Everything Ties Together

At our November School Board meeting, we shared the restructured 2011-12 District Improvement Plan along with the updated 2011-12 Strategic Improvement Plan.  The updated Strategic Plan focuses on performance targets aligned with the district goal of "high achievement for all students" and our four supporting objectives.

District Improvement Council Chairman Matthew Pruitt, sixth-grade teacher from Ted Polk Middle School, presented an overview of the district plan.  Mr. Pruitt did an excellent job outlining the plan and the council's role.  State law mandates all Texas school districts have a District Improvement Council.

In C-FB ISD, we take the District Improvement Council's role seriously.  Our council's members represent teachers, parents, community members, principals and district administrators. The council meets regularly during the school year. Members learn about and give input on the budget, the district calendar, instructional matters and special annual topics such as school start times.

The District Improvement Plan follows the district's vision, mission, statement of beliefs and graduate profile. All of these can be found on the district website.  In the District Improvement Plan, there are numerous action strategies outlined for the C-FB ISD team to accomplish the four supporting objectives.  At the School Board meeting, we highlighted strategies that our team will be working on to move our district forward this school year. To see the strategies we highlighted, please click through our PowerPoint presentation below.

Our Strategic Improvement Plan outlines district-wide performance targets being used to measure our four strategic objectives.  The Education Resource Group (ERG) provides much of the data that the district uses.  The ERG performance matrix was developed to identify school districts that obtain high academic performance in the most financially efficient manner. An October Focus Points outlined the benefits of ERG's work.  Other student achievement data that we will use to evaluate our performance include STAAR (the new state accountability system),  SAT and ACT (college entrance exams) results and the high school graduation rate.

As we work to improve to the learning environment for our students and staff, we will evaluate our student attendance rate and disciplinary placements.  We will use the results from the annual staff survey conducted by the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) to monitor our success as well.

Increasing operational effectiveness has always been a priority, but in today's world, we are working through even greater major financial shortfalls than ever before.  At the same time, we are staying the course for high academic achievement. We will be using the ERG data as we measure our financial effectiveness among the 200 largest Texas school districts.

Our fourth objective revolves around increasing the stakeholder confidence of the district. We will measure our efforts through our annual parent survey and our employee survey.  For example, in our 2011 parent survey, 88.6% of our parents said that they were satisfied with the district.  We continue to build confidence through open communication as well face-to-face communication with parents, staff, community and business leaders.

As you look through our documents, you will see C-FB ISD has a plan to move our work forward.  We in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch School District are committed to high achievement for all students.  We know that the community will join us in our efforts to help all of our students achieve high levels in the A's: academics, the arts and athletics.

Board District Improvement Plan 2011-2012