Morristown Central School District Strategic Plan

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Morristown Central School District Strategic Plan

• Board of Education Meeting
• February 13, 2008

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Core Values

• We believe that

• Diversity creates opportunities for growth

• Integrity is the foundation for self-respect and
  earning the respect of others

• Positive attitudes are contagious and foster
  positive outcomes

• There are no boundaries to human potential

• Real world experiences generate understanding,
  facilitate discovery, and cultivate the yearning
  for knowledge

• A community thrives through effective
  communication and collaboration

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Mission

• The mission of the Morristown Central School
  District is to prepare all students to
  confidently and competently pursue their goals
  and to demonstrate ethical responsibility to the
  world around them.

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Strategic Objectives

• By the year 2013 all students are
• Willingly participating in activities that
  benefit the community
• Continually declaring, planning for and pursuing
  their goals
• Meeting or exceeding academic standards related
  to their program or level of study

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MCS ProposedMeasurement Process
Integration
Resumé
Rubrics
Portfolio
Interview
Academics
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How will we measure student progress?
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Rubrics

• Developed for Strategic Objectives 1 2
• Traditional method for Strategic Objective 3
• 1 activities that benefit the community
• 2 declaring, planning for, and pursuing goals
• 3 achieving academic standards

Rubrics
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Academics

• Transcripts
• State ELA and Math
• Regents
• SLL BOCES-for yearly tracking
• Classroom averages
• System includes quality points

Academics
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Resumé

• Generate data
• Life skill
• Reviewed and updated continually

Resumé
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Portfolio

• Letters of recommendation
• Certificates (Student of the Month)
• Art work
• Newspaper articles

Portfolio
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Interview

• Conducted formally with an advisor
• Each advisor would keep the student until
  graduation
• Formally held each Spring
• Students would present resumé, portfolio and any
  letters of recommendation

Interview
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Integration
Integration

• Grades 1-4
• Teaching expectations
• Modeling behaviors-class activities/projects
• Informal assessment
• Grades 5-8
• More individual focus
• Record accomplishments
• Begin formal interview with an advisor
• Grades 9-12
• Keep the same advisor
• Interview each Spring

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MCS ProposedMeasurement Process
Integration
Resumé
Rubrics
Portfolio
Interview
Academics
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Strategy 1

• We will create an environment that affirms
  collaborative efforts among all employees and
  values professionalism necessary to achieve our
  mission and strategic objectives.

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Strategy 1

• We will create an environment that affirms
  collaborative efforts among all
• employees and values professionalism necessary
  to achieve our mission and
• strategic objectives.
• Results
• Instructional staff at each level has time for
  collaboration that is used to analyze student
  needs and plan instructional strategies to ensure
  that all students are achieving the strategic
  objectives.
• Annually, faculty and staff have an active role
  in choosing professional development goals and
  activities intended to improve student learning
  through enhanced performance.
• Instructional staff is engaged in grade level
  teams and is using agreed upon collaboration
  protocols to guide its efforts.
• Instructional staff supports each other in the
  classroom while implementing professional
  development to enhance student learning.
• The district has endorsed standards for
  professionalism and professional behavior that
  describe employee expectations.

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Classroom collaboration to meet student needs
Standards of professional behavior developed and
endorsed by a joint committee of participants
Teachers active in choosing professional
development
Collaboration and Professionalism
Staff supports classroom efforts while
implementing professional development
Staff uses grade level teams to further
collaborative efforts
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Strategy 2

• We will align, and if necessary, design a
  school-wide curriculum to ensure that all
  students achieve our mission and strategic
  objectives.

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Strategy 2

• We will align, and if necessary, design a
  school-wide curriculum to ensure that all
• students achieve our mission and strategic
  objectives.
• Results
• Advisory groups, small groups of students and one
  adult educator that meet on a regular basis, are
  focused on helping all students meet the
  strategic objectives by connecting them to their
  school and community.
• Service learning, a method of teaching through
  which students apply their academic skills and
  knowledge to address real-life needs in their own
  community, is embedded in the established
  curriculum.
• Instructional staff uses strategies that
  encourage student engagement and active learning
  to ensure all students achieve the strategic
  objectives.
• The district uses a multi-year curriculum
  alignment and review cycle to align standards and
  the strategic objectives K-12 in all content
  areas.
• A system of assessments has been defined that
  provides ongoing feedback about students
  attainment of the districts academic standards.
• Teachers continually use data from multiple
  measures of student learning to plan instruction.

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Advisory Groups Service Learning Instruction Curri
culum Assessment
School
Faculty
Students
Community
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Strategy 3

• We will fully utilize the resources of our
  greater community as partners in our commitment
  to achieve our mission and strategic objectives.

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Strategy 3

• We will fully utilize the resources of our
  greater community as partners in our
• commitment to achieve our mission and strategic
  objectives.
• Results
• Each year, all students will participate in a
  variety of service activities that will benefit
  the local community and instill a sense of
  ethical responsibility to the world around them.
• Students use community-based resources that will
  assist them in meeting and exceeding academic
  standards.
• The district has acquired current technology
  necessary to access community resources for
  students to achieve our mission and strategic
  objectives.
• All instructional staff are skilled in the use of
  current technology to support students in our
  mission, strategic objectives, and this strategy.
• All students in grades 7-12 are using
  community-based resources that allow them to
  pursue their interests and explore career options.

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Utilize community-based resources
Determine resources in the community to enhance
students ability to achieve academic standards.
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Strategic Delimiters

• We will not initiate any new program or service
  unless
• It is consistent with and contributes to our
  mission
• It is accompanied by the staff development needed
  for its effectiveness
• It is accompanied by a plan to assess its
  effectiveness
• We will not allow negative thinking to interfere
  with the consideration of new ideas

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Core Planning Team
Chuck Alford Andrea Bertrand Harriet Beggs Phil
Bender Marilyn Connor Lorraine Bogardus Scott
Daby Ed Easton Patrick Farrand Cheryl Felt Barb
Griffith Ruth Lincoln Joe McDonald Mike
Wills Darrell Merkel Eric Micelli Loren Nowak Bev
Ouderkirk Nancy Pickering Jeff Stout Lynn
Tayler Jane Wagoner Chrystal McGrain-McEathron
Measurement Team Pat Tocatlian Ellen Magee Ann
Fenlong David Doyle Peter Ward Sarah LaBarge
Action Planning Teams Damie Evans Jo Ann
Cadieux Darrell Merkel Jennifer Baker Ruth
Lincoln Colleen Monfiletto Harriet Beggs Susie
Wright-Young Chris Coffin Roberta
Stillin-Dowman Jessica Fox Carolyn Sheppard Deb
Aldrich Cassandra Aldrich