Central Columbia’s Comprehensive Plan

2 Comprehensive Planning Pass Through Required Towns Pass By Off/On Ramps Comprehensive Planning Components Highway to Continuous Improvement and Success

3 Comprehensive Planning Required Towns Profile Core Foundations (District Level) Assurances Needs Assessment Action Planning Affirmations

4 Comprehensive Planning Profile (Who are we?) Mission Vision Shared Values Educational Community District Level Planning Team

Central Columbia School District provides excellence in education to enable all students to reach their potential as successful and contributing members of a global society.

1. The needs of ALL children must drive the educational system. 2. Quality schools are committed to excellence providing a variety of means to achieve that goal. 3. All human beings have worth and shall be treated with respect, courtesy, and dignity.

4. All people are expected to assume appropriate personal responsibility and must be accountable for their performance and actions. 5. In a quality educational process, community, families, students, and staff communicate and collaborate in decision-making. 6. "Learning to Learn" by being creative, flexible, and willing to change is essential to meet the challenges of a changing global society.

8 Comprehensive Planning Required Towns Profile Core Foundations (District Level) Assurances Needs Assessment Action Planning Affirmations

9 Comprehensive Planning Core Foundations (How do we?) Contribute to satisfying Chapter 4, 12, 14, 16, 49 and appropriate Federal regulations Reflective questions across District (Elementary, Middle & High School) Less narratives and more survey type questions

10 Comprehensive Planning Required Towns Profile Core Foundations (District Level) Assurances Needs Assessment Action Planning Affirmations

11 Comprehensive Planning Assurances (Of course, we have a policy, procedure and/or data to assure we have/do that?) Safe and Supportive Schools Special Education

12 Comprehensive Planning Required Towns Profile Core Foundations (District Level) Assurances Needs Assessment Action Planning Affirmations

13 Comprehensive Planning Needs Assessment Analyze Data 1. Optional Data Walkthroughs 2. Locally Relevant Data 3. Patterns of School Level Accomplishments and School Level Systemic Challenges 4. District Level Accomplishments & Concerns

14 Comprehensive Planning Needs Assessment Analyze Systems: 1. Answer District Level Guiding Questions 2. Prioritize Systemic Challenges Flexibility for Districts Example On/Off Ramp-Align Concerns w/ Systemic Challenges

15 Comprehensive Planning Required Towns Profile Core Foundations (District Level) Assurances Needs Assessment Action Planning Affirmations

16 Comprehensive Planning Action Planning Goals Informed By Systemic Challenges Identify Goals (1 to 6) Identify Indicators of Effectiveness Identify Strategies Identify Action Steps

17 Comprehensive Planning Required Towns Profile Core Foundations (District Level) Assurances Needs Assessment Action Planning Affirmations (DL p. 92)

18 Comprehensive Planning Process Non-Negotiables 1.Schools communicate Prioritized Systemic Challenges to the District before District can identify Accomplishments and Concerns. 2.District Level Plan must be ready for school consumption before School Level Action Planning officially commences.

19 Comprehensive Planning Process Non-Negotiables 4. Identified schools submit School Level Plans on June 30, Day Public Review of the District Level Plan and Board Approval prior to its submission 6. District Level Plan submitted on November 30, 2013

20 Comprehensive Planning Bridge Reports Special Education Educational Technology