The intent of this goal is to encourage and to allow school sites to collaborate to find new ways of solving problems or meeting goals by brainstorming with constituent groups and District personnel and by networking with other schools or districts. In order to assess effectiveness, devices for program evaluation should be a part of any solution. The success of this goal will depend on increasing opportunities for creative problem solving, internal and external networking, and methods for program evaluation. Every individual will be expected to model acceptable behavior. Teaching behavior is equally important to teaching academics.
Awareness implies knowing or realizing, conscious and informed individuals.
Conscious implies that one is focusing one's attention on something or is even preoccupied by it. Educational programs and activities will be designed to engage and challenge children at their appropriate levels of ability. The intent of this goal is to continue to encourage the development of programs and instructional activities that take into account all the variables of student ability from remediation to enrichment and that actively connect all students to the learning experience. The District will maintain existing programs to ensure that every child is a reader by the third grade and continues to read at grade level in accordance with the student s ability. The intent of this goal is to sustain the success of students and staff in reaching primary grade level reading standards.