1. Describe the district’s stakeholder engagement process.

Use the following elements to describe the process:

How did the district select the designated stakeholders to create an inclusive team with varied perspectives?

• Georgia Cyber Academy identified the critical stakeholders that needed to be involved in this process after we reviewed Odyssey’s 2013-2014 Governor’s Office of Student Achievement Report Card. The Odyssey report was used to develop our SSIP due to baseline data being needed. GCA was a new LEA during the 2014-2015 school year and hasn’t received its Georgia Milestones scores. Going forward GCA will annually update its SSIP from our own Georgia Milestones Assessment results.

Was there a district stakeholder group that could be repurposed for this opportunity? If so, share any critical connections.

• Georgia Cyber Academy’s Parent Mentor Plan has been aligned to the SSIP to provide intentional support to student with disabilities and their family.
• Georgia Cyber Academy aligned its Transition Coordinators open office sessions with the SSIP so that we may provide additional support to our students and families.

Describe gaps or concerns that will require additional stakeholders to participate in the ongoing Student Success Process.

The following areas will require additional stakeholder’s participation:

• Increase the academic performance of students with disability in Science, Social Studies and Math.
• Decrease the SWD dropout rate among all SWD students with an emphasis on males

How will the stakeholders continue to support the work?

Georgia Cyber Academy will continue to use following departments to achieve systemic improvement.

• Parent Mentor – GCA’s parent mentor will provide ongoing open office sessions that have specific topics that align with the SSIP

• GCA Transition Coordinator – will provide ongoing open office sessions that has specific topics that align with the SSIP

• Curriculum and Instruction Assessment Director – Georgia Cyber Academy’s special education teachers will participate in Data Driven Instruction professional development provided by the Director of Curriculum and Instruction

• GCA teachers will participate in professional development provided by the Associate Director of Academics.

• Data Coordinators – Data Coordinators will continue to provide ongoing academic achievement Data that is disaggregated by schools and then sent to the Directors of each school. This data will be shared with the individual departments.

• Family Academic Support Team (FAST). The FAST will continue team identifies at-risk students and reach out to them in order to provide additional support to our students.

• GCA Instructional Coaches that provide ongoing subject specific professional development to the GCA staff throughout the year.

1. Describe the district current capacity, resources and infrastructure to support outcomes in this area.

Use the following elements to describe the process:

What initiatives and current resources are already designated to support outcomes in this area (e.g., PBIS, GraduateFirst, School Improvement, Title One, SIG, etc.)?

• K12 – will provides ongoing Professional Development to all GCA staff

• GCA Director of Curriculum Instruction & Assessment – Provides ongoing Data Driven Instruction Professional Development for entire GCA staff.
• Academic Associate Director of Special Education – will provide ongoing professional development training throughout the year.
• Family Academic Support Team – provides ongoing support to at-risk students
• GCA Parent Mentor:
  • Provides ongoing support to at-risk special education students & families
  • Conducts open office sessions that have specific topics that align with the SSIP

• GCA Transition Coordinator:
  • provides professional development training for transition planning to all GCA special education staff members
  • Conducts open office sessions that have specific topics that align with the SSIP

What resources are needed?

• GCA currently has the resources to address all areas of opportunities

How might these initiatives align with the Student Success Process?

• GCA’s initiatives will provide our students and staff members with the necessary information/support that will enable GCA to continue to make systemic improvement.

• Do those initiatives have a district-level component? If yes, please discuss. Yes

Monitoring Activities:

• Data Reviews
• Ongoing Professional Development
• System Self-Assessment
• Teacher Evaluations

• Describe policies that must be created or amended to improve this area.
• GCA’s current policies provide the necessary oversight to implement these programs.

• Describe concerns and/or gaps that must be addressed to strengthen the district’s infrastructure and capacity.
  • GCA will continue to strengthen its teacher evaluations in order to provide effective feedback to staff members.

1. Identify the areas of strength and opportunities to improve district general supervision.

Use the following elements to describe the process:

• Describe how a noncompliance in one or more of the following areas might be contributing to the problem.

Indicators 4a, 4b, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13/Citing based on the dispute resolution process/Significant Disproportionality/Continuation of Services/Fiscal

It is Landscape Architecture class project.
1. Landscapes in Culture
The first possible option for the final project in Discovering Landscape is the generation of a report that situates the discipline of landscape architecture within the larger collection of culturally and socially relevant events of a particular time. Your assignment will be to choose one issue
of Landscape Architecture Magazine (available on the 3rd floor of the Health Science Library) from the years between 1970 and 1990 and then locate three additional periodicals focused primarily on cultural, social or scientific trends of that year to compare it to. People, Time, National Geographic, Vogue, Popular Mechanics would all be examples, but are by no means the extent of the possible list. Thus your references will consist of 4 periodicals from the same year (preferably the same time
of that year), one of which will be Landscape Architecture Magazine. These documents will be read in their entirety and then a report will be written describing the relationship between the discipline of landscape architecture (as described by LAM) and other popular media and events of the time. This report should consist of references to all of the chosen periodicals in addition to other sources necessary for making clear and compelling relationships. Each report should be between 1200 and 2000 words and include relevant scanned and referenced images to aid in making your case. For example, if you are making a case regarding something visual, you should scan (and cite) the images from the periodicals to help your point. You could also generate diagrams or other visuals to help clarify your position or ideas. Please note that your projects will be scanned for plagiarism, thus ensure that your citations are clear and your text, your own.