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.

Chesapeake Bay Middle School should be a place where students and faculty feel connected and supported. Through the institution of community building circles during our daily Advisory classes, students and teachers will be able to share stories about their lives and experiences. The community building circles will foster relationship building and provide students with at least one adult in the building that they feel a close connection to. Community building circles are also the foundation for restorative practices. As restorative practices are implemented, our attendance and discipline data will also improve. (Indicators 1, 2, 3, 4)

 In addition, we will continue to focus on our PBIS program both for our students and adults. Recognizing the positives in the school will make both students and faculty feel valued and connected. Instituting incentives for passing grades, attendance, and low discipline referrals will encourage students who will remain more focused in class and will seek help when needed. It will also create a positive school climate where students will be more motivated to come to school regularly to engage in learning and will feel like members of our school community. In addition, as a result of positive interactions and support for our students,  the number of red and yellow zone students, those who have received more discipline referrals, will be reduced. (Indicators 1, 10)

The faculty is dedicated to providing students with a well-rounded, academically rigorous. Nearly half of our students are deemed college and career ready as measured by the state standardized tests. We will continue to offer support to each of our students through our AVID program, specialized instruction, and engaging instructional strategies that will meet the needs of our students who fall in the gaps and are not meeting the standards. (Indicator 6)