Bourne School Committee Approves 2023-2024 School Improvement Plans

BOURNE — Superintendent Kerri Anne Quinlan-Zhou and Bourne Public Schools are pleased to share that the School Committee has approved School Improvement Plans for the 2023-2024 school year. 

The School Committee approved the four School Improvement Plans at its meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 20. The School Improvement Plans outline goals that each school will work to accomplish over the coming school year. 

Each School Improvement Plan contains three goals that fit within the three strategic district objectives: Building Community, Promoting Equity, and Striving for Excellence. Each goal was determined by the administration at each of the four schools. The plans also outline the rationale, action steps, intended outcomes, and persons responsible to accomplish each goal.

Administrators and their teams presented each School Improvement Plan at the School Committee Meeting, outlining their accomplishments from the previous school year and the following goals included in the 2023-2024 plans:

Bournedale Elementary School

Goal One: By June 2024, BES will collect and analyze multiple sources of data to ensure that all students have access to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture in BES.

Goal Two: By June 2024, BES will create a list of experiences to build capacities and competencies for PreK-2 students for early childhood vision of a graduate.

Goal Three: By June 2024, BES will participate in/host at least five outside of school activities that include community involvement and work to have multiple points of access to accommodate all families.

Bourne Intermediate School

Goal One: By June 2024, in order to increase prosocial peer to peer interactions and to reduce the number of major office referrals in School Video Information System (SWIS) for related offenses by five percent, all school staff will adopt and implement three new Social Emotional Learning (SEL)strategies.

Goal Two: By June of 2024, students at BIS will show a 5-point increase in their average scaled score on the 2024 Math and ELA MCAS.

Goal Three: By June of 2024, 90 percent of staff will clearly convey each lesson’s learning objective(s) in student friendly language, afford opportunities for student voice and choice and provide occasions for collaboration as evidenced by teacher observation feedback.

Bourne Middle School 

Goal One: By June 2024, 85 percent of caregivers will report that they are satisfied with the communication offered by BMS staff.

Goal Two: By June 2024, Bourne Middle School will show a 5-point increase in average scaled scores for “all students” on the 2024 ELA and Math MCAS.

Goal Three: By the end of the 2023-2024 school year, 100 percent of classrooms observed during learning walks will be providing or sustaining in the areas of “engaging instruction” and “student ownership of learning.”

Bourne High School 

Goal One: Engage students to increase active participation and interest in the learning process and build positive culture and climate, as evidenced by a decline in chronic absenteeism (more than 10 percent of the year) to under 20 percent and an increase in student connectedness to BHS as captured in future VOCAL data.

Goal Two: Increase overall student proficiency on the MCAS assessments to 80 percent meeting or exceeding expectations in ELA, 75 percent meeting or exceeding expectations in math, and 75 percent meeting or exceeding expectations in STE.

Goal Three: By June 2024, 100 percent of staff will post/articulate a mastery-based objective(s) for every lesson in student-friendly language and provide multiple opportunities for ongoing, authentic student discourse that empowers students to meet those objectives.

“Each of the four School Improvement Plans outline goals that are designed address the needs of Bourne students and help them to succeed and progress,” said Superintendent Quinlan-Zhou. “Our administrators and all those involved in the drafting and reviewing process of creating these plans have a passion for helping students, and that is certainly reflected by the accomplishments our schools have previously made, and the goals that they have set for themselves for the rest of the year.”

To view each School Improvement Plan in full, visit the Bourne Public Schools website here.