English Language Arts 

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

Goal: During the 2022-2023 school year, students at Frost Middle School will engage with authentic, diverse, and rigorous texts in their English Language Arts classrooms and across the school so that all students can grow in their English Language Arts journey, as measured by 100% of students showing progress towards grade level proficiency on common summative assessments and the Virginia Growth Assessments/SOLs through the school year.

Strategy 1: Integrate authentic texts including diverse (windows and mirrors) texts that will help students explore new and different perspectives and examine elements of literature with a critical lens. 

Strategy 2: ELA teachers will utilize strong classroom structures that support collaboration and opportunities for students to have choice, autonomy, and discussion about the texts they read and their responses to those texts.

Strategy 3: Provide targeted, ongoing remediation for students who score below a benchmark on the Reading Inventory (which is confirmed by at least one other data point). Work will be skill based as well as emphasizing critical thinking for all as they work through a longer text together.

Mathematics: 

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

Goal: During the 2022-2023 school year, students at Frost Middle School will take part in authentic, visible mathematical thinking in their math classrooms and intervention classes/sessions which will lead to 100% of students showing progress towards grade level proficiency as measured by multiple common summative assessments and the Virginia Growth Assessments/SOL throughout the school year.

Strategy 1: Integrate thinking routines that show evidence of Shift 8 (looking for and valuing student thinking beyond simply looking for correct answers) consistently.

Strategy 2: Intervention groups will be determined based upon like needs, including needs evidenced by student explanations of how to complete a problem (and why they complete it that way).

Strategy 3: Math teachers will work with specialists in the building to determine their needs around utilizing Shift 8 in their classroom consistently so that students can explain and demonstrate their thinking visibly.

Wellness 

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

Goal: By the end of the 2022-2023 school year, all students will take part in Responsive Advisory Meetings (through their Falcon Focus)  and continue to connect to all classroom teachers through the use of CASEL's 3 Signature Practices, as measured by inclusion of these practices in CLT meeting agendas, adult reflection surveys, and student responses to the trusted adult survey, administered twice throughout the year (end of 1st quarter, middle of 4th quarter).

Strategy 1: Develop a bank of "Frost Fifteen" strategies for teachers to use around the 3 Signature Practices (5 in each category) so that teachers create a more warm, inviting environment, close optimistically and keep students engaged throughout.

Strategy 2: Include SEL/Wellness efforts in daily recess times to ensure that student and teacher wellness are strengthened by engaging in time screen free.

Strategy 3: Ensure that all students have an adult in whom they trust in the building to help them manage problems, stress, or difficult situations.

Portrait of a Graduate (POG)

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

Goal: By the end of the 2022-2023 school year, students in Frost Middle School will be able use Communicator, Collaborator, and Creative and Critical Thinker POG skill by completing a written reflection which explains a) when they use these skills and b) why this skill is important as well as showing growth in this skill over the course of the school year (documenting growth through the student self-reflection tool).

Strategy 1: 8th Graders will complete a passion project; 7th graders an interdisciplinary team project which will require these three skills.

Strategy 2: Co-teaching with non-content specialists on how to include POG in the classroom (including, but not limited to Instructional Coach and School Based Technology Specialist).

Strategy 3: Focus attention in one area this year before broadening out in the upcoming years.