The document outlines strategies for improving student achievement and school culture. It recommends creating smaller learning communities, incorporating 21st century skills, using data-driven decision making, promoting positive morale among staff, recognizing student achievement, providing career exploration opportunities, mobilizing community support, integrating technology, encouraging communication and collaboration among teachers, decentralizing decision making, and empowering building-level leadership. The overall goal is to develop a shared vision across the school to improve outcomes for all students.

2. C – Continual Academic Achievement for All Students C – Creating a Climate and Culture for Learning S – Synergy (Service and Support) D – Diversity

3.  Smaller Learning Communities  Shared Decision Making  Ownership  Trust and Comfort Level  Calculated Risk

4.  Incorporating 21 st Century Skills Into The Curriculum  Problem Solving  Critical Thinking  Creativity  Innovation  Collaboration  Communication

5.  Data Driven Decision Making  Demographic Data  Perceptual Data  Student Learning Data  School Process Data

6.  Promote Positive Morale  Belief in Core Values  Professional Relationships  Belief That All Students Can Learn  Teachers Have Direct Impact Over Student Success

7.  Student Recognition  Incentives, Awards and Rewards  Promote Academic Success  Celebrations

8.  Provide Career Exploration and Practical Application  Develop Interest  Making Connections  Goal Setting

9.  Mobilize Support  Align Resources  Collaboration

10.  Integrating Technology  Supports the Curriculum  Promotes Global Learning  Provides Real Life Application  Enables Virtual Exchanges and Immediate Feedback

11.  Encourage Communication and Collaboration  Professional Learning Communities  Embedded Learning  Peer Coaching  Grade Level Meetings  Co-Planning  Study Teams

12.  Decentralized  Horizontal Leadership  Building Level Decision Making  Building Level Responsibility

13.  Demographics  Poverty  Minority  Special Education  Accelerated Learners

14.  Empowering Building Level Problem Solving, Decision Making and Leadership  Professional Development  Time, Tools, and Resources

15. Creating a vision is like… rowing a boat. You get to the destination a lot faster if the whole team rows in unison.