Cambrian School DistrictStrategic Plan

August 11, 2011

The ProcessParticipation from a broad range of stakeholders:

(over 50 Participants)• Board Members• Teachers• Classified Staff• Principals• District Office Staff• Administrators• Parents • Community Members• Educational Leaders

The ProcessPlan 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

ComponentsStrategic Components – (the what)• Mission• Vision• Core Beliefs and Guiding Principles• GoalsTactical Components – (the how)• Targets• Action Plans

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

21st Century SkillsSince 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

21st Century Skills• 21st Century Standards

– Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

– Creativity and Innovation– Communication and Collaboration

• Student Engagement– Rigor– Challenge– Experiential Learning

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

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

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

Whole ChildDo 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.

-PlatoAbove 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

Whole ChildProviding a well rounded

education• Social Emotional Well Being• Visual and Performing Arts• Physical Education• Wellness and Nutrition

Student AchievementThe power to question is the basis for all human progress.

-Indira Ghandi Our problems are man-made, therefore

they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

-John F. KennedyEfficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

- Peter Drucker

Student AchievementEngaging, 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

ResourcesWhat’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 FordInnovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows with a new capacity to create wealth.

-Peter Drucker

ResourcesEffectively utilizing and expanding our existing and future resources

• Financial Resources• Assets• Instructional Facilities• Community engagement and

communication• Emergency Preparedness

Budgeting for the planCombining from various sources:

• Refocusing existing funds– Categorical Funds– Departmental Allocations– Site Budgets

• Commitment of Reserves• Grants and Partnerships

Next StepsAfter 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

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