FORT GIBSON PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Working to Prepare All Students to be Career /

College Ready by Graduation

DISTRICT MISSION (VISION)Our Vision

 

Fort Gibson Schools will provide students a premier education for an ever-changing tomorrow.

 

 Our Mission

 

Empower Students To Achieve!

Our Primary aim is not to enable students to do well in school, but to rather to do well outside of school. -McNulty

CORE VALUES

• We will provide a positive school culture with a reputation for excellence.

• We will foster, promote, and recognize good citizenship, leadership, manners, and service.

• We will properly prepare students for post secondary opportunities.

• We will meet the needs of all students by providing a balance of premier academic and extracurricular opportunities.

• We will provide a seamless education that produces leading scores on assessments.

SUCCESS BY DESIGN NOT BY CHANCEThe board, administration, staff, and community of

Fort Gibson have a reputation of high standards and a commitment to excellence. State and Federal leaders are searching for common educational standards. We already have what we refer to as the “Fort Gibson Standard”. The Fort Gibson Standard consists of many components that far exceed what will be developed on a state or national level. Our standards are delineated in a plan that will result in Fort Gibson providing a premier education for its students.

FTG STANDARD!!!

• Increased Graduation Standards• Graduation Portfolio Requirement• BYOD digital learning program and only OK school to

have virtual snow days!• Pay in upper-tier of the State and best staff in the

World!• Initiatives in increasing: Oklahoma Academic All

Staters, National Merit Finalists, ACT score !• Tremendous Facilities• Tremendous Board and Foundation Support• Pre-School and Tiny Tiger Program• Robotics, MS Technology, and STEM initiative• First class activities achieving at the highest level• Advocacy for ALL students!• Over 188,000 meals served and thousands of miles of

safe transport of students every year

WHERE WILL WE BE IN 1 YEAR!

• Students Reading, Writing, Reasoning, and Speaking in all classes.

• Students and teachers using digital resources in the classroom and through virtual learning opportunities.

• Students creating educational products in a variety of ways including but not limited to using: text, audio, imaging, and video.

• Students learning through relevant and rigorous opportunities specifically designed for their needs and career ambitions.

A LEARNING PLATFORM FOR STUDENTS

THREE LEGGED STOOL OF TEACHER SUCCESS

Relationships

Relationships

Relevance Rigor

WITHOUT APPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIPS – STUDENTS WILL NOT LEARN

Relationships

Student Advocacy,Capturing Kids

Hearts

Personalized Education Plans

Classroom Management,District Procedures

WITHOUT RELEVANCE, STUDENTS WON’T CARE TO LEARN!

Relevance

Extracurricular Participation,

Differentiated Learning,Global Learning

Lexile Reading Levels, Career Pathways, STEM

Character Ed,Service Learning,Peer Mentoring

WITHOUT RELEVANCE, STUDENTS WON’T CARE TO LEARN!

Rigor

RWSR(Reading, Writing,

Speaking, and Reasoning)

Competency Based Standards

AP, Concurrent, Digital Classes,

Competitive Activities

Quad DCreative Products

(Text, Audio, Video, Imaging, etc…)

RIGOR

RELEVANCE

AA BB

DDCC

Rigor/Relevance Framework

Recall, facts, observations, demonstrate(Basic Facts)

Assessments

Summarize, analyze, organize, evaluate(Thinking in one

subject)

Predict, design, create, innovate

(no right answers)

Apply, relate, demonstrate

(apply to real world)

High

HighLow

Low

2015-2016Textbooks limited due to more use of personalized digital content.Students and teachers will advance effectiveness of student led PTC’s and measure them.RWSR skills will be identified and noted in use in classroom.Teachers will continue to identify competency based standards for benchmarks and chart them

2016-2017Textbooks and worksheets only used on a limited basis as teachers become more aware of the power of digital content in meeting the personal learning needs of students .Teachers continue to use measured results from survey data to improve student led PTC’s.Teachers will use benchmark charts to improve benchmark test data.RWSR strategies continue to be documented in classroom.

2017-2018Textbooks and worksheets only used on a limited basis as teachers become more aware of the power of digital content in meeting the personal learning needs of students .Teachers continue to use measured results from survey data to improve student led PTC’s.Teachers will use benchmark charts to improve benchmark test data.RWSR strategies continue to be documented in classroom.

Vote bond for new technology, curriculum, facility needs.

2018-2019Textbooks and worksheets only used on a limited basis as teachers become more aware of the power of digital content in meeting the personal learning needs of students .Teachers continue to use measured results from survey data to improve student led PTC’s.Teachers will use benchmark charts to improve benchmark test data.RWSR strategies continue to be documented in classroom.

RELATIONSHIPS

Focus for 2015-2016

Advocacy Goals

Student led Parent Teacher Conference with student advocate 5-12

Advocate meets parents and student and sets goals

Advocate makes monthly contact with parent

Advocate makes weekly contact with student

Students learn Leadership skills in line with “The Leader in Me” concepts.

Classroom Management

Master Teachers teach all teachers on PD day. Reinforce on Early Out Wed.

RELEVANCEFocus for 2015-2016:

Instructional Strategies

Teachers will utilize digital curriculum as a way to personalize learning.

Review instructional strategies best practices at early out Wednesdays

TLE, McREL growth measures will be tied to classroom practices

Global

ELL program will continue to expand to elementary and middle school

Best practices will be demonstrated by master teachers at early out Wednesdays!

RIGOR

Focus for 2015-2016:

Standards

Teachers will continue to blend New State standards with 21st Century Teaching Strategies.

Benchmarks and Assessments

Comprehensive Pre, mid year, and post tests

RWSR embedded in all unit/lesson designs and activities

ACT and State Testing