School Innovation and Improvement Plan

2024-2025 School Year

The percentage of Multilingual Learners in grades K-3 that are meeting or exceeding on the VALLSS screener benchmarks from Fall 2024 to Spring 2025 will increase 5 percentage points. The percentage of Multilingual Learners in grades 4-6 on the SOLs will increase 5 percentage points from last year to this year.

The unadjusted percentage of students who pass the Grade 3rd-6th Reading SOL will increase by 5 percentage points from Spring 2024 to Spring 2025.
Leverage use of daily, explicit language comprehension lessons from the new core curriculum for building knowledge and vocabulary.
Increase efficiency of instructional delivery to ensure all students have daily access to all components of the language arts block as outlined in the new core curriculum.
Increase opportunities for students to develop oral language through pair and small group structures that promote engagement.

By the end of the 2024-25 school year, the unadjusted percentage of Black students passing the grade 3-6 Mathematics SOL will increase by 5% percentage points.
By the end of the 2024-25 school year, we will see an increase of 5 percentage points for all students in 3rd-6th grade Mathematics on the SOL. (unadjusted)

Increase teacher's implementation strategies related to Shift 8: from looking for correct answers towards revealing student thinking.
Increase teachers' content knowledge and implementation of the 2023 FCPS mathematics program of studies.
Increase teacher implementation of explicit instruction and other components of effective mathematics intervention.

By the end of June 2025, the chronic absenteeism rate at Daniels Run for the 2024-25 school year will be less than 10% as measured by the FCPS Attendance Dashboard.

Schools will implement practices to recognize good and improved attendance to reinforce attendance and strengthen student and family engagement.
Teachers will use a variety of culturally-responsive practices and communication methods to provide supportive outreach to students and families when student attendance concerns arise.

On the science SOL, we will increase our overall proficiency rate by 5% to 75% before retakes and 81% after retakes.

Expand opportunities to meaningfully integrate science within and across content areas to include literacy skills, mathematical reasoning, and global context.
Use discourse strategies and thinking routines to increase student academic conversations
Increase student access to high quality science instruction through sufficient time on the master schedule and use of up-to-date FCPS curriculum.