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.

In the coming years, students will feel a sense of accomplishment and success. Through working with our attendance committee, PPW, and staff, and increased student buy-in to incentives such as “HERO” and our “Breakfast Club,” our students and families will increase their understanding of the value of attendance, decreasing absenteeism and tardiness.

Students will feel confident when reading and solving math problems. Specifically, students will be proficient in their math facts and will be eager to read and participate in class discussions.  Daily instruction will support students’ social-emotional growth, and staff will continue to provide an arts-integrated curriculum that is student-centered and focuses on problem solving in real-world situations.  We will continue to build parent-school partnerships to ensure academic and social success for all.

After a few years of successful implementation of Community Building Circles and Restorative Practices, students will feel an increase in connectedness within our culture of equity. The natural flow of Restorative Practices around the schoolhouse will create a positive school climate. Adults in and around the school community will have a true understanding that “All Means All” and, as a result, they will value diversity and practice empathy.