With “Excellence for Learning” as our mission, our vision is one of establishing high expectations in an environment of caring and nurturing where each child achieves his or her personal best. Staff members in this system are proactive, efficacious and resourceful about improving student learning and raising expectations; at the same time they area accountable to their students, parents, and principals.
Goal 1: A Culture That Places Children First / Setting High Expectations in an Environment of Caring
Long Term Measures of Success
- We maintain a common focus/vision on children that builds on unique strengths while also bringing us together as a community.
- Culture of Inquiry - we regularly inquire about our assumptions and those of others before making conclusions.
- We amplify excellence across the district and within the schools.
- We encourage students to exceed high standards, both the District’s expectations and their own.
- Teachers regularly report on learning using authentic assessment and student data to describe the success.
- Teachers are tenacious about maintaining and enhancing the alignment between grades and across schools.
- Kids, parents, and new staff are attracted to OAUSD and stay with us over time.
- Home school partnerships focus on student growth and development and future success.
Short Term Actions/Measures of Success
1. School and district goals and measures of success are evidence based with successes being summarized and collected into an annual report.
a. Goals in Single School Plan reflect success in Writing by Design at each grade level.
2. Establish core understandings and agreements about teaching and the expectation that teachers and principals are accountable for these expectations.
a. Agreements on Handwriting without Tears and Writing by Design.
3. Continue cycle of assessing learning cycle with program audits that assess teaching, acquire institutional knowledge about teaching and learning, adjust teaching and learning to deliver instruction, monitor implementation, evaluate efficacy of effort.
a. Cycle used in Writing by Design.
Goal 2: Instructional Leadership Goals for Core Subjects
A. Improve student writing as measured by a tri-annual assessment.
Long Term Measures of Success
- Percentage of 4th graders proficient and above will show improvement on statewide test.
- Local assessment measurement of grades K—6 shows improvement in percent proficient.
- Teachers report improvement in their ability to teach the 6 Traits of Excellent writing.
- Improve student handwriting to support quality presentation of writing.
B. Improve student reading as measured by DIBELS, a web based reading assessment and on the STAR.
Long Term Measures of Success
- Percentage of students reading at grade level or above will increase.
- Students will demonstrate benchmark competency on the DIBELS assessments.
- Students will read more books and demonstrate understanding using library programs such as Accelerated Reader.
- Students targeted through RTI instruction will show growth for the discrete skills identified for remediation.
Long Term Goal/Outcome—Use technology to create high performing, media-rich, learning centered school environments Long Term Goal/Outcome—Use technology to create high performing, media-rich, learning centered school environments
Goal 3: Use technology to create high performing, media-rich, learning centered school environments
- Create relevant, engaging, inquiry focused learning environments that are media-rich and broaden students’ conceptual and social/geographic understanding of the world.
- Produce high quality student learning with classroom environments that are challenging, engaging, and creative.
- Demonstrate positive and ethical behaviors focused on learning.
- Increase our ability to personalize learning for individual students and increase opportunities for high levels of success.
- Help students become facile with tools that support writing with a special focus on pre-writing and revision as well as expand potential audiences for writing.
- Recognize the unique opportunity for tech savvy students to support, promote and guide the adults in classroom applications.
- Help parents learn the importance of a media-rich learning centered environments.
Long Term Measures of Success
- Number of teachers utilizing technology to support teaching and learning will increase.
- Teachers will demonstrate increased proficiency in the use of technology
- Teachers regularly seek information and communicate via the internet.
- Technology infrastructure is standardized across the district and from classroom to classroom.
- Libraries will include media-rich and virtual library capabilities.
- Students are regularly utilized to support teachers in the trouble shooting and application of technology to classroom learning.
- Data bases and web based assessment tools will guide learning and teaching.
- Parents will value and support financially the district goals of producing 21st century learners.
Goal 4: Parent Involvement / Create a comprehensive, well-planned, home-school-community partnership
- Work with all members of the community to help strengthen the connection between parent-school activities in relation to achievement.
- Own the belief that the level of parent involvement is determined by whether or not appropriate strategies and structures are in place to facilitate the participation of parents. (It is not determined by parent interest or apathy.)
- Communicate the value added benefit of parent involvement: home-school connections communicate the importance of school, learning together supports student growth, know the child’s world promotes conversations; valuing education is a wonderful gift, by getting involved early, parents stay involved.
- Celebrate all levels of parent involvement on a continuum from supporting home work to serving in a parent leadership activity.
- Build a vision in staff to cultivate their skills for serving as ambassadors for parent involvement.
- Expand relationships with the community.
Long Term Measures of Success
- Seek opportunities to strengthen the home-school connection.
- Activities planned to support student achievement goals.
- Activities planned to celebrate student achievement goals.
- Outreach to parents entering kindergarten.
- Strategies to reach those who do not attend parent conferences or other school functions.
- Develop and communicate parent involvement standards.
- Parent groups (PTA/PTO and ASK Foundation) work collaboratively on common goals.
- Strategies to increase attendance at community forum.
- Create opportunities for parent networking such as an annual leadership social.
- Improve district-home communication strategies.
- Facilitate meaningful volunteer work.