Goals
2015-2016
November 2015
Goal Area #1: Student Achievement
Strategic
Objectives:
I.
We will vertically align K-12 core Math
Curriculum.
a. District
and school goals pronounced and established with staff during PIR time. Time was given for staff to work goal.
b. Additional
Time was given to staff on 10-9-15.
c. Additional
Time for staff was given on 11-13-15.
II.
We will horizontally align by building one
course per staff member. Schedule training to this goal for Rubicon. ELA Standards will be aligned for all
courses.
a. Training
for Rubicon was completed for all schools for two hours. Two hours was dedicated to staff for
implementation.
b. Time
was given to staff on 10-9-15.
III.
Teach proper writing across all
curriculums. Schedule training to meet
this goal for writing.
a. Training
scheduled for Writing in November with Tammy Elser from the U of M.
b. Training
was completed with staff with three hours in the elementary and three hours in
the high school on 11-13-15.
IV.
Emphasize the importance of meaningful
assessments: Pre, Formative and Summative. Continue to research meaningful
assessment for standards based learning.
a. Reviewed
with staff during opening PIR, very little training was done on this topic.
Will need to add training later this year.
b. School
goals were established for assessments at all levels.
V.
Implement the tools of fundamental five
instructional strategies at all levels.
Order books for all staff and implement frame the lesson and proper
closure at all levels.
a. Elementary,
Middle, High School have decided to order these books for staff.
b. Frame
and closing goals have established as school goals.
c. Books
for every staff member arrived and will begin with staff on 10-9-15
d. Additional
Time for staff was given on 11-13-15.
VI.
Have every at-risk student on a milepost plan
and monitored with positive interventions at all levels. Use early intervention system to identify
at-risk students. Raise graduation
rates.
a. Training
for Mileposts was done for all levels with no cost to the district.
b. Interventions
were identified for each level and Milepost training complete k-12.
c. Grant
with O.P.I. complete to use early intervention system. $10k grant complete and plan for those
dollars will be dedicated to technology that we are in need of acquiring.
d. Training
for early warning systems was done 9-22-15. We can now utilize the warning
system through GEMS to identify at-risk students.
e. Met
with OPI staff on 10-28-15 for additional Early Warning System Training.
VII.
Emphasize district resources to ensure that
every student can read by 3rd grade.
a. We talked about this goal during district
day. This will need to be monitored.
b. Proposing
a paraprofessional for Kindergarten this month.
c. School
Board recommended and hired Wendy Weider for Kindergarten and Britany Evelo for
2nd Grade Paraprofessional to maintain emphasis of this goal.
VIII.
Fund and support the extra-curricular activities
that we currently offer. Reinstate
uniform rotation with funding. Maintain evaluation process of all programs.
a. Rotation
for uniforms was put back in place with funding.
b. Wrestling
uniforms are up on the rotation.
c. Wrestling
uniforms were ordered and paid for by the school.
Goal Area #2: Leadership
Strategic Objectives:
I. For
goals and expectations of buildings we offer proper training and time to
staff. (MBI, Rubicon, Mileposts,
Fundamental Five, Writing)
a. MBI,
Rubicon and Mileposts Training complete over PIR. Writing is scheduled and Fundamental Five is
going to be done with during school improvement days.
b. Fundamental
Five Books were ordered for every staff
member.
II. Monthly
report to goals and efforts towards meeting our annual goals.
a. September
is complete. J
b. October
is complete. J
c. November
is complete J
III. Annual strategic plan goals established.
a. Complete
and working well.
IV. MBI
Leadership Team – All Levels
a. MBI
Teams established at all levels. We have
teams in each building Elem, MS and HS.
b. MBI
High School Teachers are attending the high school forum this month.
V. Shared
Leadership opportunities all levels: Board to Staff, Administrative Team,
Administration to Staff, Board-Admin-Staff-Students-Parents-Community.
a. We
had great input during PIR. We need to
get board advisory committee active.
b. Board
Advisory Committee meeting planned.
VI. Gather
input of staff and constituents to the effectiveness of leadership to our
annual goals.
a. Goals
were reviewed and established with all staff during District Day P.I.R.
b. Survey
Monkey will be done with the current evaluation tool by staff.
VII. Develop
an exit survey for all graduates to take at the end of the year at graduation
practice prior to leaving our district.
a. Mr.
Hendrickson has an exit survey that he said he would refine to meet this goal
for all seniors.
Goal Area #3: Facilities/Classroom Needs
Strategic Objectives:
I. Tech.
Director visit and prioritize our district tech. needs by visiting each
classroom and contacting each teacher for input.
a. Goal
was reviewed with Mr. Lyons.
b. Mr.
Lyons has a plan to visit with teacher and respond via survey as well.
c. Budget
was given to Mr. Lyons to meet immediate needs of the district. Teacher computers are our first and most
imperative and obvious need according to Mr. Lyon.
d. Mr.
Lyon is 1/2 the way through this project.
II. Continue
to look for grants and outside help for projects that can be accomplished
similar to the playground project.
a. Tribal
education grant in the works to cover our Milepost and Infinite Campus
cost. 10K
b. OPI
Indian Education for All Grant – Early Intervention System and 10k
III. Continue
with the building and grounds committee to best utilize funds that are
available.
a. Some
work has been done as a result of our first meeting. The budget is limited so what we can achieve
is planned for this year. Immediate
needs will arise and be dealt with by committee.
b. We
need to assess our Levy potential with both permissive and voted levies.
c. Plan
will be attached this month (October) for survey and funding information.
d. Presentation
will be given on Facilities this month to the board. (November)
IV. Develop
a five year plan to get impact aide back on track and available funds to make
significant facility improvements.
a. Meeting with Dr. Matt has been set to review
budget and look for levy potential.
b. I
have met with Dr. Matt three times and reviewed our current reality and as we
expected our impact aide is as low as we have ever been.
c. Funding
for facility improvements will be included this month. (October)
d. 20
year bond is in the works for proposal to the board. (November) 4 million
Goal # 4: Community/Communications
Strategic Objectives:
I.
Continue: Community Breakfast, Social Media
News, Web Presence, Blogs.
a. Community
Breakfast will start in October with normal breakfast. November will be Donuts with Dads, December
Muffins with Moms, January Biscuit with Elders, February will be normal and we
will start the rotation over again. We
will have books to read with kids during our specific events.
b. Facebook
is being used for boosters, football, teachers and administration.
c. Our
first community breakfast had record numbers.
We served over 300 meals and normally we are around 240.
d. 320
served in November for Community Breakfast.
II.
Create a collaborative calendar for the
district.
a. This
has been done and active. We established
calendars for collaboration, facilities and testing.
b. Community
Calendar was lacking specifics that have been added such as early out times and
days off.
c. We
have added specifics to calendar.
(November)
III.
Improve Web Presence with more positive data and
information about the outstanding work we do.
Begin adding the horizontal alignment of curriculum.
a. This
goal has not been done yet.
b. Horizontal
Math has started to be aligned.
c. Facility
Survey added to the web page to gather stakeholder input.
IV.
Continue GRAD Matters and MBI Community efforts
– Quarterly Newsletter, Valley Journal, Flyers, Posters, Placemats, Data
Downtown “Did You Know?”
a. Many
ideas have been brainstormed, not much action yet with this goal.
b. We
are going to continue with both MBI and Grad Matters. Graduation Matters has been started with
freshman orientation.
c. Newsletter
will come out this month. It is started I am just waiting for others to finish
and get out to the public. We will also mail this home with students. (November)
V.
Continue Showcase- With Fresh Ideas
VI.
Grant dollars spent to help with attendance and
intervention systems.
a. We
are considering technology with these dollars.
VII.
Attend and build positive relations with IEC and
Tribal Education.
a. Administration
plans to attend meetings second Wednesday 5:30pm.
b. Indian
Education for All Information will be handed out this month with Impact
information reviewed for compliance and policy.
c. Denise
Juneau will be here Oct. 21 at 1:45 as part of a tour of schools and feels our
school is a school of best practice and outstanding systems that are currently
working for students.
d. We
have requested a date to present to tribal council our Indian education
report.
e. We
presented to Tribal Council on 10-29-15 and put out an IEFA data packet. This was well done and presented well to
council on behalf the administrative team.
Goal #5: Student Center Positive Climate and Culture
Strategic Objectives:
I. Continue with MBI, RTI efforts to ensure that
every student feels a sense of belonging.
a. We
will have data when the My Voice comes out later this fall. Currently I have heard from students and
staff and that feel we are on track. Early warning system has been
integrated.
b. Homecoming
was great and really went well. Great
job staff, students and school.
II. Continue
with MBI and Graduation Matters to ensure a safe and welcoming school.
a. I
believe with any quantitative data that my sense is we are on track here. We will have data when the My Voice comes out
later this fall. Currently, I have heard
from students and staff and that feel we are on track. Both
MBI and Grad Matters have been started.
III. Active
MBI student and teacher groups at all levels.
a. Started
at all levels.
b. High
School is going strong. Need to check in
with Elementary and Middle School.
IV. Welcome
Back BBQ HS/MS- Elem Welcome Back Kick Off.
a. Complete
and I was very impressed at all levels.
Parent meet and greet was started at HS/MS and I felt this was an
outstanding idea and very successful.
Goal #6: Resources Accountability and Certainty
Strategic
Objectives:
I. We
will develop a plan with the input of experts to improve our impact aide and
levy opportunities. In the last seven
years we went from having a 20 year tradition of being at least a year ahead of
impact aide to currently being at will of this year’s amount and borrowing
against next year. This is the worst
this budget has been in 25 years. We
will ask the expertise of John Matt, Tim Skinner and Andy Homland to see what
we can do to improve our situation and get back on track.
a. We
have a meeting scheduled with Dr. Matt to review budget and look for ways to
improve our financial situation. We want
to also look at levy potential.
b. Facility
Improvement proposal has been started.
c. Regular
meetings with Dr. Matt have occurred.
II. Our
facilities, classroom and technology are below what we have set for a five year
standard. We need improvement in all
areas.
a. We have started working on our technology
needs and assessment.
b. Survey
has been built for facilities to gather input from Staff, Students and Community.
c. 20
year bond levy is in the works for School District #28 Facilities and
Technology.
III. We
will search out training that will help us study funding capabilities. We will look for grant opportunities that we
can utilize to offset impact aide stress.
a. Two
grants have been started to help with our needs. One from the state and one from the
tribe. We are also working on
resubmitting our impact aid count from last year. We believe we found 18 more works students
that will give us additional funding for impact aid. I have enlisted some help from Rose Tellier
to help us find additional students.
b. Impact
Aide was resubmitted in order to fix the 30 students that were removed and did
not qualify for the count. We cleaned
the list up with the help of the tribe and resubmitted the list that could
bring 40k more in impact aide this year.
The impact aide information is currently being added to infinite campus
for a more accurate count of students.
c. I
attended MCELL and the Fall Superintendent Conference this year. I also attend MASSP meeting once a month in
Missoula.
