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St. Johns Board of Education Strategic Plan
The Indy takes a quick look at the Plan
- Download the entire Plan from the schools’ website.
Executive summary
Critical Issues
After a thorough review of the organization s internal strengths and weaknesses, external opportunities and threats, and input from staff, parents, and community obtained during fifteen separate forums, the following critical issue areas were identified:
- Internal Communication and Trust
- External Communication
- Curriculum and Programming
- Technology
- Class Size Equalization
- Facilities
- Finance
Conclusion
St. Johns Public Schools Strategic Plan provides goals and action plans for addressing each critical issue area. Specific strategies and recommendations are included that represent best practice, current trends, and increased curricular demands and intentionally provide a direction of excellence for the district to follow. According to futurist, Gary Marx, "Two words describe how any organization, public or private, will survive and thrive in the 2151 century: continuous improvement. No matter how good we are today, we need to become even better tomorrow." This Strategic Plan represents the best work, creativity, and passion of many committed school and community members. By continuing to strengthen the school-community partnership, holding high expectations of our students and each other, and looking toward the future, St. Johns Public Schools will become a vital and attractive resource for all.
Weaknesses (areas that need to be addressed, areas of needed growth) perceived were:
- Size of district; large square mile area
- Elementary class size issue
- Unbalanced across district
- Curriculum issues due large class sizes
- North schools shrinking; south schools growing
- Reacting to class size on a year by year basis; results in children having to change friendships and school affiliation
- Disconnect in awareness of needs at each level
- Limited opportunities for students in bottom 1/3 of class
- Morale issues: trust, money, understanding
- Could be more teamwork district wide, i.e. Board, administration, staff
- Limited financial resources to support programs
- Lack of modern facilities and educational resources
- HS History and English-room to grow
- Gender issue related to achievement
- Mediocre MEAP scores
- Student apathy
- Non-special education remediation opportunities
- Lack of vocational center
- Food: Menu, waste, health concerns
- Diversity: Better to do few things well than many things just OK
- Curricular disconnect from elementary to middle school to high school
- Limited accountability benchmarks within classroom
- Limited staff resources
- All staff is stretched to their limit; people are on edge of capacity
- Limited elective opportunities at the Middle School
Opportunities perceived were:
- Work with MSU and LCC for dual enrollment, honors college tutoring, and Professional Development
- Co-op learning experiences (vocational education, RESA, Career Pathways)
- Magnet schools at our North Schools (performing arts math and science, Nature Academy)
- GM Workers
- School/community events
- NBS/Senior Dinner
- Good Wins service club
- Volunteers
- Distance learning
- Food service
- OLTP
Threats perceived were:
- Home schooling and other educational institutions
- Government funding
- Lack of growth and development in our county
- Government policy -bureaucratic roadblocks
- Apathy: Parents. students society
- Differing values
- Morality decline