1. Wright City R-II Outstanding Board of Education Human Organizational Capital

2. Where Are We? We encompass the towns of Wright City and portions of Foristell as well as the gated communities of Innsbrook Village and Incline Village. We are located along I-70 45 miles west of the Lambert Airport in Warren and Lincoln Counties. Our boundaries touch Wentzville, Francis Howell, Washington, Warrenton and Troy School Districts.

3. Numbers 1553 Students K-12 – 60+ Early Childhood Center >19% Minority – 56% Free/Reduced Lunch 96.1% on 2014 Annual Performance Report – Most Academically Improved District in Missouri from 2010 to 2014. $18+ Million Budget – $179 Million Assessed Valuation

4. Acknowledgement The Wright City R-II Board of Education would like to recognize the fact the administrators (past and present), faculty, and students’ hard work and dedication to excellence made the OBOE award possible. It truly takes a village to make things work.

5. Baldrige Model Plan Do Study Act The Baldrige principles were applied throughout the process…

6. Recruitment and Hiring Plan – Adopt Policies That Guide Recruitment – Branding Do – Implement on-line recruiting tools – Utilize Social Media Study – Increase applicants for both administrative and certified staff Act – Review Turnover Rates – Exit Interviews

7. Growth Oriented Culture Plan – Identify Areas of Improvement – Create Climate Survey Do – Implement Professional Development Programs – Administer Climate Program in Fall Study – PAWS Report – Measuring Tool – Data Wall – Build Leadership Teams to Review Climate Survey Data Act – Fail Fast – Develop Interventions for Students – In Year Adjustments Made On Climate Survey Results

8. Professional Growth Plan – Create a comprehensive needs assessment in district CSIP – Based on comprehensive needs assessment, create a focused professional development to improve depth of knowledge, increase rigor in instruction, and provide assessment Do – Collect formative data throughout the year and at the student level. – Implement a continuous classroom instruction model. – Implement AIMSWeb and Discovery testing Study – Analyze AIMSWeb and Discovery data points Document this information in the PAWS report described earlier – Analyze common assessment and formative data to determine student needs. – BOE Self-Evaluation, review of Climate Survey and resulting test scores are studied Act – Develop Response to Intervention Plans – Use the data to drive instructions, which is implementing Baldridge in the classroom

9. Retention of High Quality Staff Plan – Audit the tools used to evaluate all district employees, including the superintendent – Adopt policies that spell out the goals and strategies to involve staff in important decisions – Look at salary competitiveness Do – Revise both job descriptions and evaluation tools to better match the needs of the district with respect to MSIP 5. – Chartered a community study group to look at salary competitiveness and make recommendations to the board – Take time to review exit interviews Study – Utilize board meetings to go through the various job descriptions and evaluations. – Evaluate the recommendations of the community group tasked with looking into salary competitiveness Act – Implemented new job descriptions and evaluation tools (including Superintendent). – Attempted a levy increase – Prop “S” – that ultimately failed. Need to plan, do, study, and act on why it failed – Recognize employees

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11. Appendix

12. Contact Information Austin Jones – BOE President – ajones7115@yahoo.com ajones7115@yahoo.com Heidi Box – Board Member – heidi.r.box@gmail.com heidi.r.box@gmail.com Dr. David Buck – Superintendent – david.buck@wrightcity.k12.mo.us david.buck@wrightcity.k12.mo.us