2016-2020 District Strategic Plan Teaching & Learning Goal: Provide staff with job-embedded training and mentoring to support the social, emotional, and academic needs of all students. Strategy 1: Increase the percentage of students scoring at proficiency or higher on the ELA and Math FSA, state science assessment (SSA), and state EOCs. Action Step: Develop and implement tiered school support plans. Action Step: Ensure teachers and administrators understand standards, course descriptions, Depth of Knowledge and monitor through classroom walk-throughs. Action Step: Tie all Professional Learning to standards, course descriptions, and Depth of Knowledge. Action Step: Implement common science labs in grades 7-12. Strategy 2: Focus on instructional shifts to increase classroom rigor. Action Step: Ensure teachers and administrators understand shifts and monitor through classroom walk-throughs. Action Step: Tie all Professional Learning to Instructional Shifts. Strategy 3: Use data to drive instruction. Action Step: Train and ensure teachers use Performance Matters. Action Step: Ensure teachers understand test item specifications, achievement level descriptors, and reporting categories. Action Step: Train teachers to use available data through the Learning Management System. Strategy 4: Provide college and career preparation opportunities for students. Action Step: Expand dual enrollment opportunities. Action Step: Focus Career and Technical (CTE) courses on local industry needs. Action Step: Increase number of students passing Industry Certification exams. Strategy 5: Increase the graduation rate. Action Step: Train Graduation coaches to use the Early Warning Systems (EWS). (In progress) Action Step: Provide opportunities for students to meet FSA concordant scores. Action Step: Provide registrars, guidance counselors, and administrators with training on cohort data files.
Strategy 6: Provide Social/Emotional supports. Action Step: Increase the number of psychologists with the goal of one for each school. (In progress) Action Step: Partner with provider agencies to increase availability of mental health counseling through designating a counselor assigned to Flagler Schools with dedicated hours on campus and streamlining the referral process so that students are able to access services in a timely fashion. Action Step: Hire behavior specialists trained and certified in behavior supports. (Completed) Action Step: Continue support of a district mental health counselor and school social worker. Strategy 7: Mentor early career teachers. Action Step: Provide in-classroom support. (In progress) Action Step: Research school-based teacher mentoring programs. (In progress) Action Step: Update district-wide early career teacher mentoring and induction program. (In progress) Strategy 8: Provide opportunities for personalized learning. Action Step: Expand iflagler virtual program course offerings. Student & Community Engagement Goal: Create and strengthen partnerships that allow all students to build positive relationships with peers, staff, and community members. Strategy 1: Increase collaboration with business and community partners. Action Step: Strengthen K-12 Classroom to Careers programs through creating opportunities for relevant and embedded classroom experiences tied to industry practices and local businesses. Action Step: Collaborate with economic development organizations, local businesses, and the Flagler Education Foundation to provide career exploration opportunities and embedded job experiences. Action Step: Continue annual events such as the Classroom to Careers Symposium for all economic development leaders, business owners, and government leaders to provide ongoing communication and involvement on the Classroom to Careers initiative. Strategy 2: Increase community outreach and communication. Action Step: Continue Flagler Family Connections as a vehicle for providing community outreach events. Action Step: Increase communication through the Information Specialist position to monitor, create, and disperse relevant and current information to the community via multiple avenues, as well as serve as the liaison and direct contact for media organizations.
Action Step: Repurpose the Make-It Take-It bus as a community outreach bus to take services and information to the public in venues. (In progress) Instructional & Operational Innovation Goal: Create a motivating, personalized educational experience that supports a safe 21st Century learning and working environment in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible. Strategy 1: Train teachers and administrators in the use of technology for transformational learning. Action Step: Develop and implement Digital Classroom Plan (In Progress) Action Step: Provide all teachers with leveled professional learning opportunities in the effective use of educational technology in the classroom offered in a variety of formats Action Step: Provide training and support to administration to increase knowledge and skills Strategy 2: Ensure safety, privacy, and information protection through the alignment of district procedures and best practices. Action Step: Increase exposure to digital citizenship education Action Step: Update Responsible Use Procedures for students and district employees (In Progress) Action Step: Maintain school-based visitor management system to provide safety and protection. Strategy 3: Design and create learning spaces that support collaboration, technology proficiency, time and resource management, creative problem solving, and communication. Action Step: Collaborate with stakeholders to purposefully design and create unique flexible learning spaces to promote collaboration, communication, creativity and critical thinking (In Progress) Action Step: Provide professional learning opportunities and model use of collaborative learning spaces Strategy 4: Provide opportunities for personalized learning. Action Step: Offer personalized training for district employees to increase operational efficiency Action Step: Implement and expand the use of a district-wide common LMS for grades K-12 (In Progress) Action Step: Align technology with curriculum and instructional strategies to provide each student with authentic, engaging and challenging curriculum
Strategy 5: Continue implementation and expansion of the 1:1 Digital Learning Movement. Action Step: Continue to enhance and maintain a technology infrastructure Action Step: Continue to evaluate and research new technology innovations Strategy 6: Increase instructional and operational efficiencies. Action Step: Create and utilize a secured district intranet to share internal information and documents (In Progress) Action Step: Students and faculty will utilize a cloud-based suite of tools to facilitate communication, creativity and critical thinking. Action Step: District employees will utilize a cloud suite of tools to increase workflow efficiency and collaboration (In Progress) Action Step: Increase energy efficiency across the district by reducing water and power consumption where possible. Leadership Development Goal: Recruit, motivate, compensate, and retain top quality employees that reflect the diversity and values of the community. Strategy 1: Increase the number of people who are identified as potential leaders to create a pipeline. Action Step: Establish a Flagler Schools Cohort through Stetson University of identified teachers earning a master s degree in educational leadership. Action Step: Establish Lead Flagler Institute to provide professional learning on trending topics to targeted emerging leaders who hold an educational leadership certification. Action Step: Establish Lead Flagler Institute to provide professional learning to Flagler Schools Assistant Principals. Strategy 2: Implement Human Capital Management System. Action Step: Expand recruiting strategies to include virtual platforms reaching beyond the region and state for assurance of early hires in critical shortage, hard to fill teaching positions, and increasing minority applicants. Action Step: Expand student teacher internship program to increase diversity. Collaborate with our regional higher educational institutions to obtain quality teacher applicants. Action Step: Establish electronic systems for onboarding, personnel tracking, and time/attendance. Strategy 3: Ensure administrators are adept at using evaluation tool. Action Step: Provide inter-rater reliability training through NEFEC to all Principals & Assistant Principals on the current evaluation tool relating to instructional observations and teacher evaluations.
Action Step: Provide annual training on current student performance indicators calculating teacher s annual evaluations.