7. 2009-14 Strategic Goal Areas
Curriculum Mathematics &
Reading
Student Achievement Participation in State
Achievement Gap Assessments
Holistic Needs of Students Student Attendance
Graduation
Communications
Educational
Facilities Technology
8. CURRICULUM
Develop and implement an
integrated, coherent, culturally proficient
and rigorous curriculum with relevant
instruction and assessment framework.
Communicate & Monitor Curriculum
Curriculum Alignment
Collaboration
9. Educational Services Department
The Educational Services Department has the primary
charge to enhance, enrich, and support
Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment K-12.
We work with each school’s administrative leadership
team and staff members to
design, implement, revise, and assess all content
areas while providing classroom
support, materials, resources, and professional
development.
10. Curriculum
New Reading program
Being a Writer
Communicate
& Monitor
Curriculum Investigations implementation
Curriculum
Alignment Science kit implementation
Collaboration
Literacy Specialists
Math Specialists
Collaborative work
15. STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
To sustain and increase the number of
students achieving at the proficient and
advanced levels in the PSSA across all
grade levels and content areas.
Identify measures of success
Increase standardized assessment
scores for students in identified
groups
16. Student Achievement
Elementary Counseling Gifted
Academic, Career & Higher Level Critical
Emotional/Social Thinking
Identify Development Support Curriculum
measures of
success
Second Step Resource
Increase
standardized
scores
Responsive Testing
Classroom PSSA
Resources to support Support Curriculum
counseling activities Testing
17. Student Achievement
Instructional Technology & Data
Elementary and Secondary
Benchmark, diagnostic, and curriculum based assessments
State and national standardized assessments
Identify
measures of
Local sources of data
success
Increase
standardized Data >> Analysis/Discovery >> Solutions
scores
Data: What data do we have?
A/D: What do the data tell us about the areas of strength
and areas of concern?
Solutions: Which evidence-based strategies must we
consider in our plan?
18. Student Achievement
Instructional Technology & Data
Building visits
Whole class and/or small group lessons
Building demonstrations
Identify
measures of Committee representative
success
WOW newsletters
Increase
standardized Project recommendations
scores
Gather feedback
Website management and training
Technology Skills Checklist
Respond to Help Desk Tickets
19. ACHIEVEMENT GAP
To significantly decrease and/or eliminate the
achievement gap for all African American
students, and for other groups of students where data
show the gaps exist.
Identify/address the academic achievement
needs of African-American and other students in
identified groups
Identify ways to measure improvement
Improve grades for African-American and other
students in identified groups
20. Achievement Gap
Identify /
address the
academic
achievement
needs of
African-
American
and other
students in
identified
groups
Identify ways
to measure
improvement
Improve
grades for
African-
American
and other
students in
identified
groups
21. Achievement Gap
Identify /
address the
academic
achievement
needs of
African-
American
and other
students in
identified
groups
Identify ways
to measure
improvement
Improve
grades for
African-
American
and other
students in
identified
groups
22. Achievement Gap
Identify /
address the
academic
achievement
needs of
African-
American
and other
students in
identified
groups
Identify ways
to measure
improvement
Improve
grades for
African-
American
and other
students in
identified
groups
23. Achievement Gap
Identify /
address the
academic
achievement
needs of
African-
American
and other
students in
identified
groups
Identify ways
to measure
improvement
Improve
grades for
African-
American
and other
students in
identified
groups
24. HOLISTIC NEEDS OF STUDENTS
Meeting The Holistic Needs of
All Students
To further the goal of creatively
developing a school and community
environment that recognizes and
addresses the holistic needs of our
students, i.e., mental
health, character, citizenship, self
worth, etc.
• Social Cultural Identity
25. Holistic Needs of Students
Student
Stress and
Mental
Health
Self Worth
and
Belonging
26. Holistic Needs of Students
Student
Stress and
Mental
Health
Self Worth
and
Belonging
27. Holistic Needs of Students
Student
Stress and
Mental
Health
Self Worth
and
Belonging
28. Holistic Needs of Students
Student
Stress and
Mental
Health
Self Worth
and
Belonging
30. FACILITIES
Prepare and Implement a Strategic
Energy Plan
Environmental Impact Reduction
Policy Approved
Recycling Audit at High Schools
Penn Valley Solar Panels Installed
32. Facilities
Prepare and Implement a Strategic
Energy Plan (Cont.)
Energy Saving Projects
Initial Energy Star Benchmarking
Complete
Demand Response Participation
33. Facilities
Use of Alternative Fuel Vehicles
CNG Bus Replacement
Awarded Grant - $315,000
Began Use of Bio-Diesel in
all District Vehicles
Input slides to accompany the data slides that support our collaborative efforts for each SP Goal and strategy.
Updates Curriculum in Language Arts (Reading & Writing),Math, science, technology & engineering. . .
The Strategic Plan Goal related to Facilities is to Provide High Quality Facilities While Reducing the Impact on the Environment.I will address two of the activities we have been pursuing under this goal – the first of these is to Implement a Strategic Energy PlanIn June of this Year, the Board gave final approval to a new Board Policy – the Comprehensive Environmental Impact Reduction Policy. We have begun implementation. The policy addresses a wide range of LMSD activities to include energy use, solid waste management, water and soil conservation, air quality management, and purchasing. The Policy seeks to reduce our impact on the environment while educating our students in the importance of environmental stewardship at all ages, in accordance with relevant academic standards.Some notable recent achievements are: recycling study done at two high schools – by ________ and Installation of solar panels as a demonstration project at Penn Valley.
We have completed lighting upgrades at Downs Gym and the Welsh Valley gyms and are about to begin similar upgrades at Belmont Hills and Cynwyd, to include the parking garage. We are planning for boiler upgrades at several schools over the next few years. These are boilers that are coming to the end of their useful lives and we will replace them with more energy efficient types.We have completed preliminary Energy Star Benchmarking assessments and are refining the analysis.And finally, we are about to complete the first year of participating in a Demand Response program at our two high schools. This is a program that pays us to reduce our demand during times of high electrical usage. We had our first opportunity to participate in this on July 22d of this year.
Lastly , we continue our program of using alternative fuel vehicles.We have completed the replacement of our initial purchase of CNG buses and are continuing to plan for replacements as buses reach the end of their useful lives. We were successful in obtaining a grant to help with the cost of some of these buses. As you know, the high school modernization projects included replacing the CNG stations at each high school. Our program of using buses powered by natural gas is going strong.Additionally, in the last year we have begun using bio-diesel in all of our diesel vehicles. We were able to take advantage of a state grant awarded to a group of school districts to offset the additional cost of this fuel.
