School Improvement Plan At-a-Glance

• 2022-2023

• Franklin Middle School

• Region 5

• Dustin Wright, 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 2022-23 school year, 100% of students that scored below basic on beginning of year assessments (Fall 2022 VGA Reading Inventory) will demonstrate one year growth measures at least one of the assessments.

Strategy 1: Teach essential standards through scaffolding, differentiation, and small group instruction.

Strategy 2: Deliver Tier 2 targeted interventions and enrichment activities during and/or after the school day.

Strategy 3: Expand the MTSS model and provide targeted support to all students in need. 

ESSER lll Mathematics Strategies

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

Goal: By the end of the 2022-23 school year, 100% of students in Math 7 and Pre-Algebra identified on beginning of year assessments will meet intended growth (identified by VDOE) as measured through VGA.

Strategy 1: Teach essential standards through scaffolding, differentiation, and small group instruction.

Strategy 2: Deliver Tier 2 targeted interventions and enrichment activities during and/or after the school day.

Strategy 3: Intensive Tier 3 support including FCPS Math Intervention and tutoring. 

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, our school will utilize Falcon Time to effectively build relationship subskills, increasing schoolwide scores on the belonging topics of the SEL Screener by 10% from 44% to 54% favorable.

Strategy 1: Strengthen Tier 1 evidence-based strategies.

Strategy 2: Provide targeted student support for students identified through the MTSS process.

Strategy 3: Engage with families and cooperate with feeder schools.

ESSR lll: Portrait of a Graduate (POG) Strategies

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

Goal: By June 2023, 100% of staff and students assessed will demonstrate growth in their awareness of Portrait of a Graduate attributes and skills or maintain the highest level of knowledge as measured by a staff survey and a student survey administered at the beginning and end of the school year. 

Strategy 1: The school will build an understanding with staff about why POG attributes and skills positively impact students within and beyond the classroom. 

Strategy 2: The school will build an understanding with students and why POG attributes and skills positively impact them within and beyond the classroom.

Strategy 3: The school will build an understanding with the community about why POG attributes and skills positively impact students within and beyond the classroom.