Big Horn County School District 2

This document, a Report Card to the Community, outlines the strategic direction for Big Horn County School District #2, aiming to ensure a learning environment where all students maximize their potential and become responsible, productive citizens. Key strategic goals include fostering student graduation, critical thinking, academic achievement, and mental wellness, along with ensuring reading competency by third grade. The plan also emphasizes selecting, supporting, and retaining collaborative educators, and cultivating a school culture that strengthens all students' skills and abilities. The district is committed to inspiring growth, leadership, and lifelong learning, preparing students to adapt to an ever-changing world.

This School Improvement Plan for Lovell High School outlines a year-long strategy to enhance student performance and outcomes. It focuses on three priority practices: improving Tier 1 instructional effectiveness, strengthening student interventions and flexible support, and advancing data-informed planning. The plan aims to achieve measurable improvements in academic growth, achievement, equity, graduation rates, and post-secondary readiness by refining curriculum, fostering professional collaboration, providing targeted student support, and utilizing comprehensive assessment data for continuous improvement.

This School Improvement Plan for Lovell Middle School outlines a year-long strategy to enhance student academic and behavioral outcomes. The plan prioritizes professional development (D1) and improved Tier 1 instruction (E3), focusing on refining practices, narrowing the scope to essential standards, and ensuring vertical alignment. It emphasizes the implementation of a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) framework, including high-quality Tier 1 instructional practices and targeted Tier 2 interventions. The plan sets measurable performance goals for WAEA and ESSA indicators, as well as specific content areas such as ELA, Math, and Science.

The strategic plan for Big Horn County School District #2 focuses on creating a learning environment where all students can maximize their potential and become responsible citizens. The plan is guided by core values, including ensuring a safe environment, effective teaching, reading proficiency, character development, accountability, positive learning environments, meaningful relationships, and a guaranteed curriculum. Key goals include achieving a 100% graduation rate, ensuring every child is proficient in reading by the end of 3rd grade, meeting or exceeding expectations set by the Wyoming Accountability in Education Act (WAEA) and the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), establishing a well-aligned K-12 curriculum based on Wyoming standards, and maintaining a cumulative average ACT score of 22 or better for each graduating class at Lovell High School.

This Early Literacy plan details the instructional differentiation plan for reading across grade levels K-4 in Big Horn County School District #2. The plan outlines core instruction using evidence-based programs like American Reading Company and Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum, along with supplemental interventions such as IRLA Toolkit lessons, Lexia Skill Builder, Reading Recovery, and Decoding Power, tailored to meet the needs of students at or above grade level, somewhat below grade level, and significantly below grade level. The plan specifies the length of daily reading blocks (90 minutes) and the duration of supplemental interventions (45-60 minutes, 4-5 days a week).