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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: MULBERRY ELEMENTARY           Principal: Mandy Yearby
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

Mulberry Elementary 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. Universal Screeners in Language Arts and Mathematics, administered three times per year.
  2. Targeted Tier 1, 2, and 3 interventions developed by the MTSS Team, based on screener data.
  3. Dedicated 45 minute intervention/enrichment block for each student.
  4. Weekly Collaborative Learning Team meetings to review content, ensure alignment, reduce variability, and collaborate with colleagues.
  5. Counselor lessons and small groups based on student need indicated through student, parent, teacher request and Wellness Screener data.
  6. Intentional behavioral support (student small groups, teacher coaching, etc.)  from local Behavior Interventionist
  • On the iReady Diagnostic Assessment, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, the percentage of students performing at the Tier 1 level will increase, while the percentage of students performing at the Tier 2 and 3 levels will decrease in the areas of reading and math.
  • The percentage of students in grades 3, 4, and 5 scoring at the proficient or distinguished levels on the English Language Arts and Mathematics Georgia Milestones Assessment will increase from the 2023-2024 administration.
Equity 2.B - Opportunity and Access

Mulberry Elementary will expand student opportunities to engage in and have access to high quality, rigorous, and culturally relevant curriculum and enrichment activities.
  1. Play2Learn opportunities for  families with children from birth to 5 years old
  2. Gifted identified students, K-5, will participate in daily FOCUS resource classes for 45 minutes
  3. After school program available to all families by way of the YMCA
  4. Increase of student requested careers highlighted at the Career Fair
  • The percent of students identified as gifted will increase from 13%.
  • Student responses in agreement on identified questions from the Student Engagement Survey will show an increase from the 23-24 administration.
Effectiveness 3.A - Results-Based Evaluation System

Mulberry Elementary will implement the redesigned Results Based Evaluation System (RBES) by redefining the inputs, behaviors, and outcomes that determine the standards for student success.
  1. Focused weekly instructional walkthroughs
  2. Review of GTES (teacher evaluation) feedback to ensure leader alignment
  3. Coaching cycles for all new GCPS teachers
  4. Celebration of teaches based on meeting and exceeding of instructional expectations
  5. Implementation of tiered interventions based on the Multi-Tiered System of Supports
  6. Collaborative Learning Team to include assessment protocol, work sample protocols, data review/talks, AKS analysis, and explicit modeling of ELA/Math strategies
  • On the iReady Diagnostic Assessment, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, the percentage of students performing at the Tier 1 level will increase, while the percentage of students performing at the Tier 2 and 3 levels will decrease in the areas of reading and math.
  • The percentage of students in grades 3, 4, and 5 scoring at the proficient or distinguished levels on the English Language Arts and Mathematics Georgia Milestones Assessment will increase from the 2023-2024 administration.