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FINANCIAL STABILITY
– Ensure the financial stability and integrity of SPS in the
face of our financial crisis.
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Complete a public review of our financial situation by completing
an audit of our financial operations and information systems.
(Audit to be reviewed by the Committee for Fiscal
Integrity.)
• Begin
implementing the various recommendations of the audit and the
Committee for Fiscal Integrity.
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Commit to budget transparency and accountability.
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Complete the 2002-03 fiscal year with a balanced budget.
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Complete the first set of asset sales to begin the process of
replenishing our reserves.
ACADEMIC PROGRAM
– Continue our transformation to being a K-12,
standards-based education system for all students within
SPS.
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Accelerate the implementation of School Transformation plans at all
our schools.
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Complete the development of new graduation requirements that will
be aligned with our standards-based approach.
• Begin
a planning process for broadening and strengthening our services to
Bilingual students.
• Begin
implementing the plans developed by the Disproportionality Task
Force and the Highly Capable Review process.
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Aggressively develop rigorous, standards-based reform strategies at
all of our high schools, including small learning communities,
increased rigor and greater student-teacher engagement.
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Continue the process for transforming central office operations so
as to better customize support services to schools in a wide
variety of areas.
TEACHING QUALITY
– Broaden our initiative around “classroom
transformation” so as to expand our commitment to the quality
and academic productivity of our teachers.
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Continue to focus our professional development efforts so as to
improve the capabilities of our staff - principals, teachers,
administrators – to create academic achievement in a
standards-based environment. Our core foci on literacy and
inquiry-based math/science should be strengthened.
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Expand our “Courageous Conversations on Race” to
include all staff members in every school.
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Collaborate with the Alliance for Education, SEA, and staff on a
major community engagement regarding the issue of teaching
quality.
• Begin
development of a new performance evaluation instrument for teachers
and other instructional staff.
COMMUNITY ALIGNMENT
– Begin implementing a broad-based initiative to align our
community’s child-oriented resources around our
standards-based reform agenda.
• Begin
implementation of our long-term plan for partnering with a wide
variety of child-oriented organizations – pre-schools,
before- and after-care providers, higher education, social service
agencies, etc. – around the learning needs of our
students.
• Begin
working with the City of Seattle to plan for the 2004 renewal of
the City’s Family and Education Levy.
SCHOOL SAFETY, SECURITY
AND STUDENT WELL BEING – Enhance school climate so as to
improve the safety/security of our students and
staff.
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Continue our success in improving school climate so as to reduce
security incidents of all types, particularly harassment and
violent incidents.
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Continue the development of a multi-pronged approach to addressing
disproportionality in student discipline.
PARENT/GUARDIAN
COMMUNICATION & ENGAGEMENT – Expand our efforts to
increase parent/ guardian communication and community engagement at
the school level and on major initiatives.
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Continue our commitment to communicating with parents/guardians
through a wide variety of methods. This commitment needs to be
particularly focused in minority, bilingual, and low-income
communities.
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Increase community engagement at both the system-wide and the
school-based level. Utilize major SPS initiatives (teaching
quality, Bilingual review) as a means of increasing community
involvement in SPS affairs.
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Improve our responsiveness to inquiries and concerns raised by
parents, guardians and the community at both the system-wide and
the school level.
TECHNOLOGY –
Accelerate the integration of technology throughout our operations
– both instruction and management – so as to increase
student achievement and staff productivity.
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Complete the installation of the Wide Area Network (WAN) and the
school-based Local Area Networks (LANs) that will serve as our
information backbone.
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Complete the selection and acquisition of a new student information
system that will be broadly aligned with our academic
needs.
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Complete the roll-out of teacher workstations in every
school.
HUMAN RESOURCES –
Continue to strengthen our position as a high quality employer with
a diverse, highly productive work force.
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Continue to expand our broad-based recruiting and retention plan
targeting high quality administrators, principals and teachers,
with a particular focus on expanding our staff
diversity.
• Begin
to develop a new job description and evaluation instrument for
Department Heads in our secondary schools.
CAPITAL PROGRAMS AND FACILITIES
– Continue our successful capital programs and complete our
move to the Stanford Center.
• Keep
the BEX and BTA programs on-time and on-budget.
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Develop and adopt a BTA II levy proposal that is aligned with the
needs of our students and will be presented to the voters in
February 2004.
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Complete a successful move into the John Stanford Center for
Educational Excellence.
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Improve the maintenance and appearance of our
facilities.
ENROLLMENT, CAPACITY
AND ASSIGNMENT – Modify our assignment and enrollment
strategies to support our academic goals.
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Review and potentially adopt modifications to our Student
Assignment Plans to improve their effectiveness.
• Begin
implementing a plan for increasing our secondary student enrollment
in “small school” environments.
STATE AND NATIONAL
LEADERSHIP – Exert leadership on statewide and national
educational issues so as to benefit our
students.
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Continue our commitment to being a leadership voice on education
issues in both national and State of Washington arenas.
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Broaden and strengthen the coalition seeking to align the state
funding system with student needs, including such items as
increased educational time, special education, substantially
increased teacher salaries and targeted class size
reductions.
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