Parents

As the Chairperson of the Foothill School Improvement Team (SIT), I would like to take this opportunity to share important information about SIT. SIT has an advisory role in the development of our School Improvement Plan (SIP) each year, beginning the work of reviewing data and school goals within the first 8 weeks of school.  SIT members participate in decisions about issues ranging from curriculum to culture, and school reform.

At monthly SIT meetings, parents work together with school staff to ensure accountability for student learning and school climate.  Using the “TIES- Tools for Inquiry for Equitable Schools” model, the school improvement process begins with the forming of goals targeted at setting goals in 4 areas: Academics, Equity, Climate, and Operations.

SIT members keep the focus on student needs, help brainstorm potential solutions, discuss actions and strategies, and will review progress reports and feedback from the district.  Then members monitor the steps taken to reach school goals and provide input for future improvement goals by monitoring trends in school data.

Please join us for the Fall Community-wide SIT meeting on Tuesday, September 8^th  from 6:00-7:30 pm in the Library.  A second Community-wide SIT meeting will be held in January or February (TBA).

Please feel free to contact me with questions and/or concerns at any time: julenethom@comcast.net

Sincerely,

Julene Thom

School Improvement Team 2009-10

Parents

Julene Thom  (co-chair)        grade: 5th                   julenethom@comcast.net

Sarah Schulte (vice-chair)     grade: 1 & 3                sarahschulte@earthlink.net

Kari Santos  (DAC)                grade: K & 4                karisantos@pobox.com

Suzanne Whitman (DPC)         grade: 5^th                   suzanne.whitman@bvsd.org

Cathy Gould                         grade:  K                     cathygould@q.com

Kim Boyd                             grades: 3                     kim.boyd@comcast.net

John DeRose                        grades:  K & 2              jderose@jedrose.com

Michele Moses                      grade:  3                     michele.moses@colorado.edu

September 8, 2009       Agenda     Minutes

2009-10 Team Meetings 

January 12 , 2010      Agenda Minutes

February 9, 2010       Agenda Minutes

Foothill Elementary School
School Improvement Goals 2008-09

SMART Goal for Equity:

By the spring of 2011, 60% of students who are not at grade level in reading will be at grade level or make more than a year’s growth in a year’s time by spring 2009 as measured by grade level appropriate assessments such as Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA-2), Qualitative Reading Inventory (QRI), writing assessments, phonemic awareness assessment, Concepts About Print (CAP), word identification, observations or CSAP.

SMART Goal for Achievement:

By spring 2009, all students in grades 3-5 at Foothill Elementary will increase their CSAP scores by at least 3 weighted index points in writing from 104 to 107.

The percentage of students in K-5 scoring proficient or advanced on the Foothill writing assessment will increase from our baseline of 58% to 68% as measured by the Fireside Rubric.

SMART Goal for Climate:

We will develop a safe and positive learning environment and increase positive interactions between adults & students, adults & adults, and students & students as measured by questions 13, 17, 19, 35 and 37 on the Spring 2010, climate survey.  

SMART Goal for School Operations:

By spring of 2009. we will decrease disruption to our learning environment and increase the safety of students in the hallways by the end of the school year. We will create an informal survey for 2^nd – 5^th grade to be administered in the fall for baseline data and repeat the survey in the spring to measure our results.

Foothill Elementary School
720-561-2600
Email: bvsd.foe@bvsd.org
1001 Hawthorn Avenue, Boulder, CO  80304