This month’s spotlight video features Quitman County Elementary School and how the school’s participation in the School Improvement Grant (SIG) program helped improve student achievement.
The MDE redesigned its approach to school improvement to build in more collaboration and accountability among stakeholders at the local and state level.
Schools now form teams that include their superintendent, board president and principal and teacher and parent representatives. These teams work with the MDE school improvement staff to create and implement targeted improvement plans for their school. There is no “one-size-fits-all” plan for school improvement.
We chose to spotlight Quitman County Elementary because the school’s improvement plan helped raise its letter grade from a D to an A within one year.
This video will show the school’s strategy for school improvement and how it used its resources in a targeted way.
