superintendent's message - strategic plan
To
parents, students, teachers, principals, staff
and citizens of Duval County:
As we near the end of the
2008/09 school year we are also marking the end of our
first full year of implementation of the District’s
long-range
Strategic Plan.
This plan will provide us
with guidance and direction to ensure that all internal
and external stakeholders in the district have a clear
understanding of what we expect to achieve and how we
expect to achieve it. It will also help us assess
the effectiveness of our action plans, programs, and
resource allocations to see what we should continue,
discontinue, or modify.
We will implement the
strategies outlined in this document with consistency
and clarity across all of our schools, providing extra
support for students, teachers and staff in our most
challenged schools.
We are committed to success,
and it is our intent to make clear and measurable
progress every year toward our objectives, however this
is a long-term strategy and we expect that it will take
several years to completely achieve all of our goals.
In the meantime, we will continue to make improvements
that will have immediate, measurable and significant
positive impacts on the quality of public education in
Jacksonville.
The targets outlined in this
plan are extremely aggressive and are intended to meet
federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and state A++
requirements when allowing for Safe Harbor provisions.
As a School District and School Board team, we are
committed to holding ourselves accountable for this
rapid progress.
While focused on FCAT
results, the district will add additional measures in
the belief that our curriculum includes many untested
areas like social studies, world languages, art, music,
physical education and others. We also believe
that no single measure should determine student or
school success, as there are multiple ways to learn and
demonstrate proficiency.
This will be hard work and we
will have to make adjustments along the way, but our
focus will remain on the objectives of the plan and we
are confident that we will reach our goals.
Through the commitment of our
students, the dedication of our teachers and with the
support of the public we strongly believe that together
we will be successful.
Please join us as we continue
our journey of teaching, learning and achieving in Duval
County.
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Ed
Pratt-Dannals
Superintendent |
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