Bountiful HI - School Plan 2003 - 2004 School LAND Trust Program

Proposal for 2003-2004

9. School's identified most critical academic need(s) addressed in this plan:
Please check only the primary area(s)

10. Briefly describe the school plan. Be sure to include:

• What you will do and what the money will be spent for to improve student academic performance (be specific)
• Your committee's goals for student improvement
• How your committee will measure or assess academic improvement

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Our intent is to use the trust lands money to support the principles of our school improvement plan. Our plan directly addresses the instruction, assessment and better placement of students at appropriate ability levels in the areas of reading, writing and math. The reading/writing software "Read 180" will be purchased which will provide struggling readers and writers with intensive, differentiated skills practice and instruction that builds phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehention. Three additional classes (productivity) will be added to lower class size so more individual instruction can be given in English and math. Academic improvement will be measured with a SRI test for reading and end of level tests in math.

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

The Bountiful High School trust lands plan is directly connected to the schools improvement plan. School land trust funds will be expanded to support the improvement plan as authorized by our school community council which also functions as our school trust committee.

12. FINANCIAL PROPOSAL

Our plan last year was to focus on students at risk who were behind their
grade level in reading.  Last year a computer program (Read 180) was
purchased, along with three classes of productivity to assist students
with their academic skills.  Having the productivity we were able to lower
class size and with the Read 180 program, we have seen the reading level
of students increase on an average of 1.3 years in five months.  We have
been able to measure increases in phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency,
vocabulary, comprehension and attitude of our students.

We wrote letters to state representatives, state senators, and members of
the school board.  This information was mailed to all the homes of our
students.