School Goals

2022-2023 Instructional Focus & CEP Goals

Instructional Focus

Students will engage in high-quality interactive discussions based upon deeper insightful analysis of relevant and concise text-based details and exemplified by responses to peers’ questioning and extensions of peers’ thoughts, thereby improving standards-based performance in evidence-based student writing and oral responses in all content areas.

Comprehensive Education Plan (CEP) Goals

GOAL 1: MATHEMATICS

By June 2023, we will deepen our “Strong Roots” in mathematics which will result in 75% of all students achieving proficiency (level 3 or 4) on the 2023 End of Year iReady Assessment, with 40% proficiency for students with disabilities, and 55% proficiency for the Hispanic subgroup..

 We achieve our goals by:

• Engaging in ongoing teacher-led professional learning of research-based approaches to mathematics instruction. including Algebra for All strategies.
• More regularly incorporating geometry into year-long instruction
• Building an inclusive and rigorous curriculum informed by strategies within the CRSE.
• Continuously monitoring student’s progress towards mastery of standards. 
• Utilizing online programs tailored to student levels.
• Providing small-group instruction based on specific student needs.
• Engaging in inquiry cycles focused on increasing student engagement and discourse.
• Providing Enrichment, AIS, and RTI for students, as needed.

GOAL 2: LITERACY

By June 2023, we will deepen our “Strong Roots'' in English Language Arts (ELA), which will result in 70% of all students achieving proficiency (level 3 or 4) on the 2023 End of Year iReady Assessment, with 48% proficiency for students with disabilities, and with 55% overall proficiency for the Hispanic subgroup.

We will achieve our goals by:

• Building an inclusive and rigorous curriculum informed by strategies within the CRSE.
• Routinely featuring rich texts, discussions, writing, and instruction that promotes high-utility vocabulary. 
• Continuously monitoring student’s progress towards mastery of standards.
• Focusing Equity Visits on strengthening comprehension through strategically differentiated tasks.
• Engaging in inquiry cycles focused on increasing student engagement and discourse, including classroom walkthroughs.
• Using the Advanced Literacies Hallmarks as a guide to strengthening our instructional core.
• Providing our students with the tools needed to become college and career ready.

GOAL 3: SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT FRAMEWORK

By June 2023, student responses on the NYC School Survey will increase as follows:

• “Students say that their teachers support them when they are upset” will show an improvement from 56% to 65%, resulting in improved Physical and Mental Wellness.
• Students indicating that teachers recognize when students are struggling to learn something will show an improvement, from 55% to 65%, resulting in improved Collaborative and Trusting Relationships Between Teachers and Students.
• Students responding positively to questions regarding feeling comfortable sharing feelings and emotions will show an improvement, from 50% to 65%, resulting in Physical and Mental Wellness.

We will achieve our goals by:

• Providing a safe and welcoming environment for all students to achieve academic and social-emotional growth.
• Utilizing CRSE strategies in all classrooms.
• Nurturing a pedagogical culture that values and develops each individual's role in the school’s success. 
• Providing Advisory periods to students to support SEL work.
• Offering conflict resolution and group counseling to support specific student needs.
• Continuing administering No Place for Hate activities and taking part in Anti-Defamation League training.
• Strengthening our youth development practices through programs such as NY Foundling and the Yale RULER method.
• Engaging in a thorough professional inquiry cycle aligned to Social Emotional wellness.