REYNOLDSBURG CITY SCHOOLS Winter Academy January 2019

District Mission and Vision

MISSION STATEMENT
Empowering leaders who impact the NOW and innovate the FUTURE.

FOCUS AREA VISION STATEMENTS

Student Learning: Enable students to take ownership of their learning and achieve full potential through challenging, engaging and relevant learning experiences.

Student Experience: Build an inclusive community where students feel safe, supported, and engaged.

Communication: Promote a school community culture that allows all involved to have a voice and remain informed.

Finances: Equitably distribute resources to promote instructional programs that will support the district mission

Reynoldsburg City Schools

Building for Our Future

• Business as usual will be highly detrimental to our kids if we solely focus on:
• Better test scores
• More college/career readiness • More rigorous content
• More kids in four-year colleges

• Those are not the answers to building better citizens.

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Building for Our Future

• Apple states that any kid who needs a “boss” is no longer employable.
• We need to prepare kids who can create, innovate, and work without direction.

Healthy stress > Bad stress Productive work > Non-productive work
Growth Mindset > Fixed Mindset

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and busines .

Building for Our Future

• We must bespurposeful about matching schools • Require financial literacy
• Focus on PBL to ensure learning sticks
refine it
• Continuously question progress and work to

• Give kids voice in their learning • Trust teachers to innovate
in life
• Align what matters in school with what matters

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What Does Our Future Entail?

• Strategic Planning

• Portrait of a Reynoldsburg Graduate • The 9X Impact
• K-12 Articulation

• Revisiting Daily Schedules

• Social and Emotional Learning

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Strategic Planning

• Vision Statement Workgroups
• We will have subgroups formed for each of these areas.
• Student Achievement • Student Experience
• Communications • Finance
• Equitable Allocation of Resources • Collaborative Discussion
• Aligning Our Work with Our Mission

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Portrait of a REYN Graduate

• We are working with Battelle for Kids and EdLeader21 to create this.
• What do we want all of our graduates to acquire? • What skills should they all have?
• What experiences should they all have?
• How do we craft this with K-12 articulation in mind? • Why is this necessary?

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The 9X Impact

• What does the preparedness of a Freshman for high school look like?

• What are our expectations of our students and their expectations of us?

• What makes a successful high school student?

• How do we provide consistent, collective support for all freshmen to launch a successful high school career?

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The 9X Impact

• Collaboration among administration, teachers, and parents to create this model
• To meet academic and social-emotional needs and work habits
• Purposefully teach readiness for high school

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The 9X Impact

• A year-long process of creating a Freshman Experience (with curricula) for all freshmen to be housed on the Livingston Campus in 2019-2020.

• Current Work Being Done
• Executive Design Team Work
• Creation of Executive Teacher Team • Staffing
• Partnership with New Tech Network • “Roadshow” with Mr. Brown
• Development of Surveys for staff, students, and parents • Focus Groups and Parent Forums

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Pathways for Success
metrics (
also in developme

The 9X Impact

• Create a summer bridge program for incoming 9th Graders who are “not prepared” for high school as identified by our nt )

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K-12 Articulation

• Programming from the outset of a student’s experience must align from Kindergarten to 12th Grade

• We can use different modalities and innovative instruction to reach all students

• Vertical discussion • (elementary

is essential
middle	high)

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Revisiting Daily Schedules

• What can we do with our schedule to implement more purposeful opportunities for teacher planning?

• How can we provide all of our students with varied academic experiences using our daily schedule?

• Can we increase opportunities for teachers to use additional flexibility and creativity in the school day?

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Social and Emotional Learning

• Must undergird all of our work

• Meeting the unseen needs of our students

• Understanding that our students bring many struggles with them to school

• School is not the same place that most of our attended

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District Priorities

• Implementing initiatives

• Student accountability for themselves and for their schools

• Building cleanliness

• Being mindful of how we talk to kids and direct them

• Being mindful of how we engage with each other

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The More Distant Future (Beyond 2020)

• Planning for our financial future • Space Allocation
• Facilities

• Full Day Kindergarten

• Improved and Increased Preschool Experiences

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Empowering leaders who impact the NOW and innovate the FUTURE

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