Morris Schott Middle School Action Plan for Writing

School Improvement Goal (Writing): By the Spring of 2008, 65% of all Morris Schott Middle School students will pass the writing assessment targets as measured by the WASL.

Activity	Time Line	Person(s) Responsible Who is involved? Who will provide leadership? Who will provide work?	Professional Development:	Monitor Effectiveness How do we know if we’re doing what we said we’d do? (Look fors in classroom)	Expected Impact How do we know if its working?
Staff will agree upon writing materials and will align instruction with the GLEs.	Begin March ’07 and continue until complete.	Principal, Reading Coach, Writing Materials Committee,	Collaborative process training	Lessons will be focused on GLEs. All staff will know and have access to writing materials	Student scores on quarterly WASL prompts will increase over time.
Writing Materials Committee will complete an existing and desired scope and sequence in writing.	By Sept. 07	Writing Materials Committee	None needed.	Scope and sequence document available for staff. Staff will be focused on those areas that they are responsible for. Instruction will be more focused on GLEs in the classroom	Student scores on quarterly WASL prompts will increase over time.
Staff will administer regular WASL writing prompts.	By December 07	Principal, OSPI, Language Arts to include all grade levels	Anchor paper training for all language arts teachers.	Teachers will administer one prompt per quarter for scoring.	Student scores on quarterly WASL prompts will increase over time.
Staff will teach students to score WASL prompts according to state rubric.	December 07	Principal, Language Arts teachers to include all grade levels	Anchor paper training for all language arts teachers	Students will be observed scoring their own and other’s papers	Student scores on quarterly WASL prompts will increase over time.
Staff will utilize Betsy Cornell and Thinking Maps techniques in all content areas.	Ongoing	Principal Trainers All staff	Ongoing training in Betsy Cornell and Thinking Maps	Rookie: Evidence of implementation. Experienced: Multiple evidence of implementation across instructional modalities.	Student scores on quarterly WASL prompts will increase over time.