Rickie Stewart

This 5-Year Plan provides an overview of strategic initiatives spanning from 2022 to 2027 across several core areas. The plan focuses on enhancing essential content through proficiency scales and aligned assessments, improving instruction via strategic methodologies and Professional Learning Communities, optimizing the learning environment with common collective commitments and classroom procedures, and refining scheduling for interventions. Additionally, it addresses measuring learning through assessment systems and student reassessment, and improving reporting mechanisms like the Learning Management System and report cards. The overarching goal is to implement structured improvements across these educational components over the five-year period.

The North Sanpete School District is implementing a Personalized Competency-Based Learning Model designed to create conditions for student success. This model focuses on clearly defining essential content, measuring academic mastery, and ensuring accountability. It emphasizes personalized instructional support, responsive learning environments, and flexible scheduling to accommodate individual student needs. The model also outlines comprehensive methods for measuring and reporting student learning, aiming to foster student agency and progress towards mastery of content, learning skills, and dispositions.

The special board meeting included discussions and a presentation on property taxes, addressing how they are calculated and the factors that can affect them. The board reviewed elements of property taxes, including local school district levies, charter school levies, state basic school levies, and bonds. The need for a tax rate sufficient for the state to match funds for rural school districts was emphasized, along with the benefits of the Board and Local Levy tax match. The meeting also touched on the FY25 budget, which was scheduled for further discussion at a later meeting.

The North Sanpete School District's FY2021-FY2025 Digital Teaching and Learning (DTL) Grant application outlines a plan to enhance digital learning across the district. The plan focuses on improving the culture of education by integrating proven practices, optimizing technology innovation, and communicating proactively with stakeholders. Key areas include providing flexible professional development options for teachers, investing in software solutions to increase student performance, and strengthening IT support. The plan aims to achieve a 1% annual increase in state accountability metrics over five years, aligning with the district's vision of creating conditions for learning so all students can succeed. The plan also emphasizes personalized learning, digital citizenship, and community partnerships.

The strategic plan focuses on essential content, personalized student learning, and a supportive learning environment. It includes objectives related to making standards useful, developing proficiency scales, aligning assessments, and defining a portrait of a graduate. The plan also addresses instructional strategies, PLC implementation, classroom procedures, and scheduling to support personalized learning. Additionally, it covers measuring and reporting student learning through assessment systems and report cards.