Strategic Plan

The strategic theme Supportive Culture where each student is engaged, thrives and values learning focuses on each student's experience with learning - both by making learning meaningful but also removing barriers that prevent students from being fully engaged. This is where social-emotional learning (SEL), restorative practice and culturally responsive tenets live, as well as positive behavioral interventions and support (PBIS).

Objectives

We will fulfill this strategic theme through the following objectives:

• Expand the opportunity for each student and staff member to experience positive relationships that support students' holistic needs
• Create research-based, culturally engaging opportunities where each student feels safe to engage and socially identify

The strategic theme effective instructional practices addresses instruction - ensuring that we have effective practices in every classroom that meet individual student needs using research-based practices. This theme includes:

• Ensuring our instructional practices/models/frameworks are current and evolving and vertically aligned
• Redesigning and fully implementing multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS)
• Effective use of universal design for learning (UDL)
• Establishing consistent grading and assessment practices across all schools and grade levels

Objectives

The effective instructional practices objectives include:

• Increase staff capacity to meet the needs of each learner
• Establish personalized learning opportunities for all students

The strategic theme equitable access to resources to support student learning will ensure that whatever school or classroom serves our students, or whatever area of the community they live in, they have access to the appropriate resources to meet their needs and interests. This encompasses areas such as:

• early learning
• flexible learning opportunities and choice programs
• establishing district-wide expectations for instructional time, master schedules and course offerings
• standardized classroom technology
• identifying and removing barriers to learning for our diverse learners and ensuring all students receive consistent instructional experiences with appropriate supports.

Objectives

The equitable access objectives include:

• Ensure access to standards-aligned adopted curriculum and differentiated core instruction for each student
• Expand student learning options

The strategic theme consistency and accountability for key processes affecting student success, balanced with differentiation and innovation addresses the importance of allowing individual teachers and school administrators to be innovative and use differentiated approaches aligned with students needs; while at the same time ensuring consistency in those key processes. This includes:

• Innovation - especially targeted toward student success
• Continuing to invest in common assessments, social-emotional programs and services, and accountability for alignment of those key processes
• Expectations and standards for safety
• Developing and monitoring the effectiveness of essential practices and structures that support student success

Objectives

The objectives for consistency and accountability include:

• Ensure accountability for common district practices and structures
• Increase effective innovative programs and practices
• Ensure consistent practices that promote physical, emotional and identity safety of students and staff

The theme of community engagement will focus on continuing to enhance our positive direction in community engagement, by specifically involving those communities who may have barriers to accessing our typical methods of outreach and communication, as well as those not directly affiliated with the school district. This includes:

• Family and community engagement and support for academic and social-emotional development for all students
• Transparency and two-way communication with all stakeholders
• Culturally responsive outreach and customer service programs
• Embedding cultural competence, equity and accessibility

Objectives

The outcomes for community engagement include:

• Increase the opportunities for authentic partnerships to better meet the needs of students
• Improve transparency, consistency, and accessibility of system-wide two-way communications
• Develop an atmosphere of mutual respect and trust based on culturally responsive relationships with families

The theme of human capital recruitment, development and retention will ensure that the people within the district are in place, prepared and invested in, in order to accomplish this work. This includes:

• Effective recruitment and retention program with a focus on diversity and inclusion
• Cultivating career pathways and continuous growth opportunities for employees
• Wellness, sense of belonging, engagement and support for employees
• Developing a culture of high expectations, systems thinking and accountability

Objectives

The outcomes for human capital include:

• Enhance and expand recruitment and retention of a high-quality and diverse workforce
• Promote a culture of learning and well-being for each employee group