Goal 2.1
Learning environment
inviting and supportive of high student performance
Ensure a school climate that supports teaching
and learning.
Conduct a climate survey of parents, students,
and staff to assess perceptions of current conditions and make appropriate
adjustments.
Offer incentives to schools to improve the
appearance of schools and make them more inviting.
Establish specific techniques that acknowledge
and reinforce acceptable behavior.
Develop a school-wide plan at each school which
promotes common and consistent language, rules, consequences, and rewards for
appropriate behavior.
Work with consultant from DPI to provide
Positive Behavior Support professional development at each school and to
evaluate each school on its behavior support plan.
Establish with the assistance of students,
teachers, and the community a reward system for good behavior.
Develop a system-wide character education
program that utilizes community partners as an integral component.
Create a Speakers’ Bureau to communicate
positive character traits to students.
Integrate Bully Education and Gang Awareness
into the character education program.
Provide training and professional development to
all staff in intervention, counseling, and character education.
Ensure that every child has adequate nutrition,
access to medical care and to appropriate physical fitness opportunities.
Develop in collaboration with the Orange County
Schools Health Advisory Council a coordinated, school-based health plan,
involving service providers, families, school personnel, and other community
resources.
Promote school breakfast in all schools,
increase student participation in the district’s child nutrition program, and
review and enhance current nutritional offerings in schools.
Provide opportunities in school facilities for
every student to engage in healthy behaviors, including physical activity, both
during and after school.
Support health and physical education policies
that ensure curriculum planning, professional development, and assessment and
evaluation.
Develop a physical education policy that
discourages withholding physical activity as a disciplinary tool.
Evaluate physical fitness facilities at each
school and provide equitable facilities for all students.
Include “wellness” and nutrition in parent
education programs.
Goal 2.2
Schools free of
controlled and illegal substances and all harmful behavior
Develop and maintain successful practices,
programs, and procedures that promote healthful living in grades K-12.
Require middle school healthful living education
for all students regardless of their participation in extracurricular programs
during the instructional day.
Expand school-based support services, including
nurses, school counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, child
mental health, and child substance abuse professionals.
Implement a coordinated system of mental health
and substance abuse services for
Promote school wellness assessments and create
opportunities to promote drug-free lifestyles, wellness and good nutrition.
Develop and enhance programs for teaching all
children the dangers of controlled and illegal substances.
Provide teachers with materials and staff
development to incorporate wellness and nutrition into teaching.
Set up school-wide violence prevention trainings
with students and staff.
Offer extracurricular options that will capture
the interest of students with discipline problems.
Expand and refine alternative, transitional, and
re-entry programs that provide opportunities for students to continue
educational services.
Provide students enrolled in the alternative
school and other transitional programs with life skills classes, including
anger management, mediation, and study skills.
Partner with community programs to assist students
in alternative programs.
Develop a program model, similar to the
Exceptional Children’s Behavior Skills Program, to meet the instructional needs
of at-risk students.
Provide distance learning opportunities for
students as appropriate.
Develop, define, and publish a menu of
district-wide intervention strategies for teachers to use to assist students in
reaching academic goals.
Goal 2.3
Mutual respect of
students, teachers, administrators, and parents
Foster opportunities for students to develop
self-discipline, self-management, self-regulation, self-control, and social
skills.
Support and implement policies and research-based
programs regarding bullying, anger management, violence prevention, conflict
resolution, and mediation skills.
Partner with the
Ensure that all school personnel model respect.
Establish informal means to settle disputes and
disagreements between students, parents, and schools.
Provide restitution training to administrators
and teachers.
Implement conflict resolution/peer mediation
programs, such as Peer Settlement, in all schools. Designate a single
coordinator to work with this program and provide staff development and
training for students.
Implement
Investigate other research-based student
behavior programs.
Provide clear, consistent written and oral
communication to facilitate student, parent, and staff understanding of all
rules, requirements, and consequences.
Create a basic set of rules, consequences, and
rewards that are school-wide and district-wide.
Provide Student Code of Conduct and discuss regularly
with students, parents, and staff.
Link every child with an adult advocate within
our school community.
Develop and publish a parent/community
involvement handbook.
Require schools to establish an advocacy program
to support identified students.
Provide one-on-one mentoring for identified
students.
Goal 2.4
Adequate, safe
education facilities that support high student performance
Ensure that all facilities are clean, attractive,
safe, well-equipped, and up-to-date.
Develop a long-range plan to ensure clean,
attractive, well-equipped buildings.
Review long-range plan annually to ensure
consistency with district goals.
Incorporate plan within comprehensive capital
improvement program to address the need for additional facilities and
instructional spaces.