School District Mission
Hot Springs County School District No. 1 Goals
Overarching Goal: To be recognized in the State of Wyoming as the top performing school district.
Goal 1: To refine the existing system of continuous improvement to ensure that learning and teaching is advancing.
Indicators:
1. Increased student achievement in all academic areas and for all grade levels.
2. The readiness of graduates for successful post secondary study will be researched.
3. Strategies will be determined to improve the graduation rate from 93% to 100%.
4. Strategies will be developed to improve the average ACT score from 20.3 to 21.5.
Goal 2: To Improve internal and external communication to ensure that the staff and community have greater understanding of the work of the school district.
Indicators:
1. Initiatives will be developed to recognize and celebrate academic successes of students.
2. Initiatives will be developed to recognize and celebrate instructional excellence.
3. Strategies will be developed to enhance communication by focusing on messages that highlight district accomplishments and provide timely and relevant information regarding district initiatives and changes. This might include, but not be limited to, newsletters, number of website visits, newspaper editorials and opinion letters, internal staff memos, site councils and pre-board meetings.
4. The strategic plan will be modified to represent 2011-12 goals.
Goal 3: To Recruit, develop and retain high quality staff that have the skills necessary to help ALL students become high achieving.
Indicators:
1. Plans will be developed that seek to maintain stability of staff through initiatives that connect staff to purpose and provide opportunities for growth.
2. Maintain a competitive comprehensive compensation package to retain high quality staff.
3. Actively pursue feedback from all staff in regards to climate, support of continuous growth, and support of board goals.
Adopted by the Hot Springs County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees on August 18, 2011.
