Data Informed & Equity-Focused

Priorities identified through audits and evaluations:

• Communications - time study, project management system, customer response system, website, and professional learning
• Family Engagement - relationship building and expanded resource utilization
• Human Resources - long-term goals, enhanced processes, and employee onboarding
• Facilities - long-term facilities management plan, repair quality assurance system, and communication efficiency
• Students with Disabilities - address disproportionality in referrals and identification of “children of color,” or culturally and linguistically diverse students
• Talented and Gifted - address disproportionality in economically disadvantaged and minority students’ enrollment and participation rates, greater differentiation of the curriculum, instructional techniques, and related materials

COVID-19 response monitored through key drivers:

 Impact of Dual Pandemics

• Social-Emotional: Trauma adversely affects students’ capacity to regulate emotions and control behaviors and inhibits relationships with both teachers and peers.
• Academic: Trauma causes lower levels of academic achievement. Trauma affected students are more likely to encounter learning difficulties, need additional supports, experience grade retention, and absenteeism, and drop out of school.
• Disproportionality: Trauma occurs across all segments of a community, but research has found trauma disproportionality impacts families with lower economic resources, higher parental stress levels, and those experiencing insecurity across critical areas (food, shelter, employment, transportation).

 Areas of Focus

• Reopening of Schools

  • SEAL
  • Technology
  • Meal Distribution

• Policy Equity Audit

• Strategic Plan Implementation

  • Action Planning
  • Monitoring Metrics

• Renaming of Schools

• Academic Disparities 

  • TAG
  • PreK-2 Literacy
  • SWD ED Black Males
  • Hispanic Male
  • Graduation Rates

 Alignment

2019-2020 Focus areas

• Strategic Plan remains an area of focus, including the High School Project, and is founded upon Equity
• All audit action plans will be incorporated into Department and/or School Improvement Plans

2019-2020 Budget Priorities 

• PreK-2 Literacy and Hispanic Graduation Rate remain areas of focus
• MTSS and PBIS is carried forwarded in Reopening Plan within SEAL
• Customer Service, Cultural Competence, and Staff Retention
• Highlighted within Strategic Plan Action Planning
• Students with Disabilities, Facilities, and Human Resources Audit
• Action Steps are carried forward through Department Improvement Plans