School Innovation and Improvement Plan At-a-Glance

• 2022-2023

• Waynewood Elementary School

• Region 3

• Katie Cachine, Principal

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. 

English Language Arts Outcome 

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

Goals:

• By the end of the 2022-2023 school year, 80% of students in grades K-2 will meet grade level expectations on PALS-K/ iReady.
• By the end of the 2022-2023 school year, 95% of students in grades 3-6 will demonstrate appropriate progress toward grade level standards as measured by the VGA and SOL scores.

Strategy 1 

• Implement research based practices and programming around phonics.

Strategy 2 

• Small group Tier 2/Tier 3 Instruction for phonemic awareness and phonics.

Mathematics Outcome

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

Goals:

• By the end of the 2022-2023 school year, 80% of students in grades K-2 will meet grade level expectations on iReady/EMAS. 

• By the end of the 2022-2023 school year, 95% of students in grades 3-6 will demonstrate appropriate progress toward grade level standards as measured by the VGA and SOL scores.

Strategy 1 

• Strengthen Tier 1 strategies related to number sense and computation.

Strategy 2 

• Provide additional opportunities for small group instruction.

Wellness Outcome

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

Goal:

• By the end of the 2022-2023 school year, our school will utilize Morning Meeting for grades K-6, and Kimochis Curriculum for grades K-3, effectively to teach self-management subskills, increasing schoolwide scores on the self-management topic of the SEL Screener by June 2023  from 52%  to 60% percent favorable.

Strategy 1 

• Implement Responsive Classroom practices across all grade levels to promote self-management and community building.

Strategy 2 

• Implement Kimochis curriculum across grades K-3 to promote self-management.

Strategy 3 

• Teachers will provide check-ins for students who are quarantined for COVID related reasons.

 

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 all students will show growth as collaborators on POG self-reflections scored with the reflection on POG skill use rubric given at the beginning and end of the year.

Strategy 1 

• School stakeholders will build an understanding about why collaboration skills positively impact learning within and beyond school.  

Strategy 2 

• Teachers will design and facilitate collaborative opportunities for students that elevate student voice and increase student engagement.

For additional information regarding this School Improvement Plan, please contact Katie Cachine, Principal.