One Month Goals

Goals 2015-2016

September 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. 

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.

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.  

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.  

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.   

VII.            Emphasize district resources to ensure that every student can read by 3^rd grade. 

a.       We talked about this goal during district day.  This will need to be monitored. 

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.

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.

II.     Monthly report to goals and efforts towards meeting our annual goals. 

a.      September 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.

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.  

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.  .

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.  

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.    

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. 

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.      Web page calendars revised, Web presence revised. 

d.      Blogs need to be updated. 

II.               Create a collaborative calendar for the district.

a.      This has been done and active.  We established calendars for collaboration, facilities and testing. 

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.   

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. 

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.

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.      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.    

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.

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. 

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. 

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.