2021-2022 ESSER III/SIIP At-a-Glance

• 2021-2022 | McNair Elementary School | Region 5 | Merrell V Dade, 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: Instructional staff will re-engage in and deepen their understanding of Tier 1 practices to increase student achievement.

Strategy 2: Instructional staff will develop and implement data-driven interventions via the MTSS process.

Strategy 3: McNair Elementary will develop and implement opportunities to collaborate with families around literacy in order to build consistency between home and school.

ESSER III Mathematics Strategies

Outcome: Ensure students are making sufficient progress to be on grade level in Mathematics.

Strategy 1: Instructional staff will re-engage in and deepen their understanding of Tier 1 practices to increase student achievement.

Strategy 2: Instructional staff will develop and implement data-driven interventions via the MTSS process.

 

ESSER III Wellness Strategies

Outcome: Ensure students feel safe, included, and supported in the school environment.

Strategy 1: Instructional staff will strengthen Tier 1 practices and supports around social-emotional learning in order to increase student access to instruction.

Strategy 2: Instructional staff will develop and implement data-driven interventions and strategies to support students' social-emotional learning.

Strategy 3: Instructional staff will develop and enhance their repertoire of strategies to support relationship building in the classroom.

 

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: By the end of the 2021-2022 school year, there will be at least an increase of 15% in classroom and school-wide practices as they align with developmental progressions for students as measured by team-developed look-fors.

Strategy 1: Instructional staff will gain/deepen their understanding of child development and how students learn, and implement practices to support increased student achievement.

 

 

McNair Upper ES

Region 5

Melissa Goddin, Principal

English Language Arts

Outcome: Ensure students are making sufficient progress to be on grade level in English Language Arts.

Goal: By the end of the 2022-2023 school year, all students who perform at or below the 39th percentile on the fall iReady Universal Screener will demonstrate growth in the iReady Phonological Awareness and Phonics domains, resulting in meeting or exceeding their stretch growth in the spring 2023 window.

• Strategy 1: Through daily systematic explicit instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, and morphology in the core language arts block, students will be able to read and understand grade level texts.
• Strategy 2: As a school community, all students will engage in our daily school-wide intervention block, Mustang Learning, where they will receive targeted tier one reteaching.
• Strategy 3: Through a scaffolded MTSS process, students who require targeted tier two and tier three intervention support will be identified and receive services.

Mathematics

Outcome: Ensure students are making sufficient progress to be on grade level in Mathematics.

Goal: By the end of the 2022-2023 school year, all students participating in a targeted tier two or tier three math intervention, will either meet or exceed their stretch growth goal in the spring 2023 window.

• Strategy 1: As a school community, all students will engage in our daily school-wide intervention block, Mustang Learning, where they will receive targeted tier one reteaching.
• Strategy 2: As a school community, all students will engage in our daily school-wide intervention block, Mustang Learning, where they will receive targeted tier reteaching.

Wellness

Outcome: Ensure students feel safe, included, and supported in the school environment.

Goal: By the end of the 2022-2023 school year, our school community will embed a daily Morning Meeting to the start of each instructional day where students will be taught strategies to build relationships with others through direct teaching and modeling of self-management practices that they can apply in different situations and settings. 

• Strategy 1: Students will be explicitly taught strategies to build relationships with others through the staffs’ use of the Morning Meeting book as an anchor text.
• Strategy 2: Creation of a "The Morning Meeting" folder, a school-wide shared Google Drive containing resources for all staff to support facilitating a Morning Meeting where students will be taught strategies to build relationships with others through direct teaching and modeling of self-management practices that they can apply in different situations and settings. 
• Strategy 3: Select students will participate in small group counseling support and mentorships to address student socio-emotional and behavioral needs; and parent engagement opportunities.
• Strategy 4: All students and families will benefit from positive feedback regarding student behavior, wellness, and overall sense of belonging in the school community.

Portrait of a Graduate (POG)

Outcome: All students will complete a POG Presentation of Learning (POL) by 2025-26.

Goal: By the end of 2022-2023 school year, 100% of students will begin engaging in POG practices by having opportunities to self-reflect on their growth.

• Strategy 1: All instructional staff will develop an understanding of how to implement POG practices throughout their instructional day by participating in ongoing professional development.
• Strategy 2: All students will begin to develop an understanding of how to self-reflect as a part of the learning about POG Practices.