School Improvement Plan

Even though Evergreen Middle School is proud of our students’ achievements we are constantly reviewing our assessments to see where we can make improvements.  One assessment that we are constantly reviewing is the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL).  Listed below are the scores from the last few years.  The WASL has been an assessment for the seventh grade but will be given at the sixth and eighth grades as well.  The following are from the seventh grade. 

WASL                                                              2005    2004   2003     2002    2001               

                        MATH                                     68.8     63.1     62        47.1     37

                        READING                               80.2     65.9     61.1     65.4     52

                        WRITING                                76.5     67.6     72.9     75.5     64

                        Listening                                n/a      n/a      93.4      91.8     88

The Evergreen School Improvement Plan is broken down into several areas and coincide with the Nine Characteristics of Highly Successful Schools.  Listed is a shortened version of the areas that we are continuing to address.

Contextual:
Student Participation in student-led conferences will be at least 90% by 2004.

Establish the connection between school and community through a business partnership.(Safeco or others)

Demographics:
Improve student understanding of diversity from 73.5%  to 75% as measured by the Student Attitudes Survey by 2005.

Evaluate placement procedures of the 30% mobile student population as measured by teacher input. 

Achievement:
Evergreen Middle School will increase WASL reading scores to 70% (8.9% above 2002-03 scores) by 2005.

Evergreen Middle School will decrease the percentage of students scoring below standard in WASL writing because of content, organization, and style score by 5% by 2005. 

Evergreen Middle School will decrease student not meeting standard in Math WASL Level I by 10% and Level II by 10% by 2005. 

Perceptions: 
Evergreen Middle School will improve parent knowledge of what teachers/staff do on "in-service days" by 25% based on parent survey taken in June 2005.

Evergreen Middle School will improve parent knowledge of strategies that Evergreen uses to improve student learning by 25% based on parent survey taken in June 2005.

Technology:
Evergreen will provide measures that will protect the school’s technological investments by:

·         Budgeting funds as needed for maintaining, upgrading, and replacing existing hardware throughout the school