Columbia School District

The Columbia School District's 2023-2024 Professional Learning Plan outlines a comprehensive strategy to enhance educator effectiveness and improve student outcomes. Key strategic goals include teacher development, student development, data-driven decision-making, fostering professional learning communities, strengthening instructional leadership, and promoting social-emotional learning. The plan aims to provide an educational system that enables all students to become productive citizens through quality education, emphasizing ongoing, embedded, and standards-based professional learning.

The Columbia Primary School Plan, developed collaboratively by administrators, teachers, parents, and community members, aims for school-wide improvement by addressing academic and socio-emotional needs. Key focus areas include enhancing student achievement through data-driven interventions and rigorous curriculum, fostering a positive school climate via a tiered behavior support system (PBIS), and ensuring robust parent and family engagement. The plan also emphasizes continuous professional development for staff, particularly in literacy strategies, and strives for compliance with all federal, state, and local educational requirements.

This School Plan for Columbia High School outlines strategies to improve student outcomes across multiple domains, with a focus on enhancing academic achievement, fostering college and career readiness, and cultivating a positive school climate. Key priorities include increasing student proficiency in Reading/Language Arts, Math, Science, and U.S. History, boosting ACT scores, and addressing student and teacher needs through targeted interventions and professional development. The plan also emphasizes parental engagement and the responsible allocation of resources to support continuous improvement and student success by September 2025.

This executive summary details the Columbia School District's 'X-STREAM' 21st Century Community Learning Center program, a collaboration with the Columbia-Marion County Public Library. Launched in January 2021, the program provides academic and enrichment opportunities for pre-K to 12th-grade students and their families across five sites. It focuses on addressing learning gaps in STREAM subjects (Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Art, Math) and offering literacy services to families. The program aims to improve student academic performance in reading and math, and behavioral progress, while striving for continuous growth and effectiveness.

The Instructional Management Plan outlines the Columbia School District's approach to providing an educational system that fosters productive citizens and ensures all students reach their full potential. Key strategic goals include attaining high student achievement, maintaining a safe and positive school climate, and ensuring financial solvency. The plan details an instructional management system that integrates curriculum, instruction, and assessment, implements a Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) for academic and behavioral interventions, and adheres to Literacy-Based Promotion Act requirements to prepare students for college and career readiness.