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Alief ISD Case Study

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The goals of the Alief ISD is to close the achievement gap, prepare students for college and career preparation, safe and orderly environment and have a positive stakeholder relationship. The goals of Killough Middle School are aligned with the district goals in closing achievement gap to ensure that all students reach their academic potential, improve student preparation for college and career, maintain a safe and orderly environment, recruit, develop, and retain highly qualified and effective personnel and will continue to build positive relationship with all stakeholders.

Strategies that are in place are teachers and administration walk-through with feedback for growth. The school also provides support for teachers whose performance was …show more content…

Campus is need of educating parents the importance of 8th graduation requirements and have parents come to the school to speak with the Transitional Counselor about their child's four-year graduation plan. In math the campus continues to increase rigor and align assignments and assessments to the TEKS and making sure students are receiving an intervention, if needed. In ELA the campus is seeking to increase instruction to higher cognitive levels and increase scores on all assessments throughout the year. Campus need to have data to make sure that each student gets an intervention, if needed and need to study the evidence to see if the interventions are having an impact on student learning beyond the primary classroom instruction. The campus need of assistive technology in the classrooms (when utilizing Read Write 11 Program for text to speech/speech to text software) especially for SPED students. Students placed in general education (from Read 180) aren't receiving support in areas of literature and language arts. ELA and ESL need more workshop model as their instructional design and delivery to maximize student engagement, so students are doing the majority of the reading, writing, talking, and

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