WW-P Outlines
Annual Goals
All our students will be passionate, confident, lifelong learners who have competence and strength of character to realize their aspirations and thoughtfully contribute to a diverse and changing world.”
That’s the “big direction” WW-P school officials want their students to take with them when their time in the district is complete. Getting there, though, will require students to “continually recognize community issues, propose solutions, and choose to carry out plans that contribute to their resolution.”
They will also need to continually identify, develop, and execute plans to pursue their personal and educational aspirations, and they will also need to continually share with an audience the results of ongoing learning that is important to them.
Those are the three philosophical components of fulfilling the district’s hopes for its students, as explained by Superintendent Victoria Kniewel, who highlighted the district’s goals for this school year in a presentation during the September 28 school board meeting.
“The strategic plan is our North Star,” said Victoria Kniewel, in explaining the philosophy to the board. “That’s where we want to go.”
Bringing students to that level of achievement will require the district to develop its own set of goals, based around the district’s core values.
Kniewel emphasized two of those values — the belief that every individual has intrinsic worth, and the belief that people reach their highest potential when challenged to believe it is possible — as the values that were “front and center” in developing this year’s goals.
Those goals include working with and engaging all of the district’s stakeholders in achieving its goals, providing continuous improvement in operations, and expanding the utilization and capabilities of technology.
They also include continually reviewing, evaluating, and revising the district’s curriculum, enhancing consistency and communication, and creating internal student performance data.
To that end, district officials have already been engaged in program reviews at all levels. This year, the district will finish its social studies review, and will begin reviews of its language arts and special education programs.
Goals also include developing a district-wide infrastructure for hiring, developing, and implementing the “framework for professional practice for all faculty and staff,” Kniewel explained.
Working with all of the district’s stakeholders is particularly important as the board brings together a group of new administrators this year, said Kniewel. The district’s efforts to expand technology began when the district required parents to log on to Infinite Campus, the school’s new student information database, to obtain bus passes for their children for this school year.
