GOALS Strategies   1 2 3 4 5 6 Total
Discipline, be as effective as possible within the limits of the law. 4 4         8
Alternative campus for discipline problems.   3   3     6
Involve parent and community in everything           4 4
Look for more resources to support school         4   4
School safety and discipline     4       4
Teachers to incorporate more writing across all areas of the curriculum.          4     4
Get students be more enthusiastic about our school (pride, school spirit, booster morale, etc…)           3 3
Promote UIL by providing “built-in” UIL time during school day     3       3
Improve and broaden, put more emphasis in career education. 3           3
Alternative campus for discipline problems.         3   3
Excellent job of meeting students where they are and moving them to the next level through use of prescriptive and diagnostic interventions.      2       2
Continue to improve technology infrastructure.         2   2
Build state of the art high school            2 2
Provide teachers with more planning time    2         2
District-wide School Spirit campaign 2           2
All campuses becoming more involved in UIL.         2     2
Provide Admin. Staff and teachers more opportunities for professional development           1 1
Continue to improve community/parent relations.       1     1
Implement more offerings in vocational, trade courses for those students who succeed with application skills.         1   1
Have a counselor who actually has time to work with and counsel kids, reduce paper work that is required now.   1         1
Developing a new way to reward students for good grades and attendance rather than exempting them from major exams.  Possibly exempting them a different day rather than major test days.     1       1
The district hires excellent teachers, staff, support staff and auxiliary staff.  Friendly, courteous, and helpful.             0
The district’s administrative staff is very professional.             0
The security of school and students is impeccable.   Community members have said that it is “great to check in at office and have visitor badges, etc..”             0
LCM does a lot of with “little money”.  Fiscally responsible and frugal.             0
Campuses have a feeling of “culture and community”.               0
Vertical team planning shows benefits.             0
Reading teachers are to commended.  TAKS scores reflect this.               0
Technology is awesome and faculty is held accountable.             0
Fine Arts program is outstanding.             0
Maintenance staff is helpful, busy, and hard-working.             0
Meeting the needs of individual students (special programs)             0
Fiscally responsible             0
Maintain a very high quality staff             0
Offer career awareness             0
Good College Prep (AP, GT, Co-enrollment programs)             0
Stay abreast of emerging expectations             0
Good community relations (Sherry Combs)             0
Good Leadership (from Board on down)             0
Provide many extracurricular activities for all students              0
Family-type support system             0
Have a clear understanding of our community expectations for quality             0
Provide safe schools.             0
Communicate well between parents and school.             0
We use our finances wisely, effective use of our resources             0
Strong academic programs.              0
Faculty and staff is very caring, concerned about kids.              0
Broad variety of extracurricular activities for students.             0
Always working toward improvement of all areas             0
Strong community/parent involvement in many areas.             0
Strong and positive leadership.              0
We have good teachers in the district that are very qualified.             0
Our curriculum is very good.  There is great horizontal and vertical alignment.  Very impressed with what students are learning at each level.             0
Impressed with how far we have come in the area of technology.               0
The district has very high level of commitment to training teachers about technology.  Staff members are very open minded to learning about technology.             0
District continually updates and maintains facilities.             0
High School provides a safe learning environment.             0
Involving the community.             0
Being prepared for new trends in education.             0
Good parent-faculty communication.             0
TAKS performance.             0
Strong faculty in general.             0
Good facilities in most places.             0
Superintendent is very accessible.             0
Good job of implementing district vision.             0
Superintendent does a good job of including all campuses/stakeholders.             0
Staff does well with meeting students’ personal needs.             0
Strong communication with parents concerning student problems             0
Parent support groups are strong (athletics, drill team)             0
Overall parent support.             0
Strong reputation among community.             0
Individual concern for scheduling at high school, middle schools.             0
Instruct students well             0
High level of student achievement as based on TAKS scores             0
Strong community involvement             0
Effective internal communication system               0
Strong participation of students in extra-curricular activities             0
Exceptional technology program             0
Improving learning climate             0
Staff involvement encouraged             0
Public relations/ media involvement             0
Special programs             0
Well trained staff open to change             0
Explore other academic opportunities / programs for kids around state             0
Better curriculum alignment (vertically)             0
Improve TAKS scores/student learning.             0
Hire technology teachers to teach the technology TEKS              0
Improve campus security              0
Improve student teacher ratio.             0
Look into the need for more facilities as we grow.             0
Improve transportation.             0
At High School more overall communication is needed between school and parents.             0
Honors programs needs to be revamped.  Teachers need to be qualified to teach each subject.             0
Scheduling needs to allow for students to take as many subjects as they choose. Class size limitations in honor courses.             0
Properly prepare students to take the PSAT test and the SAT test             0
More scholarships other than athletics and academics such as the Fine Arts             0
More readily available information on scholarships             0
More involved in UIL              0
Room for improvement with community outreach.             0
Implementation of parent training.             0
UIL academic performance. (classes?-secondary level)             0
Expansion of elective choices at middle school level.             0
Improve communication for at-risk students.             0
Technology problems.             0
Discipline problems throughout the district.             0
Expulsion as a punishment is a concern.             0
Campus safety is a conern.             0
Parent communication             0
Parent involvement             0
Improve behavior classrooms (ABU, DAEP)             0
UIL academics and athletics             0
Remediation, acceleration programs             0
Math, science, reading programs             0
Classroom management, de-escalation techniques             0
Gifted/talented programs             0
Better use of community/ volunteer resources at secondary levels.             0
Discipline—intervention at elementary level; motivation.             0
Allow time for collaborating; sharing information.             0
Better prepare for college-level math.             0
              0
What new ideas would              0
See one junior high.             0
Consider standardized dress.             0
Look into ROTC program             0
Elementary schools becoming involved in UIL events.               0
Making parents more aware of UIL events.             0
Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program (boot camp)             0
Parent liaison             0
Parenting classes             0
Safety presentation during open-house.             0
Safety hotline?  Does everyone know about it?             0
Uniforms (Use uniform as punishment for dress code problems)             0
Phones in classrooms             0
Retention-student apathy toward grades.  Summer school.             0
Criteria toward retention.             0
Moving credit recovery time to evening time.             0
Students have a aide class for helping tutor other students.             0
Investigate possibility of four-day school week             0
Childcare for staff members             0
School uniforms?? (lack of agreement here)             0
Increase vocational/ trade classes by collaborating with other districts and offering a skill center.             0
Implement student aide program at high school level to allow students to aide other teachers (elem./ jr. high/ high school) in researching, creating lessons, powerpoint, etc…  Classroom assistance.             0
Uniforms!  No flip flops.             0
Every student have a laptop.             0
In house daycare for teacher’s children  incorporated with vocational “school”.             0
Part-time teachers; job sharing.              0
Paid lunches for employees.             0
Increase vocational/ trade classes by collaborating with other districts and offering a skill center.             0
Implement student aide program at high school level to allow students to aide other teachers (elem./ jr. high/ high school) in researching, creating lessons, powerpoint, etc…  Classroom assistance.             0
Uniforms!  No flip flops.             0
Every student have a laptop.             0
In house daycare for teacher’s children  incorporated with vocational “school”.             0
Part-time teachers; job sharing.              0
Paid lunches for employees.             0