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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: BROOKWOOD HIGH           Principal: Brett Savage

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

Brookwood High School is committed to creating and sustaining an environment that prioritizes the well-being of students and staff.

  1. Student well-being

    Students will have daily contact with an advisor including weekly lessons to include SEL, school connection opportunities, advisement lessons, and other lessons to support behavior and belonging.

    Students are given input into to plan for advisement and take leadership roles for 9th-grade students through the MERGE program.

     Support for student academics and social well-being during guided study and intervention support opportunities. 

    Continued implementation of PBIS/Upstander Program

     

  2. Teacher well-being

    We will maintain and strengthen our teacher recognition structure.  This includes our school-wide ABCD awards, our Excellence in Instruction, Excellence in Collaboration, & Excellence in Relationships teacher recognitions.

    We will offer teacher leadership development opportunities such as participation in Teachers as Leaders, Bronco Instructional Team leadership, Instructional Leadership Corps leadership, etc.

We will increase by 5%  (from 77% to 82%) the number of students responding positively to the following EES Student Survey item:

There’s at least one adult who knows and cares about me.

 

Brookwood High School will have a  95% retention rate of staff, not including individuals retiring from the profession.

Equity 2.A - Multi-tiered System of Supports

Brookwood High School will maintain and improve our Multi-tiered system of support.  We aim to implement a comprehensive framework to fully support each student by addressing academic and non-academic student needs and removing barriers to this success.

 

  1. Maintain and implement guided study intervention to include Algebra I,  Geometry, Algebra II, Pre-calculus, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. 
  2. Add credit recovery support that specifically meets the needs of our students served in the special education and ESOL programs.

We will increase by 3% the number of students scoring Proficient/Distinguished on all Milestones.

 

2023-2024 Baseline Data

           

  Subject

Percent of Proficient/Distinguished Learners from Spring 2023

American Literature

61.3%

Algebra I

n/a

Biology

64.3%

US History

59.1%
Equity 2.B - Opportunity and Access

Brookwood High School believes that all students should be afforded the opportunity and access to high-quality, rigorous, advanced coursework (e.g. Advanced Placement and dual enrollment), and enrichment activities.  We believe that students who are highly engaged and challenged will have greater levels of success academically and behaviorally.

  1. We will continue to offer and encourage participation from all demographics of students in AP and dual enrollment course opportunities.

  2. We will maintain the Opt-in/Waiver process to ensure all students can access honors and AP coursework.

  3. We will continue BELT team planning to identify and address needs about access issues.

  4. We will continue and grow Junior BELT to include student voices in access issues/opportunities.

  5. We will strengthen and improve PBIS delivery and implementation.

  6. We will continue to provide access to the over100 clubs/activities plus full varsity and sub-varsity athletic programs.

  7.        We will begin implementation of Principal's Student Advisory Committee to increase direct impact of student voice.

We will maintain or increase (71.5% in the 2023-2024 school year) the percentage of seniors who complete an AP or Dual Enrollment course during their high school career.

Effectiveness 3.A - Results-Based Evaluation System

We believe that continual improvement and growth are a cornerstone of an effective school.  Our teachers should use data to inform and measure student outcomes to improve and tailor instruction.

  1. We will ensure that teachers' professional learning goals align with improved student achievement.

  2. We will continue to develop our Targeted Intervention Program.

  3. Our staff's professional learning for this school year will center on growing and improving teacher collaboration and alignment.

  4.        We will move toward full implementation of our instructional framework, the Gradual Release of Responsibility Framework, in which we trained last school year.

To positively affect our graduation rate and to pursue instructional excellence, Brookwood High School will increase the percentage of students passing core classes (Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Foreign Language).

 

Baseline Data:  For the 2024-2025 school year, the pass rates of core classes at Brookwood High School for each semester, are in attached.  

 

 

 

 

Excellence 4.A - Preferred Education Destination

Brookwood High School will be the preferred education destination in the state of Georgia and Gwinnett County.

Our cluster will be the first choice of students and families for excellent schools and the employer of choice for educators and staff to fulfill their careers.

  1. We will utilize Cohort Analyzer to provide specific feedback and support for student needs.  Our counseling team will continue to utilize and improve their Data Talk Template to specifically track and support students toward on-time promotion and graduation.

  2. We will monitor and improve strong instructional programming (AP, Dual Enrollment, CTE, Entrepreneurship, Fine Arts, etc.) to ensure students have a variety of options regarding rigorous and preparatory classes.

  3. We will maintain and support athletic and academic teams, along with clubs and activities, to ensure the needs of the whole learner are met.

  4. We will provide multiple opportunities for parents to connect with the school and teachers including, but not limited to:  PTA, Local School Council, Brookwood Schools Foundation, 9th grade parent night, 10th grade parent night, 11th grade parent night, 12th grade parent night, curriculum night, and college futures night.

We will increase the percentage of the 9th-grade cohort that graduates in four years from approximately ____% to 96% as reported on the four-year Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate.  We will work specifically to improve the graduation rate of students served in the special education and ESOL programs. (Special Education ____% to 85%; ESOL 73.08% to 80%).  These previous year's data will be finalized in late August 2024.