Lisa Dacko

This Schoolwide Title 1 School Plan serves as a roadmap for Bentworth Elementary School, focusing on integrating academic standards, adapting to educational changes, and making student-centered decisions. Key priorities include incorporating academic standards, fostering a balanced K-12 education system with accountability, and utilizing data-driven approaches. The plan highlights strengths in reading instruction, multi-sensory models, and the MTSS/RtII philosophy, while addressing challenges such as a decline in 4th-grade ELA performance, the need for continued Tier II and Tier III interventions in early literacy, and the impact of rising poverty rates and the pandemic on student achievement. Strategic goals aim to increase Acadience Daze and Reading Composite scores for specific grade levels to meet statewide benchmarks by 2030.

The Bentworth School District aims to create an educational system that prepares all students for their futures. The plan outlines a vision to incorporate academic standards, adapt to educational changes based on student needs and available resources, and foster an integrated K-12 system with a focus on accountability. Strategic goals include increasing the academic performance of underperforming students, ensuring consistent implementation of effective instructional practices across all classrooms, and providing specially designed instruction for children with disabilities. These goals will be supported through strategies such as differentiated instruction and positive behavior support.

The Bentworth School District's comprehensive plan is designed to cultivate an educational system where all students discover and develop their purpose, fostering passion and pride in their achievements. The plan focuses on integrating academic standards with practical application, adapting educational processes, and ensuring an integrated K-12 system with accountability. Key strategic priorities include the full implementation of new STEELS standards in K-12 Science classes, continuous curriculum alignment with state standards across all instructional areas, and providing professional development for educators on the ethical and effective integration of AI tools to enhance instruction and learning.

The professional development plan focuses on enhancing educator skills and knowledge to improve student outcomes. Key areas include integrating STEELS standards into the curriculum, structured literacy, language and literacy acquisition, teaching diverse learners, trauma-informed care, and professional ethics. The plan aims to meet the professional education needs of the school entity and its employees, ensuring they can address the specific needs of all students, including diverse learners, and contribute to closing achievement gaps.

The Bentworth School District's comprehensive plan for 2025-2028 focuses on creating an educational system that assists all students in finding and developing their purpose, becoming passionate about their purpose, and taking pride in their accomplishments. Key areas include aligning curriculum with state standards, implementing STEELS standards in science classrooms, and integrating AI tools into instruction. The plan addresses challenges such as improving math proficiency, supporting diverse learners, and enhancing community partnerships, with goals to foster academic excellence, continuous improvement, and ethical technology use.