Strategic Plan - Homer Community Consolidated School District 33C

Homer District 33C Strategic Plan
2013-2018
Mission
Homer 33C will provide a high quality education to prepare and empower students for success in a dynamic world.
Vision
Through collaborative efforts representing ALL community stakeholder groups, Homer 33C is committed to empowering
student success by:
• graduating responsible, globally-aware citizens who are passionate life-long learners,
creative thinkers and independent problem-solvers.
• providing a safe, nurturing learning environment for all students and adults.
• fostering collaborative partnerships among the students, parents, staff,
Board of Education and the tax-paying community of Homer 33C (stakeholders).
• providing technology that enhances learning, expands communication, and
promotes data-driven decision-making.
• prudently managing fiscal resources.
We believe:
Values & Beliefs
• each child will have the opportunity to learn at his or her highest potential.
• all children have different learning styles and rates and we must use multiple instructional strategies to meet varying
student needs.
• it is our obligation to guide students toward self-sufficiency, responsibility and accountability within a safe, nurturing
learning environment of mutual caring and respect.
• adult actions and decisions impact and influence student learning and behaviors.
• in a collaborative approach toward increasing open communication and generating diverse ideas and solutions to
achieve our vision.
• members of the community should directly participate in the success of the District.
• data analysis in a safe data culture and a collaborative environment is necessary to drive decision-making.
• a focused use of technology enhances both teaching and learning.
• we must remain financially responsible in order to accomplish our vision.
Core Commitments
We Commit:
• to setting high expectations for learners and continually collecting, monitoring and acting upon evidence of their
achievement progress.
• to providing differentiated instruction, timely interventions and appropriate enrichments to help every student learn.
• to providing and reinforcing opportunities that promote positive character and self-sufficiency within a safe, fair,
respectful and nurturing environment.
• to providing positive, supportive role models that guide students toward making responsible decisions for themselves
and their futures.
• to collaborative structures and behaviors where differing opinions can be heard and considered while staying true to
the standards set forth in our strategic plan.

• to providing both communicative and participatory opportunities for parents and the larger community to contribute
to the achievement of our vision.
• to providing a safe data culture where continual, informed, data-driven decision-making is common and expected,
while still protecting the privacy of the individual.
• to providing appropriate technological tools, training and opportunities for an effective use of technology at
community, District, school, team and student levels.
• making educated, data-driven resource decisions that measure the impact of our financial and resource priorities
relative to the accomplishment of our goals.
Goals
Goal One
Student Achievement:
Goal Two
Learning Environment:
Goal Three
Professional Environment:
Goal Four
Partnerships:
Goal Five
Resources:
Provide an effective and engaging instructional program that supports academic success
for all students.
Provide a safe, welcoming and inspirational learning environment that compels and motivates
students to participate in their own education.
Maintain a positive, dynamic work environment in a self-renewing organization.
Build and strengthen productive partnerships among all stakeholders to effectively communicate
the District’s ongoing journey.
Manage and maintain the District’s positive fiscal status while addressing the District’s
strategic priorities.
Strategies
• Provide a standards-based curriculum that ensures each child will have the same essential learning opportunities.
• Provide an aligned system of common formative and summative assessments for each grade level and department to
guide instruction in a timely fashion and determine whether expected mastery and growth have occurred.
• Provide directive, timely support within the school day for students who need challenge beyond their required
learning and students who are challenged in their learning.
• Provide a District-wide data system that provides timely, accessible metrics describing the District’s/schools’/
classrooms’/students’ achievements, successes and challenges and share results, where suitable, to both internal and
external stakeholders.
• Provide time and resources for staff to regularly and frequently meet within the school day around best practices,
common data-based results and improving instructional offerings as focused, accountable collaborative teams.
• Provide a safe, welcoming and inspirational school learning environment where students will demonstrate
responsibility for their own learning and staff will demonstrate their commitment to and caring of students.
• Provide structures to engage and feedback mechanisms to elicit the educational aspirations and talents of parents
and community members as partners in the Homer 33C educational process.
• Ensure that District fiscal, technological and human resources are efficiently utilized to further the District’s strategic
priorities while also ensuring long-term fiscal solvency and technological and human resource effectiveness.
Homer Community Consolidated School District 33C
15733 South Bell Road Homer Glen, IL 60491 • Phone 708 226 7600 • Fax 708 226 7627
www.homerschools.org