After each school leadership team reflected on its school culture, community, and the key contributing factors to student growth, they used this information to select the Strategic Plan Indicators that would have the greatest positive impact for their students.  Each school was directed to select two to six indicators on which to focus during the 2018-19 school year.  Certainly, we all know that if we focus narrowly and deeply, we are more likely to realize positive results.  The indicators that this school’s leadership team selected are noted below.

Throughout the next 3 years, schools will focus on their chosen Strategic Plan Indicators as the drivers to increase student engagement and achievement within their schools. They will choose strategies to help them grow or increase within each indicator and will monitor and evaluate the student and school changes that take place along the journey.  Below you will see what this school imagines their students and school to look like in 2021 after having focused and worked on their chosen indicators for three years.

Students will thrive and enjoy the high level of student engagement in the learning process and respond to academic vocabulary.  Classrooms will continue to be joyous environments with positive and encouraging interactions - student to student and student to teacher. Staff members will continue to utilize strategies to reduce distractions in classrooms allowing students to remain engaged in learning; and classrooms will contain many multi-sensory manipulatives for the students. Regular practices to set the tone for learning will include a modified Restorative Practice "think sheet" to provide consistency in problem solving and self control, morning circles in all classrooms, and the 123 magic sequence Inappropriate behaviors will be identified in an innocuous manner bolstering a positive, nurturing classroom environment. (Indicator 3)

Increasing teacher effectiveness through professional development on Guided Reading and reading instruction strategies will result in student growth identified through progress monitoring. Teachers will engage students in reading activities daily.  Our students will be observed with books in hand, and will want to tell others about the books they read and the stories they hear. Kindergarteners will read at the identified levels with fluency increasing their comprehension, and 90% of students will leave Kindergarten reading on or above grade level. (Indicator 5)

West Meade EEC students will be mannerly, engaged and enthusiastic learners. They will demonstrate the skills needed to be successful in college, the work world and in the global community.