Naples EL - School Plan 2001 - 2002 School LAND Trust Program

School: Naples EL

The committee viewed the video "Using the Trust."
Yes

Duration of the plan:
Single year

Areas of academic need addressed by the plan (check all that apply):

This plan specifically addresses the needs of students with Limited English Proficiency (LEP).
Yes

School Plan description:
The academic area of focus for the Naples Trust Land Plan is reading. Our goal is to ensure that students are reading at or above grade level by the end of each school year. We intend to reach this goal by involving each student in a classroom guided reading group. Guided reading occurs in small-group settings, wherein the teacher guides groups of 3-4 students through narrative and expository text written at the students' instructional reading level. Trust Land funds will be used to purchase a collection of leveled text for students to read during guided reading time. , The Naples Elementary School Trust Lands Committee determined, after reviewing SAT-9 and State Core test results and survey responses submitted by parents and staff, that our school's greatest academic need is in the area of reading/language arts. Our goal is to ensure that all students experience an increase of at least one year in instructional reading level by the end of the school year. Given that reading instruction ought not end in the lower elementary grades, and that literacy is, in fact, a continuum, efforts are currently under way to provide inservice training to equip all teachers in the use of guided reading, which, according to Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell, is a 'teaching approach designed to help individual students learn how to process a variety of increasingly challenging texts with understanding and fluency.' (2001) Guided reading takes place in small-group settings, wherein the teacher guides 3-4 students through narrative and expository text written at the students' instructional reading level. Fountas and Pinnell go on to say that, '...individuals learn to read by reading-and we agree. But there is no guarantee that a student will develop effective reading strategies simply by choosing and reading any book or being assigned to read a section and answer questions. ...The teacher must create conditions that support the child in this process. The careful selection of 'just right' texts, together with (the teacher's) skillful introduction of the texts, provides ideal conditions for your students as they develop their reading skills.' The Naples Trust Lands Committee would like to use our school's share of the Trust Lands money to fund a rich collection of 'just right' texts for students to use in guided reading groups. This 'leveled library' will contain narrative and expository text, organized in sets of 4-6 books per title, and will include text written on all reading levels, pre-primer through grade 8. All teachers will administer the Qualitative Reading Inventory (QRI) in the fall and spring, in order to document pre- and post-intervention reading levels. Regular running records will document ongoing student progress. All students will be expected to demonstrate a minimum of one year's growth in instructional reading level, by the spring-QRI testing. School-level teacher training/discussion meetings, using the text Guiding Readers amd Writers Grades 3-6, by Fountas and Pinnel, will facilitate teacher collegiality and peer support as all Naples teachers implement guided reading groups in their classrooms. Parents will be informed, by way of progress reports and SEP conferences, of their children's reading progress, and will be encouraged to reinforce their children's reading skills at home by having the children read to them from leveled texts borrowed from the school. Community volunteers will be solicited to provide an extra boost for struggling readers, by coming into the school and listening to these students read orally. Our committee will request that our local newspaper, The Vernal Express, and our local radio station, KVEL AM-920, inform the Vernal community of our School Trust Lands plan. Letters to local and state politicians, and to the editor of our local newspaper, will convey appreciation for the opportunity to exercise local control over School Trust Lands money. In addition, the parents of our students will be notified of the plan through our school's monthly newsletter and at a Back-to-School night in August, 2001.

Detailed description:

Estimated School LAND Trust funds for 2001-2002:
$4600

Estimated School LAND Trust funds carried over from 2000-2001:
$0

TOTAL: $4600

Proposed financial plan:

Professional Development
$0

Equipment / Repairs / Maintenance
$0

Textbooks / Supplies / Software / Audiovisual
$4600

Salaries / Benefits
$0

TOTAL
$4600

Clarification of the proposed budget.
The materials necessary for setting up the area to house the books, and for organizing the books, will include: magazine boxes, storage bags, labels, clothes pins, paper, etc.

Is this plan being implemented with additional funds? Yes

Yes - sources and amounts

Person responsible for implementing the plan.
Lee Gagon

Position of this person:
Principal

School personnel and volunteers will be involved in the following ways.
Staff and volunteers will be solicited to help choose, order, and organize the books.

There is an accountability program developed for the school strategic plan.
Yes

Relationship of this plan to the school strategic plan.
This trust land plan complies with the accountability program outlined in our school's Title One plan.

Accountability measures to be used.
 Stanford Achievement Test (SAT/9e)
 End-of-Level or End-of-Course Tests
 Performance Assessment
 Other Assessment or measurements

Goals for student improvement.
Our goal is to ensure that all students experience, at minimum, a year's increase in instructional reading level by the spring QRI-testing.

Student improvement will be measured as described below.
The Qualitative Reading Inventory (QRI) will be used to measure student improvement in reading.

The school will publicize the plan in the following ways:

 Letters to your local school board, governor, state senator, representatives, congressional delegation, and State School Board
 Letter to the editor of the newspaper
 Local school newsletter
 School Assembly
 Articles in local newspaper - title: Vernal Express
 Radio/TV - station:
 Other - description

2. Evaluation

School's identified most critical academic need approved by the local school board:

3. Narrative report

During the 2001-2001 school year, School Land Trust funds allocated to Naples School were used to purchase sets of leveled books for students, along with materials to set up a leveled library - magazine boxes, large bags, labels, etc. A committee was formed to oversee the selection and purchase of the leveled texts, and to stamp and shelve the books. Students use the sets of leveled books during teacher-directed guided reading groups. During September, 2001, all regular classroom teachers used the Qualitative Reading Inventory (QRI) to obtain an instructional reading level for each student. The QRI will again be administered in May, 2002, to measure academic progress. With the School Land Trust funds, Naples School teachers were able to guide students, in small-group settings with "just-right" texts, to develop their reading skills.