Based on student and staff surveys, Sweetwater desires a supportive and safe environment for all staff and students.  Our focus is to create a rich culture of belonging, voice equity, and embracing diverse cultures. 

Student Well-Being

1.  Students will engage in SEL and Advisement lessons to promote self-awareness, peer-interactions, problem-solving, building positive relationships, and conflict resolution.

2.  Sweetwater students will have an opportunity to participate in leadership opportunities with our Peer Leaders and Ambassadors. 

3.  To motivate and engage students, the last Friday of the month is Patriots Exchange.  This will allow opportunities for students to build community, team, and collaboration with peers and teachers throughout grade levels. 

4.  Offer more opportunities for students to participate in clubs and leadership roles before, during, and after-school.

Staff Well- Being

5.      Teachers will receive restorative training from the county and local school representatives.

6.      Incentivize, award, recognize staff with spirit days, Monday morning check-ins, personal notes, and jean passes. 

7.      Sweetwater Advisory Committee will work with the principal on school-wide initiatives, promote buy-in, and create new opportunities to support teachers.  

1. Increase the percent of students responding positively to the following students satisfaction on EES Survey items(weighted average):

•  I enjoy coming to school. 

                   Baseline:  42% 

                   2025 Target:  52%

• • •   Most students are respectful of other at this school. 

                  Baseline:  32%   

                  2025 Target:  40%

  2.  Increase the percent of staff responding positively to following staff satisfaction on EES Survey items(weighted average): 

•  When there is a problem in my school, we talk about how to solve it. 

                   Baseline:  54.9% 

                   2025 Target:  61%

• • •   Support from the principal/supervisor leads to progress on instructional improvement( or professional growth). 

                  Baseline:  55.5%   

                  2025 Target:  62%

Based on our benchmark data and needs assessment, Sweetwater will implement an instructional framework to increase our MTSS efforts to meet the needs of students academically and socially across all classrooms.

1.  Patriots Time/ELT - dedicated 30 minutes of additional intervention support across all academics to include LLI/Wilson Reading Programs.
2.  Kid Talks- bi-weekly meetings with administrators, MTSS Team, and Teachers to identify and monitor targeted interventions and supports for students.
3.  Quarterly data talks with teachers to review district, screeners, and other benchmarks.
4.  Individualized instruction with after-school tutoring and Read 180. 
5.  Utilize AAP and other academic recovery programs to support students not receiving academic success. 

1.   On the GA Milestones Spring Administration, decrease the percentage of student scoring in the beginning level in Language Arts, Math, 8th Social Studies and Science.

2.   Decrease the number of students scoring Level 3 by at least 30 or more students on the I-Ready Screener in Language Arts and Math from Fall to Winter Administration.

To expand student exposure, engagement, and cultural relevance with varied, high quality, high impact rigorous learning opportunities. 

1. Increase the number of students who are tested and identified for Gifted.
2.  Professional Learning: ML strategies, differentiation, relevance, and real-world application. 
3.  CLT planning, with an emphasis on differentiation, enrichment, scaffolding, Project-Based Learning; providing an academically challenging environment.

1.  Increase percent of students responding positively to the following student satisfaction EES Student Survey items(weighted average):

•  Work I do in this school is useful and interesting to me. 

         Baseline:  50%   

        2025 Target:  57%

•  This school is doing a good job of preparing me to succeed in my life. 

         Baseline:  62%   

        2025 Target:  66.7% 

•   My teacher(s) help me learn by challenging me with interesting activities in class. 

        Baseline:  61%     

       2025 Target:  65.8% 

2.  Increase percent of families responding positively to the following family satisfaction EES Family Survey items(weighted average): 

•   My student is challenged with rigorous course of study at this school.   

        Baseline:  66%     

       2025 Target:  74.26% 

Sweetwater will readdress the need for actively monitoring data sets, behaviors, and standards for measuring teacher effectiveness toward student growth and school-wide improvements. 

1. Professional Development to align with our LSPI Goals
2. Peer Observations and Coaching Cycles with Admin or district support personnel
3. Data Talks- opportunities for CLT Teams to review i-Ready, District Assessments, Local School Assessments, and Milestones Benchmark to identify students with low performing academic needs and monitor targeted goals.  
4. Collaborative Learning Teams(CLTs) - planning among academic teams to align instructional and student practices with AKS to promote mastery at the proficient and distinguished levels. 

1.  Number of teachers participating in Professional learning opportunities offered at the local school. 

          1st Semester:  148     

          2nd Semester:  

Student Growth

1. Increase the number of students scoring Proficient and Distinguish on the GMAS Spring Administration.  

2.  Increase the number of students scoring Proficient and Distinguished on the District Assessments for all content areas 1st and 2nd Semester. 

Sweetwater desires to become a world-class school that teachers, staff, students, parents, and community provide a framework of skills, characteristics, and academic knowledge to flourish in today's society. 

1. Increase the number and variety of Parent Workshops offered throughout the year. 
2.  Cultural and Community Outreach opportunities to increase parent engagement.
3.  English and Civic classes for parents and students to attend.
4.  Effective communication with parents as it relates to school-wide events, academics, progress reports, restorative interventions, behaviors, and  monthly Newsletters in   varied languages. 
5.  Counselors create more opportunities to expose students and parents to College and Career activities for Middle School. 
6.  Technology Integration to enhance student learning and support parents with additional resources.  

Increase percent of students responding positively to the following student satisfaction EES Student Survey items(weighted average);

1.  I feel proud of my school. 

          Baseline:  52%   

         2025 Target:  63.1% 

Increase percent of families responding positively to the following family satisfaction EES Family Survey items(weighted average);  

   2.  This school communicates with me about my student's progress.  

        Baseline:  76%   

       2025 Target:  82.2%

  3.  Teachers in this school are dedicated to helping all students succeed.  

       Baseline:  85%   

       2025 Target:  89% 

 4.  I believe the adults in this school care about my students.  

      Baseline:  78%   

      2025 Target:  83%