Conroe ISD outlines targeted improvement plan for Grangerland Intermediate after federal identification

Conroe ISD staff and Grangerland Intermediate School leaders presented a targeted improvement plan Thursday after the campus was identified under federal requirements as needing focused support. The board heard a timeline for community feedback and implementation steps aimed at moving the campus out of the state’s bottom 5% for the applicable accountability domain.

“Year one, which is this year, we must no longer be in the bottom 5% of domain 3,” said the district presenter describing TEA’s identification process. The federal identification triggers a focused planning and monitoring process; if the campus exits the bottom 5% in year one it moves to “comprehensive progress” and then must show a higher score in year two than the score that produced the identification.

District and campus staff said the improvement plan narrows to a set of high-leverage activities: building an instructional leadership team, instituting a frequent observation-and-feedback coaching cycle, ensuring curriculum…