School Innovation & Improvement Plan

• 2024-2025
• Saratoga Elementary School
• Region 6
• Abigail Ragan, Principal

English Language Arts 

Outcome

Universal Reading Goal: 

The percentage of students in grades K-3 meeting or exceeding the VALLSS screener benchmarks will increase by 5 percentage points from fall 2024 to spring 2025.

Targeted Reading Goal:

The percentage of students with disabilities in grades K-3 meeting or exceeding VALLSS screener benchmarks will increase by 5 percentage points from fall 2024 to spring 2025.

Strategies

•  Improve integrity of implementation of new core curriculum, English Language Development program, and/or intervention programs by using FCPS-adopted resources with fidelity.
• Use embedded formative assessments in the new core curriculum to guide tier 1 and tier 2 instructional decisions.
• Increase opportunities for students to develop oral language through pair and small group structures that promote engagement.

Mathematics 

Outcome

Universal Math Goal:

By the end of the 2024-25 school year the percentage of students meeting or exceeding the iReady grade level benchmark will increase by at least 5%.

Targeted Math Goal:

By the end of the 2024-25 school year the percentage of students with disabilities and multilingual learners meeting or exceeding the iReady grade level benchmark will increase by at least 5%.

Strategies

• Increase teacher implementation of explicit instruction and other components of effective mathematics intervention
• Increase teacher's implementation of strategies and conversation structures that increase academic talk between students related to Shift 4: from show and tell to share and compare
• Increase teachers' content knowledge and implementation of the 2023 FCPS mathematics program of studies.

For additional information regarding this School Plan, please contact Principal Abby Ragan