Focus Area 1
2023-2024 

Continue to build the capacity of instructional staff through ongoing PLC training, with consistent messaging to all staff

Establish a Guiding Coalition in each building, with representatives across grade levels and support areas, to support the implementation of professional learning teams

Deepen the implementation of professional learning teams through our Districtwide Guiding Coalition work with Solution Tree

Implement collaborative teams focused on student-learning that include regular review of student performance on common formative tasks and assessments

• Establish essential standards for every course

• Develop common formative assessments

• Determine student assessment samples for review at each grade/course (exemplar work) and

• Prepare/schedule time for review of student learning during time in professional learning teams

Develop and expand instructional resources for reteaching/intervention/extension resources to support tier two instruction

Establish Collective efficacy through Collective responsibility from all stakeholders to commit to understanding and supporting diverse student needs, student cultures and communities to ensure all students learn at high levels

Increase staff capacity to understand  and support diverse needs, with a focus on equity and inclusion through consistent professional learning opportunities and follow-up.

• PINE

• Culturally Responsive Practices (CRSE Framework)

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training

Evaluate and review curriculum to provide inclusive curriculum and assessments that represent and affirm student identities.

Implement  coherent and aligned grading practices that reflect student learning and equitable practices

• Grading teams reestablished for grades 6-12 in each building

• Create/tag standards-based assessments 

Develop a process for a district wide Equity Review to examine equitable allocation or resources and opportunities 

• Collaborate with outside agencies for support in conducting review

• Identify prioritized areas to examine

• Explore opportunities to strengthen access to after school activities, specifically at elementary

Explore ways to continually grow the diversity of the workforce 

Maximize instructional time through strategic scheduling that provides for time for all tiers of instruction effectively

Expand Time for all content areas K-5, by increasing instructional time by 15 minutes, starting in 2023-24

Clarify language, processes and protocols to develop a common MTSS system in each building.

Expand and/or redesign learning support structures to provide and support quality instruction at all tiers

• Clarify role of  Tier 2 time at each level

Implement personalized and/or adaptive digital tools in a blended learning environment to support tiers of instruction

• Access to professional learning to implement and analyze data from these tools

Incorporate instructional strategies that adapt to diverse learning needs through the use of scaffolds to increase access for all 

Integrate and implement  all new standards, including Computer Science & Digital Fluency standards/programming

Grow/Expand CTE / Career and Graduation Pathways / Spartan Academy/Seals of Civic Readiness/Biliteracy, Individualized Arts Pathway

Increase access to rigorous and relevant hands-on , interdisciplinary learning experiences for all students