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.

In the coming years, we will see an increase in attendance as Restorative Practices become commonplace at Jacobsville.  Students, families, and visitors will feel safe, welcomed, and cared for at school. Students will see both adults and other students acting with compassion, showing empathy, and making principled decisions throughout their school day. Students will be overheard problem-solving and respecting perspectives different from their own.  Moving forward, we will continue to foster students’ social-emotional development by utilizing books, games, mindfulness activities, movement, intentional groupings, and a comprehensive student support team to identify and support students and families in need. (Indicators 1, 2, 3 and 10)

We will continue to work toward a collaborative culture, one in which staff, students, and community recognize, value, and embrace diversity as evidenced by more positive interactions and reflective practices.  Classroom experiences will promote the exploration of global perspectives through the IB PYP Units of Inquiry, consistently reflected upon by students and staff.  The standards-based units of study will provide opportunities for students to make connections, deepen their knowledge, and research their personal and collective interests.  As life-long learners, the students will think critically about local and global issues, investigate real-world topics, and take action accordingly.  We will continue to develop learner agency through voice, choice, and ownership of inquiry in learning goals.  Through action and reflection, personal connections, and caring relationships, we will strive to make ourselves and our world continuously better. (Indicator 11)