Proportional+Time

**Annual Growth Strategies:**
Concerns expressed about half day kindergarten, lack of appropriate summer program, no opportunity to assess before the kindergarten year. Concerns that parents are not aware of where kids should be, what parents can do at home. We should be providing education to parents as soon as the child is born. School board recognizes the need for pre-k interventions - we need to be more pro-active and less reactive. We have to focus on core instruction to ensure all students make annual growth in order to reduce or eliminate the need for catch-up growth. Spotlight needs to be on K-3, or PreK - 3. Protected instructional time is currently implemented, quality instructional plan utilizing Checker's expertise. By choosing Imagine-It we have taken a pro-active step toward ensuring annual growth for all students. Admin has given the message to all staff that the strategies detailed by Checker are expected to be employed.

Ensuring that all teachers know, instruction in the classroom is not about the teacher's individual preferences..

Reflection: How do the classroom teachers set the annual growth target, how do they instruct to ensure the growth, how do they assess to know the growth has taken place. How does an interaction between a teacher and parent at a conference demonstrate that the teacher has done all the above?

**Catch-Up Growth Strategies:**
Consider "winter-school" options for supplemental time for students during winter breaks. There are some students who do not want the extended vacation. We need to consider transportation for the programs we have already, to ensure the most needy are able to attend. Transportation is a big issue. Steve shared the "evening" program for targeted students over the summer.

It needs to look different in the future.. a kid working independently is not instructional.