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.

As we embark upon our journey to greatness, we are dedicated to providing all students with  opportunities for rigorous, differentiated instruction. We will use the tenets of EGATE to continuously assess students, examine curriculum, and train teachers to meet the needs of all learners.  Students will see themselves as critical thinkers and problem solvers. They will be more efficient with math fact fluency and more effective math problem solvers. They will say they read a range of literature and are able to respond to text orally as well as in writing.

Folger McKinsey’s implementation of The Positivity Project, a program which recognizes unique character strengths of individuals, will create a common language amongst stakeholders and enhance positive relationships between students, families, staff, and community partners. Students will recognize character strengths in themselves and others, and realize we all have unique strengths to contribute to our school community. Students will continue to embody the Sustainable Green School vision by maintaining our Outdoor Classroom, participating in our Green Apple Day of Service, and supporting our school’s conservation efforts.  Students will also maintain their social, physical, and emotional well-being through wellness activities focused on health education and services, nutrition, physical activity, social and emotional development, and family engagement, all milestones of a Wellness School of Distinction.