Focus Areas
College, Career, and Life Prepared Graduates
Goal 1: All graduates possess the knowledge, skills, and certifications necessary for success in the college and career of their choice.
Objectives:
- Close gaps in graduation rates between student groups
- Increase the percentage of students eligible to attend a four-year college or university
- Raise achievement levels for all students in core subject areas and close performance gaps between student groups
- Increase the college enrollment rate after graduation for all students and student groups
- Increase the number of graduates completing college coursework or its equivalent
- Increase the number of graduates earning at least one career-technical certification
- Collect feedback on annual survey for students perception on personal wellness
- Students receive classroom social, emotional, learning lessons across all grade spans
Goal 2: All graduates have a strong sense of what career they would like to pursue based on their interests, curiosities, and passions and possess a personalized post-secondary plan for meeting their goals.
Objectives:
- Embed career exploration activities throughout each grade span
- Increase the number of graduates completing work-based-learning opportunities
- Expand upon existing CTE offerings at our high school and introduce new ones at our elementary and middle schools
- Implement at least two ongoing professional development opportunities for staff to ensure they have the latest knowledge and tools to support student career interests and the world of work
- School counselors systematically support students in the development and refinement of a post-secondary plan
- Student-led conferences will be leveraged to ensure students can know, understand, and be agents of their learning
- Capture feedback during annual senior exit survey on levels of post-graduate preparedness
Exemplary Educators
Goal 1: All teachers and staff hold high expectations for the achievement, personal growth, and wellbeing of every student and work collaboratively, regardless of role, to ensure students reach their highest potential.
Objectives:
- Increase the percentage of students indicating that adults at their school maintain high expectations of them
- Reform grading practices to ensure they accurately reflect mastery and competence, are fair, and support the learning process
- Ongoing staff development, specific to the MUSD learning model, but personalized to individual educators and teams
- Utilize online survey to capture teacher interest on professional development needs
- Capture teacher feedback following professional development to measure satisfaction
- Sharing of best instructional practices during PLC’s and collaborations
- The district’s hiring process identifies candidates who believe in our mission and vision and embody our core values
Goal 2: All teachers and staff work collaboratively to provide students with personalized, engaging, and rigorous learning experiences and opportunities that fully prepare them for success in college, career, and life.
Objectives:
- Build the instructional capacity of staff to ensure that the MUSD learning model is leveraged across all sites
- Teachers use objective student achievement data to target students for intervention
- Intervention and acceleration strategies utilized based on individual student need
- Implement MTSS to support both the academic and social-emotional needs of students to improve attendance, decrease discipline and improve student engagement
- Implement Project Based Learning activities throughout each grade span with yearly exhibitions of student learning
- Newly hired teachers and staff are systematically on-boarded with an orientation to the MUSD learning model
- Teachers and staff receive ongoing professional development on best practices for the use of instructional technology
Supportive, Inclusive, and Student-Centered School Cultures
Goal 1: All students are supported with the necessary resources to ensure they reach their highest potential.
Objectives:
- Fully align all school and district plans with the Strategic Plan
- Leverage existing funding sources to the fullest in support of the Strategic Plan while remaining fiscally solvent
Goal 2: All students belong to a school community that is built upon positive, supportive, and caring relationships where their curiosity and passions are fostered in clean, well-maintained, and modern learning environments.
Objectives:
- Students report higher levels of “connectedness” with their school communities
- Secondary students have “advisory” time to support their academic progress, social-emotional development, and connection with the school community
- Career exploration activities that support the development of student’s personal plan as measured by post-secondary plans
- Review and modify instructional time as needed to support student learning
- Classroom furniture allows for increased student collaboration for the refinement of 21st century learning skills
- Ongoing professional development and in-classroom support with instructional technology integration
- Provide annual professional development offerings in restorative practices
- Leverage available funding sources to improve classrooms and other learning spaces
- Increased opportunities for students to be connected to school via extracurricular and enrichment activities
Engaged Parents, Families, and Community
Goal 1: Establish, expand, and maintain partnerships with community-based organizations, colleges and universities, businesses and industries, and our alumni.
Objectives:
- Increase membership in supportive parent organizations like PTA
- Create a Monrovia Career Technical Education (CTE) Advisory Board to meet annually to provide feedback on the program offerings
- Maintain a database that highlights community partnerships, alumni and volunteer opportunities in specific areas
- Cultivate community partnerships to provide or increase opportunities for the mentorship of students
- Increase number of internships and workbased learning opportunities for students
- Provide annual resource fair to engage the community
- Facilitate annual District showcase event
- Expand marketing efforts to highlight schools, programs and services
Goal 2: Increase opportunities for parents to participate in meaningful high impact activities that support teaching and learning and maintain meaningful, regular, and open two-way communication with all stakeholders.
Objectives:
- Formal exhibitions of learning as culminating events at the end of elementary, middle, and high school.
- Informal exhibitions/celebrations of learning during Open Houses in the spring for all other grades
- Build and nurture relationships with families and collect feedback on parent engagement with connection to school throughout all grade spans
- Facilitate annual parent education courses across all school sites.