School LAND Trust Program

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Naples School Land Trust Committee members again agreed that, in order
to

use the upcoming School Land Trust funds to best support our ongoing
goal

of

improving students' reading/language arts skills, we will
purchase leveled

books and other language arts materials for classrooms and
for our leveled

library.

Our Trust Land funds were used to support our computer/writing/ Plato lab. Along
with additional funds, Trust Lands provided the salary for our lab supervisor
who schedules the lab for our teachers, trouble shoots, assists in training
teachers and students on various software and programs, and helps with
after-school remediation programs. Without her supervision, the lab would be
available only on a limited basis and the after-school remediation would not
exist. Our remediation program assists over 40 students each term in achieving
acceptable learning in math, science, language arts and social studies.

Our goal is for every student to experience at least one year's
academic

growth during the 2006-2007 school year.

With respect to our goal of having all (the template that is used for this
report only allows us to report our goals as though we had one for science, one
for math and one for reading) of our CRT scores be above the district average.
Areas of concern are language arts 7 and 9 and science 7. Our language arts 7
score was the only score below the district average, but language arts 9 and
science 7 are not as far above the district average as previous years. Language
arts 8, science 8 and science 9 were below last year but are above for the
'06-'07 school year.Although individual teachers achieved the 80/80 goal (Again,
this goal pertains to math, science and language arts) with certain groups of
students, no entire course (math 7, for example) achieved it. However, CRT level
4 mastery scores for math, science and language arts show general improvement
over a four year period. We are working to assure that all of our students read
and write at grade level. Currently, about 20% school wide read below grade
level, based on the STAR reading test. For both reading and writing, our CRT
scores have improved steadily over the last five years or are higher in 2007
than in 2003, except 7th and 9th grade writing. However, 9th grade writing in
2007 was still above the district average. This is year began testing all
students in reading and writing, while in the past we have only tested students
in SOAR, Spartan Academy and special education. Of those students, in SOAR,
Spartan Academy and special education, 67% last year improved at least one grade
level during the year.

Academic improvement will be measured or assessed using a variety
of

measures, including - but not limited to - informal reading
inventories,

running records, DIBELS, NWEA, and State CORE assessments.

All CRT scores are above the district average except those noted below.Language
arts 7, 2.6 percentage points below the district. As noted above, this is an
improvement over last year in which 3 courses were below.Language 8, Science 8,
and Science 9 scores improved  while all others remained about the
same.Sixty-seven percent of our students identified as reading and writing below
grade level raised their grade level scores.

Any additional funds will be spent to purchase additional books and
materials to support teaching and learning in the area of reading/language
arts, as described above.

Additional funds were used to provide training and materials for teachers in
teaching reading and writing. Additionally, teachers received ongoing training
regarding classroom management and strategies for improving learning. To
paraphrase Steven R. Covey, school improvement is really people improvement. Our
school improvement plan focused on improving how we do our jobs; how we get kids
to learn. Therefore, additional training provided us with the tools to do our
jobs better.

This plan relates directly to, and strongly supports, the Naples School
Improvement Plan by allowing for the purchase of materials and supplies to
enhance teaching and learning - and thereby student academic growth - in
the area of reading/language arts.

• Barbara Smith
• Kim R. Burningham
• Dist. 19 -- Sheryl L. Allen
• Dist. 23 -- Dan R. Eastman
• Chris Cannon
• Jim Matheson
• Rob Bishop
• Bob Bennett
• Orrin Hatch
• Governor: Jon Huntsman Jr.