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School Information
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Enter your school's name and your principal's name.
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School:Evergreen Elementary School
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Principal:Janet Fowler
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School Year:2024 - 2025
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Enter the members of your school leadership team.
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SIT Membership
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NameSIT RoleRole in School
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Janet FowlerAdministrationPrincipal
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Rececca WaitAdministrationAssistant Principal
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Brittany SobocinskiAdministrationAdminstrative Intern
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Kara SostreIRT
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Cathy NovakIRT
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Amber WaylandClassroom Teacher5th Grade Teacher
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Rachel SoederClassroom TeacherKindergarten Teacher
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Jill SpringerClassroom TeacherSpecial Education Teacher
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Kassie SlyParent
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Select Role
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This year, our school will focus on:
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Use the boxes below to provide an introduction to your SIP. This introduction also will be used to populate your School Profile (to be posted online after completion). Be sure to note your school’s key strengths, progress made during the prior year, areas for continued growth for the next year, and connection between your school's work and our school system's mission.
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Introduction to your SIP/ School Profile
(appoximately 100 words)		Evergreen Elementary is a green school serving approximately 730 students. By promoting a culture of consistency, we earned a 4-star rating by MSDE in the 2023-2024 school year and maintained an average daily attendance rate of 93.8%. This is reflective of our committment to build a school community that is growth oriented. Our student population includes the following representations: Asian-4.9%; Hispanic-11.48%; African American-13.25%; Two or More-8.33% and White 61.%; Additionally, students with disabilities-7.5% , English Language Learners-3.01% and economically disadvantaged-23.55%. Evergreen is the home to many military families. Evergreen students consistently work hard to perform at or above the SMCPS average on both formative and summative measures of academic achievement.
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Equity Vision Statement
(approximately 50 words)		Evergreen recognizes that a partnership between students, families, and the community builds a strong foundation to empower all students. Students and stakeholders are invested in the pursuits of learning and the building of students' emotional, social, and physical well-being. In pursuit of this mission, we will provide a school family atmosphere within an environment distinguished by feeling respected, safe and valued. Also, we ensure all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities.
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Your School's Key Strengths
(approximately 50 words)		Evergreen has 77 qualified staff members, an active PTO and several community partners. All stateholders value collaboration, team decision-making and celebrating students daily and at monthly "Community Gatherings". When students leave our school, they are proficient, competent readers due to our strong literacy instruction targeting our youngest learners. By providing opportunities in enrichment, differentiation, and interventions we consistently meet rigorous curriculum standards with the use of vetted instructional resources and a variety of supplemental tools for student engagement.
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Progress Made During Prior Year
(approximately 50 words)		Instructional mindsets were shifted to think critically during data meetings about individualized students' needs. Teachers used collected data in ELA and Mathematics to look closely at progress made by economically disadvantaged students. Teachers used the individualized data to plan targeted instruction. EES 4th and 5th grade students continued to make gains in ELA on MCAP by increasing the percentage of proficient learners. This includes a five percent increase in economically disadvantaged and special eduation students scoring proficient on ELA MCAP. In math, 5th grade increased students scoring proficiency by 11%.
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Areas of Continued Growth
for Upcoming Year
(approximately 50 words)		A five year data analysis for ALL Students achieving a Proficient rating in Math has demonstrated a steady line between 51% to 59%. Through a deep instrucitonal reflection, Evergreen will ensure students have opportunities for daily practice with fact fluency and to build on conceputal understanding through "model with mathematics", hands-on learning and targeted small group instruction.
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Connection Between School's Work and SMCPS Mission
(approximately 50 words)		EES teachers and staff value making connections with students and families to build strong, positive relationships. We ensure students receive opportunities to see all the possibilities ahead as they thrive and grow socially, emotionally, and academically.
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