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Accountability and flexibility are hallmarks of Gwinnett County Public Schools' success. Key to that success is ensuring that each school community understands the progress being made by its schools, as well as what plans will drive improvement. Each school creates a collaborative Local School Plan for Improvement (LSPI) to increase student achievement results, with targeted goals based on the four strategic priorities within the district’s Blueprint for the Future: Empathy, Equity, Effectiveness, and Excellence. All schools across the district will focus on goals 2A- Multi-tiered Systems of Support and 2B- Opportunity and Access. Additionally, schools are required to select one goal from each of the other strategic priorities. LSPI goals are dynamic, like our schools, and are updated to reflect changes that occur in schools. Multiple data points are used to determine areas needing improvement and to identify specific, measurable, annual objectives. Schools then determine how to use research-based strategies to achieve these goals, using flexibility as needed. The LSPI development process involves teachers, parents, students, and community members, so the entire school community has the opportunity to be involved in conversations about school improvement.

 

2024 - 2025 Local School Plan for Improvement (LSPI)


School: BAY CREEK MIDDLE           Principal: Jeremy Reily
District Strategic Priorities/Goals Rationale Action Steps
(Implementation Design)		 How will you measure growth?
Growth Factors (Baseline & Targets)
Equity 2.A - Multi-tiered System of Supports

Bay Creek Middle School will implement a comprehensive framework to fully operationalize a multi-tiered system of supports to address academic and non-academic student needs and remove barriers to success.
  1. Staffing an MTSS Specialist to lead a revamped MTSS team and to monitor intervention fidelity and data collection.
  2. Weekly team talks and regular Kid Talks.
  3. Commitment to implementing iReady and EES SEL screeners to at least 95% of students.
  4. Staffing a Behavior interventionist.

Average score greater than 4.25 on the AIR MTSS Fidelity of Implementation Rubric.
Equity 2.B - Opportunity and Access

Bay Creek Middle School will expand student opportunities to engage in and access high-quality, rigorous, and culturally relevant curriculum, advanced coursework and enrichment activities (e.g., the arts, gifted, STEM, CTE courses).
  1. Use the iReady universal screener for all students, including mid-year enrollees.
  2. Increase both quality and quantity portfolio use to identify non-traditional gifted abilities.
  3. Use a gifted identification team, as well as have multiple gifted teams on each grade level.

Maintain at least 25% of the school population as identified as "gifted".
Excellence 4.A - Preferred Education Destination

Be the first choice of students and families for excellent schools and the employer of choice for educators and staff to fulfill their careers. 

  • Cultivate school quality, climate, and culture that is student-centered and committed to the success of each and every child.
    • Ensure universal access to high-quality curriculum and instructional materials aligned to the GCPS Academic Knowledge and Skills (AKS).
    • Sustain teaching quality and reduce variability between schools and classrooms.
  • Promote a well-rounded education that includes a wide variety of academic, arts, and athletic programs across the K-12 continuum, including co-curricular and extra-curricular activities.
  1. Collaborative Learning Teams following Bay Creek's "20 Mile March" Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle (see attached).
  2. Instructional Lead Teacher coaching
  3. Mastery learning cycle use of formative assessment
  4. Standards-based grading
  5. Writing in the content areas
  6. Use of Quality Plus Teaching Strategies and gradual release lessons.
  7. Peer observation and micro-teaching
  • Maintain an average score on each District Assessment that is 10% higher than the county average.
  • Increase the average score on the Gwinnett Writes Assessment for 6th grade.
  • Increase in the percentage of students achieving either typical or stretch growth on iReady from August to January.
  • Increase in the percentage of students achieving proficient or distinguished on Milestones.