Glenview District 34 Presented by: Transition Plan: Superintendent Dr. Recommendations & Dane A. Delli Observations
Plan Development Creation Implementation HOW WAS THE PLAN DEVELOPED? HOW WAS THE PLAN UTILIZED? The plan was developed immediately The plan was shared with the leadership team following the hiring by the Board of during our summer retreat and became the Education, with the timeline of activities foundation to our work as a team. beginning that January and concluding in February. Throughout the entire 2017-18 school year, the The intent was to outline the first year of Transition Plan served as the guiding activities and provide a clear focus of my document, providing both rationale as well as work to all stakeholders . continual focus of our priorities in addressing Department-based plans, visits to each the needs of the organization. school as well as information shared by the Board of Education was used to inform the plan. To read a full copy of the Glenview District 34 Transition Plan, please visit http://www.glenview34.org/superintendent-transition-plan
Goals of the Plan 1. To focus organizational efforts and align resources, financial and human, to ensure all students are provided a world-class education that will prepare them to be high school, college, and global workforce ready. 2. To learn and recognize the school district and individual school building cultures. 3. To assess the state of the school district, including core approaches to teaching and learning, operations, business systems, finances and budgeting, reviewing internal and external audits, evaluations, and reviews in order to take timely action for improvement. 4. To review strategic planning, with an eye toward a continued focus on best practice strategies in teaching and learning and supporting best practice operational strategies.
Structure of the Plan Overall, the plan was divided into five key areas of focus: 1. Governance Team 2. Student Achievement 3. Organizational Leadership Capacity and Alignment 4. Community and Public Relations 5. Operations, Facilities, and Finance
1 Governance Team
Commendations Observations & Highlights of Achievements District 34 Board of Education is comprised of very dedicated community emissaries who are focused on continuous improvement efforts throughout the District. The Board has built on its connection and understanding of our schools via tours of our schools that exposed them to the teaching and learning process in Glenview District 34.
Key Recommendations What is the work ahead? A new strategic plan is necessary in order to bring similar educational expectations and service delivery across the district in a way that recasts District 34 as a premier school system. I recommend that the strategic plan development process begin and conclude in FY19.
2 Student Achievement
Commendations Observations & Highlights of Achievements Students in our school district enjoy quality learning experiences facilitated by exceptional teachers, administrators, and support staff members. Students in our school district are honored as learners who display vast needs and are provided with opportunities to confidently succeed and to safely and gently fail.
Recommendations What is the work ahead? The district is replete with collaborative structure, but what is less clear is the manner in which this structure enables specific and measurable outcomes to be achieved. While a collaborative process is a cornerstone in school governance, there exists some organizational confusion that must be addressed to make it a successful component of our work: Teaching and Learning. We need to examine our approach to gathering and utilizing data and continuing to review our use of assessments in order to take a more strategic approach to the way in which we assess our students and actually use that information in order to support the success of our students.
Recommendations What is the work ahead? There needs to be greater alignment between curriculum, learning standards, resources to deliver those standards, and adequate progress monitoring of student achievement for those who need specialized assistance and for those who need challenged to reach their full capacity. We must fortify our understanding and beliefs that special education children are regular education children first. Our learning spaces for children and adults must be improved to include the necessary elements of learning in a 21st Century environment. Early intervention programs and all day kindergarten must be further evaluated.
3 Organizational Leadership Capacity and Alignment
Commendations Observations & Highlights of Achievements We are fortunate to have high quality school administrators and district level administrators to help lead important initiatives centered on delivery quality instruction to students. We are fortunate to have teacher leaders who have offered their expertise and passion to support our core objective: Educating the whole child.
Recommendations What is the work ahead? There is a need to bring the entire school community together in order for all of us to feel and understand the common connection our work as an organization. Our strategic planning efforts will help in this cause.
4 Community and Public Relations
Commendations Observations & Highlights of Achievements It is clear this school community is made-up of very involved and dedicated parents and community members who clearly believe that children are the life-blood of the community and that one of the greatest gifts we can provide is a high quality education.
Recommendations What is the work ahead? It will be key that we develop specific communication strategies that guide the work of the strategic planning process and keep all of our stakeholders connected with the important work of the district.
5 Operations, Facilities, and Finance
Commendations Observations & Highlights of Achievements It is through this evaluation that our work around addressing the budget deficit emerged, which has been a critical focus for the entire administration throughout this school year. You will hear more about this process tonight, but it has resulted in more than $1 million in savings, which is critical to our financial future next year and the next several years.
Commendations Observations & Highlights of Achievements Throughout this school year, we spent a great deal of time refining our enrollment numbers to gain a better understanding of the district's anticipated population growth. From this work emerged a new mapping system in PowerSchool that allows us to see where a large population of new students are coming from within Glenview. While this work is certainly not complete, we have strengthened our projections going into next school year. We also hired a new architect to assess the needs of our buildings, which truly are all at capacity. Through the observations of the architect, we will be able to develop a plan to thoughtfully and strategically develop a comprehensive plan to begin to tackle this challenge.
Recommendations What is the work ahead? In evaluation of our CFAC projections, it is clear that we have financial challenges on the horizon, so we must not lose the momentum nor commitment behind our budgeting work. A large scale facility study (which is already underway with our new architects) to identify both maintenance requirements as well as any recommendations to potentially increase square footage will be critical leading into our strategic planning process.
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