Strategic+Plan

Technology is no longer thought of as optional or a luxury in education or in the Brandywine School District. Technology is ingrained in everything we do as educators; it is an essential tool that we use to be as effective as possible.

=__Strategic Plan__= Technology is embedded throughout the goals and strategies of the strategic plan and is growing to become a central focus in this district. Strategy: Ensure that the required curriculum, programs and services are used to help each student __acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to actively participate and succeed in a diverse and ever-changing__ __world__.
 * Goal 2: //Ensure that all students are college and career ready and are prepared to meet the requirements of the ever-changing global culture.//**

Strategy 2: Ensure __a clear, comprehensive professional development plan__ to provide all principals and teachers with the skills necessary to enable all students to reach high academic standards. Strategy 4: __Ensure effective and efficient use of teachers, support personnel and resources__ to meet the learning needs of all students. Strategy 5: Provide __a comprehensive professional development plan__ to meet the needs of non-certified and non-administrative personnel in a standards-based school district.
 * Goal 3:** **//Provide//** **//strong educational leaders for change, highly qualified teachers, and professional development aligned with continuous improvement//** **//for personnel in a standards-based school district.//**

Strategy 3: Ensure the effective and efficient use of instructional technology to help students learn.
 * Goal 4: //Ensure that all students are given every opportunity to master the curriculum by utilizing all available techniques, such as the use of time,//** **//instructional resources and materials, student supports and technology//**

Strategy: Ensure that all teachers and principals directly monitor student performance data in order to close the achievement gap and improve learning for all students.
 * Goal 5: //Ensure the district benchmark and formative assessments are aligned to district curriculum; assess the range of curricular objectives, and//** **//yields __reliable and timely information about student performance.__//**

Strategy 2: __Improve the partnership and collaboration between the community__, district schools, students and parents, in support of student learning.
 * Goal 6: //Ensure early, immediate and intense intervention at multiple levels for each student when the need for acceleration of learning is recognized.//**

Strategy 2: Develop opportunities for student growth in areas outside of core curriculum.
 * Goal 7: //Increase the proportion of students engaging in co-curricular activities to deepen relationships between the school and community, increase//** **//academic achievement, and develop talent and character.//**


 * Goal 8: //Continuously improve the effectiveness and efficiency of district operations.//**