Goal 2:  Academic Excellence

 

ACTION PLANNING FORM

 

Performance Goal #2:  The Watertown School District will achieve academic excellence via the enhancement of curricular, co-curricular, and extra curricular offerings.

Action Plans

Time Line

Responsibility

Resources Needed

Evaluation

 

1.  Explore the blue ribbon criteria and share the criteria with Board.  Determine if the blue ribbon school distinction is something that the Board wants the District to explore for future years.

2.  Gather baseline data on how many students currently participate in co-curricular and extra curricular programs in the District (grades 7-12)

3.  Review current offerings and look at the possibility of adding additional programs for students in grades 7-12.
 

4.  Continue to encourage and market the PSAT test to 10-11th grade students.
 

5.  Review data to determine if academic excellence is achieved. (Goals defined in Goal #1)  Increase in test scores and graduation rate, decrease in failure rate of courses, decrease in drop out rate
 

6.  Decrease the number of students in college remedial courses by 20% in college by creating a course to review materials on the college placement test.

7.  Increase number of Oppt. Scholars by reviewing student files to make sure that credits are in order and students are challenged.

 

 

 

 
 

8.  Offer additional technical electives at Multi-District for grades 9-10, and at LATI for grades 11-12.

 

 

 

 

2008-2009

 

 

 

 

2008-2009

 

 

 
 

2009-2010

 

 
 

Continuous

 

 

 

Summer of 2009

 

 

 

 

Summer course created by 2010

 

 
 

2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2008-2010

 

Superintendent

 

 

 

 

Asst. Superintendent, HS and MS Principal

 

 
 

Asst. Superintendent, HS and MS Principal

 
 

Asst. Superintendents, gifted teachers, counselors

 


Superintendent, HS Principal

 

 

 

 
 

HS Principal, counselor, math and English teacher

 

 

 

HS counselors, advisors, HS Principals

 

 

 

 

 

 

Superintendent, Tech President, Multi-District Director, and HS Principal

 

 

 

None

 

 

 

 

None

 

 

 
 

None – unless programs added.

 

 

$400.00

 

 
 

None

 

 

 

 

 

Cost of instructor for class

 

 

 
 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shifting of staff

 

Criteria shared with the Board.

 

 

 

 

Information shared with the Board at a Board meeting.

 

 

Review shared with the Board

 

 

Merit Scholar criteria

 

 

ACT Scores
Benchmark Scores
Graduation Rate
Failure rate of courses
Drop out rate
AP course information
No. of credits by senior graduates

 

Number of students in remedial coursework declines by 20% first year implemented, and 20% for each year thereafter.

Positive trend established in the Oppt. Scholarship Data.  Review the data of Oppt. Scholars two years after receiving the Scholarship to determine if the students have maintained his or her scholarship.

 Survey data, drop out rate, attendance rate