Kendra Sanders

This strategic plan for the Simpson County School District outlines a roadmap to foster an environment where students believe, achieve, and succeed every day, with the overarching vision of preparing them for future success. The plan is structured around four primary goals: increasing student achievement, maintaining safe and healthy learning environments, enhancing positive K-12 educational experiences for all students, and ensuring a sound financial fund balance for the district.

This Professional Learning Plan outlines the instructional model, strategies, and efforts to achieve instructional success and meet state and federal accountability models. It aims to strategically link curriculum, instruction, and assessment, detailing how data sources inform decisions, and illustrating a differentiated professional learning model for teachers, along with stakeholder roles and responsibilities. The plan's mission is to foster an environment where students believe, achieve, and succeed daily, preparing them for future success. A primary goal is to build teacher capacity to align instruction and assessments with state standards, with specific targets to increase student proficiency in ELA, Math, Science, and US History MAAP scores between 2022 and 2025.

The Magee High School Wellness Plan aims to ensure all students possess the knowledge and skills necessary to make healthy choices that promote healthy lifestyles, leveraging a Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model. Key commitments include fostering nutrition, ensuring food safe schools, promoting physical activity and physical education, delivering comprehensive health education, maintaining a healthy school environment, and providing counseling, psychological, and social services. The plan is designed to improve students' health and capacity to learn, utilizing school and community resources to serve the needs of all students and staff.

The Simpson County School District's Dropout Prevention Plan for 2025-2026 aims to reduce dropout rates and increase graduation rates. It focuses on several key goals, including reducing retention rates in early grades, targeting subgroups needing additional support, developing dropout recovery initiatives, addressing transitions from juvenile detention centers, and increasing graduation rates for special education students. The plan utilizes data-driven strategies, MTSS, and EWS to provide individualized support and interventions, credit recovery programs, and community partnerships to ensure all students excel and achieve academic proficiency.

The strategic plan focuses on ensuring student academic proficiency, fostering a positive school climate, strengthening community and staff partnerships, enhancing safety, and maintaining fiscal responsibility. It outlines the district's mission to enable all students to excel in safe, inclusive environments through strong collaboration. Key goals include increasing student achievement, ensuring secure learning environments, fostering a positive school climate, and ensuring fiscal responsibility to support district priorities.