District Strategic Plan, Goals & Guardrails

WHAT IS STRATEGIC PLAN GOAL 1?

Implement learning opportunities to develop “life-ready” learners

What does life ready mean? “Students leaving high school with the grit and perseverance to tackle and achieve their goals. Students possess the growth mindset that empowers them to achieve a successful and independent life.”

• Objective 1: Build and implement a profile of a learner to drive district decisions. (What is a learner?)
• Objective 2: Establish and implement a high-impact instructional and professional practices framework. (What learning looks/sounds like?)
• Objective 3: Build multiple pathways for learning including, but not limited to, schedules, models, programs, and systems to support consistent growth toward on-time graduation. (Ways to learn customized for learners.)
• Objective 4: Design and implement effective curriculum continuums and assessment implementation plans that support life-ready work. (What we learn and how we know if we learned it)

WHAT IS STRATEGIC PLAN GOAL 2?

Develop the whole child through intentional opportunities that lead to engaged citizens

• Objective 1: Increase implementation of effective structures and programs necessary to ensure 100% engaged citizenship.
• Objective 2: Implement and enforce consistent and equitable positive and negative consequences to ensure positive behaviors/engagement by utilizing PBIS in all buildings.
• Objective 3: Improve attendance to 90% districtwide in order to ensure opportunities for growth and development by reducing the chronically absent.
• Objective 4: Implement a variety of opportunities to develop all areas of the child (including, but not limited to, art, music, physical education, and social-emotional development.)

WHAT IS STRATEGIC PLAN GOAL 3?

Formalize internal and external communication structures between teachers, students, leadership, families, and the community to create effective engagement and collaboration.

• Objective 1: Annually identify the areas for growth in communication internally and externally.

• Objective 2: Design and implement a district communication plan, using available communication methods, to increase communication and collaboration with staff and external stakeholders.

• Objective 3: Annually, develop and/or enhance at least two parent and community engagement opportunities within the district to strengthen communication.

GUARDRAILS

1. The Superintendent will not lower academic standards.

2. The Superintendent will not allow reading to drop below current levels.

3. The Superintendent will not allow inequitable treatment of students.

4. The Superintendent will not allow unsatisfactory employee performance to go unaddressed.

5. Superintendent will not make major decisions without engagement with the relevant stakeholders and the Board.