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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: NORTH GWINNETT HIGH           Principal: Nathan Ballantine

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

NGHS 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. Create Bulldog Time (27 minute period) in our school day, 5-days/week for students to get extra assistance, intervention, and enrichment.
  2. Implement a credit recovery plan for students to earn missed credits, specifically in LA and MA.   These plans will happen during Advisement/Bulldog Time and will impact all core subjects.
  3. We will offer high-quality Tier-1 instruction for all students that includes targeted small groups, grade-level curriculum, ongoing formative assessments, and progress monitoring.
  4. Create REP classes in math and LA to support at-risk students. (2-9th LA, 3-10th LA, 1-11th LA; 2-ALG I, 2-GEOM, 2-Stat Reasoning, 2-Advanced Alg)
  5. Administer MAP testing to all 9th/10th grade students.
  6. Create peer-observation schedule for teachers new to North and new to profession.
  7. Continue to implement our PBIS program.
  1. Create Bulldog Time (27 minute period) in our school day, 5-days/week for students to get extra assistance, intervention, and enrichment.
    1. Monitor student success rates in general. 
    2. Monitor number of students who are requested to attend a BT session.
  2. Implement a credit recovery plan for students to earn missed credits, specifically in LA and MA.   These plans will happen during Advisement/Bulldog Time and will impact all core subjects.
    1. Number of students enrolled in LA and MA credit recovery.
    2. GOAL:  All students in credit recovery will successfully recover credit.
  3. We will offer high-quality Tier-1 instruction for all students that includes targeted small groups, grade-level curriculum, ongoing formative assessments, and progress monitoring.
    1. Course team conversations, number of students referred for Bulldog Time, and observation data
  4. Create REP classes in math and LA to support at-risk students. (2-9th LA, 3-10th LA, 1-11th LA; 2-ALG I, 2-GEOM, 2-Stat Reasoning, 2-Advanced Alg.)
    1. Monitor progress and success rates of students in these REP classes.
  5. Administer MAP testing to all 9th/10th grade students.
    1. Participation rate of >95%.
  6. Create peer-observation schedule for teachers new to North and new to profession.
    1. Meeting agendas and observation schedules.
  7. Continue to implement our PBIS program.
    1. Review discipline and referral numbers. 
Equity 2.B - Opportunity and Access

NGHS will expand student opportunities to engage in and have access to high quality, rigorous, and culturally relevant curriculum, advanced coursework (e.g., AP and dual enrollment), and enrichment activities (e.g., the arts, gifted, STEM, career technical education).

 

  1. Continue to implement our PBIS school-wide plan.
  2. Offer professional development to our teachers around classroom management best practices and our Instructional Framework.
  3. Create student specific Advisement classes based on behavior and other at-risk behavior data.
  4. All content teachers will receive WIDA ML District training.
  5. Continued implementation of Standards-Based Grading practices and processes. 

 

  1. Continue to implement our PBIS school-wide plan.
    1. Monitor number of referrals/incidents referred to administrators.
    2. Monitor number of students who are not requested for BT.
  2. Offer professional development to our teachers around classroom management best practices and our Instructional Framework.
    1. Monitor department agendas for Professional Learning.
    2. Monitor/look-fors inside of classroom oberservations.
  3. Create student specific Advisement classes based on behavior and other at-risk behavior data.
    1. Monitor the behavior/grades/attendance of these students.
  4. All content teachers will receive WIDA ML District training.
    1. Monitor completion rates.
  5. Continued implementation of Standards-Based Grading practices and processes. 
    1. Weekly conversation in admin meeting.
    2. Weekly agenda item in course team meetings.
    3. Increase collaboration with cluster schools.