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Board approves Sampson Middle School improvement plan aimed at steady gains in reading, math and special education
Summary
The Clinton City Schools Board of Education on Oct. 16 approved Sampson Middle School's school improvement plan, which aims to raise proficiency and growth through AVID strategies, common assessments, targeted interventions and monthly data dives.
The Clinton City Schools Board of Education on Oct. 16 approved Sampson Middle School's school improvement plan, a multi-year strategy school leaders said is intended to lift the school out of its Targeted Support and Improvement (TSI) designation by raising proficiency and student growth across subjects.
Sampson Middle School Principal Dr. Tony Fason told the board the team set cautious, measurable goals and built the plan around regular data review: "We are headed in the right direction," he said, describing recent subgroup gains and a focus on teacher-led data conversations.
The plan sets an elementary-to-middle school frame of specific, subject-level targets. Seventh-grade ELA lead teacher Chenoa Acosta said the school's ELA target is a 5-percentage-point increase (from a reported 44.1% grade-level reading proficiency to a target of about 49.1%) and described classroom and curriculum steps to reach it: expansion of AVID instructional strategies, focused vocabulary…
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