Maximize Opportunity & Achievement
Maximize Opportunity & Achievement
Focusing on a student’s individual strengths, interests, needs, and culture allows them to reach their full potential. Exposure to various career pathways and opportunities to develop life skills prepares students for their future.
Goals:
- Meet or exceed growth targets on state assessments.
- Close academic gaps between student groups on state assessments.
- Develop interpersonal skills K-12 aligned to the NC Portrait of a Graduate.
- Graduate students with a plan for employment, enlistment, or enrollment.
Strategies:
- Research and implement a high dosage tutoring model as part of the academic day for specific grade levels/subjects based on assessment data.
- Develop a consistent process that provides all students with a core curriculum that is culturally relevant, provides rigorous learning opportunities, and meets the unique needs of a diverse student population, as well as all student groups.
- Explore grading practices that provide students opportunities to take ownership of the learning process.
- Refine data-decision making and data analysis processes to drive instructional and organizational decisions.
- Develop a plan to ensure that NC Portrait of a Graduate durable skills (ability to adapt, to collaborate, to communicate, to think critically, to show empathy, to learn, and to take personal responsibility) are embedded into content area instruction K-12.
- Ensure all K-8 students have access to in-school club opportunities aligned to exposing students to student interests during the instructional day.
- Expand opportunities for high school students to explore their post graduation plans through internships, apprenticeships, College-Career Promise (CCP) courses, Credit by Demonstrated Mastery (CDM) and other work-based learning opportunities at the high school level.
- Create a clear and uniform process where every student creates a career development plan in middle school and refines it based on changing interests through high school.
- Explore new innovative school models to be implemented in MGSD. (Examples include but are not limited to Early College, International Baccalaureate (IB), A+ Arts, Global Studies, STEM, and Freshman Academy.)