Whitman Elementary - Tulsa Public Schools

Strategic Objectives Review – January 2012
CURRENT OBJECTIVES
Core Goal: Student Achievement
A. Create an exceptional learning environment, via
enhanced curricular and instructional offerings and
practices that prepares students to pursue college and
work-force ready opportunities and to subsequently
become effective, productive and contributing citizens.
B. Develop a learning culture within our students that
focuses on a love for learning, problem solving ability,
intellectual curiosity, passion for the arts and a valuing of
physical wellness.
C. Examine District programs needed to deliver academic
excellence with a focus on the elimination of achievement
gaps among all subgroups of students.
D. Analyze facility utilization. Consolidation of schools will
simultaneously be considered with parallel planning to
optimize student learning and performance opportunities.
E. Expand the concept of community schools to appropriate
scales of growth within the District. A community school is
both a place and a set of partnerships between the school
and other community resources. Community schools
combine the best educational practices with a wide range
of vital in-house health and social services to ensure that
children are physically, emotionally and socially prepared
to learn.
F. Explore opportunities for increasing academic learning
time so students have more time in the classroom to
acquire the academic knowledge and skills that will
prepare them for work-force entry or college, and
subsequent career decision making.
PROPOSED REVISIONS
Each student will meet or exceed state and national standards by
demonstrating mastery of a rigorous curriculum that provides a
foundation for success in career readiness or college
preparedness and beyond.
A. Create an exceptional learning environment, via enhanced
curricular and instructional offerings as well as improved systems
and structures, that prepare students to pursue college and workforce
ready opportunities and to subsequently become effective and
productive citizens
MOVE D. TO SECTION 4 (FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY)
E. Expand the concept of community schools to appropriate scales of
growth within the District. Community schools combine the best
educational practices with a wide range of vital in-house health and
social services to ensure that children are physically, emotionally
and socially prepared to learn.
ADDED (from #2g)
F. Replicate success models and turn around lowperforming
schools.
ADDED (from #3d)
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