2023- 2024 School Innovation and Improvement Plan
Outcome goals for this academic year.
Fairfax County Public Schools
School Innovation and Improvement Plan
- 2023-2024
- Falls Church High School
- Region 2
- Ben Nowak, Principal
Outcome
- By the end of SY 23-24, 100% of students (Grade 9-12) will have earned sufficient cumulative credit to advance to the next grade level.
Strategies
- Increase student course success through Tier 2 interventions.
- Monitor student data and use data to determine need for intervention and additional support
Outcome
- By the end of the 2023-2024 school year, Falls Church High School will increase student success in honors courses by 20% based on last year's results (an increase of 9.6% overall from 48% to 57.6%). Additionally, students in the English Language Learner or Special Education cohort will increase success in honors courses by at least 20% at the end of the 2023-2024 school year.
Strategies
- Improve student engagement through consistent rigorous and relevant learning experiences.
- Monitor student data and use data to determine need for intervention and additional support.
- Increase enrollment in AVID (and/or other CSP programs) at participating schools.
Outcome
- 2023 the Dropout rate was 10.6%. We will reach the goal of 6% (minimum 9%).
Strategies
- Designate and optimize a graduation team focused on analyzing, tracking, and monitoring student data relating to students' successful progress and completion of graduation requirements with high frequency.
- Ensure that communication to EL families is in a language and form they can understand.
- Develop transition program with tiered supports for newly-enrolled students (i.e. mentor programs, student and family education).
Outcome
- By the end of the 2023-2024 school year, Falls Church High School will reduce chronic absenteeism from 23.7% to 15%.
Strategies
- Strengthen school team practices to monitor attendance data and determine need for intervention and additional support.
- Strengthening messaging to staff, students and families around attendance to school. Each stakeholder should be able to understand how daily attendance matters, not only for academic success, but because school offers an opportunity to develop social and emotional skills such as listening, paying attention, problem-solving and self-regulation, all which are needed to grow and learn.
- Understand root causes of student absenteeism. Strengthen programmatic responses to attendance barriers.
Outcome
- By the end of SY 23-24, the risk ratio for all sub groups will be less than 2.0.
Strategies
- Utilize an MTSS framework to establish and organize a schoolwide continuum of proactive behavior and wellness supports.
- Ensure all adults have the professional knowledge and capacity to value diversity, promote inclusion, and utilize culturally responsive practices.
- Integrate consistent analysis of discipline data disaggregated by subgroups (race/ethnicity, SWD, EL, FRM).
Outcome
- 70% of students with disabilities (unadjusted) will score pass or pass advanced on the Virginia Standards of Learning Assessment.
Strategies
- Strengthen Tier 1 instructional and intervention practices to best support foundational gaps in Algebra 1 standards.
- Intensive 1-1 tutoring & Small group tutoring.
- Algebra 1 and Algebra 2 teachers will use standards-based grading to better communicate student performance and to better identify areas of strength and needs with the curriculum.
Outcome
- By June 2024, the 2024 cohort will have a CCCRI calculated rate of 84.5%
Strategies
- Increase the collective responsibility of ALL staff in supporting school-wide On-Time Graduation and Academic and Career Planning efforts to include CCCRI (i.e. PD around mindset, cultivating belonging, positive interactions with students).
- Carefully review academic records and cumulative updates for newly-enrolled students to gain CCCRI experiences (i.e. academic advising for AP/IB/DE, HQWBL, CTE completer and credential, Service Learning).
- Designate and optimize a CCCRI team (can be combined with the graduation team) focused on analyzing, tracking, and monitoring student data relating to students' successful progress and completion of CCCRI and graduation requirements with high frequency.
