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Strong Start

HS Academic Health

August–September: When students return to school 
Objective: Bring strong planning to fruition through maintaining weekly systems and progress monitoring, particularly gradebook fidelity 
Teachers
High School Registrar/Data Leads
Academic Health Leads
Principals

Key for Progress Monitoring: 

  • Bold: One KIPP required – priority student outcome goals and measures, additional student outcome goals and measures, and actions

  • Regular: One KIPP required – additional goals and measures (not student outcomes)

  • Italics: strongly recommended 

High School Academic Health Progress Monitoring Strong Start

 
Student Outcomes to MonitorActionsAdditional Measures to Monitor
  • In progress Q1 GPA: X% of students in grades 9–12 with unweighted GPA of 3.0+


  • In progress Q1 GPA: X% of students in grades 9–12 with unweighted GPA of 2.0+


  • In progress Q1: X% of students with one or more course failure(s)
Use 9th-grade on-track meeting protocol to target specific students, teachers, and courses for next steps
  • X% of teachers meeting gradebook fidelity goals

Teachers Will Know and Be Able to ...

Maintain Gradebooks: 

  • Return graded work to students within 1–3 days of completion
  • Update gradebooks weekly to align with school grading calendar 

Build Community: 

  • Consistently communicate with families about student progress in Q1 (on-track and off-track students) 

Academic Health Leads Will Know and Be Able to ...

Maintain Gradebooks: 

  • Begin weekly tracking of gradebook fidelity 

Build Community: 

  • Launch consistent family communications system to share grades and credit acquisition
  • Plan and execute 9th-grade Back-to-School Night/Family Night
  • Plan and execute (with support of operations team) Q1 report card conferences for 9th-grade families at the beginning of Q2 

Build and Manage Systems: 

  • Set consistent grade-level team meetings/on-track team meetings (at least biweekly) 

High School Registrars/Data Leads Will Know and Be Able to ...

Monitor Progress: 

  • Set up high school academic health tableau dashboard for the school year
  • Ensure all key staff have access to the high school academic health dashboard 

Principals Will Know and Be Able to ...

Build Community: 

  • Plan a successful 9th-grade Back-to-School Night
  • Meet with families of most off-track students (three or more course failures) during Q1 report card conferences 

Drive Professional Development/Coaching: 

  • Support leadership team to help teachers who are behind on grading/entering grades/returning graded work to students