Riverside ES

Region 3

LaRonda Peterson, 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. 

English Language Arts

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

Goal: 

100% of students will demonstrate growth in the iReady Phonological Awareness and Phonics domains.

60% of students with disabilities will score pass (unadjusted) on the Virginia Standards of Learning Assessment.

60% of English Learners will score pass (unadjusted) on the Virginia Standards of Learning Assessment.

Strategies

• Strategy 1: Teachers will provide daily, systematic, explicit instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, and morphology in the core language arts block.

• Strategy 2: Teachers will use evidence-based intervention resources aligned to the Science of Reading to provide literacy intervention.

• Strategy 3: Riverside will provide evidence-based at-home resources for families/caregivers to support the development of word recognition outside of school as a part of Back to School events, community literacy events, and/or fall conferences.

Mathematics

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

Goal: 

100% of students will move along the “student mathematics profile” rubric towards proficient plus in the areas of Mathematics Problem Solving and Mathematical Representation. 

60% of students with disabilities will score pass (unadjusted)  on the Virginia Standards of Learning Assessment.

60% of English Learners will score pass (unadjusted) on the Virginia Standards of Learning Assessment.

Strategies

• Strategy 1: Grade level teams will choose a performance rich task to administer at least 4 times a year to provide students opportunities to work on problem solving skills and strategies (tier 1).

• Strategy 2: Teachers will fully implement the FCPS Framework for Engaging in Student Centered Mathematics Instruction daily with small group instruction centered around AVMR data.

• Strategy 3: Teacher will use Shift 8: From looking at correct answers towards looking for students’ thinking from the FCPS Frame for Engaging and Student Centered Mathematics Instruction

Wellness

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

Goal: 

By the end of the 2022-2023 school year, our school will utilize Zones of Regulations to teach self-management subskills, increasing schoolwide score on the self-management topic of the SEL Screener by 15% from 53% to 68%.  

Decreasing chronic absenteeism by 10%. from 20% of students to 10% of students

Strategies

• Strategy 1: Riverside ES will build an understanding with students, staff, and the community about why Zones of Regulation positively impact students within and beyond school.

• Strategy 2: All classrooms will implement all components of Morning Meeting & Closing Circle or Responsive Advisory Meetings with fidelity.

• Strategy 3: Provide targeted or intensive interventions for students to support needs at tier 2/3.

Portrait of a Graduate (POG)

Outcome: All students will complete a POG Presentation of Learning (POL) by 2025-26.

Goal:

100% of students will demonstrate increased understanding of the POG attribute Goal Directed and Resilient Learner as evidenced in anecdotal data and student surveys.

Strategies

• Strategy 1: Riverside ES will build an understanding with students, staff, and the community about why POG attributes and skills positively impact students within and beyond school.

• Strategy 2: Collaborative teams will align content knowledge and skills with POG attributes and skills.

Science

OTHER End of Year SMARTR Outcome: Ensure students are making sufficient progress to be on grade level in Science.

Goal:

100% of students will meet or exceed benchmark of 79% as measured by the 5th Grade Science SOL assessment.

Strategies

• Strategy 1: Riverside ES will strengthen Tier 1 Science instruction.

• Strategy 2: Teacher will implement explicit Science instruction to build academic and content vocabulary.

• Strategy 3: 4th and 5th grade teachers will monitor progress using Horizon Assessments throughout each unit and a common summative assessment at the end of every unit.