GPS FOR SCHS

GUIDED PROGRAM TO SUCCESS

SUGARCREEK HIGH SCHOOL

SCHS MOTTO… “DEDICATED TO EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION”

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SUCCESSOVERALL TARGET

DESTINATION "The

Best High School

in Texas!”

PURPOSE OF GPS... GUIDED PROGRAM TO SUCCESS

GPS is the Organizational Model developed by the SCHS

School Improvement Committee for the purpose of bringing

improvement to Sugar Creek High School

GPS is a model designed to help SCHS attain Excellence in

Education for all students

The aim of the GPS paradigm model is to raise the standards

at SCHS to the highest possible excellence in literacy,

numeracy, and will address the needs of the whole child

The GPS model will close all identified gaps

HOW DO WE GET THERE FROM HERE?

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URGENCY

Critical Stop #1

URGENCY“THE PLACE WHERE AWARENESS IS BORN”

Driving Tips-Accountability

School history and where are our Students Now?

Data to identify the needs.

Where do they need to be?

Identify most critical needs.

SCHOOL HISTORY AND WHERE ARE THE STUDENTS NOW?

HISTORY... (Fifty years... from farms to failure)

I. Agricultural (farms, ranches, agrarian based living)

II. Suburbia (single family dwelling, mom, dad, and 2.7

children all with light complexions, Leave it to Beaver days)

III. Apartment Boom (huge change in demographics, not so

white anymore)

IV. Inner-City (inner-city problems, low income, diverse

racial demographic makeup, lower standardized test scores)

DATA TO IDENTIFY THE NEEDS.

STUDENT DEMOGRAPHICS

Total student population 2024)

TEACHER, COUNSELOR, AND ADMINISTRATION DEMOGRAPHICS

 White Black Hispanic Asian

Teachers (120) 113 6 0 1

Counselors (4) 4 0 0 0

Administrators (4) 3 1 0 0

Subpopulation Asian Black Hispanic White Econ Disadv LEP

Percentage 9.7% 8.8% 58.9% 22.5% 48% 24%

DATA TO IDENTIFY THE NEEDS (CONTINUED).

PERFORMANCE COMPARRISONS

TAKS Exit-Level Test SAT Average

White 81% 973

Hispanic 41% 838

WHERE DO THE STUDENTS NEED TO BE?

School Motto

“Dedicated to Excellence in Education!”

IDENTIFY MOST CRITICAL NEEDS.

In the old days the school was very successful

academically… As of late, not so successful especially in the

subpops

Huge change in demographics over the past fifty years

Huge performance gap between subpops (TAKS scores and

SAT scores)

Community concerns about lack of leadership and a lack of

discipline at the high school

Musical chairs game with reassignments of administrators

in various schools of the district and the high school

IDENTIFY MOST CRITICAL NEEDS (CONTINUED).

Dissension among staff members and especially a big lack

of support by the teaching staff for the ESL Program

The demographic composition of the teaching staff,

counselors, and administration not reflective of the

demographic composition of the student population

Not many long tenured teaching staff

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UNITYCritical Stop #2

UNITY“THE PLACE WHERE WE ALL FIND THE COMMON GOAL”

Driving Tips-Openness

Making the plan.

Identify needs.

Assign specific goals and objectives.

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PEOPLEVILLE

Critical Stop #3

STRATEGIES, PROGRAMS AND INTERVENTIONS

Cultural Awareness Program

PLC Development

Curriculum / CSCOPE

RtI Team

Professional Development for teachers

Site-Based Decision Making (SBDM) Team and the Campus

Improvement Plan (CIP)

Etc…

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Checkpoint Critical Stop #4

FOCUS AND CHECK Ongoing and continual GPS program assessment and evaluation

STAAR Benchmark tests (Spring and Fall)

Analysis of benchmark performance with and analysis tool such as DMAC

Analysis of the performance of student on the previous year’s standardized tests (TAKS or STAAR)

Trend data analysis

Climate surveys (Students, faculty, and parents)

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MOTION

Critical Stop #5

CELEBRATION!!! Celebrate progress and build momentum

Awards ceremony for student recognition of achievement

Break out the Champaign

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DETERMINATION

Critical Stop #6

LEVEL OF SUCCESS OF THE GPS MODEL Guided Program Success (GPS) Committee meet to review all relevant data

GPS Committee to determine the level of success of the GPS model

GPS Committee to report their program determinations to the Site-Based Decision Making Committee (SBDM)

SBDM Committee to integrate GPS program updates and changes into the following year’s Campus Improvement Plan