Below is a list of sample goals school boards may use to set a vision for their districts. You'll also find corresponding strategies you can use to implement to your goals. Use these examples as well as your own strategies and goals to develop a clear vision for your district.
Goal: To offer high-quality student programming so that graduates are prepared to compete in a global society.
- Provide personalized learning for all students.
- Support progression based on mastery of individual student goals.
- Embrace a collaborative culture by leveraging and maximizing parent and community partnerships to support accelerated student success.
- Create a parent scorecard for families and the community to increase transparency with regard to student and school performance.
- Implement a plan to transition to studentbased budgeting, where funding is directly tied to students and their individual needs.
- Require students to play a key role in setting their goals along with their teachers, advisors, counselors, and parents.
- Provide student and families with choices and meaningful opportunities to improve their school experiences.
- Ensure all classrooms are wired global places that encourage interactivity and learning by doing.
- Provide a curriculum that balances individualization and vetted best practices.
- Design classroom instruction to be a hybrid of face-to-face and online.
- Design classroom instruction according to individual learning goals and assessment for competency.
- Ensure all classrooms are using electronic tools for instruction.
- Utilize digital textbooks.
- Ensure that technology proficiency and digital citizenship literacy are part of the learning experience for each student.
- Maximize all data sources to improve instruction for students.
Goal: To provide high-quality effective teachers and administrators.
- Require teachers to frequently assess student academic growth to constantly inform their instruction.
- Provide teachers with opportunities to network and collaborate with external organizations to enhance student learning experiences.
- Provide teachers with research-based ideas for the most effective instructional practices.
- Recruit, retain, and empower excellent teachers who are adept at personalizing learning experiences for students.
- Provide principals with the autonomy to innovate and demand excellence from their faculty and staff.
- Hold principals accountable for meaningful school improvement and rapid turnaround for chronically under-performing schools.
- Ensure that every principal demonstrates how they provide opportunities for student, parents, and teachers to contribute their talents, skills, and experiences to support school improvement.
- Shift the role of teachers and administrators to a focus on serving learning as collaborators.
- Develop professional learning communities in all schools.
- Support leadership development for aspiring, new, and veteran school leaders.
- Partner with higher education institutions to ensure that teacher candidates are of the highest quality and aligned with district needs.
- Transform the traditional role of the central office from a top-down management system to a system designed to provide meaningful support to schools and effective accountability for school performance.
Goal: To seek the involvement and participation of the entire community in the learning process.
- Ensure that all schools are the center of community learning locally.
- Leverage community assets and resources to build community schools that provide full-service supports for students and families.
- Provide schools as a place for community convening and for citizens to acquire new knowledge and skills.
Goal: A board committed to excellence in education and aware of its responsibilities.
- Have every board member participate in annual professional development.
- Maintain ongoing review and development of pertinent policies.
- Conduct at least one retreat for the entire board and superintendent each year.
- Involve community and business leaders in the development of the board’s vision and strategic plan.
- Develop and monitor standards for student and system performance.