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2023-24 and 2024-25 District Goals

1.Communication

         Improved communication (frequent, timely, thorough, and regular) between all constituent groups

    • District Office to parents, community, faculty, and staff
    • Building administrators to faculty, staff, and parents
    • Teachers to parents and students
    • School counselors to parents and students
    • Communication from teachers to parents
      • Extra communication for struggling students
      • Grades updated at regular intervals on Powerschool, parents informed
    • Improved webpage format
    • Continued use of social media (Facebook and Instagram)
    • Make information easy to find
    • Facilitate parent involvement in the school
  1. Academic Rigor and Literacy
  • Implement new literacy program in Duzine
  • Explore options for a new literacy program in Lenape
  • Implement progress monitoring using STAR in grades 3-8
  • Ensure implementation of tier I, II, and III instruction
  • Explore deficits in math instruction K-12
  • Examine/improve horizontal and vertical alignment across the board
  • Help students improve academic readiness including time management skills, resilience, and persistence
  • Examine the disproportionality in students taking advanced and elective courses
  • Ensure appropriate alignment of course grades and AP or Regents grades
  • Examine the rigor of all courses to ensure students are challenged and accountable.
  • Examine the readiness of our students to attend college or vocational schools
  • Explore options for student enrichment
  1. Student Absenteeism and Tardiness
  • Make students feel welcome and safe in school
  • Engage students in school so they want to come to school
  • Closely monitor student attendance
    • Follow new attendance policy with 20-day limit
    • Immediately call parents when a student is absent from school
      • Make sure parents and students know that we want them in school
    • Send letters home to parents when students have reached 5, 10, 15, 18 class absences
    • Have attendance conferences with students who have excessive absences
    • Monitor student tardiness for all classes.  Work to solve the problem for frequent offenders with parent and/or administrative intervention

     4. Health and Wellness of students 

  • Explore ways to involve more students in physical activities
  • Explore ways to get students to eat healthier
  • Educate parents on proper snacks to be sent to school with children
  • Task wellness committee with facilitating community education on healthy living
  • Ensure that social and emotional activities are happening in the schools
  • Re-implement the CAFÉ program in the high school
  • Work in partnership with the village youth center to support recreational activities for MS and HS students
  • Consider more extracurricular activities for elementary students
  • Address disproportionality with discipline
  • Monitor effectiveness of the 2023-2024 code of conduct
  • Explore and implement restorative practices in discipline
  • Collect and analyze data of students accessing
    • Astor services
    • Drop in counseling with social workers and school counselors
    • School psychologists
  • Collect and analyze data in effectiveness of SEL programming
    • New school counseling plan
    • New use of Wayfinder programming at MS
    • New instruction of life prep at HS