Lee Shane Holman

The Giddings Independent School District's improvement plan is designed to prepare all students with the academic, leadership, and interpersonal knowledge and skills necessary for success in college, military, or a career. Its strategic pillars include fostering student achievement, providing clean and safe facilities, enhancing community relations, utilizing technology to support instruction and administration, ensuring fiscal responsibility, prioritizing safety and security for all staff and students, and supporting high-quality extracurricular programs.

This document outlines a Targeted Improvement Plan for Giddings Elementary School for the 2020-2021 school year. The plan focuses on enhancing student outcomes through objective-driven daily lesson plans, data-driven instruction, and the development of instructional leaders. Key strategic areas include curriculum and assessment alignment with TEKS, recruiting and retaining highly qualified educators, and utilizing accountability data from 2019 to set measurable goals across academic domains for all students and specific subgroups. The plan emphasizes continuous monitoring and adjustment through quarterly cycles.

This Continuous Improvement Plan aims to meet 100% highly qualified teacher requirements by the end of the 2013-2014 school year. Key objectives include increasing the percentage of highly qualified core academic subject area teachers and classes on all campuses to 100%, enhancing professional development, ensuring equitable distribution of highly qualified teachers for low-income and minority students, attracting and retaining highly qualified educators, and assisting current teachers in meeting qualification standards. The plan outlines strategies such as verifying qualifications of applicants, establishing a pool of qualified candidates, implementing professional development, and providing mentoring and incentives.

This document details the Giddings ISD Internet Safety Plan, focusing on compliance with the Children's Internet Safety Act (CIPA). The plan outlines the implementation of Lightspeed Systems Web Filter for comprehensive content filtering and access control, includes monitoring of student and staff online activities with regular reporting, and provides a structured curriculum for teaching Internet safety to K-12 students. Key educational topics include cyberbullying awareness, appropriate online behavior, and safe interaction on social media and chat platforms.

The Giddings Independent School District's District Improvement Plan serves as a roadmap to prepare all students for success in college, military, or career in the 21st Century. Key strategic areas include enhancing student achievement, maintaining quality facilities, strengthening community relations, integrating technology, ensuring fiscal responsibility, prioritizing safety and security, and supporting extracurricular programs. The plan also details evaluation criteria for state programs aimed at improving outcomes for at-risk, emergent bilingual, and economically disadvantaged students, aligning with state standards for student performance.