Mississippi Board of Education 5-Year Strategic Plan 2016-2020
Revised August 18, 2016
VISION: To create a world-class educational system that gives students the knowledge and skills to be successful in college and the workforce, and to flourish as parents and citizens
MISSION: To provide leadership through the development of policy and accountability systems so that all students are prepared to compete in the global community
GOALS:
- All Students Proficient and Showing Growth in All Assessed Areas
- Every Student Graduates from High School and is Ready for College and Career
- Every Child Has Access to a High-Quality Early Childhood Program
- Every School Has Effective Teachers and Leaders
- Every Community Effectively Using a World-Class Data System to Improve Student Outcomes
- Every School and District is Rated “C” or Higher
GOAL 1: ALL STUDENTS PROFICIENT AND SHOWING GROWTH IN ALL GRADES IN ALL ASSESSED AREAS IN ALL SCHOOLS
- Outcome: Increase the percentage of students who pass the 3rd grade reading assessment at the first administration in each subgroup
- Outcome: Increase the percentage of students proficient (levels 4 and 5) on statewide assessments (grades 3-8 and high school composite) in each subgroup
- Outcome: Decrease the percentage of students scoring levels 1-3 on statewide assessments in each subgroup
- Outcome: Increase the percentage of students demonstrating growth on statewide assessments in each subgroup
Goal 1, Objective 1: Implement the Literacy-Based Promotion Act with fidelity
Goal 1, Objective 1 Strategies
- Provide intensive literacy professional development and literacy resources for all PreK-3 teachers, administrators, and IHL staff related to: (1) resources for 90-minute literacy block, (2) evidence-based reading interventions, (3) protocol for extended school time, and (4) the five components of reading (5) dedicated training on multi-tiered systems of supports, (6) provision of coaching training for all schools
- Use statewide assessment data to determine K-3 reading deficiencies in the five components of reading to determine professional development offerings
- Provide resources and guidance for parental and community engagement and templates for parent communication
- Deploy literacy coaches to all elementary schools with the highest percentage of students scoring at levels 1 and 2 on ELA assessments
- Implement the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading across the state
Goal 1, Objective 2: Continue implementing the MS College and Career Readiness Standards
Goal 1, Objective 2 Strategies
- Provide targeted professional development to teachers and administrators in all content areas based on data
- Expand content coaches in literacy, math, and science.
- Train and place instructional coaches in the field and focus coaching efforts on low-performing schools
- Train teachers and school leaders in data-coaching model (requires additional funds)
- Provide content-focused parental outreach sessions regionally and require attendance for low-performing schools
- Collaborate with community organizations to engage parents in low-performing schools
- Provide resources to all teachers and administrators, including all content areas aligned college and career ready standards
- Enhance school effectiveness review process for lowest-performing districts
- Provide districts with strategies to identify and address chronic absenteeism
- Publish district- and school-level chronic absenteeism data regularly and annually
- Implement the State Literacy Plan
GOAL 2: EVERY STUDENT IN EVERY SCHOOL GRADUATES FROM HIGH SCHOOL AND IS READY FOR COLLEGE AND CAREER
- Outcome: Increase the percentage of students graduating from high school in each subgroup
- Outcome: Increase the percentage of students ready for college as measured by ACT benchmarks in each content area (public school class data, grade 11)
- Outcome: Increase the percentage of students participating in and passing dual credit in each subgroup
- Outcome: Increase the number of students participating in and passing AP in each subgroup
- Outcome: Increase the percentage of students career ready
Goal 2, Objective 1: All students enter MS colleges prepared for credit-bearing courses
Goal 2, Objective 1 Strategies
- Provide resources to districts in how to use an Early Warning System to identify students needing assistance and provide interventions
- Administer ACT to all 11th graders and use results to plan courses for students during senior year
Goal 2, Objective 2: All students graduate prepared for careers, meeting academic and employability standards
Goal 2, Objective 2 Strategies
- Continue training all counselors to meet the American School Counselor Association standards of practice
- Require schools to design programs of study that align to local industry demands
- Establish a statewide Career Readiness Taskforce
- Evaluate current pathways to graduation and make recommendations for new diploma options
- Implement Individualized Career and Academic Plan (iCAP) for all 8th grade students
Goal 2, Objective 3: Increase the number and percentage of students participating in and successfully completing advanced coursework, such as Advanced Placement courses, dual credit/dual enrollment courses, articulated credit, advanced science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)-related curriculum pathways and national certifications
Goal 2, Objective 3 Strategies
- Provide expanded access for students to dual credit/dual enrollment opportunities and Advanced Placement courses
- Expand national certification programs tied to high-skilled, high-wage employment
- Expand advanced STEM pathways
GOAL 3: EVERY CHILD HAS ACCESS TO A HIGH-QUALITY EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM
- Outcome: Increase percentage of kindergarten students achieving end-of-year target score on Kindergarten Readiness post-test
- Outcome: Increase percentage of children with disabilities in general education early childhood programs while decreasing the percentage in self-contained special education early childhood classrooms
- Outcome: Increase number of students enrolled in Title I or locally funded pre-K classes
- Outcome: Increase the percentage of Early Learning Collaborative sites meeting required rate of readiness
Goal 3, Objective 1: Define a high-quality early childhood model and share the model with all stakeholders
Goal 3, Objective 1 Strategies
- Provide professional development to all early childhood providers on the Mississippi Early Learning Standards for 3- and 4-year-olds
- Implement a comprehensive monitoring process for public early childhood providers (Early Learning Collaboratives, Title-funded, special education)
Goal 3, Objective 2: Increase access to high-quality early childhood programs
Goal 3, Objective 2 Strategies
- Work collaboratively with public/private partnerships involved with early childhood education (Birth to 2 and 3-4 year-olds) and transitions to the public school setting
- Identify opportunities to blend and braid funding for early childhood programs
- Request additional funds for Early Learning Collaboratives
- Expand the number of Title I-funded pre-K programs, with an emphasis on low-performing schools
GOAL 4: EVERY SCHOOL HAS EFFECTIVE TEACHERS AND LEADERS
- Outcome: Increase the percentage of teachers rated effective through the teacher evaluation system
- Outcome: Increase the percentage of principals rated effective through the principal evaluation system
- Outcome: Reduce the proportion of inexperienced and non-certified teachers in low-performing schools
Goal 4, Objective 1: Increase the percentage of educators rated Effective or above on the state evaluation systems
Goal 4, Objective 1 Strategies
- Implement the revised Mississippi Teacher Evaluation System (MTES) and Mississippi Principal Evaluation System (MPES)
- Provide high-quality, ongoing professional development to teachers and administrators based on the results of MTES and MPES
- Implement the Superintendents’ Academy and Principals’ Academy (pending funding)
- Link student performance to the university from which the teacher has graduated in order to evaluate teacher preparation program
- Develop teacher leaders through the implementation of the Teacher-Leadership Initiative
- Implement statewide teacher equity plan
Goal 4, Objective 2: Raise the academic standards in MS teacher-preparation programs
Goal 4, Objective 2 Strategies
- Add the reading assessment as a licensing requirement for special education and early childhood teachers (pending impact of first-year implementation of Foundations of Reading Assessment)
- Revise the process used to evaluate teacher- and administrator-preparation programs, focusing on increasing knowledge of content, the Mississippi College and Career Ready Standards, pedagogy, assessment, cultural proficiency, the needs of diverse learners and instructional effectiveness
- Provide professional development to IHL staff related to ELA and math instruction aligned with college- and career-ready standards
- Provide districts with guidance/resources for developing a recruitment strategy
GOAL 5: EVERY COMMUNITY EFFECTIVELY USING A WORLD-CLASS DATA SYSTEM TO IMPROVE STUDENT OUTCOMES
1.Outcome: Increase availability of quality data to drive decisions to improve student outcomes
Deliverables:
- Modernize MSIS system
a. dashboards/reports
b. application development
- Infrastructure
a. backup and storage expansion
b. data replication
c. upgrade primary storage
- Website redesign
Goal 5, Objective 1: Modernize current student information system to become a state-of-the-art data system (full modernization is pending available funding)
Goal 5, Objective 1 Strategies
- Modernize current student information system to improve access, accuracy, and ease of use
- Build infrastructure of the modernized system, to be called the Mississippi Integrated Quality Management System (MIQMS)
- Provide training in MIQMS to all stakeholders, with a focus on low-performing schools
- Develop dashboards, utilizing data from MIQMS, for stakeholders
Goal 5, Objective 2: Revise the Office of Technology and Strategic Services plan
Goal 5, Objective 2 Strategies
- Implement the Office of Technology and Strategic Services plan
- Develop a technology plan for the state
- Assist districts with the hiring of their technical staff
- Develop a data privacy policy for the state
GOAL 6: EVERY SCHOOL AND DISTRICT IS RATED “C” OR HIGHER
- Outcome: Increase the growth of D and F districts along the A – F spectrum, by improving the letter grade and/or increasing the number of points within a letter grade
- Outcome: Increase the growth of D and F schools along the A – F spectrum, by improving the letter grade and/or increasing the number of points within a letter grade
- Outcome: Increase the growth of districts under conservatorship along the A – F spectrum by improving the letter grade and/or increasing the number of points within a letter grade
- Outcome: Increase the growth of schools under conservatorship along the A – F spectrum by improving the letter grade and/or increasing the number of points within a letter grade
- Outcome: Increase the percentage of districts rated “C” or higher
- Outcome: Increase the percentage of schools rated “C” or higher
Goal 6, Objective 1: Improve academic outcomes in Targeted Support and Improvement Schools and Comprehensive Support and Improvement Schools
Goal 6, Objective 1 Strategies:
- Design a comprehensive professional development plan for elementary, middle and high schools and require participation from schools with the highest percentage of students scoring at levels 1 and 2 on ELA and math assessments
- Collaborate with administrators in all targeted- and comprehensive-support and improvement schools to design an academic improvement plan
- Require comprehensive support and improvement schools to develop improvement plans for students who are not making progress toward graduating within four years
- Provide coaching to all teachers and administrators in comprehensive support and improvement schools related to school improvement
- Train and place literacy coaches in the field and focus coaching efforts on comprehensive and improvement support schools
- Collaborate with community organizations to engage parents in comprehensive and improvement support schools
Goal 6, Objective 2: Improve academic outcomes in schools under conservatorship
Goal 6, Objective 2 Strategies:
- Collaborate with administrators in schools under conservatorship to design an academic improvement plan
- Require schools under conservatorship to develop improvement plans for students who are not making progress toward graduating within four years
- Provide coaching to all teachers and administrators in schools under conservatorship related to school improvement
- Collaborate with community organizations to engage parents in schools under conservatorship
Goal 6, Objective 3: Establish an Achievement School District (ASD)
Goal 6, Objective 3 Strategies:
- Establish a planning committee to identify components needed for an ASD
- Develop a comprehensive implementation plan to launch an ASD in 2018-19