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2025-25%20District%20Strategic%20Plan%20Metrics%20Goals.pdf

Document typeproposal
Date2024-09-01
Source URLhttps://go.boarddocs.com/wa/msdwa/Board.nsf/files/D8UTVT794169/$file/2025-25%20District%20Strategic%20Plan%20Metrics%20Goals.pdf
Entitymeridian_school_district (Whatcom Co., WA)
Entity URLhttps://www.meridian.wednet.edu
Raw filename2025-25%20District%20Strategic%20Plan%20Metrics%20Goals.pdf
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Parent document: Regular Board Meeting-09-11-2024.pdf

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Meridian School District
Strategic Plan 2024-25 Goals

Background, Glossary and Acronyms

Indicator: Student participation in activities at MMS and MHS
elenging Learners experience a community e Measure: Student participation in sports and activities

that embraces and honors who e Goal: Maintain a minimum of 80% student participation in sports or activities (2023-24 MMS
they are. 75.6%, MHS 80.4%)

Meridian strives to

be a welcoming e Build opportunities for students | Indicator: Student perception of a supportive learning environment

place where to cultivate connections on e Measure: District CEE Student Survey

understanding and campus e Goal: Increase the percentage of positive responses from 59% to 70%

respect are priorities.

Everyone will be Commit to continuing to have Indicator: Leadership for belonging
honored, valued and difficult conversations about e Tool: CEE staff, students and family survey, question “Our school engages in difficult

heard. race, gender, oppression and conversations about race, gender, oppression and discrimination.”
discrimination e Goal: Increase the number of positive responses by a minimum of 5%. (Students from 44% to
49%, Staff from 46% to 52%, Families from 59% to 64%)



Meridian School District
Strategic Plan 2024-25 Goals

Cenwunnicalign | Open communication is encouraged and

valued between staff, students and our

Meridian commits to community.

proactive, consistent

and clear two-way e Increase communication that fosters
communication that is partnership with families and students
accessible for all. around learning

Increase families’ and students’
opportunities and abilities to advocate
for their needs

Indicator: Family perception of collaboration and communication
e Measure: CEE Family Survey
e Goal: Increase positive responses from families about collaboration and
communication from 81% to 86%

Indicator: Perception of students’ awareness of their progress
e Measure: CEE student survey question “My teacher(s) often tell me how | am
doing in their class”
e Goal: Increase positive student responses from 55% to 65%

Indicator: Installation of ParentSquare communication application
e Measure: ParentSquare installation report
e Goal: Increase the number of families installing the Parent Square app from 53%
to 60%

Indicator: Participation in family conferences
e Measure: Attendance at family conferences
e Goal: 90% of families across the district engage in family conferences



Meridian works in
Partnership with staff, sd
families, students and
community to nurture
success in each and

every student.

Meridian School District
Strategic Plan 2024-25 Goals

Indicator: Disparity in academic achievement between student groups
Bw Support Students engage in their own progress e Measure: Smarter Balanced Assessment scores for ELA and Math

using self-assessment and goal setting. e Goal: Reduce the discrepancy in achievement between students with disabilities,
multilingual learners and all students by 25%

Reduce the discrepancy in achievement
between all students and historically Indicator: Academic growth
underserved student populations e Measure: OSPI Student Growth Percentiles
e Goal: Decrease the percentage of students in the low growth range: ELA 20% to
Increase student growth for all students, 15%, Math from 27.9% to 23%
in particular students with disabilities
Indicator: Staff perception of frequent monitoring of student learning
Increase staff skills by using data to e Measure: CEE staff survey
target and inform student intervention e Goal: Increase the percentage of positive responses from staff about their
monitoring of teaching and learning from 74% to 80%



DQ whlness

Meridian creates an
environment that
supports staff and
students’ physical,
social and emotional
well-being.

Meridian School District
Strategic Plan 2024-25 Goals

Students are taught strategies for
emotional regulation and problem-solving.

Increase attendance rates
Increase social-emotional learning
Strengthen behavior expectations and

systems for responding to unexpected
behaviors and bullying

Indicator: Regular attendance
e Measure: Regular attendance rates
e Goal: Increase the percentage of students with regular attendance from 68.3% to

80%

Indicator: Staff perception of their understanding of SEL instructional strategies
e Measure: CEE survey staff question “I understand instructional strategies to
support social-emotional learning objectives”
e Goal: Increase the percentage of positive responses from 72% to 80%

Indicator: Student perception of the learning environment
e Measure: CEE student survey
e Goal: Increase the percentage of positive responses from 59% to 65%



Meridian is guided by

a commitment to bd
equitable education

that develops

academic and

personal skills for life.

Meridian School District
Strategic Plan 2024-25 Goals

Indicator: Student academic achievement
@B feaming Meridian graduates are prepared for their e Measure: SBA scores, ELA and math
career and life goals. e Goal: Increase the number of students scoring at levels 2,3 and 4 by 5%

Increase academic achievement, focus | Indicator: Students’ future orientation
on tier 1 instruction and intervention e Measure: CEE student survey
systems e Goal: Increase the percentage of students with a positive future orientation
response from 73% to 78%

Increase engagement and relevance for
learning Indicator: Students dropping out of school

e Measure: Dropout rates
Increase opportunities for students to e Goal: Decrease dropout rate from 9.6% to 4%
work toward their career and life goals

Indicator: 9th Grade on track to graduate status
e Measure: % of 9th-grade students on track to graduate
e Goal: Increase 9th grade on track to graduate from graduate 83.9% to 89%



Meridian School District
Strategic Plan 2024-25 Goals

Background, Glossary and Acronyms:

OSPI: Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

CEE: Center for Educational Effectiveness, Educational Effectiveness Survey

ELA: English Language Arts

SBA: Smarter Balanced Assessment

Regular Attendance: On average less than 2 absences per month

Student Growth Percentiles: describe a students growth compared to other students in the state

Parent Square: Daily communication tool

Dropout rates: Graduation rate is based on a cohort of students. The cohort is made up of all students who start 9th grade together. Students who transfer into or
out of a school are added or removed from the cohort. If students stop attending school, they are counted as ‘drop outs'

SEL: Social Emotional Learning

On Track to Graduate: Ninth graders are considered on track if they passed all credits they attempted in 9th grade. This does not include withdrawals. This includes
first time 9th graders only