Bridge to Excellence Master Plan
Frequently
Asked Questions
What is the Bridge to Excellence
Comprehensive Master Plan?
The Bridge to Excellence in Public Schools Act,
passed by the Maryland State Legislature, requires local school systems to
develop a five-year comprehensive master plan that includes goals and strategies
to promote academic excellence among all students and to eliminate performance
gaps that persist based on students’ race, ethnicity, socioeconomic
circumstances, disability, and native language.
What are the components of the Bridge to
Excellence Comprehensive Master Plan?
The
overarching themes of the Bridge to Excellence Master Plan are closely aligned
to those of the federal No Child Left Behind legislation, the Visionary
Panel recommendations for accelerating achievement for all students and our own
AACPS Goals. Curriculum,
instruction and teacher quality, alignment, accountability and funding are major
areas of concentration for each of the federal, state, and local initiatives.
The ESEA Performance Goals provide a framework under which Anne Arundel
County Public Schools will organize performance targets and strategies to reach
those targets.
The plan will include:
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An
Executive Summary
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A
Comprehensive Needs Assessment
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A
Strategic Plan for addressing identified needs
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A
plan for Managing the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the
Strategic Plan
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A
Budget
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A
series of templates to document program supported by funds from the Federal
Government
How is the Bridge to Excellence Master Plan
being developed?
Anne
Arundel County Public Schools has identified a group of Central Office and
School-based personnel who will draft objectives and strategies for our plan
around the ESEA Performance Goals. The
large work group had received an overview of the Bridge to Excellence Master
Plan and identified a structure for the plan.
Then, they identified small work groups to develop the various objectives
and strategies. The small work
groups have completed a first draft of the strategic portion of the Master Plan.
In
addition, we have identified a diverse group of citizens who will act in an
advisory capacity as we develop the Bridge to Excellence Master Plan. The initial Advisory Group meeting was held on February 13th.
Advisory group members were asked to give the large work group around
three questions:
“What
are the Anne Arundel County Public Schools currently doing well?”
“In
what areas of do the Anne Arundel County Public Schools need to improve?” and
“What
else do you want the work group to know?”
This
input was shared with the work group who used it as they developed the first
draft of objectives and strategies. At
the next meeting of the Bridge to Excellence Master Plan Advisory Group, we will
ask group members to make suggestions for revisions to the first draft of the
plan. After revisions are made by
the work group, the Advisory Group will have an opportunity to review the second
draft and make suggestions. Final
revisions will be made by the work group and the plan will be submitted to the
Superintendent and, then, to the Board of Education.
What
is Anne Arundel County Public Schools timeline for completion of the plan?
Due
Date
Task Completed
March
13, 2003 First
Draft Completed and sent to Advisory Group
April
4, 2003
Second Draft Completed
April
30, 2003
Plan submitted to Board of Education
May
15, 2003
Plan submitted to County Council
July
18, 2003
Plan submitted to MSDE
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