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.

As the use of Restorative Practices expands at Manor View, we expect to see daily routines in every classroom. These practices include, but are not limited to, opening the instructional day with a Community Circle and the use of Restorative circles self-initiated by students and initiated by adults. Teachers and staff will provide students an opportunity to take leadership roles in their learning journey and to direct the path of inquiry. We will continue to develop learner agency through voice, choice, and ownership or inquiry in learning goals. This will show an increase in student agency in addressing and solving concerns. As a learning community, we will proactively support students who display challenges with expected behaviors. Our teachers and staff will communicate regularly with parents regarding successes and challenges to ensure that families are able to partner with the school to support our students.

As Restorative Practices become commonplace at Manor View, students will report feeling safe, welcomed, and cared for at school. Students will see both adults and other students acting with compassion, empathy, and integrity throughout their school day. Moving forward, we will develop Social-Emotional Clubs utilizing books, games, mindfulness activities, movement, and the student support team to enhance our students’ understanding of the world around us. We will see students who are empowered to address challenges independently but who know when to request adult support.  All who visit will see and feel a sense of community in our classrooms and throughout the school.

As we increase the PYP practices of inquiry, reflection, and agency, students will see an increased ownership of their learning journey. Adults affiliated with Manor View will see that our students ask robust questions, that they know how to research to find reliable information, and that they are energized by their learning and eager to share knowledge with others. Most importantly, our students will be able to see how powerful and capable they are as citizens who can positively impact their lives and communities.