2024-2025 School Innovation and Improvement Plan

Frost Middle School Academic Plan and Goals for the 2024-2025 School Year

SY24-25 School Innovation & Improvement Plan Frost MS

English Language Arts 

Outcomes

  •  By June 2025, our students with disabilities and multilingual learners will increase their scores on the WIDA and/or SOL tests from May 2024 by 5% (from 49% to 54% for MLLs as measured by the WIDA test and from 74% adjusted passes on the Reading SOL to 79% for SWD as measured by the adjusted pass rate on the Reading SOL).
  • By June 2025, the percentage of Frost students meeting or exceeding grade level benchmarks in vocabulary knowledge will increase by 7% as measured by the iReady screening data.
Strategy 1:  Increase opportunities to explicitly teach vocabulary using evidence-based methods (i.e. semantic feature analysis, analyzing word parts, frayer model, defining words in context, semantic mapping, etc.)
Strategy 2: Utilize small groups and intervention to increase opportunities for students who need more practice to master standards
Strategy 3: Maximize daily instruction and practice in word recognition, reading comprehension, and grammar (Lexia PowerUp)

Mathematics: 

Outcomes

  • By June 2025, our seventh grade Hispanic students enrolling in Algebra 1 for 8th grade will increase from 58% to 68% as measured by Algebra enrollment data.

  • By June 2025, students enrolled in Algebra 1 will earn a verified credit (C- or higher, and passing the SOL, based on the SIIP workbook), increasing that number from 89% in 2023-2024 to 92% in 2024-2025.

Strategy 1: Increase teacher's implementation of strategies and conversation structures that increase academic talk between students related to Shift 4: from show and tell to share and compare.
Strategy 2: Increase teachers' content knowledge and implementation of the 2023 FCPS mathematics program of studies.
Strategy 3:  Increase systems of support during the school day, after school and summer to help students achieve success in mathematics.

Discipline

Outcomes

By June 2025, Frost students will decrease the behaviors that require a referral by 5%, from 458 referrals and for 152 students (approximately 12% of our students) in June 2024 to 435 referrals by June 2025.

Strategy 1: Utilize an MTSS framework to establish and organize a schoolwide continuum of proactive behavior and wellness supports which will provide targeted interventions to students at different level of need.
Strategy 2: Implement Leveled Responses to Student Behaviors: Staff Managed for classroom issues, Office Managed for interventions beyond. Provide clear guidelines for consistency and effectiveness, promoting division-wide behavior management. Utilize the office-managed/staff-managed document consistently.
Strategy 3: Leverage existing structures to support discipline practices.