Monday and Tuesday of this week, every school Principal in Waukesha presented their School Improvement Process, along with Coordinators presenting their department goals. Each plan was grounded in leadership actions around vision, high leverage practices, professional development, progress monitoring and data communication (L1-L5).Some of the highlights from our reviews together include:
* A district-wide focus on literacy and math achievement for all students.
* A focus to build the capacity of teachers to meet students needs and grow opportunities for the teaching and learning community.
* Every school is operating off of a similar school improvement format that is connected to Educator Effectiveness and the SLO framework.
* Professional sharing and collaboration is strong among school teams.
* School improvement plans are focusing on maximizing student achievement at every level.
We know that any improvement process takes focus and hard work on, "keeping the main thing, the main thing". Having every leader in our district focus on literacy, and every teacher leader focusing deeply on refining specific strategies related to literacy and inquiry-based classrooms, our students are sure to benefit!
Each leader in our district is focusing on implementing the priorities we already have in place. Looking at the change model image above, we have always been good at continuously initiating things, but the true mark of greatness, is to have all schools living in that next phase of implementation and then eventually refining our work so that it becomes fully integrated into all classrooms and schools across the system.
Our focus is to keep our organization moving forward on a positive path of growth. The only way to really successfully and sustainably move our schools forward is to work together, as a team. I look forward to supporting you on your journey to integration, student growth and achievement!
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