Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning

 

Student Outcome Monitoring Reports

 

The Olympia School Board receives regular updates on the district's progress in addressing goals addressed in the six Student Outcomes adopted by the board in December 2018.

 

The board has scheduled the following dates to hear outcome monitoring reports in the 2021-22 school year:

 

 

Following are links to past Student Outcome Monitoring Reports:

 

 

Race & Equity Impact Decision-Making Tool

 

The purpose of this tool is to engage everyone involved in Olympia Schools to learn, think and address how race and equity impacts choices in instruction, programming, staffing, funding, and policy. All members of the Olympia Schools community should strive to improve anti-racist practices and equity awareness through all of our activities and choices. We encourage the application of this tool in any decisions that impact students, staff and families of the Olympia School District.

 

 

History

 

Olympia School District’s 5-year Strategic Plan expired at the end of the 2017-18 school year. In spring 2018, work began to Small Group Discussing Strategic Planning develop a long-term strategic direction for the district based on shared values and agreed-upon student outcomes.


In May 2018, more than 130 people representing a cross-section of the community — students, staff, family members and community members — came together for an intensive two-day Educational Summit at the Hotel RL in Olympia. Leading up to the Summit, the district received thousands of responses to a budget and pre-Summit survey, all of which helped to inform the two-day event. 

 

In addition to 40 students, who were the largest represented group in the room at the Summit, Strategic Planning Meeting Roomthere were family members, teachers, principals, custodians, bus drivers, other support staff, and community members from many backgrounds. The event culminated with the group identifying some key educational focus areas for the board to consider as it finalizes student outcomes to drive the measures for determining school district performance and the creation of improvement plans. Summit participants narrowed key focus areas to the following:


  • Assuring Foundational Skills/Lifelong Learning
  • Addressing Bias and Inclusion
    Students look at Summit data
  • Focusing on Safety
  • Producing Global Navigators
  • Maximizing Choices/Pathways
  • Ensuring a Strong Sense of Self-Worth

 

To learn more about the Educational Summit, including details related to the focus areas above, results of a pre-Summit survey, photos from the event, and other relevant data, see related information listed at the bottom of this webpage.

The school board reviewed work done at the Summit during a board study session and summer board retreat in July, 2018. During the board's one-day retreat, directors created draft student outcomes to drive the goals of the district's new Strategic Plan.

The school board shared the draft student outcomes beginning in August with staff, students, families and the community and asked for input during 49 in-person focus groups and on an electronic feedback form. After reflecting on that initial input, the board made some revisions to the draft student outcomes on October 1 and again on October 29, 2018.

Directors approved six Student Outcomes at the December 10, 2018 school board meeting. In March 2019, the district held two community meetings and posted an online feedback from to invite input on a set of draft "Student Outcome Indicators." The indicators will help drive the Strategic Planning process. In May, district leadership presented the most current version of the indicators to the board. Those indicators are listed below each of the outcomes below.

 

OUR STUDENTS WILL:

 

Outcome 1: Be compassionate and kind.

  • Be aware of and appreciate one’s similarities and differences with others.

  • Listen well and cooperate with others.

  • Demonstrate awareness of one’s own thoughts and emotions and how they impact behavior. 

  • Express emotions, thoughts and impulses in positive and beneficial ways.

  • Resolve conflicts and repair relationships.


Outcome 2: Have the academic and life skills to pursue their individual career, civic and educational goals.

  • Read, write and speak effectively for a wide range of purposes, including the interpretation and analysis of both literary and informational texts.
  • Know and apply mathematics to a level of fluency that ensures a broad range of post-secondary opportunities and career choices.
  • Use analytic and scientific principles to draw sound conclusions.
  • Analyze multiple causal factors that shape major events in history.
  • Exit with a personalized post-secondary transition plan for work, career and/or college, and complete the first steps toward achieving post-secondary goals before graduation.
  • Develop and use conceptual understanding, exploring knowledge across a range of disciplines, and engage with issues and ideas that have local and global significance.
  • Problem solve using both creative and critical thinking skills.
  • Demonstrate continuous growth across the disciplines to meet or exceed academic learning standards and work toward graduation.
  • Apply reliable information and systematic decision making to personal financial decisions.

 

Outcome 3: Advocate for the social, physical and mental wellness of themselves and others and be hopeful about the future.

  • Communicate effectively.

  • Develop knowledge and skills to have healthy eating habits, have a healthy body image and access reliable health information and services.

  • Be physically active and see athletics and exercise as health-enhancing behaviors.

  • Understand and apply principles of sound mental and emotional health and learn to identify signs of emotional health concerns such as depression, anxiety and suicidal thinking in self and others.

  • Understand how and when to seek supportive mental and emotional health resources for self and others.

  • Cultivate healthy relationships that honor each person's personal preferences and boundaries.

  • Identify and develop personal strengths and interests.

  • Develop the skills and habits to assess the role of technology and social media in their lives and distinguish between healthy and harmful use.

     

Outcome 4: Have the skills, knowledge and courage to identify and confront personal, systemic and societal bias.

  • Develop an appreciation of world cultures, which may include the understanding of the basic structure of another world language.

  • Be well versed in local, national and world history and understand how prejudice, racism and xenophobia have contributed to conflict.

  • Demonstrate the ability to recognize that biased attitudes expressed consistently over time gradually distort perceptions until stereotypes and myths about people different from oneself are accepted as reality.

  • Empower themselves to interrupt discriminatory remarks and attitudes.

  • Evaluate the significance and dependability of information used to support positions.

  • Analyze the validity, reliability and credibility of information from a variety of primary and secondary sources while researching an issue or event.

     

Outcome 5: Discover their passions, be curious and love learning.

  • Broaden their perspectives and seek out various opportunities to explore new ideas, particularly those areas that are unfamiliar or uncomfortable to find their interests.

  • Experience failure, setbacks and disappointments as an expected and honored part of learning.

  • Understand and demonstrate the value of service in their community and learning by doing.

  • Pursue creative and artistic opportunities as a vocation and/or a form of lifelong enrichment.

     

Outcome 6: Be critical thinkers who contribute to and collaborate with our local, global and natural world.

  • Participate on teams and know the power of teamwork.

  • Demonstrate the ability to engage in inclusive problem solving.

  • Advocate for and contribute to local, regional or global improvement by utilizing natural resources in an efficient, sustainable way.

  • Use digital tools to constructively learn from and connect with people and communities around the world.

  • Gather, interpret and present information in culturally responsive ways.

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