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September 7, 2012

ECPS to see strategic plan

Staff Writer MIRANDA BAINES The Daily Southerner Fri Sep 07, 2012, 11:36 AM EDT

TARBORO — The Edgecombe County Public Schools are entering the third week of the school year with a new vision, new mission statement, and a strategic plan.

The board will have a chance to vote on the strategic plan and hear the new vision and mission statements from the policy committee at its meeting Monday. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. in the board room at 412 Pearl St. in Tarboro.

“Edgecombe County Public Schools: focused, connected, ready” is the school district’s new vision statement. The board’s new mission statement is that the Edgecombe County Public Schools community “will collaborate to graduate all students ready to achieve success in a rapidly changing world.”

The board at Monday’s meeting will vote on the approval of the school district’s 2012-2013 strategic plan, which focuses on improving student achievement. A primary district goal is to produce “globally competitive students.” One of the strategies to accomplish this goal is to increase proficiency in reading for all student subgroups by 10 percentage points and to reduce the achievement gap by five percentage points as measured by Reading 3D, end of grade tests and English II end of course test by the end of the 2012-2013 school year.

Implementing 21st Century systems in the schools, using leadership to guide innovation and educating students in an environment that keeps them healthy and promotes responsibility are among the other goals in the strategic plan.

Other items up for board approval at Monday’s meeting are the purchase of SuccessMaker Software, a remediation tool designed to help students performing below grade level; 2012-2013 budget amendments, a 2012-2013 abstinence grant to hire a school social worker for W.A. Pattillo Elementary School, and a contract between the board and School Improvement Network, LLC for the use of a web-based, three year teacher effectiveness system called PD 360 Professional On-Demand.

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