2022-2023 ESSER III/School Innovation and Improvement Plan
Outcome goals for this academic year
Complete ESSER School Funding Plans
School Innovation and Improvement Plan At-a-Glance
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2022-2023
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Providence Elementary School
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Region 5
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Dan Phillips, Principal
Background: The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER III) is a federal grant which requires that spending be used in specific areas. Part of the Fairfax County Public Schools spending plan identifies funding to be used for Unfinished Learning and Student Academic and Social, Emotional, Mental Health (Wellness) Needs. Schools have been given funding allocations to support the academic and wellness needs of students. Schools are required to create plans in English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Wellness highlighting the strategies they will use to support these areas using their ESSER III funding. These strategies are shown below.
ESSER III English Language Arts Strategies |
Outcome Ensure students are making sufficient progress to be on grade level in English Language Arts |
Strategy 1 Grade level and resource teachers will plan and deliver targeted interventions to all students. Teachers will use evidence-based literacy practices to explicitly and systematically teach the skills necessary for fluent word reading in the core language arts block. |
Strategy 2 Collaborative learning teams will have professional development on the Science of Reading (to understand the continuum and methods of instruction) embedded into their weekly Language Arts planning meetings and at quarterly planning meetings. |
Strategy 3 Identify areas for intervention, inventory resources to be used to guide intervention, and plan logistics of when, where and how interventions will take place. |
ESSER III Mathematics Strategies |
Outcome Ensure students are making sufficient progress to be on grade level in Mathematics. |
Strategy 1 Leverage ST Math in Small Group Instruction for differentiation and to provide engaging activities that build conceptual understanding of mathematical skills while promoting student discourse and multiple representations for the purpose of shifting from looking for the correct answer toward looking at student thinking. |
Strategy 2 Identify areas for intervention, inventory and leverage resources to be used to guide intervention, plan logistics of when, where, who and how interventions will take place. |
Strategy 3 Leverage collaborative teams to support school wide math instruction through professional development to support schoolwide math workshop for the purpose of shifting from looking for the correct answer toward looking at student thinking. |
ESSER III Wellness Strategies |
Outcome Ensure students feel safe, included, and supported in the school environment. |
Strategy 1 Set aside protected time in Morning Meeting and Closing Circles to engage in required tier 1 practices schoolwide. |
Strategy 2 Develop adults’ foundational knowledge regarding the rationale for required practices and tools to support their implementation. |
Strategy 3 Student support team provide identified students with additional Tier 2 and Tier 3 supports. |
Background: All Fairfax County schools are also required to complete an access and opportunity goal as part of their School Innovation and Improvement Plan (SIIP) and can also capture additional goals. These are shown below.
Access & Opportunity End of Year SMARTR Outcome |
Goal Quarterly, 100% of students in grades K - 6 will reflect upon their own work in and understanding of a particular Portrait of a Graduate attribute by completing a survey about their learning. |
Strategy 1 Students in grades K-6 will learn about one POG attribute each quarter. |
Strategy 2 Students in grades K-6 will apply critical and creative thinking strategies through an Advanced Academics curriculum lesson. |
Overall, it is important to remember that our School Improvement Plan represents only a portion of the work we do every day. We hold high expectations and present advanced material to all Providence students, and we work to provide opportunities for advanced thinking and actions in our classrooms and STEAM lab every day. We also offer after school programs where students have access to further opportunities to learn and think.