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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: LANIER HIGH           Principal: Christopher Martin
District Strategic Priorities/Goals Rationale Action Steps
(Implementation Design)		 How will you measure growth?
Growth Factors (Baseline & Targets)
Empathy 1.A - Cultural Competence

Lanier High School is a diverse community.  Enhancing engagement and educating our staff and students is critical as we seek to increase our cultural competence.

Lanier High School will:

  1. use survey data (Lanier-generated ML survey questions) as a baseline for professional development needs and teacher growth.
  2. will incorporate professional development into planning period meetings, focusing on strategies to support instruction for our multilingual learners. 
  3. will teach advisement lessons to students structured to bring about cultural awareness.

  

 

 

Lanier will use the responses from the multilingual staff survey to guide instruction.  The survey will be administered a second time in the spring to evaluate changes in responses.

Additionally,  growth will be measured by the percent of students responding positively to the following cultural proficiency EES Student Survey item.

I am comfortable interacting with people from a different racial or ethnic background.

Baseline:  88%

Goal:  90%

 

 

 

 
Equity 2.A - Multi-tiered System of Supports

Lanier High School will implement a comprehensive framework to fully operationalize MTSS to address both academic and non-academic needs of students.
  1. Longhorn Time will incorporate intervention programs with 9th-grade students identified as needing academic support (MAP testing results) and students in grades 10-12 who have academic deficiencies as demonstrated on district and classroom assessments. 
  2. Through PBIS, the school will implement restorative practices to incentivize positive behavior and decrease the number of student suspension incidents.
  3. The four core departments (LA, MA, SC, SS) will administer formative assessments. Course teams that teach end-of-course classes will use the student data to drive instructional practices, feedback, and reteaching.
  4. Classroom teachers will incorporate quality plus teaching strategies into daily lessons to enhance our core belief of activating, acquiring, and assessing.

 

Data will measure growth to support an increase in the % of students scoring in the Proficient and Distinguished on the EOC assessments.

Language Arts- 11th Amer. Lit.

Baseline:  55%

Goal: 60%

Math-Algebra I

Baseline:  48%

Goal:  53%

Science- Biology

Baseline:  60.8%

Goal:  65.8%

Social Studies- U.S. History

  Baseline:  50.9%

  Goal:  55.9%

Additionally, through PBIS practices, Lanier will reduce the number of OSS incidents by use of PBIS interventions.

Baseline: 96 OSS Incidents

 Goal: 91
Equity 2.B - Opportunity and Access

 Lanier High School teachers will provide opportunities for students to learn by implementing high-quality instruction focusing on pathway completion and advanced post-secondary coursework.

  1. The Counseling Department will host student/parent informational sessions to continue highlighting opportunities for students to enroll in Advanced Placement and Maxwell High School of Technology.  
  2. The Counseling Department will host the annual Lanier Cluster College and Career: Student and Parent Event.  
  3. The Counseling Department will host FAFSA night for seniors and their parents to assist with applying for financial aid.  
  4. Our Academy coordinator will schedule academy presentations and guest speakers career related events, and activities

 
  • AP Students with 3+ Score and earning college credit
    •   Baseline: 83
    •   Goal: 85
Excellence 4.B - Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness

Lanier High School will prepare each student for postsecondary and/or workforce readiness so that they have multiple pathways to success beyond high school.

1.  Expose students to postsecondary options and workforce readiness:

  • Work-based learning coursework and internships
  • Military recruiters on campus during lunch
  • University recruiters during Longhorn Time and lunch
  • Multinational technology company visits (Google, Microsoft)

2.  Continuously monitor student cohorts to ensure off-track students participate in credit recovery and/or retake classes as needed.

 

Work-based Learning Data

Baseline:  77 students

Goal:  80 students

 

Graduation Rate

Baseline: 95%

Goal: 96%