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FY24 School Priorities

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Rationale

Create an educational and professional environment promoting high quality teaching which provides well-defined and deliberately designed instruction that is inquiry based, creative, interdisciplinary, technology rich and student centered.

MJHS will offer a robust array of courses, cultivate high-quality teaching, and implement well-defined, deliberately-designed, and engaging instruction, in order to increase academic performance as measured by on-time grade-level promotion, GA Milestone, AP, and IB assessments in all subjects by May 2024.

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Cultivate a counseling and support system which focuses on college and career and empowers students to maximize their opportunities for learning future college studies, and/or post-secondary options.

MJHS will incorporate a system of supports (both academic and personal), in order to provide the needed remediation and SEL guidance for students impacted by the pandemic and other factors in society.

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Build a healthy school culture and climate for students, staff, and parents in the school and community that amplifies and empowers student voice, while incorporating programs such as SEL, PBIS, CAS/SL, student organizations, and No Place for Hate.

MJHS will build a healthy school culture and climate for all students in order to increase student attendance and participation in extra-curricular activities; and decrease suspension rates for all student subgroups.

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Change at Staffing Conference

Impact to Proposed Budget

Created a Full-time Non-instructional Para, instead of an Hourly Hall Monitor

No impact

*Split the funding: CARES 74% / Fund 150 26%)

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*Moved Supply $ from CARES to FUND 150 ~$31,000

Glow

Grow

*Culture & Environment: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Significant increase in number of students entering the DP/CP for the 2023-2024 school year. Also equates to steady increase in minority enrollment partially due to student-led efforts to increase diversity, inclusion, and retention.

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*Teaching & Learning: Professional Learning/Collaborative Planning

Continued difficulty for teachers to regularly and consistently vertically plan across subjects/disciplines -- particularly with regard to Signature Programming.

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Indicator

Time Frame

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Fall 2022

Spring 2023*

Attendance Take Rate

95.5%

93.4%

ADA Attendance Rate

86.5%

87.1%

Students not chronically absent

65.9%

61.2%

Subgroup

Total number of students

OSS Suspension Rate

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Fall 2022

Spring 2023*

Female

756

0.93

1.01

Male

722

.91

1.44

SWD

261

.93

0.93

Black

1085

1.21

1.6

Hispanic

109

.15

0.11

Multi-race

35

0

0.14

White

240

.09

0.09

Asian

N/A

N/A

N/A

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Course Failures

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0

1

2

3+

ADA > 93%

265 (20.2%)

113 (8.6%)

60 (4.6%)

87 (6.6%)

ADA

86% - 93%

85 (6.5%)

77 (5.9%)

73 (5.6%)

149 (11.4%)

ADA <86%

27 (2.1%)

51 (3.9%)

56 (4.3%)

269 (20.5%)

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Fall 2022

Spring 2023

Cohort

N Enrolled in expected grade level

Total Enrolled

% Enrolled in expected grade level

N Enrolled in expected grade level

Total Enrolled

% Enrolled in expected grade level

2023

281

331

85%

292

320

91.3%

2024

294

351

84%

296

343

86.3%

2025

343

389

88%

343

386

88.9%

2026

377

377

100%

371

371

100%

Program

Participation Rate (%)

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Cohort 2022

Cohort 2023

WBL

0

6

CTAE

57

59

Dual Enrollment

0

3

AP

21

53

IB

N/A

20%

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CIP Strategy

Action Step Progress Update

ELA

By the end of the 2022-2023 school year, we will increase the number of students scoring proficient and above on the American Literature Georgia Milestones EOC by 3%.

Increase focus on informational text, in particular incorporating more paired text and evidence-based writing that focuses on key ideas and details.​

• Planning instructional units/lessons inclusive of informational texts
• Creating learning tasks that incorporate evidenced-based writing by way of rhetorical analysis of texts and text-dependent constructed responses
• Creating learning tasks that measure mastery of key ideas and details
• Composing expository/informational essays from paired text

Math

By the end of the 2022-2023 school year, we will increase the number of students scoring proficient and above on the Algebra I Georgia Milestones EOC by 3%.

Increase our focus on the following Standards of Mathematical Practices: (1) Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them; (3) Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others; (5) Use appropriate tools strategically. ​

• Asking students to follow a specific problem-solving process (standard of practice #1)
• Using instructional strategies, such as “Think Aloud,” “Error Analysis,” “Compare and Contrast,” and “Understanding Properties of Graphs” to deepen understanding (standard of practice #3).
• Requiring students to input functions and analyze their graph properties in Desmos (standard of practice #5).

Whole Child & Student Support

To reduce the overall suspension rate from 1.22 to 1.10 or lower, by reducing the occurrences of serious behavior incidences (I.e. Violent offenses and drug offenses).​

• Restorative Practices Coach has helped us move towards both a proactive and restorative approach before conflict and after issues.
• Continue to see Serious Offenses that merit referrals to tribunal, which increases our OSS rate.
• Continue to see the pattern of physical offenses involving groups of students.

Family Engagement

By the end of 2022-2023 School Year, we will create an environment that promotes active engagement, accountability, and collaboration of all stakeholders by engaging with families in quarterly academic nights and at least three parent workshops focused on academic achievement, college readiness, Milestone preparation, and signature programming.

• Held IB/AP Parent Info Night (in-person & live-streamed)
• Held Rising 9th Grade Parent Night (in-person & live-streamed)
• Principal’s Coffee in February focused on upcoming assessments, including Milestones
• Working to reestablishing connection with key community groups
• Planning next Academic Progress Night in March