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.

Our English Language Learners will have made academic gains with the new skills teachers mastered from Oral Language Development professional development and will demonstrate pride about their accomplishments.  They will be excited to read books with diverse characters that look more like them and feel a stronger connection to peers and to school. Their families will feel like an included, valued part of our school community welcomed into our building with signs and bulletin boards in Spanish in offices, hallways and in classrooms.  They will volunteer and visit the school and participate with other parents on the PTA.

Our staff members support student success in a variety of ways. The Title I staff, with other staff members, invite parents in on a regular basis throughout the year, to provide parents with different instructional strategies and ways to support students. Guided Reading instruction is provided daily, using differentiated materials and one-on-one support through conferring with readers. Our students are engaged in authentic, relevant independent tasks related to whole group and small group instruction. Struggling students have a variety of supports in place. Students have opportunities for choice in the classroom and Media Center.

Our students will look forward to coming to school and be a part of the Lothian community. Students will feel challenged and supported in meeting and exceeding grade-level standards. Students will have a love of learning and are motivated to learn.  Adults will feel welcomed as part of the Lothian community. Parents’ input is used to support student growth. Teachers and staff should feel part of the team developing our students as successful readers and writers.