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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: HARMONY ELEMENTARY           Principal: Jonathan Day
District Strategic Priorities/Goals Rationale Action Steps
(Implementation Design)		 How will you measure growth?
Growth Factors (Baseline & Targets)
Empathy 1.B - Staff and Student Well Being

Harmony believes it is important to provide students opportunities to elevate their voices in designing their school experience.  
  1. Empower Harmony's student council to give students a platform to share their ideas and concerns.
  2. Involve students in decision-making processes, especially those that directly affect them. 
  3. Encourage and support initiatives and projects proposed and led by students. 
  4. Strengthen the bridge between PBIS and Character Strong.

EES student surveys 

  • I enjoy coming to this school.  
    • Baseline: 90%
    • Goal: 95%
  • Students are involved in solving problems in this school
    • Baseline: 90%
    • Goal: 95%
  • Setbacks don't discourage me.
    • Baseline: 86%
    • Goal: 92%
  • Work I do in this school is useful and interesting to me.
    • Baseline: 84%
    • Goal: 90%
  • My teacher tells me about the purpose for each lesson or activity.  
    • Baseline: 73%
    • Goal: 80%
Equity 2.A - Multi-tiered System of Supports

Harmony Elementary desires to create conditions under which every child receives what they need to develop their full academic and social potential.  
  1. Implement the MCPP at Harmony:
    • Designate one staff member to receive training at the Instructor Level (Level 5)
    • Instructor will train Harmony's Crisis Prevention Team 
    • Train additional selected staff members 
  2. Meetings to support MTSS Program:
    • School level meetings three times a year after the iReady screener 
    • Tier II Data Talks held twice a month during grade level planning
    • Student Support Team Tier III meetings held weekly on Thursdays
    • Review iReady data at least twice a year to identify students for gifted screening
  3. PBIS & SEL Action Teams: Harmony was recognized as a Distinguished PBIS school.  To keep this distinguished status, all staff will be on one the following PBIS & SEL action team that meets monthly:
    • Tier 1 PBIS
    • Tier 2 PBIS
    • Student SEL
    • Family Engagement
    • Staff Wellness
  4. Dedicated Enrichment & Intervention Block: JAG time will be a 30 minute block built into each day.

PBIS Recognition Level

  • Baseline: Distinguished
  • Goal: Distinguished

Decrease the percentage of students that scored at the beginning level of Milestones: 

3rd Grade ELA

  • Baseline: 23%
  • Goal: 15%

3rd Grade Math

  • Baseline: 7%
  • Goal: 5%

4th Grade ELA

  • Baseline: 16%
  • Goal: 14%

4th Grade Math

  • Baseline: 9%
  • Goal: 6%

5th Grade ELA

  • Baseline: 14%
  • Goal: 12%

5th Grade Math

  • Baseline: 11%
  • Goal: 8%

5th Grade Science

  • Baseline: 17%
  • Goal: 15%

Increase the percentage of students who are identified as gifted

  • Baseline: 19%
  • Goal: 21%
Equity 2.B - Opportunity and Access

Harmony Elementary will expand opportunities so that all students will have the opportunity to engage in and have access to high quality, rigorous, and culturally relevant curriculum and enrichment activities.  
  1. Collaborative Learning Team Meetings: Teachers will meet twice a week to review formative and summative assessment data, plan purposeful small group instruction, and identify student misconceptions.   
  2. Review and revise literacy and math instructional frameworks as a Harmony Leadership Team.
  3. Review and revise grading procedures to ensure alignment between grade levels.  
  4. Utilize peer observations, classroom walkthroughs and feedback (informal and formal) to enhance and monitor Tier 1 instruction.
  5. ML students receive direct support from ESOL certified classroom teachers and ESOL teachers daily as well as receive specific interventions to grow their English proficiency.

Percentage of Students Reading At or Above Grade Level: 

3rd Grade

  • Baseline: 79.6%
  • Goal: 82%

4th Grade

  • Baseline: 80.8%
  • Goal: 83%

5th Grade

  • Baseline: 84.5%
  • Goal: 87%

ML English Proficiency Progress:

  • Baseline: 95.4
  • Goal: 100.0

 
Effectiveness 3.A - Results-Based Evaluation System

Harmony Elementary will implement the Results Based Evaluation System to include both academic press and supportive community.
  1. Instructional Coaching: Coaches will provide individual coaching cycles on EL implementation for new staff.  Mini and full coaching cycles will be provided for veteran teachers.
  2. Analyze and disaggregate iReady and district assessment data to determine the next steps for planning and instruction.
  3. Continue EL implementation with a focus on improving the rigor of small group tasks in skills and all block.
  4. Targeted interventions for students at Tier 1, 1+, 2, and 3.
  5. Review of GTES (teacher evaluation feedback to ensure leader alignment.  

Milestones Proficiency Rate (% Proficient/Distinguished)

ELA 3rd grade

  • Baseline: 60.2%
  • Goal: 63%

Math 3rd grade

  • Baseline: 71%
  • Goal: 74%

ELA 4th grade

  • Baseline: 54.5%
  • Goal: 58%

Math 4th grade

  • Baseline: 69%
  • Goal: 72%

ELA 5th grade

  • Baseline: 69.1%
  • Goal: 72%

Math 5th grade

  • Baseline: 68%
  • Goal: 71%

Science 5th grade

  • Baseline: 68.2%
  • Goal: 71%

Milestone Performance Index (Developing/Proficient/Distinguished)

ELA grades 3-5

  • Baseline: 85.9
  • Goal: 89

Math grades 3-5

  • Baseline: 91
  • Goal: 94

Science grade 5

  • Baseline: 92.7
  • Goal: 95

iReady Growth: % Meeting Typical Growth

ELA grades 1-5

  • Goal: 55%

Math grades 1-5

  • Goal: 55%

iReady Growth: % Meeting Stretch Target

ELA grades 1-5

  • Goal: 35%

Math grades 1-5

  • Goal: 35%