Strategic plan - THink Tank- ideas response

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1	How can we best use those strengths to create an optimal education system for our children?
2	personnel- deploying teachers	personnel- special education, IEP, Coach	personnel- Unified Arts	personnel and community	Academic Results	Professional Development	specific academic content	school configuration	facilities	Technology	Other	physical plant	Teacher scheduling

3	Survey teachers to see who may want to shift/who's up for change	Share positions between buildings such as special educators, ina areas that do not have them	Stretching physical activity throughout content areas	Work with Community resources to share teacher expertise and make a full time position. Example: Part-Time School Nurse-Town Health Agent	Create systems that monitor expenditures to learning outcomes	Choice in PD offered in School/District	Clearly communicate what a Humanities model should look like/ how integration should occur (also learning on student-centered approach)	Concentrate middle grades in 2-3 sites	Prioritize capital improvements on buildings most likely to house the most students	Distance learning:facetime etc. with well trained support staff in with students		Use facility director for large schools-let small school expert run their school	Special Educator shortage-qualified teachers can provide special instruction even if not SPED certified
4		Traveling specials teachers	Have a Spanish teacher at the same time collaboratively then rotate between schools	Work with Community organizations for Physical Activity, recreation and sports	Doing something when students are not learning	Offering incentives for teachers to continue their education	Think innovative..beyond traditional education..Do education in a way that no one has ever done. Blended learninf and flexible pathways on steroids	create a middle school, strengthen pK-5, then strengthen 6-9		Google Hangouts for online learning-share staff digitally	Create a set way to share classroom resources in an easy way	Prioritize where capitol improvements are most needed adn to meet program needs	Create math/science/humanitites grade level teams of teachers-creates specialization and allows for project based learning
5		Allow for interventionists/coaches to meet/dicuss/to consider movement	Utilizing individual specialties to meet the needs of our students while not "moving" teachers	Use community resources for alternative to gymnasium-Burke Mtn. for skiing, biking, hiking		Hire staff with multiple endorsments support classwork to attain	More looping, less multiage	Close one or more sites	Combine schools	Using technology to share staff-world language	Follow class size policy		Have SPED k-5 and another 6-8 sharing
6			Have EA teachers teach in multiple schools-rotating per sememster	Residents, parents, students, staff education oppertunities could be offered in various ways		Nutrition education to help wellnes policy		Transport students to other towns to fill class sizes		Use technology for student access to world languages	Use class size as guidlines but take into consideration factors such as student needs or content load (Humanitites)		Have a SPED case manager for each school. Their only job is to case manage. the other special educators service students
7	Use current staff to get a stipend to be a "facilities director" etc. no new F/T staff			District teams with Muniucipal or other community organization to share knowledge of skills of a teacher	Blended learning ans flexible pathways	Provide Systimatic inhouse support for teacehrs (systematic, periodic and sutained PD) who need to increase their teaching capacitySystems in place to allow meaningful, collaboration (lesson studies, collaborative planning, video libraries, etc.)		Combined classes		Utilize technology for some fine arts/ languages	Flexible mindset in terms of year to year class size based on student need		Share "Specials" staff across district
8	Hire one facilitites director forthe district and make head custodians					Provide the same PD for the teachers subject area so they all have the same education		Grade level change "middle school"to maximize learing opportunity		Push Tech Ed-Alternative learning	Creating an approach that is sustanable over time		Have chorus adn band be part of the afterschool program
9					Replicate what is working in high achieving schools to implement in lower achieving school with intensive support	Pay for advanced degrees for teachers-make them sign contracts to stay for fixed number of years		Create various grade level buildings		Online world language	Shared auditorium for the district		Move faculty out of teaching positions and into managment positions to over see departments to reduce teacher student ratio
10	Involve community daily with volunteering, community service, mentoring and helping with personalized learning plans				Transfer HQT teacehrs with great results to schools that need help	Building staff capacity-ie. adding another endorsment		Group schools in close proximity and merge to create primary and or elementaty and ot middle schools			Leadership, direction, alignment, commitment		Adjust school schedules to best use faculty that are dual certified
11	Equalize class size within geographic proximity maintaining some choice and voice				Make sure the faculty is warm and inviting to ALL members of the community (school families, community memebers w/ no children)	Shared expirtise in content area teaching		If moving to having schools becoming grade ranges (not k-8) ex. survey the place-who does it fit developmentally 2-what will the surrounding town support more? K-3, 4-8					Have SPED tTeachers teach reg ed if dual certified
12	Create choices for our middle school students district wide (means students might trael to different schools to specific courses				Gather info as to what inviting means to different people, work towrds common vision	More PLC time		Combining schools for a larger middle school with a co-taught humanitites model (literacy and social studies)					Mix of contained classrooms adn content area classes at lower grades accourding to numbers
13	Place lanugage teacher in schools for 1 trimester-intense/cross curriculum language in collaboration with teachers				Co-teaching with special educstors	PE teacehrs within district that build lessons and oversee programs (even if not directly teaching every class)		Close one site
14	One athletic director for entire district				Quality PD and supervision that reinforces learning for all	Build curriculum to support multiage and maintain same configurations regardless of class size		Concentrate middle grades in 2-3 sites
15	Teacher content specialist (small Class size)				Use of level based classroom resources-AI or VR	Combining teacher expirtise-working together in a PLC model to learn from one another-no teaching on an island		Use our facilitites that are created for larger class sizes
16	Flexible teacehr workday					Deep Collaboration that yeilds a well articualted curriculum		Newark, Burke, Sutton combine schools and split the locations by grade bands ( Prek-2, 3-5, 6-8)
17	Trade in 2 IA's for one SPED teacher-SPEd teacher co-teaches with regular ed					Content specialized to deepen understanding adn teacher expertise		Lumenburg/Gilman become one school in one building
18						Have interventionist service tier 3 SPED teacehr case manager, provide PD so we can grow specialists		Convert Gilman to a more specialized school
19						Retraining teachers accourding to interests		Close some sites
20								Change grade levels to maximize learninf/oppertunities (ie.middle school)
21								Recionfigure schools (1) Pre-K-4 then middle grades in nearby school 5-8
22								School choice to continue but having individulized school's specialze in an area; outdoors learning, fine arts, sports etc. Let parents choose what is important to them
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