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 look ahead to the next five years, we have laid the foundation for our work around Brooklyn Park Middle School’s chosen indicators. By 2023, BPMS faculty and staff will show schoolwide proficiency in arts integration and mindful reading strategies. By building a positive school culture and providing resources and supports for our students and families, students will attend school on a regular basis (Indicator 10).

Students will say that they are actively engaged in their learning, feel confident as they engage in rigorous and relevant coursework, and that they feel prepared for standardized assessments.  In addition, students will also demonstrate greater self-efficacy in advocating for their academic and social-emotional needs.  Engaging classroom strategies will lead to growth for all students, and a greater percentage of students will meet or exceed expectations on standardized assessments (Indicator 6).