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Goal Area 3: High Quality Workforce Goal Area 4: Organizational and Operational Effectiveness

Performance Objective 1: Ensure and sustain processes for effective and efficient operations across all departments.
Performance Objective 1: Retain highly effective people in all positions.

Initiative 1: Develop, support, and retain teachers. Initiative 3: Develop, support, and retain classified staff. Initiative 1: Implement Human Resources and Finance platform. Initiative 2: Create and Implement Departmental Review Processes.

Action Steps Action Steps Action Steps
• Gather teacher perception data. • Gather classified staff perception data. Action Steps
• Enhance new teacher orientation to meet the needs of the new • Identify professional development needs for classified staff. • Form committees with directors and principals to support • Identify departmental roles and responsibilities.
teachers, including nontraditional. • Create professional development for classified staff, including on the implementation. • Create departmental standard operating procedures.
• Implement support for teachers in areas of critical need. professional learning days (i.e., focus on the “Grow our Own” initiative). • Conduct training on the platform. • Use standard operating procedures to conduct annual departmental reviews.
• Schedule quarterly roll out of various functions of the platform.
Initiative 2: Develop, support, and retain leaders.
Action Steps Performance Measures
• Gather leader perception data.
• Align professional learning opportunities to district and state • Increase the percentage of work orders completed within five days. • Survey to guide the following year’s professional learning plans.
priorities and initiatives. • Identify staff professional learning needs using the Spring Needs Assessment.
• Provide support to LEA administrators.
Performance Measures
• Increase the teacher retention rate as reported by the Georgia Insights • Increase percentage of highly qualified teachers based on GA Performance
Educator Pipeline. Criteria (CPI) by increasing the number of teachers entering MAT and GaTAPP. Performance Objective 2: Ensure and sustain effective and efficient financial practices and fiscal responsibility.
• Increase the teacher retention rate with the use of updated exit surveys. • Decrease teacher attrition rate of resignations - Georgia Insights
Educator Pipeline.
Initiative 1: Implement best practices for maintaining the budget process. Initiative 2: Meet Generally Accepted Governmental Accounting Standards.
Action Steps Action Steps
• Enhance training for staff for financial accountability. • Continue with preparation of annual system audit.
Performance Objective 2: Evaluate staff and provide relevant professional learning. • Develop and maintain system budgets. • Adhere to guidelines for Federal Audits.
• Seek input from stakeholders on the annual budget.
• Continue with School Activity Audits.
Initiative 1: Strengthen staff observational practices. Initiative 2: Strengthen professional development communities.
Action Steps Action Steps Performance Measures
• Implement the Learning Focused Schools model. • Conduct professional learning needs survey.
• Investigate and implement a district-wide observational timeline. • Review Superintendent Teacher Advisory Council feedback. • Maintain 100% of annual district financial audits with no findings. • Increase the amount of staff participation in financial training as reported
• Share school-level professional development plans/calendar for current • Maintain 100% of annual school activity audits with no findings. by agendas and sign in sheets.
fiscal year with target audiences.

Performance Measures
• Increase the average percent of parents who participate in • Increase the percentage of parents who report on the Parent Needs Performance Objective 3: Ensure and maintain safe facilities and healthy environments.
parent teacher conferences each school year. Survey that family nights are effective for encouraging family involvement.

Initiative 1: Review and maintain safety plans. Initiative 2: Review and maintain facility plans.
Performance Objective 3: Recruit and hire high quality people in all positions. Action Steps Action Steps
• Create uniform safety plans for all LEA locations. • Conduct Facility Needs Assessments across the district.
Initiative 1: Strengthen innovative approaches to staffing. Initiative 2: Strengthen minority recruitment. • Enhance communication plan through training of staff. • Develop and maintain Five-Year Facility Plans.
Action Steps Action Steps • Conduct annual safety training with staff.
• Assess areas of need. • Recruit bilingual staff through advertisement and job fairs.
• Advertise positions on Teach Georgia/ system website. • Recruit staff to support student populations. Performance Measures
• Conduct recruitment fairs for nontraditional teachers
(GaTAPP and MAT Representatives). • Decrease the percentage of annual bus inspection findings by 25% • Increase the percentage of “always.often” responses on the grades 3-5
• Strengthen the para-to-teacher program partnership with from one fiscal year to the following when applicable. Georgia Health Survey on questions related to safe and healthy.
South Georgia State College. • Decrease the amount of annual food inspection findings.
• Incorporate retirees to fill needs.
• Promote the Career Fair for various positions across the district.
Performance Measures
• Strengthen recruitment efforts with data from Staff Needs Assessment Survey. • Strengthen recruitment efforts with YOSS new hire data.

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