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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: INTERNATIONAL TRANSITION CENTER           Principal: Steve Frandsen
District Strategic Priorities/Goals Rationale Action Steps
(Implementation Design)		 How will you measure growth?
Growth Factors (Baseline & Targets)
Empathy 1.B - Staff and Student Well Being

The ITC is focused on improving the overall wellbeing of our staff and students to meet the unique needs of individuals in the English language learning environment.
  1. Utilize the MTSS to decrease the percentage of students considered "chronically absent".
  2. Enhancing our Social Emotional Learning (SEL) program.
  3. Evaluate the effectiveness of our new teacher on-boarding program.
  4. Increase opportunities/access for student participation in clubs/activities.
  5. Evaluate staff recognitions.
  6. Revise Advisement lessons.

Decrease the percentage of students considered "chronically absent".

KPI Baseline: 16%

KPI Target: 12%

Increase the number of students responding positively on the Student Wellbeing Survey to the Question:

I enjoy coming to this school (75%).

KPI Baseline: 74%

KPI Target: 79%

Increase the number of staff responding positively on the Staff Wellbeing Survey to the question:

When there is a problem in my school, we talk about how to solve it (89%).

KPI Baseline: 89%

KPI Target: 92%
Equity 2.A - Multi-tiered System of Supports

The ITC follows the initiative to identify students’ individual needs and provide support specific to students who have minimal proficiency in English and have gaps in their educational background.
  1. Continue to develop the Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) team.
  2. Continue to identify and implement effective interventions.
  3. Continue to develop effective Remedial Education Program (REP) options.
  4. Implement the Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (PBIS) program.
  5. Action steps are designed with the intent and purpose to address the needs identified by our comprehensive support and improvement (CSI) status.

Continue to implement PBIS on all sites

KPI Baseline: Implementing

KPI Target: Implementing

MTSS screening participation rate: academic 

Baseline: 

Target: 95

MTSS screening participation rate: wellbeing

KPI Baseline: 

KPI Target: 95%
Equity 2.B - Opportunity and Access

The ITC provides opportunity and access to the language and content for students who have minimal proficiency in English and have gaps in their educational background
  1. Implementation of the ITC instructional framework.
  2. Development of content and language objectives for every lesson.
  3. Development of language appropriate formative and summative assessments.
  4. Professional development for teachers.
  5. Increased opportunities for parental involvement.
  6. Action steps are designed with the intent and purpose to address the needs identified by our comprehensive support and improvement (CSI) status.

1. Percent of students making at least 1 GaDOE Performance Band in each domain will increase by at least 5%. 

KPI Baseline:

Listening: 49.2%

Reading: 43.9%

Speaking: 28.1%

Writing: 59.8%

KPI Target:

Listening: 54.2%

Reading: 48.9%

Speaking: 33.1%

Writing: 64.8%
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 hold 5 Parent workshops throughout the year.
  2. We will increase the number of parents who have signed up for the Parent Portal.
  3. We will supplement the available resources to parents in the 3 ITC Parent Center.
  4. We will increase the amount of English materials available to families.

The number of parents who participate in Parent Workshops.

KPI Baseline: 76

KPI Target: 100

The number of parents who sign up for Parent Portal.

The number of books and English learning materials distributed to families.