After each school leadership team reflected on its school culture, community, and the key contributing factors to student growth, they used this information to select the Strategic Plan Indicators that would have the greatest positive impact for their students.  Each school was directed to select two to six indicators on which to focus during the 2018-19 school year.  Certainly, we all know that if we focus narrowly and deeply, we are more likely to realize positive results.  The indicators that this school’s leadership team selected are noted below.

Throughout the next 3 years, schools will focus on their chosen Strategic Plan Indicators as the drivers to increase student engagement and achievement within their schools.  They will choose strategies to help them grow or increase within each indicator and will monitor and evaluate the student and school changes that take place along the journey.  Below you will see what this school imagines their students and school to look like in 2021 after having focused and worked on their chosen indicators for three years.

• Staff, parents, and students will be provided opportunities to complete surveys three times a year (September, January, and June), allowing participants to share their thoughts and ideas about the school. The Fort Smallwood staff will work diligently  in professional learning communities. In the 2018-2019 school year, the staff participated in a book study, as well as in activities that will strengthen the school’s professional community. These activities provided teachers with insight and guidance to care for themselves and others, directly benefiting our ability to support our students, colleagues, and families.
  
• Students will say they enjoy coming to school, and will feel comfortable sharing and being part of the school. Students will feel that their teachers are concerned for their well-being and happiness; and as a result, students will be willing to share their feelings during challenging and uncomfortable situations. 
  
• Parents will feel that they have more of a “voice” in the school, and that their ideas are considered. The parents will also have multiple opportunities to respond to surveys to allow the school administration to determine which initiatives and programs are working well and things that need to be improved upon and tweaked. Parents will also have ongoing opportunities to communicate their children’s specific needs and desires.