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A 6 page research paper that offers a discussion of school curriculum, which is based on the premise that the author is an assistant superintendent of a mid-size school district who has been directed to devise a comprehensive plan/curriculum that will aid schools in this district that have not achieved the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) benchmark of Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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a comprehensive plan/curriculum that will aid schools in this district that have not achieved the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) benchmark of Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
can be understood as representing "the different between where the state wants to be (its standards) and where the state is now (the results of its assessments), divided into annual
steps" (Matthews, 2006, p. 11). Student attendance and achievement at schools not achieving AYP are serious concerns and should be addressed systematically. Therefore, in order to develop a research-based curriculum
for achieving AYP goals, the first component of the proposed plan will be to implement Max Thompsons Learning Focused Strategies (LFS) as our research initiative. This model for school improvement
has been shown to be effective in schools where schools that have a higher percentage of minority and low socioeconomic income students (Pate and Gibson, 2005). Thompsons LFS model is
best described as a philosophy rather than a specific program (Pate and Gibson, 2005). The Thompson LFS model is founded on the concept of balanced achievement, which the US Department
of Education has indicated leads to the greatest degree of student achievement, closing the "achievement gap faster and more long-term" than stand-alone reform (Thompson, 2005). The LFS model consists of
leadership providing "mapped, prioritized standards," which are then implemented with five general categories, which are: 1. Research-based instruction; 2. Integrated literacy for K-12; 3. Acceleration and scaffolding; 4. Differentiated
assignments; 5. Benchmark assessments (Thompson, 2005). In preparation for implementing Thompsons LFS model, the proposed plan also includes reviewing what strategies have obtaining AYP goals have proven successful
at other schools. For example, McLester (2006) reports that when Reva Vangates became the principal of Dr. Henry W. Mack/West Little River Elementary in Miami, Florida, the school was "failing"
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