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Reading EL (Davis District)

School LAND Trust Program

Person responsible for implementing the plan:
Name:	VAN NATTER, HELENE	District:	Davis
Email:	hvannatter@dsdmail.net	School:	Reading EL
Position:	principal

Academic Plan 2007-2008

1. Have you shown the video Using the Trust to the Council?

yes

2. Duration of the plan: (Plan proposal must be submitted each year)

Single Year

3. School's identified most critical need(s) addressed in this plan:
Please check only the primary area(s). Improvement in some academic areas may improve all other academic areas but if the goal is to improve reading (or technology), only check that area.

• Health
• Writing
• Mathematics

4. Briefly describe the school plan.

4. a What you will do and how the money will be spent to improve student academic performance (be specific).

We will be saving approximately $6000 to help refresh our K-1 lab in 2011. This is a lab above the number our district supports in an elementary school. Our K-1 lab is used primarily for our SUCCESSMAKER software which directly supports our mathematics and writing goals. In addition to providing grade-level writing opportunities, field trips provide application for grade level math concepts, including time/distance/money (measurement goal). We will use $3,000 to help with bus costs incurred in core-related field trips: Kindergarten: Hoogle Zoo - use words to describe distance, represent quantities using concrete objects, and simple graphs, animals in the local environment, observe, describe and compare animals, describe how animals care for their young, distinguish between real and make-believe animals. First Grade: Farm - . RDT: use a calendar, express and appreciate art. Treehouse Museum - collect/organize simple data, literature, fairy tales. Second Grade: Hill Air Force Base and Waste Management Plant - length, telling time, relate goods and services to resources within the community. Centerville Community - estimate/measure length, tell time, goods and services, resources within community. Third Grade: Children's Theater - compare length, weight, capacity, determine duration of time, describe/compare attributes, express/appreciate art, music performing, viewing media with purpose. Aquarium - describe two/three dimensional objects, earth/moon tides, living/nonliving organisms. Fourth Grade: Red Butte Gardens - determine perimeters, attributes of two-dimensional shapes, classifications. UT Museum of Natural History - symmetry, study of fossils. This is the Place State Park - grids/maps, Utah history, pioneer life. Fifth Grade: Utah Symphony - real-world problems involving measurement, time, money, express and appreciate art, listening. Timpanogos Caves - distance, changing earth. Church Museum of Art and History - recognize measurements are approximations, westward expansion. Sixth Grade: Hansen Planetarium - explore the relationship between radius and diameter, appearance/phases of the moon, effects of Earth's tilt, attributes of objects in solar system. Ballet/Opera Company - geometric shapes, changing scale influences appearances, analyze/describe, evaluate art's significance, Teachers have requested elbow cameras, digital video camera, two additional projectors, and speakers for our labs. These tools will aid them in classroom and lab instruction. Two of our grade levels have requested videos, listening station materials, and news magazines to support writing instruction. Our Media Specialist was given $1000 to purchase books and AV materials which will support health, writing, and math goals.

4. b Your committee's specific goals for student improvement.

Health: We will maintain the Platinum Level in the Gold Medal Schools Program. Writing: We will improve language arts skills in the area of revising and editing student writing, with a particular emphasis on students not yet achieving mastery. Mathematics: We will improve student math skills in the area of measurement, with a particular emphasis on students not yet achieving mastery.

4. c How your committee will measure or assess academic improvement.

Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS), 1-3 Stanford Diagnostic Reading Test (SDRT), State Criterion Referenced Tests (CRTs), Direct Writing Assessment.

4. d How your committee intends to spend additional funds for academic improvement if the school receives more money than estimated in the financial proposal of this school plan.

If we received additional funding, our first priority would be to purchase furniture for our new labs, second priority would be to allocate additional money for technology, next priority would be funding for our Media Center.

5. How does this plan relate to the school improvement/strategic plan?

The Trust Lands Plan and School Improvement Plan are created together as one plan. Trust Lands is part of the School Improvement Plan.

Financial Report:

Carry in from 2006 - 2007	$4531
ESTIMATED Distributed To School 2007 - 2008	$24600
ESTIMATED Total Available Funds 2007 - 2008	$29,131
Salaries and Employee Benefits	$0
Professional Development/Technical Services	$0
Repairs and Maintenance	$0
Travel / Admissions / Printing	$3000
General Supplies	$2000
Textbooks	$0
Library Books / Periodicals / Audiovisual	$1000
Technology / Software / Equipment	$16,600
ESTIMATED Total Spent 2007 - 2008	$22,600
ESTIMATED Carry over 2008 - 2009	$6531

6. a Please explain any planned expenditure in General Supplies

We will be using $2000 to help purchase additional supplies for our teachers to use in publishing classroom books, student books, and creating student memory portfolios, i.e., specialty paper, copy paper, laminator film, bindings, toner and colored ink cartridges.

6. b If you plan to Carry Over more than half your distribution, please explain below.

Not applicable

7. a If this plan utilizes additional funds, please specify amount and source(s) of additional matching funds.
Amount:

12,345

7. b Source(s)

Budget Sources Include: $ 8,345 TAP (approx.), $ 1,500 PTA Grant (approx.)$ 2,500, Business donations (milk caps, box tops, Albertson's, Smith's, Dick's)

8. a How will the plan and results be publicized to your community?(Please check all that apply)

• Letters to State Senators, Representatives, Govenor, Attorney General, State Treasurer, and Congressional Delegation

8. b Other. Please Explain.

9. In order for schools to receive School LAND Trust Program funds, councils must follow the law. You may view the School Community Council Law by Clicking Here and the School LAND Trust Program Law by Clicking Here. To assure that the law has been followed, answer the following questions by clicking yes or no. All

9. a Notification was provided two weeks in advance of elections for the School Community Council

yes

9. b Parents were elected by parents or when there were unfilled positions, the parent members on the council appointed parent members to fill the positions.

yes

9. c Employees were elected by employees or when there were unfilled positions, the employee members on the council appointed employee members to fill the positions.

yes

9. d Proper notice of meetings was provided to the public by posting on the school door beginning the day before the meeting or annual notice was given at the beginning of the school year for regularly scheduled meetings.

yes

9. e Explain any 'No' answers