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GPISD will provide a safe learning and working environment for students, employees, and parents.
Target D1: 1. Student leadership groups (i.e., PALS, Safe School Task Force, etc.) will work cooperatively with teachers, administrators, and law enforcement entities;
Target D1: 2. District policies will be reviewed/renewed annually to support enforcement of student discipline procedures;
Target D1: 3. GPISD will expand the implementation of the Safe and Civil Foundations behavior management program for the prevention of student bullying, sexual, and verbal harassment to all schools;
Target D1: 4: GPISD will continue to develop and emphasize students taking responsibility and being accountable for their actions;
Target D1: 5: GPISD will continue instruction in character education for all students; and
Target D1: 6: GPISD will ensure the nutritional, health, and physical components of the Coordinated Approach to Child Health (CATCH) Program are implemented in grades pre-kindergarten through 5.
Target D1: 7: Students will be safe from the intentional use of physical, sexual, verbal, or emotional abuse by a person to harm, threaten, intimidate, or control them while in a dating relationship
GPISD will identify areas of improvement to better prepare students for college course work.
Target D2: 1. Fifty percent (50%) or more of the students who complete Advanced Placement (AP) classes will take the examination for the class and score a 3 or higher on the examination;
Target D2: 2. The number of students taking the SAT and/or ACT examinations will
increase and the district average for student performance on these examinations will increase;
Target D2: 3. GPISD will implement strategies to improve students’ preparedness for
college; and
Target D2: 4. GPISD will continue to pay for all 9th – 11th graders to take the PSAT.
GPISD will define measures by which student success can be determined, related to the
tested, foundation curriculum areas of mathematics, social studies, science and
English/Language Arts and the enriched curriculum areas not tested by TAKS including
art, music, theater and dance.
Target D3: 1. Ensure that appropriate and effective teaching strategies are employed;
Target D3: 2. Ensure that instruction is dynamic, interactive, relevant and vertically
aligned;
Target D3: 3. Ensure that adequate time is allocated to allow the writing of quality,
thoughtful curriculum;
Target D3: 4. GPISD will ensure that expectations for student achievement are consistent and continue to be raised district-wide;
Target D3: 5. GPISD will ensure that teachers continue to receive focused curriculum
and instructional support in the classroom;
Target D3: 6. GPISD will provide quality staff development in special program areas
as required by TEA and in identified areas of need with appropriate emphasis on new technologies, leadership (at all levels) and accomplishment of the GPISD Mission, Vision and Graduate Profile;
Target D3: 7. GPISD will hire and retain 100% highly qualified teachers in core
subject areas as required by No Child Left Behind;
Target D3: 8. GPISD will hire and retain 100% highly qualified paraprofessionals
in instructional classrooms as required by No Child Left Behind.
Target D3: 9. Increase the number of students making incremental gains in their English acquisition as measured by TELPAS;
Target D3: 10. Increase the number of English language learners making incremental gains on TAKS;
Target D3: 11. Ninety percent (90%) or more students will pass TAKS by the 2009 spring administration of the tests;
Target D3: 12. Twenty percent (20%) or more students will achieve commended performance on TAKS by the 2009 spring administration of the tests;
Target D3: 13. One hundred percent (100%) of third and fifth grade students will pass the required TAKS tests to be promoted to the next grade;
Target D3: 14. Ensure that students identified as At-Risk, Dyslexic, Special Education,
Bilingual/ESL, Migrant and Section 504 are appropriately served to meet their individual academic needs;
Target D3: 15. GPISD will provide extended school day and accelerated
activities for these special populations throughout the school year focused on meeting individual student needs based on academic performance;
Target D3: 16. GPISD will increase students’ ability to access resources that support their regular classroom instruction;
Target D3: 17. GPISD will provide opportunities for students to demonstrate mastery
of technology TEKS through information acquisition, critical thinking,,
problem solving, and communication;
Target D3: 18. GPISD will focus on all student subpopulations so that we can meet all
standards for PBMAS;
Target D3: 19. GPISD will reduce the number of students in special education, not to
exceed the state average;
Target D3: 20. GPISD will report participation in and measure success of
extracurricular activities based on data comparing GPISD schools to
those with which we compete and to those from the TEA Campus
Comparison Groups;
Target D3: 21. GPISD will provide support services including Compensatory
Education Home Instruction (CEHI) to pregnant students during the
prenatal and postpartum services to help the student adjust
academically, mentally, physically and stay in school; and
Target D3: 22. GPISD will provide opportunities for employees to demonstrate
mastery of technology standards required for their jobs.
GPISD will aggressively seek to have a 96% or higher student attendance rate.
Target D4: 1. GPISD will maintain a student attendance rate of 95% or higher;
Target D4: 2. GPISD will provide campus incentives to schools reaching their
attendance goals; and
Target D4: 3. GPISD security will assist campuses in increasing student attendance
GPISD will increase the yearly annual teacher attendance rate.
Target D5: 1. GPISD will aggressively seek to have at least 95% teacher attendance rate for the 2007-08 school year and an increase of 1% each succeeding year through 2009;
Target D5: 2. will develop an employee “Health and Wellness” program; and
Target D5: 3. GPISD will provide attendance rewards and incentives.
GPISD will aggressively seek to improve counseling services.
Target D6: 1. GGPISD will ensure a quality preventive and developmental guidance and counseling program that addresses the personal-social, academic and career planning concerns of all students in grades pre-kindergarten through 12;
Target D6: 2. GPISD will continue to keep parents informed of programs and
services relevant to meeting the needs of their children;
Target D6: 3. GPISD will continue to exchange “real world” information with
stakeholders to better prepare students for the work force; and
Target D6: 4. Secondary Counselors will meet one on one with all students.
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