Zooming out
The district and campus improvement plan features five goals aligned with the district’s strategic plan, which are matched with performance objectives that are unique to each campus, said Stephani Vickery, LTISD assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, at a Dec. 13 meeting. The district regularly checks campuses' progress on the objectives throughout the school year, she said.
The districtwide plan aims to raise opportunities and academic outcomes for emergent bilingual and economically disadvantaged students, increase student and staff attendance, collect data from community members, improve student achievement, and close achievement gaps.
Specific districtwide performance objectives include:
- Establishing a method to collect data on culture and climate from community members, including parents, students and staff, by June
- Increasing career and technical education course completion by 10% for emergent bilingual and economically disadvantaged students
- Increasing the amount of economically disadvantaged students that meet grade level on State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness by 10%
- Ensuring all emergent bilingual students show growth from the previous school year on the Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System
- Improve student achievement in reading and math, and close achievement gaps across all subjects and grade levels
- Increasing student attendance by 1.5% and staff attendance by 5% from the prior year
Lake Travis High School’s improvement plan references:
- Bringing together and engaging the community
- Fostering an inclusive environment with equitable opportunities
- Providing students with the skills for post-secondary success
- Offering staff development for recruitment and retention
- Promoting counseling services and community resources for families
- Increase activities for parental involvement
- Increase the amount of emergent bilingual students that approach, meet or master grade level on the STAAR by 5% from the previous year
- Ask staff to complete a wellness survey
Several elementary campuses will look to:
- Improve student performance, including increasing the number of students that approach and master grade level on STAAR
- Increase participation in diversity awareness initiatives from parents, students and the community
Lake Travis Elementary will seek to improve student behavior, including decreasing in-school suspensions, out-of-school suspensions and placements in a disciplinary alternative education program from the previous school year.
