How will you measure growth? Growth Factors (Baseline & Targets)
Empathy 1.B - Staff and Student Well Being
Benefield 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.
Utilize EES Survey and Wellness Screener data to provide student supports.
Provide SEL & PBIS professional development for staff.
Provide PBIS Incentives for Students and Teachers.
Provide daily Tier I SEL/PBIS classroom lessons.
Utilize PBIS Behavior Teacher to support students and staff.
Establish a local school mentoring program in collaboration with Discovery High School.
Indicator
SY 2025 Baseline
SY 2026 Target
Student EES Survey Item: I feel safe at this school.
41% positive
60% positive
Student EES Survey Item: I enjoy coming to school.
28% positive
60% positive
Staff EES Survey Item: I receive training on instruction to support social emotional learning.
81% positive
90% positive
Equity 2.A - Multi-tiered System of Supports
Benefield Elementary School 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.
Utilize universal screener data to identify areas of need and giftedness.
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.
Provide 30 minutes of Academic Interventions (Titan Time) for all students.
Implement a Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) plan school-wide to promote positive behaviors.
Provide students access to speakers and in-house field trips to enhance student learning.
Indicator
SY 2025 -2026 Baseline
SY 2025 - 2026 Target
i-Ready Math
95% completion
95% completion
i-Ready Reading
95% completion
95% completion
PBIS School Status
Operational
Distinguished
Equity 2.A - Multi-tiered System of Supports
Benefield ES will implement a comprehensive school-wide attendance plan by establishing an attendance team, tracking daily attendance data, identifying students at risk of chronic absenteeism (number of students absent 10% or more of enrolled days), and using targeted interventions and family engagement strategies to improve student attendance and promote a culture of showing up every day.
Establish a team to lead the work in reviewing and monitoring attendance data.
Monitor attendance trends and identify students with chronic absenteeism.
Identify personnel to make daily contact with the families of absent students.
Coordinate tiered interventions for chronically absent students.
Implement positive reinforcement strategies to encourage regular attendance.
Benefield will reduce chronic absenteeism to from 18% to 15% or lower, ensuring more students are in class, ready to learn, and able to reach their full academic potential.
Indicator
SY 2025 -2026 Baseline
SY 2025 - 2026 Target
Chronic Absenteeism
18%
15% or lower
Equity 2.B - Opportunity and Access
Benefield ES we will expand student opportunities to engage in and have access to high-quality, rigorous, and culturally relevant curriculum and instruction.
Utilize formative data to refine small group strategies and to identify students for small group instruction.
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
Provide additional learning opportunities for English language development for multilingual students.
Provide access and opportunities for students to participate in extended learning.
Provide opportunities for student collaboration in an outdoor learning classroom focused on AKS-driven tasks, inquiry, exploration, and hands-on learning.
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
Family Engagement/Building Parent Capacity -
Benefield ES will build our parents' capacity to support their children's academic achievement by implementing the activities identified in The Plan/The Promise.
Benefield ES 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.
Build parent capacity through monthly parent workshops with a focus on supportive community and academic press.
Implement clear, consistent two-way communication from school to home in multiple languages.
Conduct monthly Coffee and Conversations with the Principal to give stakeholders a voice in what matters most to them.
Indicator
SY 2024 Baseline
SY 2025 Target Data
Family EES Survey Item: Additional help is available to my student if they need it.
82%
90%
Family EES Survey Item: There is a high level of community support for this school.
79%
86%
Family EES Survey Item: I am informed about progress toward the improvement goals of this school.
80%
87%
Family Engagement/Building Parent Capacity -
Benefield ES will build our parents' capacity to support their children's academic achievement by implementing the activities identified in The Plan/The Promise.
Benefield ES 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.
Build parent capacity through monthly parent workshops with a focus on supportive community and academic press.
Implement clear, consistent two-way communication from school to home in multiple languages.
Conduct monthly conversations with the principal to give stakeholders a voice in what matters most to them.
Indicator
SY 2024 Baseline
SY 2025 Target Data
Family EES Survey Item: Additional help is available to my student if they need it.