Driving MPS
Forward: Let’s Shift into High Gear
The Shift campaign is about moving our schools and district
forward to get better outcomes for students. We are heading in the right
direction. We don’t need more time; we need more momentum. At our current rate,
it will take 15 years or more to reach equity and parity for every student. We
need to shift into a higher gear to climb the steep slope toward success and
triple our rate of closing the achievement gap.
The core strategies of Shift are as follows:
- Instructional Improvement: Define high standards for
student performance and implement rigorous curriculum, useful assessments
and supports across all grades that align with those standards.
- Human Capital: Redesign the human capital
system to strengthen school and district leadership capacity, ensure
expert teachers in every classroom and build collaborative teaching
techniques.
- High Support Schools: Create and implement
turnaround strategies that focus on urgent intervention and dramatic
improvement for the lowest-performing schools.
- Accountability: Continue to build
accountability systems for schools and central office with clear metrics for
monitoring and reporting progress.
- Operational and Fiscal
Effectiveness:
Redesign operations for effectiveness and efficiency; ensure equitable
funding.
- Family and Community
Engagement:
Engage families, students and external partners in supporting the
system-wide core strategies for academic acceleration.
- Enrollment: Establish MPS as the district
of choice in Minneapolis due to excellent schools; increase quality seats
in MPS, grow enrollment and increase market share by 10 percent over the
next several years.
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