Lisa Thompson

This Five-Year Strategic Plan for Wayne County Schools aims to provide a quality education within a warm, caring, and safe environment. It supplements existing improvement plans by offering a broader, long-term vision. Key strategic pillars include fostering a safe and nurturing environment for staff and students, improving communication and community relations, optimizing plant management and transportation, enhancing school climate and morale, and increasing access to post-secondary opportunities for all students. The plan emphasizes partnerships among home, community, and schools, student potential development, and continuous improvement.

The Wayne County Schools Foundational Literacy Skills Plan focuses on improving literacy skills in grades PreK-5. The plan details daily foundational literacy instruction using the TN Foundational Skills Curriculum (PreK-2) and Houghton Mifflin-Harcourt Into Reading (3-5), supplemented by Heggerty Bridge to Reading. Instruction emphasizes phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary. Students scoring below the 40th percentile receive additional small-group instruction. The plan includes a parent notification system, providing regular updates on student progress and home literacy activities. Professional development for teachers focuses on effective program implementation, including PLC structures and HQIM training.

The Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) Accountability Report for Wayne County details the district's plan to improve student outcomes, particularly in 3rd grade English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics. The report outlines specific goals for increasing proficiency rates in ELA to 70% by 2029 and in 3rd grade math to 33% by 2028, along with a goal to increase the percentage of students meeting Ready Graduate standards to 48% by 2028. The plan includes strategies such as All-Corps Tutoring, Response to Intervention (RTI2), High-Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM), parent training, and professional development for teachers and administrators. The district will utilize TISA funds, along with Title I and other grants, to support these initiatives. The report also includes a plan for public comment and feedback.

The 2022-2027 Strategic Plan for Wayne County Schools focuses on providing a quality education in a warm, caring, and safe environment. Key areas of focus include academic excellence, college/career readiness, school climate and culture, human capital, well-rounded education, technology integration, family/community engagement, and effective transitions. Specific goals address creating a safe and nurturing environment, improving teacher morale and communication, building stakeholder pride and ownership, optimizing plant management and transportation resources, and expanding post-secondary opportunities for students. Strategies involve improving safety measures, providing counseling programs, professional development for staff, celebrating successes, increasing community engagement, and strengthening partnerships with post-secondary institutions.