School Improvement Plan

View the School Improvement Plan in the NCStar platform below: 

NCStar is a web-based tool that guides a district or school team in charting its improvement and managing the continuous improvement process. NCStar builds accountability as well as helps schools track their improvement plans.

Long Term School Wide Goal: 

By the end of the 2025-2026 school year, Riverwood Elementary School will earn an 85 SPG making us an “A” school.  

*Need to have a Performance Composite of 82.7% and EVAAS growth index of 5 to be an A*Overall Achievement Goal:


Short Term Academic Goal:

By June 2026, Riverwood Elementary School students will increase overall academic proficiency in Reading by 3.9 percentage points from 69.1 to 73, academic proficiency in math by 2.7 percentage points from 81.3 to 84. We are waiting for our Science scores in order to determine our Science and overall composite goals.


Short Term Targeted Subgroup Goal: 

By June 2026, Riverwood Elementary School students will increase overall academic proficiency for the following subgroup: SWD by 8.5 percentage points from 35.5% to 44% (A4.01, B3.03, and E1.06)


Short Term School Climate for Teaching and Learning Goal: 

By June 2026, Riverwood Elementary School students will reduce our chronic student absenteeism by 3.6% from 8.6 % to 5%. Chronic Absenteeism refers to students who are absent for more than 10% of the school year.


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SIT Members

Name

Position/Association

Date of Election

Shannon Pawlak

School Principal

N/A

Elizabeth Stevenson

Assistant Principal

N/A

Lauren Brown-Scales

School Counselor, Enhancement Team Rep.

6/2018

Shalonda Richardson

Paraprofessional

6/2025

Karen Newhart

Teacher Grade K

6/2023

Valorie Trombley

Teacher Grade 1

6/2025

Deborah Earp

Teacher Grade 2

6/2025

Brooke Hayward

Teacher Grade 3

6/2023

Jennifer Medlin

Teacher Grade 4

6/2023

Anita Shively

Teacher Grade 5

6/2019

Angela West

Media Coordinator, MTAC

6/2019

Christine Mitchell

Teacher, Exceptional Children

6/2019

Patricia Lytle

NCAE Representative

6/2019