| School Name | Blanche Ely HS (0361) | School Grade (2025 - 2026) | C |
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Using the data below, describe all intervention strategies employed by the school to improve the academic performance of students identified by the early warning system. Level 1 on ELA and Math Statewide Assessments
Students entering the year at Level 1 based on 2025–2026 statewide ELA and mathematics assessments require an intentional instructional response that accelerates growth while maintaining access to rigorous, grade-level learning. For students in Grades 9–10, the priority is to strengthen core instruction and accelerate movement from their current starting points toward proficiency. For Grades 11–12 who have not met the ELA graduation assessment requirement, the priority includes intentional intervention and targeted support to increase success across multiple testing cycles and pathways to an approved concordant score.Strategic Approach for Improvement. Blanche Ely High School is implementing a differentiated, data-driven system of instructional support for Level 1 students in ELA and mathematics that maintains grade-level rigor while varying the intensity, scaffolding, grouping, and type of support based on demonstrated student need. For ELA and mathematics core courses, instructional improvement will center on the school's seven high-impact Tier 1 instructional areas, with three primary areas of emphasis: • Standards-Aligned Rigor: Plan and deliver instruction aligned to grade-level standards, achievement level descriptors, and applicable assessment limits. Scaffolds will provide students access to rigorous learning without reducing the cognitive demand of the standard. • Teacher-Directed Small-Group Scaffolding: Use flexible, needs-based groups to provide explicit instruction, modeling, guided practice, feedback, and targeted scaffolding connected to grade-level learning. • Data-Driven Intervention and Acceleration: Use formative assessment and progress-monitoring evidence to identify learning gaps, establish and adjust student groups, provide targeted remediation or acceleration, and determine next instructional steps. For Grades 11–12 students who have not met the ELA graduation assessment requirement, intentional intervention will provide targeted instructional support designed to increase success across multiple testing cycles and concordant-score opportunities. Student-level evidence will identify priority skill gaps, inform targeted groupings and push-in/small-group instruction, and determine adjustments following each testing cycle to strengthen readiness for subsequent opportunities. Building Instructional Capacity In addition to the aforementioned, teachers will strengthen intentional planning and instructional practice through guided collaborative planning, job-embedded professional learning, classroom observation and feedback, and differentiated support based on evidence of teacher practice and student-learning outcomes. Instructional coaches will use the coaching cycle to connect planning, implementation, evidence of student learning, reflection, and instructional adjustment. Support will be differentiated and may include co-planning, modeling, co-teaching, observation and feedback, and direct small-group push-in support, strengthening teacher capacity while providing timely instructional assistance to students. Monitoring for Impact Implementation and impact will be monitored through PM1, PM2, intermittent common formative assessments leading to PM3, classroom evidence, and student-level progress monitoring. In ELA and mathematics, evidence will be used to determine whether Level 1 students are closing identified learning gaps, demonstrating measurable growth, and progressing toward proficiency. For Grades 11–12 students who have not met the ELA graduation requirement, monitoring will additionally include performance across multiple testing cycles, progress toward concordant-score benchmarks, and attainment of the graduation requirement. Results will drive timely adjustments to instruction, student grouping, intervention intensity, coaching, and direct instructional support throughout the year. COURSE FAILURE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS AND MATHEMATICS
ELA course failures decreased from 404 in 2024–2025 to 239 in 2025–2026, a 40.8% reduction. Math course failure decreased from 299 in 2024-2025 to 41 in 2025-2026, a reduction of 86%. Despite this progress, school discovery processes identified opportunities to strengthen the systems supporting successful course completion. Teacher feedback identifies non-completion and non-submission of work as contributing factors, while student feedback identifies concerns with timely grading and feedback. These findings highlight the need to strengthen how student learning is monitored during instruction, ensure graded work provides meaningful evidence of standards mastery, provide timely feedback students can act upon, and activate support before academic concerns result in course failure.
Strategy for Improvement Implement a proactive ELA course-success system connecting standards-aligned learning evidence, active progress monitoring, timely feedback and grading, student accountability, family communication, and coordinated intervention. • Instructional Monitoring and Accountability. Teachers will actively monitor student engagement, understanding, completion of essential learning, and evidence of mastery throughout the instructional process. Students not demonstrating expected progress will receive timely conferencing, reteaching, scaffolding, small-group support, and structured opportunities to address unfinished or unmet learning expectations. • Meaningful Evidence and Timely Feedback. Collaborative planning will strengthen alignment between graded work, standards, and intended learning outcomes so that grades provide meaningful evidence of student learning. Teachers will provide actionable feedback and maintain gradebook entries within established expectations, allowing students, families, and support personnel to respond to current information. • Early Intervention and Family Communication. Patterns of missing essential work, declining performance, or insufficient evidence of mastery will trigger early intervention and parent/guardian communication. Communication will identify the concern, actions needed for improvement, available supports, and follow-up needed to monitor progress. • Coordinated Student Support. Counseling, ESE, ELL, instructional support, and administrative teams will provide differentiated assistance based on student need. For students with disabilities and English language learners, monitoring will include implementation of appropriate accommodations, language supports, scaffolds, and required services. Progress monitring will also indicate and move to action the referal of students to the CPS/MTSS process for further discoveries and support interventions as needed. • Study Hall as an Academic Support. Scheduled study hall will be intentionally leveraged for students at risk of course failure to receive assistance with essential outstanding work, identified learning gaps, and current core-course expectations. Coordination with core teachers will help prioritize the learning most critical to successful course completion. Monitoring for Impact Course-success data will be reviewed throughout each marking period using course grades, gradebook currency, essential missing work, student-learning evidence, attendance, intervention participation, family communication, and response to support. Monitoring will move beyond identifying who is failing to determining why a student is not yet successful, what support has been provided, and whether that support is producing improvement. Findings will drive timely adjustments to instruction, intervention, family communication, study hall assistance, and other student supports. Early Warning Assigned Focus 1 - Attendance |
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| By May of 2027, 68% of Biology students, as assessed by the 2027 End of Course Exam, will score a level 3 or higher based on baseline data from last year's EOY accountability science score of 65%. | Collabroation with Literacy coach, as well as, district personelle to assist with training and PD needs to support the curriculum implementation. | N/A | The majority of the monitoring will be done through the monitoring of CFA and BSA data. In addition, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| By May of 2027, 42% of 9th-10th graders, as assessed by FAST PM 3 in 2027, will score a level 3 or higher based on baseline data from last year's PM 3: 9th grade 52% of students scored a 1 or 2; 10th grade 52% scored a 1 or 2. | Professional development will focus on improving the quality and consistency of mathematics instruction. Topics will include: 1. Florida B.E.S.T. Mathematics Standards and benchmark alignment. 2. High-impact mathematics instructional practices. 3. Mathematical discourse and reasoning. 4. Effective questioning and checks for understanding. 5. Differentiation and small-group mathematics instruction. 6. Using formative assessment data to plan instruction. 7. Addressing prerequisite skills and unfinished learning. 8. Increasing student engagement with rigorous, multi-step tasks. 9. Effective intervention and progress monitoring. Professional development will be provided through PLCs, coaching cycles, lesson modeling, collaborative planning, and targeted faculty training based on walkthrough and student-performance data. | N/A | The Mathematics Area of Focus will be monitored through a continuous Assess- Analyze- Plan- Implement Monitor\, Adjust cycle. The leadership team will: • Review FAST and district mathematics assessment data at each available assessment window. • Review common formative assessment data every 3–4 weeks. • Monitor student progress through intervention progress-monitoring assessments. • Conduct regular classroom walkthroughs to determine implementation of standards-aligned mathematics instruction. • Review PLC data and lesson-planning evidence weekly. • Monitor tutoring participation and student outcomes. • Disaggregate mathematics data by grade level and applicable student groups to identify achievement gaps. • Adjust instructional strategies, intervention groups, and professional-development support when students are not demonstrating adequate growth. | Mathematics proficiency will increase from 39% to at least 42% by May 2027, with evidence of increased student growth across grade levels and student groups. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Measurable Outcome (SMART GOAL) By May of 2027, 55% of 9th-10th graders, as assessed by FAST PM 3 in 2027, will score a level 3 or higher based on baseline data from last year's PM 3: 9th grade 52% of students scored a 1 or 2; 10th grade 52% scored a 1 or 2. | Professional learning will support the intentional strengthening of Tier 1 ELA instruction and will be job-embedded, evidence-informed, and differentiated based on teacher and student need. 1. Standards-focused instructional planning and decision-making: Strengthening teacher understanding of the depth, progression, rigor, and intended student outcomes of B.E.S.T. ELA standards and using Item Specifications, Achievement Level Descriptors, adopted curriculum resources, student work, and formative evidence to make intentional instructional decisions. 2. Guided Collaborative Planning facilitation and instructional leadership: Building the capacity of administrators, the literacy coach, ELA department leadership, and teacher leaders to facilitate standards- and evidence-focused collaborative planning, support productive instructional decision-making, and maintain alignment while preserving teacher autonomy. 3. High-quality implementation of BEHS Tier 1 instructional practices: Strengthening teacher capacity in the seven identified instructional areas of focus, with professional learning responsive to evidence from the Guided Collaborative Planning-aligned classroom walkthrough protocol, student work, formative assessments, and student-performance data. Learning may include modeling, co-planning, coaching, observation of effective practice, targeted workshops, and follow-up support rather than relying solely on whole-group professional development. 4. Using evidence to differentiate teacher and student support: Building administrator, coach, and teacher-leader capacity to analyze multiple sources of evidence, identify the specific nature of instructional and student-learning needs, and determine the appropriate type, intensity, and duration of support. This includes strengthening the planning and implementation of targeted small groups for intervention, acceleration, and enrichment and effectively leveraging academic coach and ESE/ELL push-in support. 5. Data conversations, goal setting, and action planning: Strengthening the capacity of leadership and ELA teachers to move from data analysis to action by using FAST PM1 and PM2, intermittent common formative assessments, student work, and other evidence to establish goals, determine instructional responses, monitor progress, and make adjustments leading up to PM3. Professional learning will also support teachers in facilitating meaningful student data conversations, goal setting, and action planning. Professional learning effectiveness will be monitored through changes in classroom implementation, evidence from Guided Collaborative Planning, the aligned classroom walkthrough protocol, student work and formative evidence, and student-performance trends. Findings will inform subsequent professional learning and differentiated coaching support, creating an ongoing cycle of learning, implementation, evidence, feedback, and refinement. | BEHS will monitor the ELA Area of Focus through a continuous, triangulated evidence cycle that examines both implementation and impact. Evidence will include Guided Collaborative Planning artifacts and commitments, Guided Collaborative Planning-aligned classroom walkthrough data, student work and formative evidence, FAST PM1 and PM2 results, and intermittent common formative assessments leading up to FAST PM3. A key monitoring tool will be the Guided Collaborative Planning-aligned classroom walkthrough protocol, which provides a common evidence framework for determining whether the instructional decisions and commitments established through collaborative planning are evident in classroom practice. Because the protocol is aligned to BEHS's seven high-yield Tier 1 instructional practices, walkthrough evidence allows the school to examine the quality and consistency of implementation across ELA classrooms, with particular attention to standards alignment and rigor, student thinking and understanding, instructional responsiveness, and differentiated support. Consistent with the BEHS Learning Walk Protocol, evidence focuses on student understanding rather than simply task completion or compliance. Leadership and instructional-support teams will triangulate implementation evidence with student-learning evidence at established monitoring points to identify patterns across grade levels, courses, classrooms, standards, student groups, and individual students. FAST PM1 and PM2 will provide key progress-monitoring benchmarks, while intermittent common formative assessments will provide ongoing evidence of student learning and response to instruction between FAST windows and leading up to PM3. This analysis will determine whether improvements in instructional practice correspond with improvements in student performance and where instructional or support gaps persist. Findings will inform timely decisions regarding instructional priorities and differentiated teacher and student support, with subsequent evidence used to determine whether adjustments are producing the intended impact. Progress toward the desired outcome will culminate with FAST PM3, with the goal of at least 55% of students in grades 9 and 10 demonstrating proficiency at Level 3 or higher by May 2027. This monitoring approach enables BEHS to continuously examine two critical indicators of progress: the extent to which strengthened ELA instructional practices are evident in classroom implementation and the extent to which those improvements translate into stronger student learning and performance. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 0361_07082026_SIP_CERP_-School-Based-Reading--Plan-26-27.pdf | Andrea Smith | 9/3/2026 |
| Literacy-Leadership-Meeting-Agenda-Sept-2026.pdf | Andrea Smith | 9/4/2026 |
| Literacy-Leader-Meeting-Sign-in-Sept-2026-(1).pdf | Andrea Smith | 9/14/2026 |
| 0361BEHS_07082026_SIP-CERP-Literacy-Leadership-Team-Contact-Information-26-27.pdf | Andrea Smith | 9/25/2026 |
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| 0621_07082026_SAM-Endnotes--Rubric-&-Guiding-Questions-Updated-3.14.25.pdf | Andrea Smith | 9/3/2026 |
| BEHS_MTSS_Action_Plan_2026-2027[1].pdf | Andrea Smith | 9/4/2026 |
| BEHS_SAM_Report_2025-2026[1].pdf | Andrea Smith | 9/4/2026 |
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| Schoolwide-Positive-Behavior-Plan---2026-2027.pdf | Malcolm Spence | 4/30/2026 |
| Blanche-Ely-HS-SPBP-Feedback-Form-26.pdf | Desiree Montalvo | 5/12/2026 |
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| BEHS_Attendance_Plan_2026-2027[1].pdf | Andrea Smith | 9/8/2026 |
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| BEHS_SIP_School-Counseling-and-LSW-Plans_26-27.pdf | Masharie Powell | 9/15/2026 |
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