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 we grow, Quarterfield’s teachers and staff will work toward building a true community of learners where everyone is included. Students will feel part of their classroom community and the school community as a whole. Positive relationships will form between students and between students and staff. Students will be active participants in their own learning and will participate in engaging learning experiences.

We will continue to implement Restorative Practices in our daily educational program to include daily Restorative Circles and the use of Restorative Discipline. Community members who visit Quarterfield will see students and staff treating each other respectfully. Staff members will deal positively with student misbehavior without removing students from the learning environment as much as possible. Students will accept ownership of their behavior and be able to restore relationships with those they may have wronged. 

In order to ensure that all students are reading at or above grade level by the end of grade 2, we will continue to provide students with effective reading instruction in prekindergarten and the primary grade levels. Teachers will use formative and summative assessments to monitor student performance and to inform instruction. Students will share their understanding of text in a variety of ways, both oral and written. Staff members will be involved in meaningful, on site professional development, including collaborative planning, peer observations, book studies, and curricular training  opportunities.