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.

Through the spring of 2021, students will continue their development of a growth mindset and grit when faced with challenging tasks. We expect students will demonstrate unsolicited acts of kindness and participate in extracurricular clubs across student groups. As we have implemented a new student Tiger ROAR Pledge, we will continue our development of students exhibiting the characteristics of being respectful, optimistic, accountable, and ready to learn. Furthermore, we expect adults will strive to learn the stories of each student, especially the students who are new to CES. (Indicators 1, 2 and 4)

Students will first and foremost say that they enjoy coming to school and that adults show interest and care about them. Students will also say that they have strategies that work to handle peer interactions and conflict. In addition, students will report that they have positive relationships with adults that allow them to feel safe and supported.  Adults will say that students are using strategies to interact positively and demonstrate grit when faced with challenging tasks. Adults will also say that they have strategies to support students and they feel valued and supported. In addition, adults will report that they enjoy coming to CES. (Indicators 1 and 2)

Through the spring of 2021, students will continue to develop their ability to interact with on grade level complex text across content areas. Adults will continue to plan opportunities for students to interact with text in print and electronic formats. Furthermore,  teachers will routinely utilize diagnostic guided reading and conferring strategies and pre-plan within, about, and beyond questions that require students to justify their responses. (Indicators 5 and 6)

Students will report that they enjoy reading, feel confident interacting with complex text, and that they have strategies to utilize when comprehending text and can justify their responses.