Project Parkway 3.0
Make your reading plan for this year!
Make sure that you will set realistic goals.
There are several ways to make a reading plan, by month is the simplest. You can pair each month with a genre, plan out what books you want to read in the most busiest month of the year and what to read on vacation!
Commitment to Equity
Develop staff in their ability to recognize and address inequities as well as deliver instruction that values each individual.
Identify and develop staff on clear practices that ensure each student is supported and their culture is valued.
Grow staff members' ability to recognize and address inequities.
Commit to a recruitment and retention plan that leads to diverse candidate pools for both certified and operations positions.
Retention: Support and learn from candidates from diverse backgrounds on how to retain candidates who represent our population..
Recruitment: Develop a more creative, proactive, assertive recruitment plan.
Generate clear outcomes around equity and adjust work to meet those objectives.
Revisit the equity task force work to identify SMART Goals related to priority work.
Prioritize, set, and monitor clear goals around equity.
Ensure both what students are learning (curriculum) and how students are learning it (instruction) are inclusive of all students.
Increase participation in dual credit, AP, and honors courses to they reflect the student body.
Strong universal instruction designed to engage and meet the needs of all students and ensure each student is achieving.
Curriculum should be inclusive and reflective of our student body.
Achievement
Develop and implement a system of supports to ensure all students are mastering the essential standards.
In developing a system, ensure the processes and language are consistent across elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools, respectively.
Focus on current gaps and areas and develop processes to close them.
Acknowledge we're not meeting the needs of all students
Identify what is currently missing in our continuum of supports and develop a plan (i.e. math support is less than reading support).
Develop a consistent system of support to keep students from falling through the cracks.
Identify and implement ways, beyond grades, for students to demonstrate their learning.
Ensure grades are directly connected to student learning
Implement student self-assessment portfolios.
Develop ways to assess students outside of/beyond grades and GPA
Develop and implement competency-based approaches to learning that empower students take ownership over mastering the essential standards.
Use a competency-based approach and provide development to make sure it's happening at all levels.
Develop co-teaching models at elementary.
Redesign course delivery to make rigorous learning available to all students.
Continue developing competency-based learning in order to personalized for what students need.
Curriculum should be so clear and vertically aligned that it can be flexibly delivered while ensuring the same essential standards are met by each student.
Resource Allocation
Nutrition/Food Service
Finance
More Creative food options such as new vendors, food trucks etc.
Options to improve food (seed to table, high quality diet for students)
Creat an all Parkway PTO to raise money for the whole district, not indivdural schools
Create clarity around district standards vs building responsibilities when PTOs are not able to support
Money not from fundraising
Enable Alumni Donations
Create new revenues & community partnerships such as enabling alumni donations.
HR
We need to allocate more resources--particularly pay--to our support staff
Targeted insentives for people to apply especially alums-possible epmloyment guarantee
Commit to being leader in salary for ALL staff/jobs not only teachers-always get data to learn what the competitive salary ranges are & respond
Expand and invest in the grow your own program
Rethink and re-evaluate our long-term recruitment plan inclucing current structures and incentives to draw and recruit staff
Facilities
Learning Spaces: Furniture? Walls? Size of buildings
Use students and outside experts to design compelling learning enviroments
Long term 25+ year multi bond issue facilites plan
Flexible spaces-Collaborative
More natural light & wider spaces
Consider facility-planning district-wide rather than school-by-school.
Restructure the entire district by rethinking areas, decreasing the number of buildings, & use money to rethink how we approach student learning oppotunities
Build new schools that match the value the community places on Parkway.
Personalization and Real-World Connection
Provide more staff opportunities for learning around innovative and flexible learning approaches.
Increase personalized learning at more schools while including development for staff
Development for staff to connect experiences to learning
Help teachers get unstuck in their thinking about school
More training for ALL in P.L
Increase the amount of scheduling options for high school students to be more like a college campus.
Stagger start times to allow more student voice into their schedule.
Allow students to move between schools for various classes.
Provide blended learning options and virtual options within the school day.
Consider flexible schedules, later afternoon classes, etc.
Grow opportunities for students to gain exposure to real world use of their learning during their school experience.
Increase partnerships in the community
Building opportunities that extend beyond internships and Spark! for mentorships from figures in the community
Reduce the amount of curriculum in order to increase the amount of real-world opportunities our students have.
Grow our local business outreach to provide real world choices and opportunities for students.
Embed oppotunites for students to go into the community & apply the skills they learned
Expand the pathways available for students both in how the learn the Parkway curriculum and how they prepare for success beyond school.
Academies need to me extended to every building.
Create high school pathways, possibly connected to existing options, that lead to certification degrees
More field trips, a wider variety of speakers, and other opportunities that allow students to explore careers and extend learning
Present kids with more career/post-secondary options
Speed up the creation of extended Learning opportunities for all students
Ensure students have options in their learning pathway in every Parkway building as early as 3rd grade.
Trade School/Vocational route @ middle schools
Student Well-Being
Set your reading goal for the month!
You can even choose a preferred hour of the day or days of the week when you want to read.
Ensure safe, welcoming learning environments to proactively address social-emotional concerns before they arise.
Create more welcoming spaces with things like flexible seating and student voice into the learning process.
Create external partnerships and grow internal capacity to meet growing demand for mental health services.
Could we partner with local mental health professionals& have folks come into the school (cut down on being late/oput for appointments)
Telehealth for students-virtual counseling instead of leavng
Providing more support for students who need wrap around services
Access to screeners in all grade levels with more resources: counselors, access to outside agencies (mental health)
Increase staffing for counseling and mental health to support growing needs.
Ensure staff have development around social-emotional well-being, student mental health, and related issues.
District development well-being/SE Systematic PD plan required
Train teaching staff to recognize mental health related issues
Classroom teachers need more understanding with trama: informed approaches
PD for Staff
Grow your own staff in regards to SE health & well being
Increase student belonging in school through a focus on relationship.
Create "families" students across generations who stay & meet in a group regularly year to year
Dedicated time in the schedule for informal gather of teachers with students and students with students-device free
Develop systems to support student well being and relationships
Create relationships maps to identify targeted adults (see work of USIM (Ameren, U Michigan))
Establish measures & values to teacher-student relationship-buffering in time to build rapport
