ESSER III/School Innovation and Improvement Plan At a Glance

Outcome goals for the 2022-2023 academic school year

Complete ESSER School Funding Plans

ESSER III School Innovation and Improvement Plan At A Glance

  • 2022-2023

  • Orange Hunt Elementary School

  • Region 4

  • Karen Tuttle, Principal

 

Background: The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER III) is a federal grant which requires that spending be used in specific areas.  Part of the Fairfax County Public Schools spending plan identifies funding to be used for Unfinished Learning and Student Academic and Social, Emotional, Mental Health (Wellness) Needs.  Schools have been given funding allocations to support the academic and wellness needs of students.  Schools are required to create plans in English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Wellness highlighting the strategies they will use to support these areas using their ESSER III funding.  These strategies are shown below.

 

English Language Arts 

Outcome:

Ensure students are making sufficient progress to be on grade level in English Language Arts.

Goal:

Of the students scoring below grade level in phonics on iReady at the beginning of the year, 100% of students will make sufficient progress to meet or exceed the grade level phonics benchmark on iReady by the end of the year.

Strategy 1  

Shifting to the Science of Reading: Provide daily, systematic, explicit instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, and morphology in the core language arts block.

Strategy 2

Small group Tier II after-school instruction to reteach essential standards: Ex. phonics, comprehension. 

Strategy 3

Provide Tier 3 instruction as an intensive intervention for students who need instruction beyond Tier 1 and Tier 2.

 

Mathematics 

Outcome:

Ensure students are making sufficient progress to be on grade level in mathematics.

Goal:   

Kindergarten: 100% of students in grade K will meet or exceed benchmark on the EMAS.

 

Grades 1-6: Of the students scoring below grade level in number and operations in iReady at the beginning of the year, 100% of students will make sufficient progress to meet or exceed the grade level benchmark in number and operations.

Strategy 1

Shift from looking at correct answers toward looking for student's thinking: Teachers will identify specific strategies or representations that are important to notice based on the learning intentions and strategically use observations, student responses to questions and written work to determine what students understand

Strategy 2

 Shift from looking at correct answers toward looking for student's thinking: Teachers will plan for and implement differentiated, consistent small group instruction during math workshop

Strategy 3

Small group Tier II after-school instruction to reteach essential standards: Ex. number sense

 

Wellness 

Outcome:

Ensure students feel safe, included, and supported in the school environment.

Goal:  

By the end of 2022-2023 school year, our school will utilize morning meetings for tier 1 as well as tier 2 & tier 3 wellness specific programs to teach self management skills and competencies, increasing schoolwide scores on the self-management topic of the SEL screener by 6% from 44% to 50% favorable.

Strategy 1

Build and develop adult knowledge surrounding SEL (social emotional learning) and strengthen adult wellness.

Strategy 2

Promote student SEL by aligning classroom content and schoolwide programming to meet student needs in the area of self management skills.


 

Portrait of a Graduate (POG)

Outcome:

All students will complete a POG Presentation of Learning (POL) by 2025-26.

Goal: 

By the end of SY 2022-23, 100% of staff will show growth in their implementation of POG practices as measured by the school-wide POG inventory.

Strategy 1: 

We will build an understanding with students, staff, and the community about why POG attributes and skills positively impact students within and beyond school.

Strategy 2: 

 Teachers will utilize PBLs in order to incorporate real-world applications of POG attributes and skills across content areas.

Strategy 3:

Teachers and staff will plan and implement POG attributes in all content areas.