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Snapper Creek Elementary is a pre-kindergarten through fifth grade school of 625 students, located in southwest Miami-Dade County . The student membership is as follows: 82 percent Hispanic, 13 percent White non-Hispanic, 3 percent Asian, 1 percent Black, and 1 percent Multicultural. Seventy-five percent of the students are in the standard curriculum program, 14 percent of the students are in the English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program, 7 percent are in the Exceptional Student Education (ESE) program, and 4 percent are in the resource Gifted program. In addition to the academic programs mentioned above the school also offers before and after school activities to include: the Academic Excellence Program (AEP), Chorus, Band, and Safety Patrol, and the Science Club.

 

Given instruction using the Sunshine State Standards, grade three through five students will increase their reading comprehension skills as evidenced by 82 percent of the students scoring at or above FCAT Level 3 on the 2007 FCAT Reading Test.

 

Given instruction using the Sunshine State Standards, grade three through five will increase their mathematics skills as evidence by 77 percent of the students scoring at or above FCAT Level 3 on the 2007 FCAT Mathematics Tests.

 

Given the instruction using the Sunshine State Standards, students in grade four will improve their writing skills as evidenced by 54 percent of students scoring at 4.0 or higher on the 2007 FCAT Writing Plus Test.

 

Given the instruction using the Sunshine State Standards, grade five students will increase their science skills as evidenced 17 percent of students scoring at or above FCAT Level 3 on the 2007 FCAT Science Test.

 

Given additional parental resources provided by the staff, EESAC, and PTSA Board, the number of volunteer hours logged during the 2006-2007 school year will increase by 2 percentage points as compared to 2005-2006 school year as documented in the volunteer log.

 

Given instruction in and practice with conflict resolution skills, there will be a 2 percent decrease in the number of occurrences of aggressive/bullying behaviors as evidenced by a decrease in the number of referrals classified as general disruptive behavior as reported in the 2006-2007 SMCs reports compared to 2005-2006 SMCs reports.

 

Given school wide emphasis on technology, teachers in grades kindergarten through fifth will develop one unit per plan per grade level in each grading period that integrates technology and documented by teachers’ long-range lesson plans and student samples.

 

Given social emphasis on the importance of good health and fitness, Snapper Creek Elementary will increase the percent of students eating breakfast in 2006-2007 as compared to 2005-2006 as documented by the May 2007 (#T0960850) food service management statistical report.

 

Given emphasis in providing opportunities for growth in creative and critical thinking, Snapper Creek Elementary will promote electives and clubs so that 20 percent of the eligible student body will participate in extracurricular activities as documented by club rosters.

 

Snapper Creek Elementary will improve its ranking on the State of Florida Return on Investment index publication from the 66th percentile on the next publication of the index.

 

Our activities will complement our mission to provide quality education through an environment where children thrive academically and emotionally, and in which faculty and staff will experience professional growth to meet their full potential. A review of the data provided by the “Organizational Performance Improvement Snapshot” survey tool indicates that the faculty and staff need further information on how the school is doing financially, as well as clearer communication about information needed to do their work. The administration plans to communicate financial information through faculty meetings and EESAC meetings so that the faculty and staff better understand the school budget. Communication will be improved through utilizing e-mail, weekly staff bulletins, vertical team meetings, weekly grade-level planning, the Literacy Leadership Team, and department chairpersons. By providing additional information about school budget and communicating more effectively, we hope to improve the school environment.

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