2022-2023 Irving MS | Region 4

Cindy Conley, Principal

Background: The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER III) is a federal grant which requires that spending be used in specific areas.  Part of the Fairfax County Public Schools spending plan identifies funding to be used for Unfinished Learning and Student Academic and Social, Emotional, Mental Health/Wellness Needs.  Schools have been given funding allocations to support the academic and wellness needs of students.  Schools are required to create plans in English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Wellness highlighting the strategies they will use to support these areas using their ESSER III funding.  These strategies are shown below.

ESSER III English Language Arts Strategies

Outcome: Ensure students are making sufficient progress to be on grade level in English Language Arts.

Goal: By the end of the school year, 100% of our students will show growth in literacy through at least once of the common assessments - WIMS English Common Assessment, VGA/SOL, and/or RI. Students already passing advanced will maintain this high performance level.

Strategy 1:

Improve foundational reading support and instruction at the Tier 1 level within all classes.

Strategy 2:

Utilize ROCK Block/Advisory time and after school interventions to meet students needs for Tier 2 support.

Strategy 3:

Provide professional development and resources for teachers to determine what is needed to support students in a Tier 3 academic support setting.

ESSER III Mathematics Strategies

Outcome: Ensure students are making sufficient progress to be on grade level in Mathematics.

Goal: By the end of the school year, 100% of our students will show growth in Math through at least one of the common assessments - WIMS Math Content Specific Common Assessment, VGA/SOL, and/or MI. Students already passing advanced will maintain this high performance level.

Strategy 1:

Improve foundational math support and instruction at the Tier 1 level within math classrooms.

Strategy 2:

Utilize ROCK Block/Advisory time and after school interventions to meet students needs for Tier 2 support.

Strategy 3:

Provide professional development and resources for teachers instructing students in Tier 3 setting.

ESSER III Wellness Strategies

Outcome: Ensure students feel safe, included, and supported in the school environment.

Goal: By the end of the 2022-2023 school year, every student at Irving Middle School will be able to name a trusted adult that they can go to throughout the school year.

Strategy 1:

Utilize ROCK Block (advisory) to have all students participate in lessons that help staff build relationships with students and students build relationships with peers, staff, and themselves. 

Strategy 2:

Staff will participate in model advisories to ensure they are utilizing best practices in their own advisories so that students can build relationships with each other and staff.

Strategy 3:

Provide tiered interventions for students who may be in need of assistance when experiencing varying levels of anxiety or in need of assistance getting back to a level where they are available for learning, during the school day.

Portrait of a Graduate (POG)

Goal Part 1 - At the end of the 2021-2022 school year, approximately 200 students will participate in a mini presentation of learning or full presentation of learning focusing on Portrait of a Graduate attributes and skills and show growth in self-selected POG attributes and skills as determined by a self rated rubric and teacher/panel rated rubric. This pilot represents a cross section of all represented groups in WIMS to include - Special Education, General Education, ESOL, Honors, all race and ethnicities, and SES. The purpose of the pilot is a phased approach for logistics as well as lessons learned from students and teacher pilot participants in order to fully expand to school wide implementation in the 2022-2023 school year.

Goal Part 2 - At the end of the 2022-2023 school year, all students will participate in either a Service Learning Portrait of a Graduate mini-presentation of learning (7th grade) or full presentation of learning focusing (8th grade) on showing growth evidenced by a self rated rubric and teacher/panel rated rubric.

Strategy 1:

Students will utilize Schoology Portfolios in Advisory to compile evidence of growth throughout the school year in 2 POG attributes and up to 3 POG skills. 

Strategy 2:

Teachers will continue to feature and continuously connect lessons with POG skills the students will be using each period.