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Stamford Public Schools District Goals

The Board of Education of the Stamford Public Schools has established the following five goals. They provide direction to the Superintendent and staff to ensure that all students have access to a well-rounded education that promotes their academic development, citizenship and social-emotional well-being. The Board of Education recognizes that in order to achieve these goals, all staff must have appropriate resources and support. Through a community-wide strategic planning process that will be completed in the fall of 2006, comprehensive measures of progress towards these goals will be developed. Progress will be publicly reported on a quarterly basis. These goals underpin the Board of Education’s efforts to establish accountability for student results.

• Goal 1
  The Stamford Public Schools will increase academic achievement of all students by:
  • Providing all students with access to high quality, standards-based instruction that includes abroad array of programs that enrich students’ lives
  • Developing and implementing strategies to meet the individual needs of all students,including those who exceed standards and those who are below standards
  • Fostering a learning environment that provides for the physical safety of all students while nurturing independent thinking and the safe expression of ideas
• Goal 2

The Stamford Public Schools will address the Achievement Gap by:

• Establishing a culture of high expectations for all students, staff and families
• Targeting interventions at all schools that have students and/or sub-groups who are not making progress towards State standards, as measured by NCLB
• Working with students and families to increase student engagement in school, as well as student motivation for success
• Goal 3

The Stamford Public Schools will increase the meaningful engagement of all families and the community by:

• Developing a culture of collective responsibility and ownership for student results and wellbeing
• Developing a shared understanding, based on factual information, of important academic and social issues facing our students
•  Establishing multiple opportunities and mediums for families, community members and schools to communicate

Goal 4

The Stamford Public Schools will provide all students with a world-class professional staff by:

• Recruiting, inducting, mentoring and supporting a diverse professional staff at all levels
• Maintaining high expectations for the delivery of differentiated and standards-based instruction, and supporting efforts to build the capacity of all staff to do so
• Developing multiple opportunities for staff to engage in collaborative decision making and to grow as instructional leaders in their schools and district-wide
• Goal 5

The Stamford Public Schools will maintain efficient and effective operations by:

• Managing fiscal, capital, instructional and personnel resources in a prudent and transparent fashion, which includes increasing alternative sources of funding through state, federal and private grants
• Evaluating the return on investment for all district initiatives while reporting progress towards benchmarks to the entire Stamford community
• Continuing to improve the budget process so that it is outcome related and transparent

PUBLIC HEARINGS ON REDISTRICTING

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Cloonan Middle School Auditorium

This public hearing will focus on potential redistricting changes for families whose children attend or are districted for elementary schools that currently feed in Cloonan Middle School.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Dolan Middle School Auditorium

This public hearing will focus on potential redistricting changes for families whose children attend or are districted for elementary schools that currently feed into Rippowam Middle School and Dolan Middle School.

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