Ferguson Elementary will promote student and staff wellbeing by focusing on social and emotional learning (SEL), promoting self-care activities and prioritizing mental and physical health.

1. Utilize EES Survey and Wellness Screener data to provide student supports.
2. Provide SEL & PBIS professional development for staff.
3. Provide PBIS Incentives for Students and Teachers.
4. Provide daily Tier I SEL/PBIS classroom lessons.
5. Utilize PBIS Behavior Teacher to support students and staff. 
6. Establish a local school mentoring program in collaboration with McClure Health Science High School. 

Ferguson ES will implement and fully integrate non-academic Tier 1 structures and processes to implement a schoolwide attendance campaign to improve reduce chronic absenteeism, ensuring more students are in class, ready to learn, and able to reach their full academic potential.

1. Establish a team to lead the work in reviewing and monitoring attendance data.
2. Monitor attendance trends and identify students with chronic absenteeism.
3. Identify personnel to make daily contact with the families of absent students.
4. Coordinate tiered interventions for chronically absent students.
5. Implement positive reinforcement strategies to encourage regular attendance.
6. Provide workshops and learning opportunities for families to learn about the importance of school attendance.

Ferguson will reduce chronic absenteeism from 14% to 13.8% or lower, ensuring more students are in class, ready to learn, and able to reach their full academic potential.

Ferguson ES 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. Utilize universal screener data to identify areas of need and giftedness.
2. 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 assessments, and progress monitoring. 
3. Provide 45 - 50 minutes of Academic Interventions (Mustang Time) for all students.
4. Implement a Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) plan school-wide to promote positive behaviors.

At Ferguson Elementary, we will expand student opportunities to engage in and have access to high-quality, rigorous, and culturally relevant curriculum and instruction. 

1. Utilize formative data to refine small group strategies and to identify students for small group instruction.
2. Increase opportunities to learn through consistently implementing a high-quality curriculum that reflects grade-level expectations, focusing on early literacy and the science of reading, and identifying subjects and grades to target for improvement
3. Provide additional learning opportunities for English language development for multilingual students.
4. Provide access and opportunities for students to participate in extended learning.
5. Provide opportunities for student collaboration in an outdoor learning classroom focused on AKS-driven tasks, inquiry, exploration, and hands-on learning.
6. Teachers will be provided with ongoing opportunities to participate in highly effective, job-embedded professional learning designed to strengthen instructional practices, enhance content knowledge, and support differentiated instruction to meet the diverse needs of all learners

We will build our parents' capacity to support their children's academic achievement by implementing the activities identified in The Plan/The Promise.

1. Ferguson Elementary will create welcoming and inclusive spaces that foster meaningful family involvement and engagement, recognizing families as essential partners in supporting student success and promoting a strong school-community connection.
2. Build parent capacity through monthly parent workshops with a focus on supportive community and academic press.
3. Implement clear, consistent two-way communication from school to home in multiple languages.
4. Conduct monthly Coffee and Conversations with the Principal to give stakeholders a voice in what matters most to them.