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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.

 

2025 - 2026 Local School Plan for Improvement (LSPI)


School: LILBURN ELEMENTARY           Principal: Mike Bender
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

Our goal is to reduce variability and increase the fidelity of High-Quality Tier 1 instruction implementation for all students, including targeted small groups, grade level curriculum, ongoing formative assessment, and progress monitoring. 
  1.  We will collaborate with district staff to provide professional learning to our IRR co-teaching teams, and we will monitor implementation of best practices.
  2. Our coaches will deliver professional learning to all teachers for Instructional Conversations, as well as other strategies that promote quality student interactions throughout the school day.
  3. Our ML teachers will receive professional learning in best practices related to promoting language acquisition for our MLL students. 
  4. We will collaborate with district staff to provide professional learning to our Alternate AKS teachers related to best practices in room set-up, scheduling, data collection, instruction, and behaviors.
  5. Our counseling team will monitor attendance on a regular basis and provide class and individual incentives for positive attendance.

Theory of Action for Student Achievement

If the CST monitors and provides guidance, support and feedback, 
 
the principal sets the expectation and provides the structures for students to engage in academic conversations throughout the school day, 
 
the APs will monitor CLTs and classroom instruction to ensure that teachers are implementing their CLT learning
 
The ICs will provide the learning needed to implement the instructional strategies across content areas
 
the teachers will provide structures for and support students as they engage in academic conversations throughout the school day
 
the students will engage in dialogue with peers and teachers throughout the school day
 
student outcome- students will be more active in their own learning while engaging in meaningful conversations with peers and teachers, resulting in higher levels of English language acquisition, greater confidence in the classroom, and higher levels of academic performance. 

GMAS % Beginning Math

  Baseline % Target %
3rd 28 25
4th 19 18
5th 27 24

 

GMAS % Beginning ELA

  Baseline % Target %
3rd 51 45
4th 33 30
5th 20 17

 

Reduce Percentage of Chronically Absent Students

Baseline: 17%

Goal: 15%
Equity 2.B - Opportunity and Access

We strive to increase student opportunities to engage in and access high-quality, rigorous, and culturally relevant curriculum and enrichment activities.

 

Increase students’ 
opportunities to learn and 
achieve by consistently 
implementing a high-quality 
curriculum that reflects grade?level 
expectations, focusing on early 
literacy and science of reading.
  1.  We will maintain two Play2Learn classes to meet the demand for the program.
  2. We will continue to implement and refine our Joyful Learning expectations so that all students have the opportunity to engage in activities that encourage communication with peers and critical thinking.
  3. We will prioritize the use of non-exclusionary consequences to address student behavior concerns. 
  4. Our newcomers to the United States will receive social-emotional supports that are specific to their needs from our counseling team on a regular basis. 
  5. We will continue to offer and enhance enrichment activities that address the wants and needs of our students.
  6. We will continue providing ongoing professional learning to teachers to help support their implementation of EL Education and the science of reading.
  7. Our EIP work will focus exclusively on early literacy.
  8. 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.

 

Number of Students with Exclusionary Consequences
Baseline: 14
Goal: 10

Percentage of Students Scoring Grade Level or Above on GMAS Reading

                    Baseline          Target
3rd               42                     45
4th               48                     51
5th               60                     62
Family Engagement/Building Parent Capacity -

We will build our parents' capacity to support their children's academic achievement by implementing the activities identified in The Plan/The Promise.
  1. We will provide an opportunity for our community to give feedback related to the types of programming they would like offered through our Family Center.
  2. We will continue to offer a variety of programming to our community through our Family Center.
  3. We will offer academic enrichment nights for families, including Math Night, Literacy Night, and STEM Night.
  4. We will provide families with the opportunity to volunteer at our school through the Family Center. 
  5. We will ensure that all new families are familiar with the services our Family Center provides. 
  6. We will staff the Family Center with a Title I and Title III Liaison. 

English Classes for Adults
Baseline: 2
Goal: 3, with differentiated levels

Evening Family Events
Baseline: 3
Goal: 3 (Math, STEM, Literacy)