- Lawrence Public Schools
- Midyear Strategic Plan Progress 2020
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How will we get there?
- Relationships
- Shift from balanced literacy to structured literacy
- Core reading sources and supplementals
- Analysis of district common assessment data to inform instruction
- Data protocol for building Professional Learning Communities
- Support effective teacher feedback with digiCoach
How will we get there?
- Instructional math minutes increased from 42 to 55 minutes in middle school
- Math consultant and KSDE partnership for curriculum
- Instructional shift from procedures to process
- Focus on standards-aligned instruction
- Analysis of district common assessment data to inform instruction
- Data protocol for building Professional Learning Communities
- Support effective teacher feedback with digiCoach
How will we get there?
- Remove financial and prerequisite barriers for concurrent and advanced courses in middle and high school
- Revising curriculum, replacing core resources so that all students see themselves in the core curriculum and resources
- Tracking advanced placement and concurrent course enrollment by race and socio-economic status
- Training and content-specific use of the Culturally Relevant Resource Criteria and essential questions to guide our instructional practice
- Identifying specific culturally relevant teaching practices universal to all classrooms and written into curriculum documents
How will we get there?
- School connectedness survey
- Lawrence College and Career Academy starting Fall 2020
- Monitoring course failure lists
- Working to ensure students see any class as a place they belong
- Develop a graduation tracking system
How will we get there?
- Jayhawk Blueprint expansion
- Both high schools completing Individual Plans of Study for students
- Career and Life Planning class extended to a semester
- Curriculum areas aligned to college and career soft skills
- Middle School Elective Design Committee's use of community input from students, parents, teachers, and workforce partners to review offerings