Massena District strongly supports the initiatives winch make up the Targeted
                  Instructional Staff Development Grant proposal. For the past two years, Massena has
                  actively participated in the Grant initiatives. Our students, teachers and administrators
                  have benefited greatly from this participation. Our involvement with the Targeted
                  Grant initiatives has enabled our teachers to move to the mastery level of teacher
                  performance. Mastery teachers, in turn, will help our students to he more successful
                  in reaching higher levels of academic achievement.

                  For the past four years, Massena CSD has been engaged in District and building level
                  planning aimed at implementing the NYS Standards. The first two years saw building
                  improvement teams and a District team focusing on building capacity for Standards
                  implementation. The last two years have been focused on collecting and analyzing
                  student and District data. This data analysis has led the District on a search for the
                  most effective teaching practices. The District's primary goal is to ensure that all
                  students will increase academic achievement.

                  Massena sees great potential in the CDEP process for developing a system which
                  ensures continued student success. The Massena CDFP plan is over fifty percent
                  completed and has evolved from the past four years of District and building planning.
                  The District CDEP team recently engaged in a two-day workshop with Mr. Paul
                  Preuss. That workshop served as a springboard to complete the Massena CDEP
                  plan. during the coming school year.
 

       The Massena Board of Education has become actively engaged in both the
       CDEP planning process and setting high standards for theniselves. In August,
       the BOE held a Goals' Setting Workshop, in which they brainstormed their
       beliefs for and their support to doing whatever is needed to raise student
       achievement in the district. They were  successful in developing four major goals
       which support academic success in Massena District. The strategies they will
       use to meet these goals will strengthen their knowledge of the standards and
       their awareness of the best teaching methods currently being practiced by
       district teachers.

                  The CDEP process of gap analysis has indicated that Massexia still needs to pursue
                  methods of involving more teachers in the kind of training that has been provided in
                  the past. The District pilot teams working within the Target Grant have provided
                  excellent
 

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