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.

The Crofton Meadows faculty, staff and parents strongly believe in creating a positive environment for all students. We believe that incentivizing and acknowledging positive student behaviors fosters strong and productive relationships, a fun and exciting learning environment, and student success. By 2020, we expect specific practices started this year, such as the use of positive referrals, weekly communications, and school-wide behavior expectations, to be firmly established and consistently practiced throughout the school. It is also our expectation that the entire school will have instituted Positive Behavior Interventions and Support (PBIS) and the Second Step curriculum into our school culture.

In 2020 and beyond, the adults associated with Crofton Meadows (faculty, staff, parents, volunteers, community members) will see a well-run organization that cares about and nurtures the development of the whole child. They will see robust mentoring programs to support students’ academic and social-emotional well-being. They will see the teachers delivering a well-rounded and rigorous curriculum in reading and mathematics that meets the needs of the students and enhances their imagination, creativity, and academic success.

Our stakeholders will recognize that the education students receive at Crofton Meadows is superb and provides students with a strong foundation for academic success. Our stakeholders will also say that the faculty and staff at Crofton Meadows truly care about all of their students.