Strategic Plan

During SY 2016-2017, the Pacific East District identified its first district goals:

• College and Career Ready Standards

• Professional Learning

• Data Usage

• Technology

School goals were articulated and structured online in Assist. Each school was required to have four measurable objectives aligned under the district goal.

In order to continue building continuity throughout the district, the Pacific East District implemented a goal template, in alignment with the Pacific West and Pacific South districts, that was utilized by the district office and all schools. In addition, in the fall of 2018, the Pacific East Assessment and Accountability ISS partnered with the CIL Education Research Analyst to deliver an introductory training at each of the six complexes for CSI Chairs and administrators. The training included the introduction of data protocols, root-cause analyses, and SMART goals.

During SY 2018-2019, the district continued with the four goals identified in SY 2016-2017:

• College and Career Ready Standards

• Professional Learning

• Data Usage

• Technology

In the SY 2020-2021, the Pacific East District developed the Steering Committee.

The district reshaped our goals to three goals:

• 21st Century Skills

• Student Performance in Mathematics

• Student Performance in Literacy

It is important to note that the ongoing reshaping of goals is a result of monitoring and adjusting goals during the process of our improvement journey. At no time did a goal go away. The goals were being met and needed to be modified to continue improving the particular areas.

The district enhanced our goal process by offering training on goals, migrating goal templates to online systems, and embedding a monitoring process into the goal process.

Through an analysis of the data, the Steering Committee developed and implemented the Pacific East Strategic Plan. The Steering Committee utilized results from the Pacific East District data analysis process. This process was adapted from Professional Learning Plans: A Workbook for States, Districts, and Schools from Learning Forward as the methodology for developing its strategic plan, and in turn, its professional learning plan. The results from this process ultimating led to the Pacific East Strategic Plan.

The Pacific East District Strategic Plan identifies two objectives, increase student achievement in Mathematics and increase student achievement in Literacy. To support the Pacific East District objectives, one overarching district goal has been identified, defined as Pacific East District will improve student achievement through emphasizing the 21st Century Innovative skills of (1) Collaboration (2) Creativity (3) Communication and (4) Critical Thinking (4Cs). Three strategic themes set the stage for the next three years of achieving excellence: (1) discourse, (2) digital learning, and (3) project-based learning.

In addition, as part of the Strategic Plan, the Pacific East District increased capacity in the district by implementing seven Critical Initiative Working Groups: (1) professional learning, (2) Focused Collaboration, (3) DoDEA Learning Walkthrough, (4) data usage, (5) social emotional learning, (6) onboarding, coaching, and mentoring, and (7) leadership development. The Critical Initiative Working Groups focus their work around the Pacific East Strategic Plan through implementing initiatives, structures and programs. Our working groups consist of a variety of Faculty Members, Instructional System Specialists, school administrators and Center for Instructional Leadership from across our district.