Destination 1
Great Places to Learn
By putting students first in every decision, we design welcoming, well-managed classrooms where academic rigor thrives. We embrace the diverse perspectives and unique needs of each individual learner to ensure true belonging is felt by all, cultivating the authentic relationships necessary to sustain a seamless safety net of support where no learner is left behind.
Waypoint 1A Academic Excellence and Rigor
Strategic Focus
Each student, in every classroom, every single day will be inspired by rigorous learning, fueled by high-quality resources, and given an equitable path to reach their highest potential.
Arrival Points
Goal 1.1
Guaranteed Curriculum and Aligned Assessment
Consistent, high-quality curriculum and learning materials across all schools, paired with aligned assessments that help track student growth and achievement.
- System-Wide Curriculum and Proficiency Mapping. Establish and calibrate district-wide essential standards and proficiency scales across all schools to ensure equity of rigor, standard mastery expectations, and seamless learning transitions regardless of campus.
- Districtwide Professional Learning Community (PLC) and Data Calibration. Facilitate cross-building job-alike PLC collaboration cycles to align instructional expectations, calibrate scoring on common formative assessments, and share high-leverage teaching strategies across all district schools.
- Equip Classrooms with High-Quality Resources. Provide every classroom with equitable, high-quality, and culturally responsive instructional materials explicitly aligned to essential standards.
- Design Balanced, Real-Time Assessments. Develop district and classroom formative/summative assessments tied to essential standards, giving educators actionable data to track student progress.
- Drive Professional Learning Community Data Cycles for Instruction. Protect time for teacher teams to review student progress, adjust everyday classroom teaching, and quickly provide extra help or advanced challenges for students.
- Transition to Clear Progress Reporting. Develop a manageable standards-referenced grading plan that translates proficiency scale scores directly into clear, transparent progress updates for families.
Waypoint 1B Culture, Belonging, and Student Support
Strategic Focus
Cultivating a welcoming, well-managed learning environment backed by a seamless, multi-tiered system of support that addresses the behavioral, emotional, and academic needs of every student through deep partnership with families and the community.
Arrival Points
Goal 1.2
Cultivate Belonging and Agency
Cultivate inclusive, welcoming school cultures where every student and family feels a deep sense of safety, community, connection, and voice.
- Elevate Classroom Community and Connection. Implement evidence-based, age-appropriate belonging strategies and restorative practices.
- Perception Check. Utilize routine perception surveys to monitor and ensure students, parents, and the community perceive the school environment as safe, supportive, and orderly.
- Institutionalize Connection Checks. Establish routine connection checks to guarantee every student has a clear peer network and at least one trusted adult in their building.
- Elevate Student Voice and Agency. Co-design classroom norms alongside students to foster Self-Advocacy and Citizenship through peer-led restorative initiatives.
- Build Active Family Partnerships. Partner intentionally with all families to co-create clear, two-way channels for monitoring student progress, safety, and school culture.
Goal 1.3
Student Support System
Build and implement a system in every school that provides step-by-step academic, behavioral, and emotional support based on each student's needs.
- Unify Behavior Management Systems. Develop and sustain a unified school-wide system at each school for behavioral management that aligns proactive supports with clear, consistent responses to student behavior.
- Train Campus Leadership Teams. Mobilize and equip a dedicated leadership team at each school to systematically implement the three tiers of academic, behavioral, and social-emotional supports.
- Establish Data-Driven Interventions. Implement a responsive student support system that uses data-driven triggers to systematically identify and connect students with timely academic and behavioral interventions.
One destination of three.
Great Places to Learn works alongside Great Places to Work and Great Places to Succeed. Progress in one fuels progress in the others.