Background

In 2017 the Seaside School District initiated a strategic planning effort which resulted in the adoption of a five year Strategic Vision Plan. Superintendent Sheila Roley Ed.D, convened a team of teachers, instructional assistants, community members, School Board members, administrators, secretaries, custodians, and an outside consultant. The team drafted the core values, mission, vision and two strategic goals for the district. Team members analyzed graduation, attendance, behavior and academic data disaggregated by focus groups. They also held ten community listening sessions. The Strategic Vision Plan was adopted by the Seaside School Board on December 13, 2018.

The first goal was, “By June of 2024, all students will be on track to graduate and be prepared with a plan beyond high school”.  Performance indicators toward this goal included 100% of all freshmen would be on track to graduate, (earning 6.5 credits,) and all students would meet literacy and math targets on Star assessments by 3rd, 6th and 9th grade.

The second goal was, “By June 2024, all students will develop the social and emotional skills to be positive community members”.  Performance indicators for this goal included 100% of students would meet positive behavior targets as measured by major and minor referrals and that all students would attend 95% of school days.

A worldwide pandemic caused Seaside Schools to move instruction online in the spring of 2019. Students returned to campus half time in 2020. In 2021 all students were back on campus. Our students effectively lost 18 months of full time schooling. This had a tremendous impact on student growth, so performance indicators were revised in 2019 but the goals remained the same: all students would be on track to graduate with a plan for after high school by 2024 and all students would have the social emotional skills to be positive community members by 2025.

In 2022, the Oregon Department of Education launched “Integrated Guidance” to braid funding from five grants: High School Success, Student Investment Account, Career and Technical Education, and Early Indicator Intervention System, with Early Literacy Success added in 2023. The Integrated Guidance application process required a needs assessment, data analysis, student, staff and community feedback, and the setting of Longitudinal Performance Growth Targets. These are the same components that were used to write the Strategic Vision Plan in 2017. This updated Strategic Plan is the result of combining the original plan with the Integrated Guidance Plan.