Comprehensive Strategic Plan: 2017-2022

Goal 1: ACHIEVEMENT

All PPS students will be prepared for college and career and empowered to pursue a productive postsecondary path.

Strategies

1. Ensure curriculum aligns to standards and tasks reflect learning expectations. (STANDARDS-ALIGNED CURRICULUM)
2. Develop a district-wide intervention strategy with a focus on extending learning time for students who need it. (SYSTEMWIDE INTERVENTION STRATEGY, EXTENDED LEARNING TIME)
3. Improve access to and use of student learning data to drive instruction. (DATA)

Goal 2: Equity

PPS is vigilant in supporting each and every student's particular path to achieving high standards, rooting out systemic or ongoing inequities.

Metrics
Increase academic outcomes for all (see ACHIEVEMENT metrics) and reduce gaps between student subgroups
→ Disaggregate achievement and Whole Child metrics so that data by race, Free and reduced lunch (FRL), English Language Learners (ELL), special education can be monitored to reduce gaps and lift all students’ outcomes.

Tools
See tools for Achievement and Whole Student)

Baselines
New baseline will be established

Metrics
Improve proportional participation and success across programs.
→ Disaggregated data for participation in the following programs:

• AP (Advanced Placement) classes
• Gifted and Talented
• Special Education
• 8th grade Algebra

Tools
Student Information System

Baselines
New baseline will be established

Strategies

1. Strengthen family partnerships by improving communication and by building authentic opportunities for participation in students' learning process. (FAMILY PARTNERSHIP)
2. Review current policies and practices that create unintended barriers to access, and move to dismantle them. (REMOVE BARRIERS)
3. Build a transparent and collaborative equity audit system to identify and act on best practices and areas for growth. (EQUITY AUDIT)
4. Become a trauma-sensitive school district by providing professional development for all educators and by adopting embedded trauma-sensitive practices. (TRAUMA SENSITIVE SCHOOLS)
5. Build our awareness, understanding and skill in being culturally responsive so that all students feel understood, safe and empowered in school. (CULTURAL RESPONSIVENESS)
6. Ensure that Portland Adult Ed has the capacity to serve the needs of adults in our community striving to become stronger citizens, parents, professionals, employees and entrepreneurs. (ADULT EDUCATION)

Goal 3: WHOLE STUDENT

All PPS students will develop the skills, habits and mindsets they need to engage in and contribute to our diverse city and ever-changing world.

Metrics
Students feel safe and connected to a caring adult at the school.
→ Increase the percentage of students who feel safe, who believe there is an adult who cares about them, and who are confident they have the habits and skills to effectively manage relationships and self.

Tools
Student Survey (TBD)

Baselines
82%

Metrics
Families are welcomed and engaged in their child’s school.
→ Increase the percentage of students’ families/guardians who feel welcomed in schools, who feel like partners in their child’s education, and who have a positive experience of district and school communications.

Tools
Parent/guardian Survey (TBD)

Baselines
93%

Strategies

1. Adopt shared language/Social Emotional Learning (SEL) outcomes and ensure each school has a strategy for teaching and developing students in pursuit of those outcomes. (SEL OUTCOMES)
2. Ensure all students have access to music, the arts, languages, physical education and expanded learning opportunities by strengthening these programs and growing community partnerships. (EXPANDED LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES)
3. Ensure each PPS student has a meaningful connection to a caring adult. (CARING ADULT CONNECTION)
4. Build a personalized success plan for each student that guides the student from when they enter school to graduation. (PERSONALIZED SUCCESS PLANS)

Goal 4: People

Portland Public Schools attracts, supports and retains talented and diverse people who use their strengths to achieve our shared goals.

Metrics
Employee engagement as determined by items on the TNTP (The New Teacher Project) Insights and Employee surveys.
→ Increase the percentage of employee engagement.

Tools
TNTP, Insights and Employee Engagement surveys

Baselines
New tool identified; new baseline will be established.

Metrics
Increase the diversity of our staff so that our team better reflects the backgrounds of our student population.
→ Increase the percentage of staff who identify as people of color.

Tools
Human Resources Information System

Baselines
6.7% of staff identify as people of color

Strategies

1. Build and implement a comprehensive professional development strategy that prioritizes opportunities for growth aligned to district-wide strategies (standards-aligned curriculum, formative data-driven instruction, shared SEL outcomes, cultural responsiveness, trauma-informed practices). (PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT)
2. Strengthen people data systems and routines so that we can better support our employees. (DATA)
3. Build and implement a diversity recruitment strategy. (DIVERSITY RECRUITMENT)
4. Articulate core values and unique PPS identity to attract new talent and strengthen organizational culture. (CORE VALUES)
5. Build career pathways that motivate and retain our talented and diverse people. (CAREER PATHWAYS, RETENTION)