Board of Education Goals
Education Today for Tomorrow’s Challenges
District Goals 2010-2011
Mission Statement
We will continue to foster and enhance, where necessary, an open, caring and supportive atmosphere where every student is nurtured in the development of a respect and thirst for lifelong learning and personal dedication to the pursuit of excellence. We will graduate competent, compassionate individuals responsible for themselves and the world at large, who can excel at any chosen endeavor.
We will provide a challenging and innovative curriculum which develops creative thinking and problem solving while incorporating high standards and accountability. We will make use of the community and its resources as well as the abilities of our own staff to provide enhanced opportunities for learning and district development.
In order to implement the values of the Mission Statement, the following direction is provided…
Inspire students to learn, excite administrators, teachers and staff through the encouragement of new and innovative approaches to learning with a plan for implementation of the innovation.
· Career planning and college preparedness
- We have a responsibility to our students to learn not only the jobs of today but what may be coming in the future.
- JSHS staff must meet with business leaders and planners to understand their needs both today and tomorrow in order to design appropriate coursework and provide appropriate direction for our students.
- ES staff will develop career awareness within their current instructional programs.
- We will work more closely with BOCES career programs to better guide our students into opportunities that exist in that learning environment including programming at both campuses of BOCES.
- We will develop a school based SAT Prep program in order to improve the opportunities for our students in the competitive world of college entry.
· Differentiated instruction for students at ALL levels of learning.
- We must focus on learning opportunities that inspire our students.
- We will focus our energies toward coursework that engage students through investigation and discovery.
- Field trips/extra classroom excursions must be focused on instruction and experiential learning.
- We will work with the staff to develop a peer coaching model for piloting by the end of this year and implementation by 2011-2012.
· Graduation rates of 90% or greater after three years
- We will continue to foster an environment of engaged and inspired learning to increase the interest level in the provided coursework.
- Increase sharing opportunities with BOCES and neighboring schools to provide programs sought by students.
· Community service programs to create a larger sense of community among our students
- Our district will investigate Community Service programs in other districts and make a recommendation to the Board of Education on the benefits and challenges of such programs by June of 2011.
· Data review and analysis to improve student learning and enhance curriculum design
· The District Data Team will provide resources (data and tools to understand the data), discussions and support to teachers to assist them in modifying instruction to create a positive impact on learning.
· The Superintendent of Schools will provide the direction for a focused K-12 curriculum team in the area of Math to review and align the curriculum in this subject area across the district over the next two to three years.
§ There will be an instructional transition program developed that will provide a two way sharing of instructional plans and needs as students transition from the elementary school to the junior-senior high school.
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