools,
Special
Education,
Curriculum
Specialists,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
building
principals
and
teachers.
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Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
administrat
or and
teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Evaluate
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Fluency and Skill Development: The staff will use a variety of Curriculum Tier 1
activities that will allow students to become fluent with essential Developme
foundational skills. The students will practice these
nt
foundational skills often enough so that they can flexibly
engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observational Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who
Support
have populations with second language learners. These
Program
individuals will
train staff on how to implement the SIOP framework in their
classrooms to
support and provide differentiated techniques which will support
the
learning needs of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding ELL
Required
Department
,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
: The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively
Other
with individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide
data, design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement. The District will employ a Data
Support Specialist who will work solely with our identified
Priority Schools to support staff in understanding their schoolwide data and ways to use this data to differentiate instruction
in order to meet student needs.
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
A&E
Department
,
Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
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Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
The District will support the use of technology across the
Curriculum Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support Developme
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
nt
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
Elementary
,Middle , K8, High and
Alternative
Schools,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
and
Building
Prinicpals
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Technology
and
Curriculum
Integration
and
Instructiona
l Support
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High Schools)
Activity
Type
Resource
Assigned
Instructional Coaches: The District will employ Instructional
Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding and District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Union High School, Campus Elementary School, Aberdeen
Elementary School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Math Lab (Middle)
Activity
Type
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Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding itle I
Required
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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Comprehensive Middle Schools will implement the use of an
tier two supplemental math intervention course for identified
students address missing skills and gaps in math knowledge.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $134000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ an Instructional Improvement Coach,
who under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $310000
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Math Specialist Teacher (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Math Specialist Teachers who delivers Academic
supplementary instruction to identified students This
Support
instructional support reflects State and District content
Program
expectations through the use of effective strategies in
management, instruction, student motivation and curriculum
planning and is delivered through “In School” push in and/or
pull out interventions and/or after school intervention programs.
The teachers makes knowledge accessible to all students;
develops students’ cognitive capacity and respect for learning;
and fosters students’ self-esteem, motivation and sense of civic
responsibility.
Resource
Assigned
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Specialists,
and
Executive
Director of
Middle
School and
K-8
division.
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Specialist
Teacher,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Dickinson
School, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy
Activity - Math Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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The District will employ Math Coaches in order to support
Priority Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Math
Coaches will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in
successfully implementing best practices as identified in their
Reform & Redesign Plans. Math Coaches will provide
leadership for teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing,
modeling and facilitating change to improve the instructional
program. Math Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $270000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Math
Coaches,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l Coach,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality
Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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Begin Date End Date
Resource
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Source Of
Funding
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by Developme
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
nt
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Developme
been developed through teacher training provided by the
nt
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Curriculum
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper Developme
understanding of the content being taught.
nt
Schools:All Schools
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
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Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, School
Reform
Facilitators,
Instructiona
l
Coaches
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Instructiona
l
Technology
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Developme
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
nt
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
City Middle/High School, Burton Middle School, Riverside
Middle School, Union High School, Innovation Central High
School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Developme
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable nt
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Grand
Rapids Montessori Public School, Ottawa Hills High School,
City Middle/High School, Southeast Career Pathways, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School, Union High School,
Innovation Central High School, Center for Economicology
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
(shared) Strategy 3:
Learning Targets - The District will implement and modify Learning Targets in the Elementary Division through the development of Curriculum Maps and through the
use of Monitoring.
Research Cited: Brookhart, Susan M., and Moss, Connie M. (2012). Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today’s Lesson. ASCD. “The most
effective teaching and the most meaningful student learning happen when teachers design the right learning targets for today’s lesson and use it along with
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their students to aim for and assess understanding. Learning targets are student-friendly descriptors of what you intend students to learn or accomplish in a given
lesson. When shared, meaningfully, they become actual targets that students can see and direct their efforts toward. They also serve as targets for the adults in the
school whose responsibility it is to plan, monitor, and assess, and improve the quality of learning opportunities to raise the achievement of all students.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Curriculum Maps
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop curriculum
maps which highlight instructional goals around grade-level
learning targets that are student-friendly and specific to the
needs of individual students in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity - Monitor
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators and
Curriculum Supervisors will monitor the level of use and
effectiveness of Learning Targets in the classrooms through
LearningWalks, Classroom Observations, and through the
teacher evaluation process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Campus Elementary School, Congress Elementary,
East Leonard School, Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids
Montessori Public School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Kent
Hills School, Shawmut Hills School, Martin Luther King
Leadership Academy, Sibley School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Eastern Elementary,
Aberdeen Elementary School, Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford
K8 Academy, Coit Arts Academy, Stocking Elementary, Ken-OSha Park Elementary, Southwest Community Campus School,
Burton Elementary School
Tier
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Mulick
Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy, Brookside
School, Dickinson School, Buchanan School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Campus Elementary School,
Aberdeen Elementary School, East Leonard School, Harrison
Elementary, Coit Arts Academy, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Stocking Elementary, Kent Hills School, Ken-OSha Park Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, Sibley School, Burton Elementary
School
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Elementary
Required
Executive
Director,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Measurable Objective 5:
40% of Third, Fourth and Fifth grade students will demonstrate a proficiency with concepts in Mathematics by 06/05/2015 as measured by the state assessment.
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(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction - School level staff will implement and participate in a variety of activities such as: professional learning, academic rigor, project learning,
fluency and skill development, SIOP, data analysis, and use PLCs to enable them to differentiate instruction to meet the individualized needs of all students. The
teaching staff will develop lessons and units that have a clear structure which allows for different pathways according to student needs.
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
All staff will actively participate in professional learning which
supports differentiation at their specific grade level and
program.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Based Learning
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Executive
Directors of
Elementary
, MS/K-8,
High
School/Alte
rnative
Schools,
Principals
and
instructiona
l staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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All staff will provide opportunities throughout the school year for Curriculum Tier 1
students to be engaged in a variety of project learning activities Developme
that support the instructional goals. These projects will be
nt
differentiated in nature and provide choice to students
regarding the type of project they will complete and will be
rigorous and challenging for all students.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
the
Elementary
, Middle
School, K8, High
School,
Alternative
Schools,
Special
Education,
Curriculum
Specialists,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
building
principals
and
teachers.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
administrat
or and
teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Alger Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Aberdeen Elementary
School, John Ball Park Zoo School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Innovation Central High School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
Fluency and Skill Development: The staff will use a variety of Curriculum Tier 1
activities that will allow students to become fluent with essential Developme
foundational skills. The students will practice these
nt
foundational skills often enough so that they can flexibly
engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observational Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who
Support
have populations with second language learners. These
Program
individuals will
train staff on how to implement the SIOP framework in their
classrooms to
support and provide differentiated techniques which will support
the
learning needs of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding ELL
Required
Department
,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
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Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
: The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively
Other
with individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide
data, design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement. The District will employ a Data
Support Specialist who will work solely with our identified
Priority Schools to support staff in understanding their schoolwide data and ways to use this data to differentiate instruction
in order to meet student needs.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Tier 1
Evaluate
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
A&E
Department
,
Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
Elementary
,Middle , K8, High and
Alternative
Schools,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
and
Building
Prinicpals
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will support the use of technology across the
Curriculum Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support Developme
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
nt
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Technology
and
Curriculum
Integration
and
Instructiona
l Support
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High Schools)
Activity
Type
Instructional Coaches: The District will employ Instructional
Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding and District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Union High School, Campus Elementary School, Aberdeen
Elementary School
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Activity - Summer School
Activity
Type
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding itle I
Required
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Activity - Math Lab (Middle)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Comprehensive Middle Schools will implement the use of an
tier two supplemental math intervention course for identified
students address missing skills and gaps in math knowledge.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $134000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ an Instructional Improvement Coach,
who under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School
Schools:Union High School
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Specialists,
and
Executive
Director of
Middle
School and
K-8
division.
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
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Activity - Math Specialist Teacher (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
The District will employ Math Specialist Teachers who delivers Academic
supplementary instruction to identified students This
Support
instructional support reflects State and District content
Program
expectations through the use of effective strategies in
management, instruction, student motivation and curriculum
planning and is delivered through “In School” push in and/or
pull out interventions and/or after school intervention programs.
The teachers makes knowledge accessible to all students;
develops students’ cognitive capacity and respect for learning;
and fosters students’ self-esteem, motivation and sense of civic
responsibility.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $310000
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Specialist
Teacher,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Dickinson
School, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy
Activity - Math Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
Resource
Assigned
The District will employ Math Coaches in order to support
Priority Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Math
Coaches will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in
successfully implementing best practices as identified in their
Reform & Redesign Plans. Math Coaches will provide
leadership for teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing,
modeling and facilitating change to improve the instructional
program. Math Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $270000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Coaches,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Tier
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
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Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l Coach,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
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(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality
Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by Developme
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
nt
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
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Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Developme
been developed through teacher training provided by the
nt
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Curriculum
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper Developme
understanding of the content being taught.
nt
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, School
Reform
Facilitators,
Instructiona
l
Coaches
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Instructiona
l
Technology
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Developme
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
nt
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
City Middle/High School, Burton Middle School, Riverside
Middle School, Union High School, Innovation Central High
School, Center for Economicology
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
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Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Developme
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable nt
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Grand
Rapids Montessori Public School, Ottawa Hills High School,
City Middle/High School, Southeast Career Pathways, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School, Union High School,
Innovation Central High School, Center for Economicology
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
(shared) Strategy 3:
Learning Targets - The District will implement and modify Learning Targets in the Elementary Division through the development of Curriculum Maps and through the
use of Monitoring.
Research Cited: Brookhart, Susan M., and Moss, Connie M. (2012). Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today’s Lesson. ASCD. “The most
effective teaching and the most meaningful student learning happen when teachers design the right learning targets for today’s lesson and use it along with
their students to aim for and assess understanding. Learning targets are student-friendly descriptors of what you intend students to learn or accomplish in a given
lesson. When shared, meaningfully, they become actual targets that students can see and direct their efforts toward. They also serve as targets for the adults in the
school whose responsibility it is to plan, monitor, and assess, and improve the quality of learning opportunities to raise the achievement of all students.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Curriculum Maps
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop curriculum
maps which highlight instructional goals around grade-level
learning targets that are student-friendly and specific to the
needs of individual students in the classroom.
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Campus Elementary School, Congress Elementary,
East Leonard School, Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids
Montessori Public School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Kent
Hills School, Shawmut Hills School, Martin Luther King
Leadership Academy, Sibley School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Eastern Elementary,
Aberdeen Elementary School, Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford
K8 Academy, Coit Arts Academy, Stocking Elementary, Ken-OSha Park Elementary, Southwest Community Campus School,
Burton Elementary School
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
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Activity - Monitor
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators and
Curriculum Supervisors will monitor the level of use and
effectiveness of Learning Targets in the classrooms through
LearningWalks, Classroom Observations, and through the
teacher evaluation process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Mulick
Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy, Brookside
School, Dickinson School, Buchanan School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Campus Elementary School,
Aberdeen Elementary School, East Leonard School, Harrison
Elementary, Coit Arts Academy, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Stocking Elementary, Kent Hills School, Ken-OSha Park Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, Sibley School, Burton Elementary
School
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Elementary
Required
Executive
Director,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Measurable Objective 6:
34% of Third, Fourth and Fifth grade Black or African-American students will demonstrate a proficiency with concepts in Mathematics by 06/05/2015 as measured by
the state assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction - School level staff will implement and participate in a variety of activities such as: professional learning, academic rigor, project learning,
fluency and skill development, SIOP, data analysis, and use PLCs to enable them to differentiate instruction to meet the individualized needs of all students. The
teaching staff will develop lessons and units that have a clear structure which allows for different pathways according to student needs.
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
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Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
All staff will actively participate in professional learning which
supports differentiation at their specific grade level and
program.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Based Learning
Tier
All staff will provide opportunities throughout the school year for Curriculum Tier 1
students to be engaged in a variety of project learning activities Developme
that support the instructional goals. These projects will be
nt
differentiated in nature and provide choice to students
regarding the type of project they will complete and will be
rigorous and challenging for all students.
Schools:Alger Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Aberdeen Elementary
School, John Ball Park Zoo School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Innovation Central High School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Executive
Directors of
Elementary
, MS/K-8,
High
School/Alte
rnative
Schools,
Principals
and
instructiona
l staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
the
Elementary
, Middle
School, K8, High
School,
Alternative
Schools,
Special
Education,
Curriculum
Specialists,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
building
principals
and
teachers.
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Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
administrat
or and
teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Evaluate
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Fluency and Skill Development: The staff will use a variety of Curriculum Tier 1
activities that will allow students to become fluent with essential Developme
foundational skills. The students will practice these
nt
foundational skills often enough so that they can flexibly
engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observational Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who
Support
have populations with second language learners. These
Program
individuals will
train staff on how to implement the SIOP framework in their
classrooms to
support and provide differentiated techniques which will support
the
learning needs of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding ELL
Required
Department
,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
: The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively
Other
with individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide
data, design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement. The District will employ a Data
Support Specialist who will work solely with our identified
Priority Schools to support staff in understanding their schoolwide data and ways to use this data to differentiate instruction
in order to meet student needs.
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
A&E
Department
,
Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
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Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
The District will support the use of technology across the
Curriculum Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support Developme
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
nt
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
Elementary
,Middle , K8, High and
Alternative
Schools,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
and
Building
Prinicpals
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Technology
and
Curriculum
Integration
and
Instructiona
l Support
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High Schools)
Activity
Type
Resource
Assigned
Instructional Coaches: The District will employ Instructional
Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding and District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Union High School, Campus Elementary School, Aberdeen
Elementary School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Math Lab (Middle)
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding itle I
Required
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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Comprehensive Middle Schools will implement the use of an
tier two supplemental math intervention course for identified
students address missing skills and gaps in math knowledge.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $134000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ an Instructional Improvement Coach,
who under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $310000
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Math Specialist Teacher (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Math Specialist Teachers who delivers Academic
supplementary instruction to identified students This
Support
instructional support reflects State and District content
Program
expectations through the use of effective strategies in
management, instruction, student motivation and curriculum
planning and is delivered through “In School” push in and/or
pull out interventions and/or after school intervention programs.
The teachers makes knowledge accessible to all students;
develops students’ cognitive capacity and respect for learning;
and fosters students’ self-esteem, motivation and sense of civic
responsibility.
Resource
Assigned
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Specialists,
and
Executive
Director of
Middle
School and
K-8
division.
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Specialist
Teacher,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Dickinson
School, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy
Activity - Math Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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The District will employ Math Coaches in order to support
Priority Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Math
Coaches will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in
successfully implementing best practices as identified in their
Reform & Redesign Plans. Math Coaches will provide
leadership for teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing,
modeling and facilitating change to improve the instructional
program. Math Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $270000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Math
Coaches,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l Coach,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality
Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
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Source Of
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by Developme
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
nt
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Developme
been developed through teacher training provided by the
nt
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Curriculum
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper Developme
understanding of the content being taught.
nt
Schools:All Schools
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
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Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, School
Reform
Facilitators,
Instructiona
l
Coaches
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Instructiona
l
Technology
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Developme
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
nt
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
City Middle/High School, Burton Middle School, Riverside
Middle School, Union High School, Innovation Central High
School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Developme
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable nt
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Grand
Rapids Montessori Public School, Ottawa Hills High School,
City Middle/High School, Southeast Career Pathways, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School, Union High School,
Innovation Central High School, Center for Economicology
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
(shared) Strategy 3:
Learning Targets - The District will implement and modify Learning Targets in the Elementary Division through the development of Curriculum Maps and through the
use of Monitoring.
Research Cited: Brookhart, Susan M., and Moss, Connie M. (2012). Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today’s Lesson. ASCD. “The most
effective teaching and the most meaningful student learning happen when teachers design the right learning targets for today’s lesson and use it along with
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their students to aim for and assess understanding. Learning targets are student-friendly descriptors of what you intend students to learn or accomplish in a given
lesson. When shared, meaningfully, they become actual targets that students can see and direct their efforts toward. They also serve as targets for the adults in the
school whose responsibility it is to plan, monitor, and assess, and improve the quality of learning opportunities to raise the achievement of all students.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Curriculum Maps
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop curriculum
maps which highlight instructional goals around grade-level
learning targets that are student-friendly and specific to the
needs of individual students in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity - Monitor
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators and
Curriculum Supervisors will monitor the level of use and
effectiveness of Learning Targets in the classrooms through
LearningWalks, Classroom Observations, and through the
teacher evaluation process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Campus Elementary School, Congress Elementary,
East Leonard School, Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids
Montessori Public School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Kent
Hills School, Shawmut Hills School, Martin Luther King
Leadership Academy, Sibley School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Eastern Elementary,
Aberdeen Elementary School, Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford
K8 Academy, Coit Arts Academy, Stocking Elementary, Ken-OSha Park Elementary, Southwest Community Campus School,
Burton Elementary School
Tier
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Mulick
Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy, Brookside
School, Dickinson School, Buchanan School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Campus Elementary School,
Aberdeen Elementary School, East Leonard School, Harrison
Elementary, Coit Arts Academy, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Stocking Elementary, Kent Hills School, Ken-OSha Park Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, Sibley School, Burton Elementary
School
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Elementary
Required
Executive
Director,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Measurable Objective 7:
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37% of Third, Fourth and Fifth grade Hispanic or Latino students will demonstrate a proficiency with concepts in Mathematics by 06/05/2015 as measured by the
state assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction - School level staff will implement and participate in a variety of activities such as: professional learning, academic rigor, project learning,
fluency and skill development, SIOP, data analysis, and use PLCs to enable them to differentiate instruction to meet the individualized needs of all students. The
teaching staff will develop lessons and units that have a clear structure which allows for different pathways according to student needs.
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
All staff will actively participate in professional learning which
supports differentiation at their specific grade level and
program.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Schools:All Schools
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Executive
Directors of
Elementary
, MS/K-8,
High
School/Alte
rnative
Schools,
Principals
and
instructiona
l staff
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Activity - Project Based Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
All staff will provide opportunities throughout the school year for Curriculum Tier 1
students to be engaged in a variety of project learning activities Developme
that support the instructional goals. These projects will be
nt
differentiated in nature and provide choice to students
regarding the type of project they will complete and will be
rigorous and challenging for all students.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
administrat
or and
teachers
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Alger Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Aberdeen Elementary
School, John Ball Park Zoo School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Innovation Central High School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
Fluency and Skill Development: The staff will use a variety of Curriculum Tier 1
activities that will allow students to become fluent with essential Developme
foundational skills. The students will practice these
nt
foundational skills often enough so that they can flexibly
engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
the
Elementary
, Middle
School, K8, High
School,
Alternative
Schools,
Special
Education,
Curriculum
Specialists,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
building
principals
and
teachers.
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observational Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who
Support
have populations with second language learners. These
Program
individuals will
train staff on how to implement the SIOP framework in their
classrooms to
support and provide differentiated techniques which will support
the
learning needs of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding ELL
Required
Department
,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Evaluate
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
: The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively
Other
with individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide
data, design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement. The District will employ a Data
Support Specialist who will work solely with our identified
Priority Schools to support staff in understanding their schoolwide data and ways to use this data to differentiate instruction
in order to meet student needs.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
A&E
Department
,
Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
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Source Of
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
Elementary
,Middle , K8, High and
Alternative
Schools,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
and
Building
Prinicpals
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
The District will support the use of technology across the
Curriculum Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support Developme
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
nt
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Technology
and
Curriculum
Integration
and
Instructiona
l Support
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High Schools)
Activity
Type
Resource
Assigned
Instructional Coaches: The District will employ Instructional
Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding and District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Union High School, Campus Elementary School, Aberdeen
Elementary School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Math Lab (Middle)
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding itle I
Required
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
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e
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Comprehensive Middle Schools will implement the use of an
tier two supplemental math intervention course for identified
students address missing skills and gaps in math knowledge.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $134000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ an Instructional Improvement Coach,
who under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $310000
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Math Specialist Teacher (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Math Specialist Teachers who delivers Academic
supplementary instruction to identified students This
Support
instructional support reflects State and District content
Program
expectations through the use of effective strategies in
management, instruction, student motivation and curriculum
planning and is delivered through “In School” push in and/or
pull out interventions and/or after school intervention programs.
The teachers makes knowledge accessible to all students;
develops students’ cognitive capacity and respect for learning;
and fosters students’ self-esteem, motivation and sense of civic
responsibility.
Resource
Assigned
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Specialists,
and
Executive
Director of
Middle
School and
K-8
division.
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Specialist
Teacher,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Dickinson
School, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy
Activity - Math Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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The District will employ Math Coaches in order to support
Priority Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Math
Coaches will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in
successfully implementing best practices as identified in their
Reform & Redesign Plans. Math Coaches will provide
leadership for teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing,
modeling and facilitating change to improve the instructional
program. Math Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $270000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Math
Coaches,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l Coach,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality
Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by Developme
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
nt
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Developme
been developed through teacher training provided by the
nt
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Curriculum
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper Developme
understanding of the content being taught.
nt
Schools:All Schools
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
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Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, School
Reform
Facilitators,
Instructiona
l
Coaches
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Instructiona
l
Technology
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Developme
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
nt
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
City Middle/High School, Burton Middle School, Riverside
Middle School, Union High School, Innovation Central High
School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Developme
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable nt
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Grand
Rapids Montessori Public School, Ottawa Hills High School,
City Middle/High School, Southeast Career Pathways, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School, Union High School,
Innovation Central High School, Center for Economicology
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
(shared) Strategy 3:
Learning Targets - The District will implement and modify Learning Targets in the Elementary Division through the development of Curriculum Maps and through the
use of Monitoring.
Research Cited: Brookhart, Susan M., and Moss, Connie M. (2012). Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today’s Lesson. ASCD. “The most
effective teaching and the most meaningful student learning happen when teachers design the right learning targets for today’s lesson and use it along with
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their students to aim for and assess understanding. Learning targets are student-friendly descriptors of what you intend students to learn or accomplish in a given
lesson. When shared, meaningfully, they become actual targets that students can see and direct their efforts toward. They also serve as targets for the adults in the
school whose responsibility it is to plan, monitor, and assess, and improve the quality of learning opportunities to raise the achievement of all students.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Curriculum Maps
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop curriculum
maps which highlight instructional goals around grade-level
learning targets that are student-friendly and specific to the
needs of individual students in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity - Monitor
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators and
Curriculum Supervisors will monitor the level of use and
effectiveness of Learning Targets in the classrooms through
LearningWalks, Classroom Observations, and through the
teacher evaluation process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Campus Elementary School, Congress Elementary,
East Leonard School, Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids
Montessori Public School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Kent
Hills School, Shawmut Hills School, Martin Luther King
Leadership Academy, Sibley School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Eastern Elementary,
Aberdeen Elementary School, Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford
K8 Academy, Coit Arts Academy, Stocking Elementary, Ken-OSha Park Elementary, Southwest Community Campus School,
Burton Elementary School
Tier
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Mulick
Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy, Brookside
School, Dickinson School, Buchanan School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Campus Elementary School,
Aberdeen Elementary School, East Leonard School, Harrison
Elementary, Coit Arts Academy, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Stocking Elementary, Kent Hills School, Ken-OSha Park Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, Sibley School, Burton Elementary
School
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Elementary
Required
Executive
Director,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Measurable Objective 8:
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53% of Third, Fourth and Fifth grade White students will demonstrate a proficiency with concepts in Mathematics by 06/05/2015 as measured by the state
assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction - School level staff will implement and participate in a variety of activities such as: professional learning, academic rigor, project learning,
fluency and skill development, SIOP, data analysis, and use PLCs to enable them to differentiate instruction to meet the individualized needs of all students. The
teaching staff will develop lessons and units that have a clear structure which allows for different pathways according to student needs.
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
All staff will actively participate in professional learning which
supports differentiation at their specific grade level and
program.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Schools:All Schools
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Executive
Directors of
Elementary
, MS/K-8,
High
School/Alte
rnative
Schools,
Principals
and
instructiona
l staff
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Activity - Project Based Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
All staff will provide opportunities throughout the school year for Curriculum Tier 1
students to be engaged in a variety of project learning activities Developme
that support the instructional goals. These projects will be
nt
differentiated in nature and provide choice to students
regarding the type of project they will complete and will be
rigorous and challenging for all students.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
administrat
or and
teachers
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Alger Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Aberdeen Elementary
School, John Ball Park Zoo School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Innovation Central High School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
Fluency and Skill Development: The staff will use a variety of Curriculum Tier 1
activities that will allow students to become fluent with essential Developme
foundational skills. The students will practice these
nt
foundational skills often enough so that they can flexibly
engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
the
Elementary
, Middle
School, K8, High
School,
Alternative
Schools,
Special
Education,
Curriculum
Specialists,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
building
principals
and
teachers.
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observational Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who
Support
have populations with second language learners. These
Program
individuals will
train staff on how to implement the SIOP framework in their
classrooms to
support and provide differentiated techniques which will support
the
learning needs of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding ELL
Required
Department
,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Evaluate
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
: The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively
Other
with individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide
data, design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement. The District will employ a Data
Support Specialist who will work solely with our identified
Priority Schools to support staff in understanding their schoolwide data and ways to use this data to differentiate instruction
in order to meet student needs.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
A&E
Department
,
Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
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Source Of
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
Elementary
,Middle , K8, High and
Alternative
Schools,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
and
Building
Prinicpals
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
The District will support the use of technology across the
Curriculum Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support Developme
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
nt
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Technology
and
Curriculum
Integration
and
Instructiona
l Support
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High Schools)
Activity
Type
Resource
Assigned
Instructional Coaches: The District will employ Instructional
Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding and District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Union High School, Campus Elementary School, Aberdeen
Elementary School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Math Lab (Middle)
Activity
Type
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Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding itle I
Required
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
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e
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Comprehensive Middle Schools will implement the use of an
tier two supplemental math intervention course for identified
students address missing skills and gaps in math knowledge.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $134000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ an Instructional Improvement Coach,
who under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $310000
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Math Specialist Teacher (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Math Specialist Teachers who delivers Academic
supplementary instruction to identified students This
Support
instructional support reflects State and District content
Program
expectations through the use of effective strategies in
management, instruction, student motivation and curriculum
planning and is delivered through “In School” push in and/or
pull out interventions and/or after school intervention programs.
The teachers makes knowledge accessible to all students;
develops students’ cognitive capacity and respect for learning;
and fosters students’ self-esteem, motivation and sense of civic
responsibility.
Resource
Assigned
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Specialists,
and
Executive
Director of
Middle
School and
K-8
division.
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Specialist
Teacher,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Dickinson
School, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy
Activity - Math Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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The District will employ Math Coaches in order to support
Priority Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Math
Coaches will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in
successfully implementing best practices as identified in their
Reform & Redesign Plans. Math Coaches will provide
leadership for teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing,
modeling and facilitating change to improve the instructional
program. Math Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $270000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Math
Coaches,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l Coach,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality
Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
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Source Of
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e
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by Developme
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
nt
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Developme
been developed through teacher training provided by the
nt
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Curriculum
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper Developme
understanding of the content being taught.
nt
Schools:All Schools
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
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Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, School
Reform
Facilitators,
Instructiona
l
Coaches
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Instructiona
l
Technology
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Developme
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
nt
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
City Middle/High School, Burton Middle School, Riverside
Middle School, Union High School, Innovation Central High
School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Developme
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable nt
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Grand
Rapids Montessori Public School, Ottawa Hills High School,
City Middle/High School, Southeast Career Pathways, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School, Union High School,
Innovation Central High School, Center for Economicology
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
(shared) Strategy 3:
Learning Targets - The District will implement and modify Learning Targets in the Elementary Division through the development of Curriculum Maps and through the
use of Monitoring.
Research Cited: Brookhart, Susan M., and Moss, Connie M. (2012). Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today’s Lesson. ASCD. “The most
effective teaching and the most meaningful student learning happen when teachers design the right learning targets for today’s lesson and use it along with
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their students to aim for and assess understanding. Learning targets are student-friendly descriptors of what you intend students to learn or accomplish in a given
lesson. When shared, meaningfully, they become actual targets that students can see and direct their efforts toward. They also serve as targets for the adults in the
school whose responsibility it is to plan, monitor, and assess, and improve the quality of learning opportunities to raise the achievement of all students.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Curriculum Maps
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop curriculum
maps which highlight instructional goals around grade-level
learning targets that are student-friendly and specific to the
needs of individual students in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity - Monitor
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators and
Curriculum Supervisors will monitor the level of use and
effectiveness of Learning Targets in the classrooms through
LearningWalks, Classroom Observations, and through the
teacher evaluation process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Campus Elementary School, Congress Elementary,
East Leonard School, Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids
Montessori Public School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Kent
Hills School, Shawmut Hills School, Martin Luther King
Leadership Academy, Sibley School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Eastern Elementary,
Aberdeen Elementary School, Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford
K8 Academy, Coit Arts Academy, Stocking Elementary, Ken-OSha Park Elementary, Southwest Community Campus School,
Burton Elementary School
Tier
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Mulick
Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy, Brookside
School, Dickinson School, Buchanan School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Campus Elementary School,
Aberdeen Elementary School, East Leonard School, Harrison
Elementary, Coit Arts Academy, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Stocking Elementary, Kent Hills School, Ken-OSha Park Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, Sibley School, Burton Elementary
School
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Elementary
Required
Executive
Director,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Measurable Objective 9:
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38% of Third, Fourth and Fifth grade Economically Disadvantaged students will demonstrate a proficiency with concepts in Mathematics by 06/05/2015 as measured
by the state assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction - School level staff will implement and participate in a variety of activities such as: professional learning, academic rigor, project learning,
fluency and skill development, SIOP, data analysis, and use PLCs to enable them to differentiate instruction to meet the individualized needs of all students. The
teaching staff will develop lessons and units that have a clear structure which allows for different pathways according to student needs.
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
All staff will actively participate in professional learning which
supports differentiation at their specific grade level and
program.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Schools:All Schools
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Executive
Directors of
Elementary
, MS/K-8,
High
School/Alte
rnative
Schools,
Principals
and
instructiona
l staff
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Activity - Project Based Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
All staff will provide opportunities throughout the school year for Curriculum Tier 1
students to be engaged in a variety of project learning activities Developme
that support the instructional goals. These projects will be
nt
differentiated in nature and provide choice to students
regarding the type of project they will complete and will be
rigorous and challenging for all students.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
administrat
or and
teachers
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Alger Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Aberdeen Elementary
School, John Ball Park Zoo School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Innovation Central High School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
Fluency and Skill Development: The staff will use a variety of Curriculum Tier 1
activities that will allow students to become fluent with essential Developme
foundational skills. The students will practice these
nt
foundational skills often enough so that they can flexibly
engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
the
Elementary
, Middle
School, K8, High
School,
Alternative
Schools,
Special
Education,
Curriculum
Specialists,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
building
principals
and
teachers.
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observational Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Staff
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who
Support
have populations with second language learners. These
Program
individuals will
train staff on how to implement the SIOP framework in their
classrooms to
support and provide differentiated techniques which will support
the
learning needs of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding ELL
Required
Department
,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Evaluate
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
: The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively
Other
with individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide
data, design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement. The District will employ a Data
Support Specialist who will work solely with our identified
Priority Schools to support staff in understanding their schoolwide data and ways to use this data to differentiate instruction
in order to meet student needs.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
A&E
Department
,
Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
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Source Of
Funding
Staff
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e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
Elementary
,Middle , K8, High and
Alternative
Schools,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
and
Building
Prinicpals
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
The District will support the use of technology across the
Curriculum Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support Developme
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
nt
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Technology
and
Curriculum
Integration
and
Instructiona
l Support
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High Schools)
Activity
Type
Resource
Assigned
Instructional Coaches: The District will employ Instructional
Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding and District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Union High School, Campus Elementary School, Aberdeen
Elementary School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Math Lab (Middle)
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding itle I
Required
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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Comprehensive Middle Schools will implement the use of an
tier two supplemental math intervention course for identified
students address missing skills and gaps in math knowledge.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $134000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ an Instructional Improvement Coach,
who under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $310000
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Math Specialist Teacher (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Math Specialist Teachers who delivers Academic
supplementary instruction to identified students This
Support
instructional support reflects State and District content
Program
expectations through the use of effective strategies in
management, instruction, student motivation and curriculum
planning and is delivered through “In School” push in and/or
pull out interventions and/or after school intervention programs.
The teachers makes knowledge accessible to all students;
develops students’ cognitive capacity and respect for learning;
and fosters students’ self-esteem, motivation and sense of civic
responsibility.
Resource
Assigned
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Specialists,
and
Executive
Director of
Middle
School and
K-8
division.
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Specialist
Teacher,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Dickinson
School, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy
Activity - Math Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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The District will employ Math Coaches in order to support
Priority Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Math
Coaches will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in
successfully implementing best practices as identified in their
Reform & Redesign Plans. Math Coaches will provide
leadership for teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing,
modeling and facilitating change to improve the instructional
program. Math Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $270000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Math
Coaches,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l Coach,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality
Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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Begin Date End Date
Resource
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Source Of
Funding
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e
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by Developme
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
nt
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Developme
been developed through teacher training provided by the
nt
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Curriculum
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper Developme
understanding of the content being taught.
nt
Schools:All Schools
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
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Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, School
Reform
Facilitators,
Instructiona
l
Coaches
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Instructiona
l
Technology
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Developme
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
nt
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
City Middle/High School, Burton Middle School, Riverside
Middle School, Union High School, Innovation Central High
School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Developme
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable nt
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Grand
Rapids Montessori Public School, Ottawa Hills High School,
City Middle/High School, Southeast Career Pathways, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School, Union High School,
Innovation Central High School, Center for Economicology
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
(shared) Strategy 3:
Learning Targets - The District will implement and modify Learning Targets in the Elementary Division through the development of Curriculum Maps and through the
use of Monitoring.
Research Cited: Brookhart, Susan M., and Moss, Connie M. (2012). Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today’s Lesson. ASCD. “The most
effective teaching and the most meaningful student learning happen when teachers design the right learning targets for today’s lesson and use it along with
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their students to aim for and assess understanding. Learning targets are student-friendly descriptors of what you intend students to learn or accomplish in a given
lesson. When shared, meaningfully, they become actual targets that students can see and direct their efforts toward. They also serve as targets for the adults in the
school whose responsibility it is to plan, monitor, and assess, and improve the quality of learning opportunities to raise the achievement of all students.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Curriculum Maps
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop curriculum
maps which highlight instructional goals around grade-level
learning targets that are student-friendly and specific to the
needs of individual students in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity - Monitor
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators and
Curriculum Supervisors will monitor the level of use and
effectiveness of Learning Targets in the classrooms through
LearningWalks, Classroom Observations, and through the
teacher evaluation process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Campus Elementary School, Congress Elementary,
East Leonard School, Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids
Montessori Public School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Kent
Hills School, Shawmut Hills School, Martin Luther King
Leadership Academy, Sibley School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Eastern Elementary,
Aberdeen Elementary School, Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford
K8 Academy, Coit Arts Academy, Stocking Elementary, Ken-OSha Park Elementary, Southwest Community Campus School,
Burton Elementary School
Tier
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Mulick
Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy, Brookside
School, Dickinson School, Buchanan School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Campus Elementary School,
Aberdeen Elementary School, East Leonard School, Harrison
Elementary, Coit Arts Academy, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Stocking Elementary, Kent Hills School, Ken-OSha Park Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, Sibley School, Burton Elementary
School
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Elementary
Required
Executive
Director,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Measurable Objective 10:
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32% of Third, Fourth and Fifth grade English Learners students will demonstrate a proficiency with concepts in Mathematics by 06/05/2015 as measured by the state
assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction - School level staff will implement and participate in a variety of activities such as: professional learning, academic rigor, project learning,
fluency and skill development, SIOP, data analysis, and use PLCs to enable them to differentiate instruction to meet the individualized needs of all students. The
teaching staff will develop lessons and units that have a clear structure which allows for different pathways according to student needs.
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
All staff will actively participate in professional learning which
supports differentiation at their specific grade level and
program.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Schools:All Schools
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Executive
Directors of
Elementary
, MS/K-8,
High
School/Alte
rnative
Schools,
Principals
and
instructiona
l staff
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Activity - Project Based Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
All staff will provide opportunities throughout the school year for Curriculum Tier 1
students to be engaged in a variety of project learning activities Developme
that support the instructional goals. These projects will be
nt
differentiated in nature and provide choice to students
regarding the type of project they will complete and will be
rigorous and challenging for all students.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
administrat
or and
teachers
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Alger Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Aberdeen Elementary
School, John Ball Park Zoo School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Innovation Central High School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
Fluency and Skill Development: The staff will use a variety of Curriculum Tier 1
activities that will allow students to become fluent with essential Developme
foundational skills. The students will practice these
nt
foundational skills often enough so that they can flexibly
engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
the
Elementary
, Middle
School, K8, High
School,
Alternative
Schools,
Special
Education,
Curriculum
Specialists,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
building
principals
and
teachers.
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observational Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who
Support
have populations with second language learners. These
Program
individuals will
train staff on how to implement the SIOP framework in their
classrooms to
support and provide differentiated techniques which will support
the
learning needs of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding ELL
Required
Department
,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Evaluate
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
: The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively
Other
with individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide
data, design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement. The District will employ a Data
Support Specialist who will work solely with our identified
Priority Schools to support staff in understanding their schoolwide data and ways to use this data to differentiate instruction
in order to meet student needs.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
A&E
Department
,
Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
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Source Of
Funding
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
Elementary
,Middle , K8, High and
Alternative
Schools,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
and
Building
Prinicpals
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
The District will support the use of technology across the
Curriculum Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support Developme
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
nt
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Technology
and
Curriculum
Integration
and
Instructiona
l Support
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High Schools)
Activity
Type
Resource
Assigned
Instructional Coaches: The District will employ Instructional
Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding and District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Union High School, Campus Elementary School, Aberdeen
Elementary School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Math Lab (Middle)
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding itle I
Required
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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Comprehensive Middle Schools will implement the use of an
tier two supplemental math intervention course for identified
students address missing skills and gaps in math knowledge.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $134000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ an Instructional Improvement Coach,
who under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $310000
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Math Specialist Teacher (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Math Specialist Teachers who delivers Academic
supplementary instruction to identified students This
Support
instructional support reflects State and District content
Program
expectations through the use of effective strategies in
management, instruction, student motivation and curriculum
planning and is delivered through “In School” push in and/or
pull out interventions and/or after school intervention programs.
The teachers makes knowledge accessible to all students;
develops students’ cognitive capacity and respect for learning;
and fosters students’ self-esteem, motivation and sense of civic
responsibility.
Resource
Assigned
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Specialists,
and
Executive
Director of
Middle
School and
K-8
division.
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Specialist
Teacher,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Dickinson
School, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy
Activity - Math Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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The District will employ Math Coaches in order to support
Priority Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Math
Coaches will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in
successfully implementing best practices as identified in their
Reform & Redesign Plans. Math Coaches will provide
leadership for teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing,
modeling and facilitating change to improve the instructional
program. Math Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $270000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Math
Coaches,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l Coach,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality
Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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Begin Date End Date
Resource
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Source Of
Funding
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by Developme
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
nt
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Developme
been developed through teacher training provided by the
nt
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Curriculum
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper Developme
understanding of the content being taught.
nt
Schools:All Schools
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
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Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, School
Reform
Facilitators,
Instructiona
l
Coaches
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Instructiona
l
Technology
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Developme
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
nt
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
City Middle/High School, Burton Middle School, Riverside
Middle School, Union High School, Innovation Central High
School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Developme
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable nt
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Grand
Rapids Montessori Public School, Ottawa Hills High School,
City Middle/High School, Southeast Career Pathways, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School, Union High School,
Innovation Central High School, Center for Economicology
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
(shared) Strategy 3:
Learning Targets - The District will implement and modify Learning Targets in the Elementary Division through the development of Curriculum Maps and through the
use of Monitoring.
Research Cited: Brookhart, Susan M., and Moss, Connie M. (2012). Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today’s Lesson. ASCD. “The most
effective teaching and the most meaningful student learning happen when teachers design the right learning targets for today’s lesson and use it along with
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their students to aim for and assess understanding. Learning targets are student-friendly descriptors of what you intend students to learn or accomplish in a given
lesson. When shared, meaningfully, they become actual targets that students can see and direct their efforts toward. They also serve as targets for the adults in the
school whose responsibility it is to plan, monitor, and assess, and improve the quality of learning opportunities to raise the achievement of all students.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Curriculum Maps
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop curriculum
maps which highlight instructional goals around grade-level
learning targets that are student-friendly and specific to the
needs of individual students in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity - Monitor
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators and
Curriculum Supervisors will monitor the level of use and
effectiveness of Learning Targets in the classrooms through
LearningWalks, Classroom Observations, and through the
teacher evaluation process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Campus Elementary School, Congress Elementary,
East Leonard School, Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids
Montessori Public School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Kent
Hills School, Shawmut Hills School, Martin Luther King
Leadership Academy, Sibley School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Eastern Elementary,
Aberdeen Elementary School, Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford
K8 Academy, Coit Arts Academy, Stocking Elementary, Ken-OSha Park Elementary, Southwest Community Campus School,
Burton Elementary School
Tier
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Mulick
Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy, Brookside
School, Dickinson School, Buchanan School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Campus Elementary School,
Aberdeen Elementary School, East Leonard School, Harrison
Elementary, Coit Arts Academy, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Stocking Elementary, Kent Hills School, Ken-OSha Park Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, Sibley School, Burton Elementary
School
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Elementary
Required
Executive
Director,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Measurable Objective 11:
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32% of Third, Fourth and Fifth grade Students with Disabilities students will demonstrate a proficiency with concepts in Mathematics by 06/05/2015 as measured by
the state assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction - School level staff will implement and participate in a variety of activities such as: professional learning, academic rigor, project learning,
fluency and skill development, SIOP, data analysis, and use PLCs to enable them to differentiate instruction to meet the individualized needs of all students. The
teaching staff will develop lessons and units that have a clear structure which allows for different pathways according to student needs.
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
All staff will actively participate in professional learning which
supports differentiation at their specific grade level and
program.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Schools:All Schools
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Executive
Directors of
Elementary
, MS/K-8,
High
School/Alte
rnative
Schools,
Principals
and
instructiona
l staff
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Activity - Project Based Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
All staff will provide opportunities throughout the school year for Curriculum Tier 1
students to be engaged in a variety of project learning activities Developme
that support the instructional goals. These projects will be
nt
differentiated in nature and provide choice to students
regarding the type of project they will complete and will be
rigorous and challenging for all students.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
administrat
or and
teachers
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Alger Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Aberdeen Elementary
School, John Ball Park Zoo School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Innovation Central High School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
Fluency and Skill Development: The staff will use a variety of Curriculum Tier 1
activities that will allow students to become fluent with essential Developme
foundational skills. The students will practice these
nt
foundational skills often enough so that they can flexibly
engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
the
Elementary
, Middle
School, K8, High
School,
Alternative
Schools,
Special
Education,
Curriculum
Specialists,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
building
principals
and
teachers.
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observational Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who
Support
have populations with second language learners. These
Program
individuals will
train staff on how to implement the SIOP framework in their
classrooms to
support and provide differentiated techniques which will support
the
learning needs of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding ELL
Required
Department
,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Evaluate
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
: The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively
Other
with individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide
data, design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement. The District will employ a Data
Support Specialist who will work solely with our identified
Priority Schools to support staff in understanding their schoolwide data and ways to use this data to differentiate instruction
in order to meet student needs.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
A&E
Department
,
Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
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Source Of
Funding
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
Elementary
,Middle , K8, High and
Alternative
Schools,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
and
Building
Prinicpals
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
The District will support the use of technology across the
Curriculum Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support Developme
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
nt
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Technology
and
Curriculum
Integration
and
Instructiona
l Support
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High Schools)
Activity
Type
Resource
Assigned
Instructional Coaches: The District will employ Instructional
Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding and District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Union High School, Campus Elementary School, Aberdeen
Elementary School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Math Lab (Middle)
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding itle I
Required
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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Comprehensive Middle Schools will implement the use of an
tier two supplemental math intervention course for identified
students address missing skills and gaps in math knowledge.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $134000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ an Instructional Improvement Coach,
who under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $310000
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Math Specialist Teacher (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Math Specialist Teachers who delivers Academic
supplementary instruction to identified students This
Support
instructional support reflects State and District content
Program
expectations through the use of effective strategies in
management, instruction, student motivation and curriculum
planning and is delivered through “In School” push in and/or
pull out interventions and/or after school intervention programs.
The teachers makes knowledge accessible to all students;
develops students’ cognitive capacity and respect for learning;
and fosters students’ self-esteem, motivation and sense of civic
responsibility.
Resource
Assigned
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Specialists,
and
Executive
Director of
Middle
School and
K-8
division.
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Specialist
Teacher,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Dickinson
School, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy
Activity - Math Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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The District will employ Math Coaches in order to support
Priority Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Math
Coaches will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in
successfully implementing best practices as identified in their
Reform & Redesign Plans. Math Coaches will provide
leadership for teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing,
modeling and facilitating change to improve the instructional
program. Math Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $270000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Math
Coaches,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l Coach,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality
Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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Begin Date End Date
Resource
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Source Of
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by Developme
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
nt
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Developme
been developed through teacher training provided by the
nt
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Curriculum
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper Developme
understanding of the content being taught.
nt
Schools:All Schools
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
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Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, School
Reform
Facilitators,
Instructiona
l
Coaches
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Instructiona
l
Technology
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Developme
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
nt
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
City Middle/High School, Burton Middle School, Riverside
Middle School, Union High School, Innovation Central High
School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Developme
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable nt
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Grand
Rapids Montessori Public School, Ottawa Hills High School,
City Middle/High School, Southeast Career Pathways, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School, Union High School,
Innovation Central High School, Center for Economicology
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
(shared) Strategy 3:
Learning Targets - The District will implement and modify Learning Targets in the Elementary Division through the development of Curriculum Maps and through the
use of Monitoring.
Research Cited: Brookhart, Susan M., and Moss, Connie M. (2012). Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today’s Lesson. ASCD. “The most
effective teaching and the most meaningful student learning happen when teachers design the right learning targets for today’s lesson and use it along with
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their students to aim for and assess understanding. Learning targets are student-friendly descriptors of what you intend students to learn or accomplish in a given
lesson. When shared, meaningfully, they become actual targets that students can see and direct their efforts toward. They also serve as targets for the adults in the
school whose responsibility it is to plan, monitor, and assess, and improve the quality of learning opportunities to raise the achievement of all students.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Curriculum Maps
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will develop curriculum
maps which highlight instructional goals around grade-level
learning targets that are student-friendly and specific to the
needs of individual students in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity - Monitor
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators and
Curriculum Supervisors will monitor the level of use and
effectiveness of Learning Targets in the classrooms through
LearningWalks, Classroom Observations, and through the
teacher evaluation process.
Walkthroug Tier 1
h
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Brookside School, CA Frost Environmental Science
Academy, Campus Elementary School, Congress Elementary,
East Leonard School, Harrison Elementary, Grand Rapids
Montessori Public School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, Kent
Hills School, Shawmut Hills School, Martin Luther King
Leadership Academy, Sibley School, Sherwood Global Studies
Academy, Mulick Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy,
Dickinson School, Buchanan School, Eastern Elementary,
Aberdeen Elementary School, Palmer School, Gerald R. Ford
K8 Academy, Coit Arts Academy, Stocking Elementary, Ken-OSha Park Elementary, Southwest Community Campus School,
Burton Elementary School
Tier
Schools:Sherwood Global Studies Academy, Mulick
Elementary, North Park Montessori Academy, Brookside
School, Dickinson School, Buchanan School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Campus Elementary School,
Aberdeen Elementary School, East Leonard School, Harrison
Elementary, Coit Arts Academy, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Stocking Elementary, Kent Hills School, Ken-OSha Park Elementary, Shawmut Hills School, Martin Luther
King Leadership Academy, Sibley School, Burton Elementary
School
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Elementary
Required
Executive
Director,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Measurable Objective 12:
36% of Sixth, Seventh and Eighth grade students will demonstrate a proficiency in concepts in Mathematics by 06/05/2015 as measured by the State assessment.
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(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction - School level staff will implement and participate in a variety of activities such as: professional learning, academic rigor, project learning,
fluency and skill development, SIOP, data analysis, and use PLCs to enable them to differentiate instruction to meet the individualized needs of all students. The
teaching staff will develop lessons and units that have a clear structure which allows for different pathways according to student needs.
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
All staff will actively participate in professional learning which
supports differentiation at their specific grade level and
program.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Based Learning
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Executive
Directors of
Elementary
, MS/K-8,
High
School/Alte
rnative
Schools,
Principals
and
instructiona
l staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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All staff will provide opportunities throughout the school year for Curriculum Tier 1
students to be engaged in a variety of project learning activities Developme
that support the instructional goals. These projects will be
nt
differentiated in nature and provide choice to students
regarding the type of project they will complete and will be
rigorous and challenging for all students.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
the
Elementary
, Middle
School, K8, High
School,
Alternative
Schools,
Special
Education,
Curriculum
Specialists,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
building
principals
and
teachers.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
administrat
or and
teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Alger Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Aberdeen Elementary
School, John Ball Park Zoo School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Innovation Central High School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
Fluency and Skill Development: The staff will use a variety of Curriculum Tier 1
activities that will allow students to become fluent with essential Developme
foundational skills. The students will practice these
nt
foundational skills often enough so that they can flexibly
engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observational Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who
Support
have populations with second language learners. These
Program
individuals will
train staff on how to implement the SIOP framework in their
classrooms to
support and provide differentiated techniques which will support
the
learning needs of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding ELL
Required
Department
,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
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Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
: The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively
Other
with individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide
data, design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement. The District will employ a Data
Support Specialist who will work solely with our identified
Priority Schools to support staff in understanding their schoolwide data and ways to use this data to differentiate instruction
in order to meet student needs.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Tier 1
Evaluate
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
A&E
Department
,
Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
Elementary
,Middle , K8, High and
Alternative
Schools,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
and
Building
Prinicpals
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will support the use of technology across the
Curriculum Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support Developme
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
nt
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Technology
and
Curriculum
Integration
and
Instructiona
l Support
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High Schools)
Activity
Type
Instructional Coaches: The District will employ Instructional
Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding and District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Union High School, Campus Elementary School, Aberdeen
Elementary School
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Activity - Summer School
Activity
Type
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding itle I
Required
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Activity - Math Lab (Middle)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Comprehensive Middle Schools will implement the use of an
tier two supplemental math intervention course for identified
students address missing skills and gaps in math knowledge.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $134000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ an Instructional Improvement Coach,
who under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School
Schools:Union High School
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Specialists,
and
Executive
Director of
Middle
School and
K-8
division.
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
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Activity - Math Specialist Teacher (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
The District will employ Math Specialist Teachers who delivers Academic
supplementary instruction to identified students This
Support
instructional support reflects State and District content
Program
expectations through the use of effective strategies in
management, instruction, student motivation and curriculum
planning and is delivered through “In School” push in and/or
pull out interventions and/or after school intervention programs.
The teachers makes knowledge accessible to all students;
develops students’ cognitive capacity and respect for learning;
and fosters students’ self-esteem, motivation and sense of civic
responsibility.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $310000
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Specialist
Teacher,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Dickinson
School, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy
Activity - Math Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
Resource
Assigned
The District will employ Math Coaches in order to support
Priority Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Math
Coaches will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in
successfully implementing best practices as identified in their
Reform & Redesign Plans. Math Coaches will provide
leadership for teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing,
modeling and facilitating change to improve the instructional
program. Math Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $270000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Coaches,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Tier
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l Coach,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
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(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality
Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by Developme
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
nt
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Developme
been developed through teacher training provided by the
nt
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Curriculum
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper Developme
understanding of the content being taught.
nt
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, School
Reform
Facilitators,
Instructiona
l
Coaches
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Instructiona
l
Technology
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Developme
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
nt
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
City Middle/High School, Burton Middle School, Riverside
Middle School, Union High School, Innovation Central High
School, Center for Economicology
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
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Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Developme
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable nt
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Grand
Rapids Montessori Public School, Ottawa Hills High School,
City Middle/High School, Southeast Career Pathways, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School, Union High School,
Innovation Central High School, Center for Economicology
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Measurable Objective 13:
33% of Sixth, Seventh and Eighth grade Hispanic or Latino students will demonstrate a proficiency in concepts in Mathematics by 06/05/2015 as measured by the
State assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction - School level staff will implement and participate in a variety of activities such as: professional learning, academic rigor, project learning,
fluency and skill development, SIOP, data analysis, and use PLCs to enable them to differentiate instruction to meet the individualized needs of all students. The
teaching staff will develop lessons and units that have a clear structure which allows for different pathways according to student needs.
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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All staff will actively participate in professional learning which
supports differentiation at their specific grade level and
program.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Executive
Directors of
Elementary
, MS/K-8,
High
School/Alte
rnative
Schools,
Principals
and
instructiona
l staff
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Based Learning
Tier
All staff will provide opportunities throughout the school year for Curriculum Tier 1
students to be engaged in a variety of project learning activities Developme
that support the instructional goals. These projects will be
nt
differentiated in nature and provide choice to students
regarding the type of project they will complete and will be
rigorous and challenging for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Alger Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Aberdeen Elementary
School, John Ball Park Zoo School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Innovation Central High School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
the
Elementary
, Middle
School, K8, High
School,
Alternative
Schools,
Special
Education,
Curriculum
Specialists,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
building
principals
and
teachers.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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Fluency and Skill Development: The staff will use a variety of Curriculum Tier 1
activities that will allow students to become fluent with essential Developme
foundational skills. The students will practice these
nt
foundational skills often enough so that they can flexibly
engage with the content at a higher level.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Building
Required
administrat
or and
teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Evaluate
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observational Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who
Support
have populations with second language learners. These
Program
individuals will
train staff on how to implement the SIOP framework in their
classrooms to
support and provide differentiated techniques which will support
the
learning needs of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding ELL
Required
Department
,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
: The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively
Other
with individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide
data, design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement. The District will employ a Data
Support Specialist who will work solely with our identified
Priority Schools to support staff in understanding their schoolwide data and ways to use this data to differentiate instruction
in order to meet student needs.
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
A&E
Department
,
Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
Elementary
,Middle , K8, High and
Alternative
Schools,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
and
Building
Prinicpals
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
The District will support the use of technology across the
Curriculum Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support Developme
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
nt
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Technology
and
Curriculum
Integration
and
Instructiona
l Support
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High Schools)
Activity
Type
Resource
Assigned
Instructional Coaches: The District will employ Instructional
Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding and District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Union High School, Campus Elementary School, Aberdeen
Elementary School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Math Lab (Middle)
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding itle I
Required
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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Comprehensive Middle Schools will implement the use of an
tier two supplemental math intervention course for identified
students address missing skills and gaps in math knowledge.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $134000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ an Instructional Improvement Coach,
who under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $310000
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Math Specialist Teacher (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Math Specialist Teachers who delivers Academic
supplementary instruction to identified students This
Support
instructional support reflects State and District content
Program
expectations through the use of effective strategies in
management, instruction, student motivation and curriculum
planning and is delivered through “In School” push in and/or
pull out interventions and/or after school intervention programs.
The teachers makes knowledge accessible to all students;
develops students’ cognitive capacity and respect for learning;
and fosters students’ self-esteem, motivation and sense of civic
responsibility.
Resource
Assigned
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Specialists,
and
Executive
Director of
Middle
School and
K-8
division.
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Specialist
Teacher,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Dickinson
School, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy
Activity - Math Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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Staff
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The District will employ Math Coaches in order to support
Priority Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Math
Coaches will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in
successfully implementing best practices as identified in their
Reform & Redesign Plans. Math Coaches will provide
leadership for teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing,
modeling and facilitating change to improve the instructional
program. Math Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $270000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Math
Coaches,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l Coach,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality
Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
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e
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by Developme
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
nt
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Developme
been developed through teacher training provided by the
nt
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Curriculum
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper Developme
understanding of the content being taught.
nt
Schools:All Schools
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
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Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, School
Reform
Facilitators,
Instructiona
l
Coaches
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Instructiona
l
Technology
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Developme
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
nt
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
City Middle/High School, Burton Middle School, Riverside
Middle School, Union High School, Innovation Central High
School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Developme
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable nt
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Grand
Rapids Montessori Public School, Ottawa Hills High School,
City Middle/High School, Southeast Career Pathways, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School, Union High School,
Innovation Central High School, Center for Economicology
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Measurable Objective 14:
27% of Sixth, Seventh and Eighth grade English Learners students will demonstrate a proficiency in concepts in Mathematics by 06/05/2015 as measured by the
State assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction - School level staff will implement and participate in a variety of activities such as: professional learning, academic rigor, project learning,
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fluency and skill development, SIOP, data analysis, and use PLCs to enable them to differentiate instruction to meet the individualized needs of all students. The
teaching staff will develop lessons and units that have a clear structure which allows for different pathways according to student needs.
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
All staff will actively participate in professional learning which
supports differentiation at their specific grade level and
program.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Based Learning
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Executive
Directors of
Elementary
, MS/K-8,
High
School/Alte
rnative
Schools,
Principals
and
instructiona
l staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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All staff will provide opportunities throughout the school year for Curriculum Tier 1
students to be engaged in a variety of project learning activities Developme
that support the instructional goals. These projects will be
nt
differentiated in nature and provide choice to students
regarding the type of project they will complete and will be
rigorous and challenging for all students.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
the
Elementary
, Middle
School, K8, High
School,
Alternative
Schools,
Special
Education,
Curriculum
Specialists,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
building
principals
and
teachers.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
administrat
or and
teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Alger Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Aberdeen Elementary
School, John Ball Park Zoo School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Innovation Central High School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
Fluency and Skill Development: The staff will use a variety of Curriculum Tier 1
activities that will allow students to become fluent with essential Developme
foundational skills. The students will practice these
nt
foundational skills often enough so that they can flexibly
engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observational Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who
Support
have populations with second language learners. These
Program
individuals will
train staff on how to implement the SIOP framework in their
classrooms to
support and provide differentiated techniques which will support
the
learning needs of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding ELL
Required
Department
,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
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Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
: The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively
Other
with individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide
data, design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement. The District will employ a Data
Support Specialist who will work solely with our identified
Priority Schools to support staff in understanding their schoolwide data and ways to use this data to differentiate instruction
in order to meet student needs.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Tier 1
Evaluate
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
A&E
Department
,
Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
Elementary
,Middle , K8, High and
Alternative
Schools,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
and
Building
Prinicpals
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will support the use of technology across the
Curriculum Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support Developme
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
nt
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Technology
and
Curriculum
Integration
and
Instructiona
l Support
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High Schools)
Activity
Type
Instructional Coaches: The District will employ Instructional
Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding and District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Union High School, Campus Elementary School, Aberdeen
Elementary School
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Activity - Summer School
Activity
Type
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding itle I
Required
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Activity - Math Lab (Middle)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Comprehensive Middle Schools will implement the use of an
tier two supplemental math intervention course for identified
students address missing skills and gaps in math knowledge.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $134000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ an Instructional Improvement Coach,
who under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School
Schools:Union High School
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Specialists,
and
Executive
Director of
Middle
School and
K-8
division.
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
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Activity - Math Specialist Teacher (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
The District will employ Math Specialist Teachers who delivers Academic
supplementary instruction to identified students This
Support
instructional support reflects State and District content
Program
expectations through the use of effective strategies in
management, instruction, student motivation and curriculum
planning and is delivered through “In School” push in and/or
pull out interventions and/or after school intervention programs.
The teachers makes knowledge accessible to all students;
develops students’ cognitive capacity and respect for learning;
and fosters students’ self-esteem, motivation and sense of civic
responsibility.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $310000
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Specialist
Teacher,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Dickinson
School, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy
Activity - Math Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
Resource
Assigned
The District will employ Math Coaches in order to support
Priority Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Math
Coaches will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in
successfully implementing best practices as identified in their
Reform & Redesign Plans. Math Coaches will provide
leadership for teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing,
modeling and facilitating change to improve the instructional
program. Math Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $270000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Coaches,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Tier
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l Coach,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
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(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality
Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by Developme
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
nt
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Developme
been developed through teacher training provided by the
nt
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Curriculum
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper Developme
understanding of the content being taught.
nt
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, School
Reform
Facilitators,
Instructiona
l
Coaches
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Instructiona
l
Technology
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Developme
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
nt
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
City Middle/High School, Burton Middle School, Riverside
Middle School, Union High School, Innovation Central High
School, Center for Economicology
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
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Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Developme
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable nt
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Grand
Rapids Montessori Public School, Ottawa Hills High School,
City Middle/High School, Southeast Career Pathways, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School, Union High School,
Innovation Central High School, Center for Economicology
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Measurable Objective 15:
28% of Sixth, Seventh and Eighth grade Students with Disabilities students will demonstrate a proficiency in concepts in Mathematics by 06/05/2015 as measured by
the State assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction - School level staff will implement and participate in a variety of activities such as: professional learning, academic rigor, project learning,
fluency and skill development, SIOP, data analysis, and use PLCs to enable them to differentiate instruction to meet the individualized needs of all students. The
teaching staff will develop lessons and units that have a clear structure which allows for different pathways according to student needs.
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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All staff will actively participate in professional learning which
supports differentiation at their specific grade level and
program.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Executive
Directors of
Elementary
, MS/K-8,
High
School/Alte
rnative
Schools,
Principals
and
instructiona
l staff
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Based Learning
Tier
All staff will provide opportunities throughout the school year for Curriculum Tier 1
students to be engaged in a variety of project learning activities Developme
that support the instructional goals. These projects will be
nt
differentiated in nature and provide choice to students
regarding the type of project they will complete and will be
rigorous and challenging for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Alger Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Aberdeen Elementary
School, John Ball Park Zoo School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Innovation Central High School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
the
Elementary
, Middle
School, K8, High
School,
Alternative
Schools,
Special
Education,
Curriculum
Specialists,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
building
principals
and
teachers.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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Fluency and Skill Development: The staff will use a variety of Curriculum Tier 1
activities that will allow students to become fluent with essential Developme
foundational skills. The students will practice these
nt
foundational skills often enough so that they can flexibly
engage with the content at a higher level.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Building
Required
administrat
or and
teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Evaluate
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observational Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who
Support
have populations with second language learners. These
Program
individuals will
train staff on how to implement the SIOP framework in their
classrooms to
support and provide differentiated techniques which will support
the
learning needs of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding ELL
Required
Department
,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
: The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively
Other
with individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide
data, design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement. The District will employ a Data
Support Specialist who will work solely with our identified
Priority Schools to support staff in understanding their schoolwide data and ways to use this data to differentiate instruction
in order to meet student needs.
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
A&E
Department
,
Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
Elementary
,Middle , K8, High and
Alternative
Schools,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
and
Building
Prinicpals
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
The District will support the use of technology across the
Curriculum Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support Developme
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
nt
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Technology
and
Curriculum
Integration
and
Instructiona
l Support
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High Schools)
Activity
Type
Resource
Assigned
Instructional Coaches: The District will employ Instructional
Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding and District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Union High School, Campus Elementary School, Aberdeen
Elementary School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Math Lab (Middle)
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding itle I
Required
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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Comprehensive Middle Schools will implement the use of an
tier two supplemental math intervention course for identified
students address missing skills and gaps in math knowledge.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $134000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ an Instructional Improvement Coach,
who under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $310000
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Math Specialist Teacher (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Math Specialist Teachers who delivers Academic
supplementary instruction to identified students This
Support
instructional support reflects State and District content
Program
expectations through the use of effective strategies in
management, instruction, student motivation and curriculum
planning and is delivered through “In School” push in and/or
pull out interventions and/or after school intervention programs.
The teachers makes knowledge accessible to all students;
develops students’ cognitive capacity and respect for learning;
and fosters students’ self-esteem, motivation and sense of civic
responsibility.
Resource
Assigned
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Specialists,
and
Executive
Director of
Middle
School and
K-8
division.
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Specialist
Teacher,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Dickinson
School, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy
Activity - Math Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ Math Coaches in order to support
Priority Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Math
Coaches will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in
successfully implementing best practices as identified in their
Reform & Redesign Plans. Math Coaches will provide
leadership for teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing,
modeling and facilitating change to improve the instructional
program. Math Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $270000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Math
Coaches,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l Coach,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality
Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by Developme
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
nt
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Developme
been developed through teacher training provided by the
nt
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Curriculum
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper Developme
understanding of the content being taught.
nt
Schools:All Schools
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
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Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, School
Reform
Facilitators,
Instructiona
l
Coaches
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Instructiona
l
Technology
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Developme
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
nt
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
City Middle/High School, Burton Middle School, Riverside
Middle School, Union High School, Innovation Central High
School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Developme
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable nt
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Grand
Rapids Montessori Public School, Ottawa Hills High School,
City Middle/High School, Southeast Career Pathways, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School, Union High School,
Innovation Central High School, Center for Economicology
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Measurable Objective 16:
50% of Sixth, Seventh and Eighth grade White students will demonstrate a proficiency in concepts in Mathematics by 06/05/2014 as measured by the State
assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction - School level staff will implement and participate in a variety of activities such as: professional learning, academic rigor, project learning,
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fluency and skill development, SIOP, data analysis, and use PLCs to enable them to differentiate instruction to meet the individualized needs of all students. The
teaching staff will develop lessons and units that have a clear structure which allows for different pathways according to student needs.
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
All staff will actively participate in professional learning which
supports differentiation at their specific grade level and
program.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Based Learning
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Executive
Directors of
Elementary
, MS/K-8,
High
School/Alte
rnative
Schools,
Principals
and
instructiona
l staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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All staff will provide opportunities throughout the school year for Curriculum Tier 1
students to be engaged in a variety of project learning activities Developme
that support the instructional goals. These projects will be
nt
differentiated in nature and provide choice to students
regarding the type of project they will complete and will be
rigorous and challenging for all students.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
the
Elementary
, Middle
School, K8, High
School,
Alternative
Schools,
Special
Education,
Curriculum
Specialists,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
building
principals
and
teachers.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
administrat
or and
teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Alger Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Aberdeen Elementary
School, John Ball Park Zoo School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Innovation Central High School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
Fluency and Skill Development: The staff will use a variety of Curriculum Tier 1
activities that will allow students to become fluent with essential Developme
foundational skills. The students will practice these
nt
foundational skills often enough so that they can flexibly
engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observational Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who
Support
have populations with second language learners. These
Program
individuals will
train staff on how to implement the SIOP framework in their
classrooms to
support and provide differentiated techniques which will support
the
learning needs of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding ELL
Required
Department
,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
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Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
: The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively
Other
with individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide
data, design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement. The District will employ a Data
Support Specialist who will work solely with our identified
Priority Schools to support staff in understanding their schoolwide data and ways to use this data to differentiate instruction
in order to meet student needs.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Tier 1
Evaluate
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
A&E
Department
,
Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
Elementary
,Middle , K8, High and
Alternative
Schools,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
and
Building
Prinicpals
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will support the use of technology across the
Curriculum Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support Developme
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
nt
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Technology
and
Curriculum
Integration
and
Instructiona
l Support
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High Schools)
Activity
Type
Instructional Coaches: The District will employ Instructional
Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding and District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Union High School, Campus Elementary School, Aberdeen
Elementary School
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Activity - Summer School
Activity
Type
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding itle I
Required
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Activity - Math Lab (Middle)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Comprehensive Middle Schools will implement the use of an
tier two supplemental math intervention course for identified
students address missing skills and gaps in math knowledge.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $134000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ an Instructional Improvement Coach,
who under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School
Schools:Union High School
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Specialists,
and
Executive
Director of
Middle
School and
K-8
division.
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
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Activity - Math Specialist Teacher (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
The District will employ Math Specialist Teachers who delivers Academic
supplementary instruction to identified students This
Support
instructional support reflects State and District content
Program
expectations through the use of effective strategies in
management, instruction, student motivation and curriculum
planning and is delivered through “In School” push in and/or
pull out interventions and/or after school intervention programs.
The teachers makes knowledge accessible to all students;
develops students’ cognitive capacity and respect for learning;
and fosters students’ self-esteem, motivation and sense of civic
responsibility.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $310000
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Specialist
Teacher,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Dickinson
School, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy
Activity - Math Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
Resource
Assigned
The District will employ Math Coaches in order to support
Priority Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Math
Coaches will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in
successfully implementing best practices as identified in their
Reform & Redesign Plans. Math Coaches will provide
leadership for teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing,
modeling and facilitating change to improve the instructional
program. Math Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $270000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Coaches,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Tier
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l Coach,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
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(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality
Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by Developme
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
nt
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Developme
been developed through teacher training provided by the
nt
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Curriculum
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper Developme
understanding of the content being taught.
nt
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, School
Reform
Facilitators,
Instructiona
l
Coaches
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Instructiona
l
Technology
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Developme
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
nt
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
City Middle/High School, Burton Middle School, Riverside
Middle School, Union High School, Innovation Central High
School, Center for Economicology
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
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Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Developme
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable nt
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Grand
Rapids Montessori Public School, Ottawa Hills High School,
City Middle/High School, Southeast Career Pathways, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School, Union High School,
Innovation Central High School, Center for Economicology
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Measurable Objective 17:
30% of Sixth, Seventh and Eighth grade Black or African-American students will demonstrate a proficiency in concepts in Mathematics by 06/05/2015 as measured
by the State assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction - School level staff will implement and participate in a variety of activities such as: professional learning, academic rigor, project learning,
fluency and skill development, SIOP, data analysis, and use PLCs to enable them to differentiate instruction to meet the individualized needs of all students. The
teaching staff will develop lessons and units that have a clear structure which allows for different pathways according to student needs.
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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All staff will actively participate in professional learning which
supports differentiation at their specific grade level and
program.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Executive
Directors of
Elementary
, MS/K-8,
High
School/Alte
rnative
Schools,
Principals
and
instructiona
l staff
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Based Learning
Tier
All staff will provide opportunities throughout the school year for Curriculum Tier 1
students to be engaged in a variety of project learning activities Developme
that support the instructional goals. These projects will be
nt
differentiated in nature and provide choice to students
regarding the type of project they will complete and will be
rigorous and challenging for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Alger Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Aberdeen Elementary
School, John Ball Park Zoo School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Innovation Central High School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
the
Elementary
, Middle
School, K8, High
School,
Alternative
Schools,
Special
Education,
Curriculum
Specialists,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
building
principals
and
teachers.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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Fluency and Skill Development: The staff will use a variety of Curriculum Tier 1
activities that will allow students to become fluent with essential Developme
foundational skills. The students will practice these
nt
foundational skills often enough so that they can flexibly
engage with the content at a higher level.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Building
Required
administrat
or and
teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Evaluate
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observational Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who
Support
have populations with second language learners. These
Program
individuals will
train staff on how to implement the SIOP framework in their
classrooms to
support and provide differentiated techniques which will support
the
learning needs of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding ELL
Required
Department
,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
: The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively
Other
with individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide
data, design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement. The District will employ a Data
Support Specialist who will work solely with our identified
Priority Schools to support staff in understanding their schoolwide data and ways to use this data to differentiate instruction
in order to meet student needs.
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
A&E
Department
,
Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
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Source Of
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
Elementary
,Middle , K8, High and
Alternative
Schools,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
and
Building
Prinicpals
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
The District will support the use of technology across the
Curriculum Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support Developme
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
nt
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Technology
and
Curriculum
Integration
and
Instructiona
l Support
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High Schools)
Activity
Type
Resource
Assigned
Instructional Coaches: The District will employ Instructional
Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding and District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Union High School, Campus Elementary School, Aberdeen
Elementary School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Math Lab (Middle)
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding itle I
Required
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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Comprehensive Middle Schools will implement the use of an
tier two supplemental math intervention course for identified
students address missing skills and gaps in math knowledge.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $134000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ an Instructional Improvement Coach,
who under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $310000
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Math Specialist Teacher (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Math Specialist Teachers who delivers Academic
supplementary instruction to identified students This
Support
instructional support reflects State and District content
Program
expectations through the use of effective strategies in
management, instruction, student motivation and curriculum
planning and is delivered through “In School” push in and/or
pull out interventions and/or after school intervention programs.
The teachers makes knowledge accessible to all students;
develops students’ cognitive capacity and respect for learning;
and fosters students’ self-esteem, motivation and sense of civic
responsibility.
Resource
Assigned
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Specialists,
and
Executive
Director of
Middle
School and
K-8
division.
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Specialist
Teacher,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Dickinson
School, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy
Activity - Math Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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Staff
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The District will employ Math Coaches in order to support
Priority Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Math
Coaches will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in
successfully implementing best practices as identified in their
Reform & Redesign Plans. Math Coaches will provide
leadership for teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing,
modeling and facilitating change to improve the instructional
program. Math Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $270000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Math
Coaches,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l Coach,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality
Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by Developme
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
nt
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Developme
been developed through teacher training provided by the
nt
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Curriculum
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper Developme
understanding of the content being taught.
nt
Schools:All Schools
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
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Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, School
Reform
Facilitators,
Instructiona
l
Coaches
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Instructiona
l
Technology
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Developme
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
nt
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
City Middle/High School, Burton Middle School, Riverside
Middle School, Union High School, Innovation Central High
School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Developme
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable nt
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Grand
Rapids Montessori Public School, Ottawa Hills High School,
City Middle/High School, Southeast Career Pathways, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School, Union High School,
Innovation Central High School, Center for Economicology
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Measurable Objective 18:
32% of Sixth, Seventh and Eighth grade Economically Disadvantaged students will demonstrate a proficiency in concepts in Mathematics by 06/05/2015 as
measured by the State assessment.
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction - School level staff will implement and participate in a variety of activities such as: professional learning, academic rigor, project learning,
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fluency and skill development, SIOP, data analysis, and use PLCs to enable them to differentiate instruction to meet the individualized needs of all students. The
teaching staff will develop lessons and units that have a clear structure which allows for different pathways according to student needs.
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
All staff will actively participate in professional learning which
supports differentiation at their specific grade level and
program.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Based Learning
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Executive
Directors of
Elementary
, MS/K-8,
High
School/Alte
rnative
Schools,
Principals
and
instructiona
l staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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All staff will provide opportunities throughout the school year for Curriculum Tier 1
students to be engaged in a variety of project learning activities Developme
that support the instructional goals. These projects will be
nt
differentiated in nature and provide choice to students
regarding the type of project they will complete and will be
rigorous and challenging for all students.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
the
Elementary
, Middle
School, K8, High
School,
Alternative
Schools,
Special
Education,
Curriculum
Specialists,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
building
principals
and
teachers.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
administrat
or and
teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Alger Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Aberdeen Elementary
School, John Ball Park Zoo School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Innovation Central High School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
Fluency and Skill Development: The staff will use a variety of Curriculum Tier 1
activities that will allow students to become fluent with essential Developme
foundational skills. The students will practice these
nt
foundational skills often enough so that they can flexibly
engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observational Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who
Support
have populations with second language learners. These
Program
individuals will
train staff on how to implement the SIOP framework in their
classrooms to
support and provide differentiated techniques which will support
the
learning needs of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding ELL
Required
Department
,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
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Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
: The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively
Other
with individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide
data, design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement. The District will employ a Data
Support Specialist who will work solely with our identified
Priority Schools to support staff in understanding their schoolwide data and ways to use this data to differentiate instruction
in order to meet student needs.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Tier 1
Evaluate
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
A&E
Department
,
Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
Elementary
,Middle , K8, High and
Alternative
Schools,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
and
Building
Prinicpals
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will support the use of technology across the
Curriculum Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support Developme
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
nt
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Technology
and
Curriculum
Integration
and
Instructiona
l Support
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High Schools)
Activity
Type
Instructional Coaches: The District will employ Instructional
Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding and District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Union High School, Campus Elementary School, Aberdeen
Elementary School
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Activity - Summer School
Activity
Type
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding itle I
Required
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Activity - Math Lab (Middle)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Comprehensive Middle Schools will implement the use of an
tier two supplemental math intervention course for identified
students address missing skills and gaps in math knowledge.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $134000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ an Instructional Improvement Coach,
who under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School
Schools:Union High School
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Specialists,
and
Executive
Director of
Middle
School and
K-8
division.
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
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Activity - Math Specialist Teacher (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
The District will employ Math Specialist Teachers who delivers Academic
supplementary instruction to identified students This
Support
instructional support reflects State and District content
Program
expectations through the use of effective strategies in
management, instruction, student motivation and curriculum
planning and is delivered through “In School” push in and/or
pull out interventions and/or after school intervention programs.
The teachers makes knowledge accessible to all students;
develops students’ cognitive capacity and respect for learning;
and fosters students’ self-esteem, motivation and sense of civic
responsibility.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $310000
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Specialist
Teacher,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Dickinson
School, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy
Activity - Math Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
Resource
Assigned
The District will employ Math Coaches in order to support
Priority Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Math
Coaches will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in
successfully implementing best practices as identified in their
Reform & Redesign Plans. Math Coaches will provide
leadership for teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing,
modeling and facilitating change to improve the instructional
program. Math Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $270000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Coaches,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Tier
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l Coach,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
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Measurable Objective 19:
34% of Eleventh grade students will demonstrate a proficiency in concepts in Mathematics by 06/05/2015 as measured by the State of Michigan assessment..
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction - School level staff will implement and participate in a variety of activities such as: professional learning, academic rigor, project learning,
fluency and skill development, SIOP, data analysis, and use PLCs to enable them to differentiate instruction to meet the individualized needs of all students. The
teaching staff will develop lessons and units that have a clear structure which allows for different pathways according to student needs.
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
All staff will actively participate in professional learning which
supports differentiation at their specific grade level and
program.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Schools:All Schools
SY 2013-2014
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Executive
Directors of
Elementary
, MS/K-8,
High
School/Alte
rnative
Schools,
Principals
and
instructiona
l staff
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Activity - Project Based Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
All staff will provide opportunities throughout the school year for Curriculum Tier 1
students to be engaged in a variety of project learning activities Developme
that support the instructional goals. These projects will be
nt
differentiated in nature and provide choice to students
regarding the type of project they will complete and will be
rigorous and challenging for all students.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
administrat
or and
teachers
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Alger Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Aberdeen Elementary
School, John Ball Park Zoo School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Innovation Central High School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
Fluency and Skill Development: The staff will use a variety of Curriculum Tier 1
activities that will allow students to become fluent with essential Developme
foundational skills. The students will practice these
nt
foundational skills often enough so that they can flexibly
engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
the
Elementary
, Middle
School, K8, High
School,
Alternative
Schools,
Special
Education,
Curriculum
Specialists,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
building
principals
and
teachers.
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observational Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
Tier
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Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who
Support
have populations with second language learners. These
Program
individuals will
train staff on how to implement the SIOP framework in their
classrooms to
support and provide differentiated techniques which will support
the
learning needs of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding ELL
Required
Department
,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Evaluate
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
: The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively
Other
with individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide
data, design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement. The District will employ a Data
Support Specialist who will work solely with our identified
Priority Schools to support staff in understanding their schoolwide data and ways to use this data to differentiate instruction
in order to meet student needs.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
A&E
Department
,
Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
Elementary
,Middle , K8, High and
Alternative
Schools,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
and
Building
Prinicpals
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
The District will support the use of technology across the
Curriculum Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support Developme
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
nt
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Technology
and
Curriculum
Integration
and
Instructiona
l Support
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High Schools)
Activity
Type
Resource
Assigned
Instructional Coaches: The District will employ Instructional
Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding and District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Union High School, Campus Elementary School, Aberdeen
Elementary School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Math Lab (Middle)
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding itle I
Required
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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Comprehensive Middle Schools will implement the use of an
tier two supplemental math intervention course for identified
students address missing skills and gaps in math knowledge.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $134000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ an Instructional Improvement Coach,
who under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $310000
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Math Specialist Teacher (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Math Specialist Teachers who delivers Academic
supplementary instruction to identified students This
Support
instructional support reflects State and District content
Program
expectations through the use of effective strategies in
management, instruction, student motivation and curriculum
planning and is delivered through “In School” push in and/or
pull out interventions and/or after school intervention programs.
The teachers makes knowledge accessible to all students;
develops students’ cognitive capacity and respect for learning;
and fosters students’ self-esteem, motivation and sense of civic
responsibility.
Resource
Assigned
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Specialists,
and
Executive
Director of
Middle
School and
K-8
division.
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Specialist
Teacher,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Dickinson
School, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy
Activity - Math Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ Math Coaches in order to support
Priority Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Math
Coaches will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in
successfully implementing best practices as identified in their
Reform & Redesign Plans. Math Coaches will provide
leadership for teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing,
modeling and facilitating change to improve the instructional
program. Math Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $270000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Math
Coaches,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l Coach,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality
Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by Developme
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
nt
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Developme
been developed through teacher training provided by the
nt
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Curriculum
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper Developme
understanding of the content being taught.
nt
Schools:All Schools
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
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Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, School
Reform
Facilitators,
Instructiona
l
Coaches
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Instructiona
l
Technology
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Developme
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
nt
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
City Middle/High School, Burton Middle School, Riverside
Middle School, Union High School, Innovation Central High
School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Developme
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable nt
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Grand
Rapids Montessori Public School, Ottawa Hills High School,
City Middle/High School, Southeast Career Pathways, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School, Union High School,
Innovation Central High School, Center for Economicology
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Measurable Objective 20:
34% of Eleventh grade students will demonstrate a proficiency in concepts in Mathematics by 06/05/2015 as measured by the State of Michigan assessment..
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction - School level staff will implement and participate in a variety of activities such as: professional learning, academic rigor, project learning,
fluency and skill development, SIOP, data analysis, and use PLCs to enable them to differentiate instruction to meet the individualized needs of all students. The
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teaching staff will develop lessons and units that have a clear structure which allows for different pathways according to student needs.
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
All staff will actively participate in professional learning which
supports differentiation at their specific grade level and
program.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Based Learning
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Executive
Directors of
Elementary
, MS/K-8,
High
School/Alte
rnative
Schools,
Principals
and
instructiona
l staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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All staff will provide opportunities throughout the school year for Curriculum Tier 1
students to be engaged in a variety of project learning activities Developme
that support the instructional goals. These projects will be
nt
differentiated in nature and provide choice to students
regarding the type of project they will complete and will be
rigorous and challenging for all students.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
the
Elementary
, Middle
School, K8, High
School,
Alternative
Schools,
Special
Education,
Curriculum
Specialists,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
building
principals
and
teachers.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
administrat
or and
teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Alger Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Aberdeen Elementary
School, John Ball Park Zoo School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Innovation Central High School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
Fluency and Skill Development: The staff will use a variety of Curriculum Tier 1
activities that will allow students to become fluent with essential Developme
foundational skills. The students will practice these
nt
foundational skills often enough so that they can flexibly
engage with the content at a higher level.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observational Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who
Support
have populations with second language learners. These
Program
individuals will
train staff on how to implement the SIOP framework in their
classrooms to
support and provide differentiated techniques which will support
the
learning needs of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding ELL
Required
Department
,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
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Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
: The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively
Other
with individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide
data, design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement. The District will employ a Data
Support Specialist who will work solely with our identified
Priority Schools to support staff in understanding their schoolwide data and ways to use this data to differentiate instruction
in order to meet student needs.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Tier 1
Evaluate
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
A&E
Department
,
Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
Elementary
,Middle , K8, High and
Alternative
Schools,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
and
Building
Prinicpals
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will support the use of technology across the
Curriculum Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support Developme
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
nt
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Technology
and
Curriculum
Integration
and
Instructiona
l Support
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High Schools)
Activity
Type
Instructional Coaches: The District will employ Instructional
Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding and District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Union High School, Campus Elementary School, Aberdeen
Elementary School
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Activity - Summer School
Activity
Type
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding itle I
Required
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Activity - Math Lab (Middle)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Comprehensive Middle Schools will implement the use of an
tier two supplemental math intervention course for identified
students address missing skills and gaps in math knowledge.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $134000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ an Instructional Improvement Coach,
who under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School
Schools:Union High School
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Specialists,
and
Executive
Director of
Middle
School and
K-8
division.
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
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Activity - Math Specialist Teacher (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
The District will employ Math Specialist Teachers who delivers Academic
supplementary instruction to identified students This
Support
instructional support reflects State and District content
Program
expectations through the use of effective strategies in
management, instruction, student motivation and curriculum
planning and is delivered through “In School” push in and/or
pull out interventions and/or after school intervention programs.
The teachers makes knowledge accessible to all students;
develops students’ cognitive capacity and respect for learning;
and fosters students’ self-esteem, motivation and sense of civic
responsibility.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $310000
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Specialist
Teacher,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Dickinson
School, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy
Activity - Math Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
Resource
Assigned
The District will employ Math Coaches in order to support
Priority Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Math
Coaches will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in
successfully implementing best practices as identified in their
Reform & Redesign Plans. Math Coaches will provide
leadership for teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing,
modeling and facilitating change to improve the instructional
program. Math Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $270000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Coaches,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Tier
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l Coach,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
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(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality
Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by Developme
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
nt
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Developme
been developed through teacher training provided by the
nt
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Curriculum
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper Developme
understanding of the content being taught.
nt
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, School
Reform
Facilitators,
Instructiona
l
Coaches
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Instructiona
l
Technology
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Developme
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
nt
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
City Middle/High School, Burton Middle School, Riverside
Middle School, Union High School, Innovation Central High
School, Center for Economicology
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
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Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Developme
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable nt
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Grand
Rapids Montessori Public School, Ottawa Hills High School,
City Middle/High School, Southeast Career Pathways, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School, Union High School,
Innovation Central High School, Center for Economicology
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Measurable Objective 21:
28% of Eleventh grade Black or African-American students will demonstrate a proficiency in concepts in Mathematics by 06/05/2015 as measured by the State of
Michigan assessment..
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction - School level staff will implement and participate in a variety of activities such as: professional learning, academic rigor, project learning,
fluency and skill development, SIOP, data analysis, and use PLCs to enable them to differentiate instruction to meet the individualized needs of all students. The
teaching staff will develop lessons and units that have a clear structure which allows for different pathways according to student needs.
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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All staff will actively participate in professional learning which
supports differentiation at their specific grade level and
program.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Executive
Directors of
Elementary
, MS/K-8,
High
School/Alte
rnative
Schools,
Principals
and
instructiona
l staff
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Based Learning
Tier
All staff will provide opportunities throughout the school year for Curriculum Tier 1
students to be engaged in a variety of project learning activities Developme
that support the instructional goals. These projects will be
nt
differentiated in nature and provide choice to students
regarding the type of project they will complete and will be
rigorous and challenging for all students.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Alger Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Aberdeen Elementary
School, John Ball Park Zoo School, Harrison Elementary,
Gerald R. Ford K8 Academy, Westwood Middle School, Alger
Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori Public School, Burton
Middle School, Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy,
Union High School, Sherwood Global Studies Academy,
Innovation Central High School, Martin Luther King Leadership
Academy, City High Middle School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Fluency and Skill Development
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
the
Elementary
, Middle
School, K8, High
School,
Alternative
Schools,
Special
Education,
Curriculum
Specialists,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
building
principals
and
teachers.
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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Fluency and Skill Development: The staff will use a variety of Curriculum Tier 1
activities that will allow students to become fluent with essential Developme
foundational skills. The students will practice these
nt
foundational skills often enough so that they can flexibly
engage with the content at a higher level.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Building
Required
administrat
or and
teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 1
Evaluate
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Sheltered Instruction Observational Protocol (SIOP)
Activity
Type
The District will employ individuals who will coach and support Academic
schools who
Support
have populations with second language learners. These
Program
individuals will
train staff on how to implement the SIOP framework in their
classrooms to
support and provide differentiated techniques which will support
the
learning needs of our Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding ELL
Required
Department
,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Data Analysis
Activity
Type
: The District will employ staff who will work collaboratively
Other
with individual schools and the KISD to analyze District-wide
data, design user-friendly data reports and to assist schools in
understanding their school-wide data in order to support and
improve student achievement. This data is used at the building
level to support teachers to determine the academic needs of
all students in order to differentiate their instruction. Some of
this data will be used by school staff who will participate in
(Data Dialogues, Governance Boards) to review, reflect and
communicate the academic progress in their classroom and
identify which activities they are implementing to support
continued student achievement. The District will employ a Data
Support Specialist who will work solely with our identified
Priority Schools to support staff in understanding their schoolwide data and ways to use this data to differentiate instruction
in order to meet student needs.
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
A&E
Department
,
Divisional
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Building
Administrat
or
s and
Teachers
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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District Support Staff in conjunction with building
administrators, Curriculum Supervisors, and Coaches will
monitor the level of use and effectiveness of differentiated
instruction in the classrooms through LearningWalks,
Classroom Observations, and through the teacher evaluation
process.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 1
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
Elementary
,Middle , K8, High and
Alternative
Schools,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Supervisors
and
Building
Prinicpals
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
The District will support the use of technology across the
Curriculum Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support Developme
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
nt
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Technology
and
Curriculum
Integration
and
Instructiona
l Support
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Learning (Middle and High Schools)
Activity
Type
Resource
Assigned
Instructional Coaches: The District will employ Instructional
Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Curriculum Tier 1
Developme
nt
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding and District
Required
Curriculum
Supervisors
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Union High School, Campus Elementary School, Aberdeen
Elementary School
Activity - Summer School
The District will fund a summer school program that supports
Academic
the academic improvement of identified students. The summer Support
school program is differentiated to meet the academic needs of Program
the students who are enrolled.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Math Lab (Middle)
Activity
Type
SY 2013-2014
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding itle I
Required
Office,
School
Reform
Facilitators,
Summer
School
Building
Administrat
ors and
Summer
School
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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Comprehensive Middle Schools will implement the use of an
tier two supplemental math intervention course for identified
students address missing skills and gaps in math knowledge.
Academic
Support
Program
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $134000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Improvement Coach (Union)
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ an Instructional Improvement Coach,
who under the direction of the Building Principal will facilitate
learning around content areas and literacy utilizing technology
and data that will enable Instructional Staff to effectively meet
and transform the performance of GRPS students at Union
High School.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Tier 2
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $310000
Title I Part
A
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Union High School
Activity - Math Specialist Teacher (Priority Schools)
The District will employ Math Specialist Teachers who delivers Academic
supplementary instruction to identified students This
Support
instructional support reflects State and District content
Program
expectations through the use of effective strategies in
management, instruction, student motivation and curriculum
planning and is delivered through “In School” push in and/or
pull out interventions and/or after school intervention programs.
The teachers makes knowledge accessible to all students;
develops students’ cognitive capacity and respect for learning;
and fosters students’ self-esteem, motivation and sense of civic
responsibility.
Resource
Assigned
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
Curriculum
Specialists,
and
Executive
Director of
Middle
School and
K-8
division.
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l
Improveme
nt Coach,
Building
Administrat
or, and
Teaching
Staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
Math
Specialist
Teacher,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Mulick Elementary, Brookside School, Dickinson
School, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy
Activity - Math Coach (Priority Schools)
Activity
Type
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Staff
Responsibl
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The District will employ Math Coaches in order to support
Priority Schools with their Reform & Redesign Plans, Math
Coaches will be utilized to assist classroom teachers in
successfully implementing best practices as identified in their
Reform & Redesign Plans. Math Coaches will provide
leadership for teachers by planning, collaborating, organizing,
modeling and facilitating change to improve the instructional
program. Math Coaches will participate in Coaching Cycles,
LearningWalks, Professional Learning Communities, Data
Analysis Meetings, and lead some professional development
for the building staff based on the schools identified areas of
need.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $270000
Title I Part
A
Activity - Instructional Coaches
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
The District will employ Instructional Coaches who
will build capacity of instructional staff by engaging in frequent
and on-going coaching cycles with feedback around
instructional strategies, differentiated strategies and delivery.
Professiona Tier 2
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Math
Coaches,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
Schools:Aberdeen Elementary, Kent Hills School, Campus
Elementary
Tier
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Ottawa Hills High School
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Instructiona
Required
l Coach,
Building
Administrati
on, and
Teaching
Staff
(shared) Strategy 2:
Student Engagement (K-12) - The District will implement Student Engagement by the following means: Professional Learning, Academic Rigor, Accountable Talk,
Quality
Questioning, Claim, Evidence and Reasoning, Non-Linguistic Representation, Monitoring, Close and Critical Reading, Technology and Clear Expectations.
Research Cited: Pickering, Debra J., and Marzano, Robert J. (2011). The Highly Engaged Classroom. Marzano Research Laboratory.
“Engagement is a central aspect of effective teaching. If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class.
Student engagement has long been recognized as the core of effective schooling.”
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
Tier
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Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will employ individuals who organize the
professional learning opportunities provided throughout the
District. Some of the Professional Learning opportunities will
support teachers and administrators using the teacher
evaluation tools which will support the growth of student
engagement in the classroom.
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Academic Rigor
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor that students’ foundations of content are being built by Developme
engaging them in the thinking process to deepen their overall
nt
content knowledge through LearningWalks, Classroom
Observations, and through the teacher evaluation process to
ensure that there is academic rigor in the classroom.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Accountable Talk
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators will
Curriculum Tier 1
monitor the application of Accountable Talk moves which have Developme
been developed through teacher training provided by the
nt
Institute for Learning (IFL). Accountable Talk will develop
students’ abilities to socialize their intelligence as well as
increase student engagement by encouraging open discussion
and inquiry-based reasoning opportunities.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Quality Questioning
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will implement quality questioning in the classroom Curriculum
to increase both student engagement and to support a deeper Developme
understanding of the content being taught.
nt
Schools:All Schools
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Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
School
Reform
Facilitators
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
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Activity - Monitoring
Activity
Type
Tier
District Staff in conjunction with building administrators,
Walkthroug Tier 1
Curriculum Supervisors, and DL Coaches will monitor the level h
of use and effectiveness of student engagement in the
classrooms through LearningWalks, Classroom Observations,
and through the teacher evaluation process.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Monitor
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Technology
Activity
Type
Tier
The District will support the use of technology across the
Technology Tier 1
district. Technology will be used in a variety of ways to support
student learning objectives. Students will engage with
technology as a means to demonstrate their learning.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Clear Expectations
Activity
Type
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, School
Reform
Facilitators,
Instructiona
l
Coaches
and
Building
Administrat
ors
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding District
Required
Technology
Department
(MIS),
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
,
Instructiona
l
Technology
Specialist,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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The District will ensure that teachers are setting clear
Direct
expectations in the classroom through the implementation of
Instruction
the evaluation tools used across the District. Classroom
teachers will clearly communicate (oral and written formats) the
purpose for learning as it connects to the curriculum framework
and standards in a language that is student-friendly. Students
will be more actively engaged in their learning when they have
a clear understanding of what the purpose is.
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
No Funding Divisional
Required
Executive
Directors,
Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/02/2015 $0
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Claim Evidence and Reasoning (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will increase student engagement through the use of
Developme
clam, evidence and reasoning. While reading complex text,
nt
staff will have students respond (orally and written) to a topic
which will demand them to use textual evidence to support their
overall claim.
Resource
Assigned
Schools:Westwood Middle School, Grand Rapids Montessori
Public School, Ottawa Hills High School, Alger Middle School,
City Middle/High School, Burton Middle School, Riverside
Middle School, Union High School, Innovation Central High
School, Center for Economicology
Activity - Non-Linguistic Representation (Middle/High)
Activity
Type
Tier
The District Curriculum Supervisors will create units/lessons
Curriculum Tier 1
which will incorporate the use of non-linguistic representational Developme
tools such as Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to enable nt
students to organize their thinking in a way that will allow them
to be more deeply engaged with the content.
Schools:Alger Middle School, Westwood Middle School, Grand
Rapids Montessori Public School, Ottawa Hills High School,
City Middle/High School, Southeast Career Pathways, Burton
Middle School, Riverside Middle School, Union High School,
Innovation Central High School, Center for Economicology
Resource
Assigned
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Deputy
Required
Superinten
dent,
District
Curriculum
Supervisors
, Building
Administrat
ors and
Teachers
Measurable Objective 22:
30% of Eleventh grade Hispanic or Latino students will demonstrate a proficiency in concepts in Mathematics by 06/05/2015 as measured by the State of Michigan
assessment..
(shared) Strategy 1:
Differentiated Instruction - School level staff will implement and participate in a variety of activities such as: professional learning, academic rigor, project learning,
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fluency and skill development, SIOP, data analysis, and use PLCs to enable them to differentiate instruction to meet the individualized needs of all students. The
teaching staff will develop lessons and units that have a clear structure which allows for different pathways according to student needs.
Research Cited: Beach, T.A. (2010). Combine Methodologies of Differentiated Instruction in the Heterogeneous Classroom. South Carolina Middle School Association
Journal, February 26, 2011.
"Offering each student the chance to learn the subject material in ways that address each student individually can benefit children in retaining information that will later
be necessary to become thoughtful, productive adults. Through differentiation combined with curriculum layering, teachers can create a student-centered classroom
that is supportive to each student."
Cusumano, C. (2007). How Differentiated Instruction Helps struggling Students. Leadership, 36(4), 8-10.
"Accelerating learning by examining and aligning three major systems in the school to support differentiation and a consistent focus on improved student learning the
school's academic delivery structure, professional development, and human/fiscal resource allocation."
Tier: Tier 1
Activity - Professional Learning
Activity
Type
All staff will actively participate in professional learning which
supports differentiation at their specific grade level and
program.
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Resource
Assigned
Professiona Tier 1
l Learning
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Activity
Type
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Schools:All Schools
Activity - Project Based Learning
Tier
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Resource
Assigned
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Assistant
Required
Superinten
dent of
Organizatio
nal
Learning,
Executive
Directors of
Elementary
, MS/K-8,
High
School/Alte
rnative
Schools,
Principals
and
instructiona
l staff
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsibl
e
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All staff will provide opportunities throughout the school year for Curriculum Tier 1
students to be engaged in a variety of project learning activities Developme
that support the instructional goals. These projects will be
nt
differentiated in nature and provide choice to students
regarding the type of project they will complete and will be
rigorous and challenging for all students.
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
No Funding Executive
Required
Directors of
the
Elementary
, Middle
School, K8, High
School,
Alternative
Schools,
Special
Education,
Curriculum
Specialists,
Deputy
Superinten
dent of
Curriculum
and
Learning,
building
principals
and
teachers.
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Staff
Responsibl
e
No Funding Building
Required
administrat
or and
teachers
Tier
Phase
Begin Date End Date
Source Of
Funding
Tier 1
Implement
09/02/2014 06/05/2015 $0
Schools:Alger Middle School, Ottawa Hills High School,
Blandford Nature Center, Dickinson School, CA Frost
Environmental Science Academy, Aberdeen Elementary
School, John Ball Park Zoo School, Harrison Elementar