001welcome USD 264 Patron staff students and community members just want to welcome you to superintendent update number two Clearwater Clarity uh for September uh 2023. first I want to thank everyone for the warm welcome as I've been able to get started and get out in the community and meet everyone so again please if you see me at activities or ball games please come up introduce yourself and be more willing to spend some time uh visiting with you but again thank you for the warm welcome to the community so as we get started for uh volume two we really want to start diving into a little bit of what we've been doing over the last month and kind of what our next steps are and as we're doing this I really want to review just why
002are we doing this so in the background here is the USD 264 strategic plan which has four major goals of increasing student achievement implementing whole child programming developing deep relationships and providing consistent relevant communication that is our why this is why we do what we do every day is to make sure that we can start achieving those four goals goals at a high level second we're talking about the what what are we going to do to achieve these goals and then lastly we'll start focusing on the how well today in this episode we're going to really just focus on the why so as I explained a little bit ago the vision statement with one team one family one district will help students reach their full potential We Set four different goals and that is our
003strategic plan that's here at the top from there we derive our keysa goals which is accreditation so each cycle every five years each School District in the state of Kansas has to be accredited Clearwater was accredited in 2022 and started our second cycle last year so during that from the Strategic plan the building leadership teams the district leadership team and the district site councils created key signals those goals are ones that drive us towards making sure that we treat achieve the Strategic plan from there then the buildings are creating building goals yearly and then the plcs which are groups of teachers smaller groups by department or by grade level are creating inquiry Cycles which are small goals about every nine weeks that build towards the building goals over here on this side of the graphic
004we have each building leader and including myself as a superintendent who wrote leadership goals that are going to help us achieve the Strategic plan from there the teachers are writing individual goals for their professional development how they're going to improve access and achievement in their classroom and from there we'll start driving in future years towards students setting their own goals and then we'll make make sure that the goal was met and then we'll start the cycle all over again and re-looking at our strategic Plan Building our key goals building goals inquiry Cycles student goals and then doing that lastly and part of that is just really understanding that to do this we must have gentle pressure relentlessly applied it's a great quote that came from a friend of mine at Salina superintendent there and it's
005just about the idea of making sure that we're staying focused on what matters and that's providing that gentle pressure and then if we make sure every day that we go to work we're working on these goals that's how we can relentlessly apply it so as we step into the second half of this video today I really want to focus on the vision and it's really the start of the vision one team one family one District so when we met as a full staff back in August in in service time we really were able to Define really what this means and so for us as we're looking at this one team is is has three different bullet points to it and it's a focus on where teams have goals uh all great teams that are successful
006have common goals whether it's winning a championship whether it's being successful whether it's reaching their ultimate end of the team season goals all teams that are successful have goals and we feel like our strategic plan and our keys of goals as long as our as well as our building goals will help us be there we also believe that teams have similar beliefs beliefs in what our kids can achieve beliefs in what Clearwater USD 264 stands for and beliefs in what we want to be able to accomplish at the end of the career of our students and then lastly team celebrates small victories making sure that along the way we're celebrating all the small successes that help us become one team the second part of our vision statement is one family and so as we broke
007it down we really looked at that family has love families have love for one another that we truly love each other for who and and who they are and what they become and we make sure that we do that within our students and our staff secondly families have trust we cannot have success within our goals and our strategic plan or living out our vision if we don't have trust in the person next to us and then finally we have to also understand that families at times have to agree to disagree meaning we may not always see eye to eye on all the same issues and all the same ways to get to the goal but that it's okay to agree to disagree at times we don't all have to be on the same page but
008we're all moving in the same direction and then lastly we defined one district is where districts have systems that work together when we think about systems we think about gears gears that turn and work together that that drive a clock or drive a car or drive a train those systems have to work together intricately to make sure that they are successful this districts have a broad view of everyone and everything meaning that we look at everything as a as a whole and don't focus on just a small population or a small group is how are we ensuring that all means all all students and all staff when we're talking about how to be successful and then districts have support systems in place similar to things like mtss or that we have maintenance departments or we
009have grounds departments or we have bus and maintenance mechanics those are all support systems we have in place to help us achieve our goal and so finally as we are starting to wrap up this video our theme for this year is to be the one we truly believe that every student needs someone in their life to become something and we're not asking every adult to be that for every student but we want to make sure that every student has an adult at USD 264 that they can trust and turn to and help them be the one for them so that they can be successful as they continue through this year if you're looking on social media we have a hashtag called one two six four which hopefully helps represent our one family one team in
010one District vision statement finally just a little bit of an announcement we have changed a little bit of bus loading and unloading procedures especially at Elementary West and at Intermediate Middle School and so we just want to make sure and go over some bus safety as we get the year started so making sure that you're understanding when they are stopping on Prospect just outside of Elementary West that the buses will be deploying their stop signs and it is illegal to drive past the bus with their stop sign deployed we've had some issues with patrons driving through stop signs at this point in time we're just wanting to put a reminder out there officer Jacks our SRO and Clearwater PD will be there to help Monitor and assist those loading and unloading areas and also be
011able to talk to some people if they are creating an issue with driving through the stop signs safety is our priority concern within this mainly because as we all know the chat tragic events that happened at Derby a couple weeks ago we want to make sure that we keep all of our kids safe and sometimes kids don't always pay attention and aren't always really mindful of where they are at and where they are going so if we slow down follow our stop signs and make sure that we obey those speed limits we're going to be able to help make sure safety is a priority and then we appreciate your support in helping this because community members and parents you are part of our one family that we have here at USD 264 and we want
012to make sure everybody is safe and secure so lastly we are going to be starting a fall listening tour and so I already started this week with working with building staff and making sure that we go and listen and ask certain questions to just get a feel with where we're at with the Strategic plan and what we can do to continue implementing it so the one that will be coming up for the community is on September 27th we'll get more information out as we get closer but we will be having a district site council meeting that night and then immediately concluding the site council meeting we will be having a community listening to her where we can get some feedback on our strategic plan implementation process and then throughout September October and November we'll be
013meeting with building staff and students to prepare different listening opportunities to take notes and get help give us a direction on how we can improve some of those areas so again thank you here's my contact information please if you'd like to come in and visit set up a call by calling the office at any time or email me again you can also follow me on Twitter and also follow our Clearwater Facebook page where we will post a lot of information also this week will be the debut of our through their eyes video so we will also be posting a video monthly of different pictures that have been taken throughout the district to give you an idea of what it's like to be a student at USD 264. thank you and have a great day and
014have a great Labor Day weekend