During March
and April, the Clear Creek School District will make two
significant decisions that will help our organization support and
drive improved academic performance and create a learning
environment that fosters high expectations and character
development.
The first decision is a strategic shift of resources to a new
structure and the second is modifying our calendar to improve the
quality of our District curriculum and professional
development.
As we enter our budget process for the 2014-2105
school year, we are incorporating a strategic organization
modification into our long-term financing decisions that will help
us develop 5 critical capabilities identified in our Comprehensive
Appraisal for District Improvement
(see CCSD CADI
Report). These capabilities are: high-quality teacher
induction, teacher coaching, curriculum alignment and improvement,
comprehensive formative and summative assessments and a
multi-tiered intervention. We also add a highly effective
gifted and talented capability to those 5 for a total of 6 critical
capabilities. We have
proposed 4 different plans and structural changes to develop these
capabilities. Each of
these plans lays out a 3-year transition towards a more effective
structure that will provide the foundation for an outstanding
education system in CCSD. In March or April, we will adopt
one of these plans
(see 6 Critical
Capabilities Plans). We welcome your inputs to
these plans by using the
Comments and
Suggestions Website.
Our proposed calendar is located at CCSD 2014-2015 Proposed
Calendar. This calendar keeps the same
basic school year and student contact time as the 2013-2014
calendar but groups District professional development days together
in twos every other month. This allows our teachers and
administrators to collaborate and work more effectively by giving
them more consecutive time together on a regular basis. The CCSD 2014-2015 Proposed
Calendarwebsite has
a comments section located on the left side of the screen for your
input.
We ask that you take your time to
familiarize yourself with these plans and calendar. We also ask that you actively
participate in our ongoing discussions on these issues as we near
our decision points.
As always, we believe we develop the best solutions when we work
together as a team of students, parents, teachers, staff and
community: your inputs will help us take our District from Good to
Gold.