School Improvement Plan

Mission Statement:

The mission of Lajes American School is to develop responsible students who possess the skills, attitudes, knowledge, and values to succeed in a changing world.

Target Goals:

1. All students will improve their problem-solving skills across the curriculum. 
   We define problem solving as: Identifying the problem, Gathering and analyzing relevant information, Selecting and explaining an appropriate strategy, and solving the problem.

2. All students will improve their reading strategies in all areas of the curriculum.
   We define reading strategies as: Accessing prior knowledge, summarizing and synthesizing the information, using graphics and text structure and developing vocabulary.

Interventions:

• Classroom Intervention - Goal 1:- Lajes American School (LAS) will use a variety of instructional activities in all curricular areas that will assist students in the improvement of problem-solving skills, defined as identifying the problem, gathering and analyzing relevant information, selecting and explaining an appropriate strategy, and solving the problem.
• Classroom Intervention - Goal 2: - Lajes American School (LAS) will use a variety of instructional activities in all curricular areas that will assist students in the improvement of reading strategies, with emphasis on developing vocabulary.
• Communication Intervention: LAS will use a variety of communication activities to continually inform all stakeholders of our efforts to improve students’ problem-solving skills.  This intervention is designed to address both internal and external audiences in the accomplishment of this goal.
• School-Home-Community Partnership (SHCP)Intervention:  LAS will develop and enhance partnerships among all stakeholders to improve students’ problem-solving skills across the curriculum. This intervention emphasizes our commitment to engaging parents, commands, and communities to support this goal, in conjunction with our Community Strategic Plan (CSP).
• Technology Intervention:  LAS will develop and enhance the use of technology to improve students’ problem-solving skills across the curriculum. The focus of this intervention is to incorporate technology throughout all aspects of this goal.

School Improvement Profile	Community Strategic Plan
Standardized Test Results	DoDEA Accreditation site.
Quartile Percentages	Mediterranean District School Improvement page.

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