Safety nets and support system to help students meet our expectations will continue to be very important. We have an excellent pupil services system, and the challenges in this area will only continue to grow. Parents need to increasingly be a strong partner in the education process. They need to understand what we are trying to do, and they need to have help and ideas as to how they can support our efforts while the student is at home. This will require efforts on the part of the school district to develop new student progress reporting methods and tools and to develop parent friendly information about the standards, benchmarks and our curriculum and instruction program.
Technology can be a great tool to enhance instruction and learning.
Our hardware situation will be much improved to start the 2000-2001 school year. The LoTi assessment focuses on the utilization of technology for instruction and those results will continue to guide our professional development activities in this area. Many staff have had the opportunity to upgrade their skills in technology and hopefully we all will continue to grow in the use of technology.