Cambrian School District Strategic Plan

1. Cambrian School DistrictStrategic Plan August 11, 2011

2. The Process Participation from a broad range of stakeholders: (over 50 Participants) • Board Members • Teachers • Classified Staff • Principals • District Office Staff • Administrators • Parents • Community Members • Educational Leaders

3. The Process Plan Development • Review of current trends • Review of research and initiatives • Discussion, brainstorming, organizational techniques • Accordion Process • 4 committee meetings over the year • Incorporated other district plans/initiatives • Single Plan for Student Achievement • Local Education Plan • Technology Plan • Board Presentations

4. Components Strategic Components – (the what) • Mission • Vision • Core Beliefs and Guiding Principles • Goals Tactical Components – (the how) • Targets • Action Plans

5. Targets • Annual targets - will be updated each year • Specific: drives and brings attention to resources • Measured: summative measures for accomplishment • Attainable: can be accomplished this year • Results: benchmarks to measure efforts • Time bound - to be accomplished this year • Not all sub-goal areas addressed every year • Focus will change each year as different components become accomplished and part of what we do • Focus on what will be new and different

6. 21st Century Skills Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a person for work that does not yet exist and cannot be clearly defined. - Peter Drucker It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must learn how to spot a serotype, isolate a social cliché, distinguish facts from propaganda, analysis from banter, and important news from coverage. - Ernest Boyer, past president, Carnegie Foundation

7. 21st Century Skills • 21st Century Standards • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving • Creativity and Innovation • Communication and Collaboration • Student Engagement • Rigor • Challenge • Experiential Learning

8. 21st Century Skills • Professional Development • Choice • By application • Provides both training, and the tools to do what they have been trained to do • Ongoing • Collaborative • Accountability • Culminating events • Celebrations

9. Flexible Learning Environments In times of change learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -Eric Hoffer

10. Flexible Learning Environments • A look at learning outside the school day • Homework • Intervention • Tutoring • Enrichment • A look at how time and space is used during the school day • Schedules • Grouping • Structures

11. Whole Child Do not train children to learn by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. -Plato Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. - John Kennedy Give pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the dong is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results. -John Dewey

12. Whole Child Providing a well rounded education • Social Emotional Well Being • Visual and Performing Arts • Physical Education • Wellness and Nutrition

13. Student Achievement The power to question is the basis for all human progress. -IndiraGhandi Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. -John F. Kennedy Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. - Peter Drucker

14. Student Achievement Engaging, high quality instruction that will lead to maximizing student achievement • Curriculum and Instruction • Data Analysis • Targeted Intervention • Quality Assessment • Focus on improved instruction for English Learners and Gifted Students • High quality professional development

15. Resources What’s right with America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources - to do some thing about them. -Henry Ford Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows with a new capacity to create wealth. -Peter Drucker

16. Resources Effectively utilizing and expanding our existing and future resources • Financial Resources • Assets • Instructional Facilities • Community engagement and communication • Emergency Preparedness

17. Budgeting for the plan Combining from various sources: • Refocusing existing funds • Categorical Funds • Departmental Allocations • Site Budgets • Commitment of Reserves • Grants and Partnerships

18. Next Steps After approval • Develop action plans for each target • Begin Implementation of targets • Produce Strategic Plan Brochure • Website posting and development • Present to both internal and external organizations • Sub-committee formed to monitor progress and develop targets for 2012-13 • Formal updates to board at mid and end of year • New targets (2012-13) brought to the board in June of 2012

19. Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. - Barack Obama