Goals and Activities - A Strategic Plan
Climate for Great Learning
- Provide a safe, healthy learning environment
- Maintain high expectations for students’ academic performance
- Honor diversity through high quality programs and training
- Continue to implement research-based curriculum
- Use effective instructional strategies to meet the needs of all students
- Strengthen collaborative relationships with employee, family and community groups
Quality Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
- Continue to connect classroom instruction and student performance to state standards
- Create meaningful learning experiences through involvement with the community
- Raise students’ awareness of the power of education through work and career experiences
- Provide a variety of opportunities to ensure that all students succeed
- Use a wide range of assessments to diagnose and meet students’ learning needs
- Hire and support highly qualified and professional staff
- Support and retain staff with training and ongoing professional development
- Integrate technology that strengthens teaching and learning
Communications and Connections
- Strengthen family/school partnerships and community involvement
- Involve site councils in the school improvement process
- Promote business partnerships with the schools
- Share information to enhance communication with a variety of groups
- Use technology to increase communications among parents, staff, and students
Facilities and Operations
- Improve the effectiveness of district programs and operations
- Analyze cost/benefits when reviewing programs, processes, and equipment
- Work with community and staff to address short and long-term facilities’ needs
Preparing all Students to Meet the Challenges of the Future
The rapidly growing Bethel School District, will meet the challenges of a changing world by graduating students who are:
Knowledgeable individuals
- Effective communicators
- Creative, analytical and logical thinkers
- Caring, responsible citizens, possessing strong human relations skills
- Self-motivated, lifelong learners who adjust to new situations
To accomplish this, Bethel School District will:
- Implement an improvement plan that focuses on the application of knowledge in the classroom and society
- Emphasize student learning in basic skills and core academic areas
- Coordinate curriculum, instruction and assessment with grade level expectations
- Form partnerships within the community to nurture student learning and citizenship
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