St. Joseph Academy

Early Childhood Education Center

Goal 1: The ECEC will strengthen the professional development training for staff to better utilize Creative Curriculum and TS GOLD. This will be achieved by seeing an increase in participation from families and in-kind entries and by utilizing reports in TS Gold that show areas of Development and Learning that the ECEC children are struggling with that Teachers may need additional training in to provide that support to the children.

Goal 2: The ECEC will maintain a rigorous and data-driven learning environment using TS Gold Online.

K4-8th Grade

Our overarching goal is to use EL Education teaching and curriculum to produce successful students. To realize our goal, we focus on student excellence in three core areas: Mastery of Knowledge and Skills, Character and High Quality work. When students complete their academic career and enter adult life, they will be judged not by performance on basic skills tests—but rather, by the quality of their work and the quality of their character. This premise serves as the foundation for increasing student engagement and elevating and expanding student achievement.

ECEC GOAL 1 STRATEGIES -
1. Staff will attend an interactive course during the week of August 17 - 21, 2020, introducing them to TS GOLD and the purposes and benefits of formative assessment in early childhood programs
2. All children will be added into TS GOLD by 8/1/2020
3. By the 30th of ever month, all child documentations are entered by staff.
4. Child checkpoints are entered quarterly. (11/13/20, 2/5/21, 5/7/21, and 8/7/21)

ECEC GOAL 2 STRATEGIES -
1. Staff will be able to describe the 6 steps of active supervision and why they are important.
2. Staff will be able to explain how to apply the 6 steps when there are changes in routines and specific environments.
3. Staff will be able to identify how to use the steps along the developmental progression for infants, toddlers and preschoolers.
4. Staff will be able to explain how to plan for and modify steps within different settings and when changes in routines occur.

K4 - 8TH GRADE GOAL 1 STRATEGIES -
1. Provide Crew habits of students framework per grade level.
2. Principal & AP will model the Crew in staff meetings and provide time to reflect on thoughts and actions during Crew.
3. Principal & AP will provide feedback on Crew delivery.
4. Student Connection Activity, 9/28, mid, end.
5. Providing examples like videos or testimonials from other schools about their approach and outcomes.
6. Student Survey distributed 9/24/2020
7. 2 x 10 Strategy for "under the radar" students. 2 minutes a day for 10 days targeted out reach. Each staff member to one student.

K4-8TH GRADE GOAL 2 STRATEGIES -
1. Principal & AP model CFU's at staff meetings and grade level meetings.
2. Build on exit ticket foundation.
3. Reflect on Target/Task alignment.
4. Provide Reflection questions.
5. Possibly engage in a standards study.
6. Consider an internal video library with short examples of CFUs.
7. Conversations/check-ins with staff regularly.

St. Joseph Academy believes that leadership matters. Great leadership leads to great success. Our internal leadership structure begins with a President and CEO who has vast experience in education and values and believes in the leadership team and staff to craft and meet our goals. Our Leadership Team consists of heads of 12 departments who, with input and strengths from their staff, craft strategic goals. Leadership team members report out monthly on progress that is achieved in reaching these goals and evaluate any changes needed. All 80+ staff within our organization are carefully and thoughtfully hired for their talents, skill sets and fit with in the organization. Staff are expected to lead in their classrooms, in Crew, on committees, etc. Everyone has a voice and everyone has the opportunity to lead within our organization. We strive to provide a positive, values based environment. We are passionate about developing the whole child and we go all out to ensure that we succeed.

We are making progress on all of our Goals and Check Points and continue to expand on them as needed. The COVID pandemic has led to our Early Childhood program remaining open and on site, but with capped enrollment and our K4-8th grade students started the year virtual learning. Eighty-one percent of our students lived in the highest zip codes for COVID in our Community at the beginning of the school year. As of October 2020 data, our K4-8th grade learning community live in zip codes that have 33% positivity rates. We will continue to teach virtually until 2021. While these are not ideal circumstances, we have a professional staff and families that support our safety decisions. Working together, we are pleased to know that we are accomplishing our goals and remaining true to our mission of educating our children to be lifelong learners and problem solvers.