Our Vision
The vision of the DeKalb County School District is to inspire our community of learners to achieve educational excellence. Our mission is to ensure student success, leading to higher education, work, and life-long learning. We are making this vision and mission a reality – every day, in every classroom throughout the District.
Through community forums, focus groups, listening sessions, and more, we have engaged our stakeholders, refined our objectives, honed our procedures, and formulated a robust, highly-structured yet agile and adaptive strategic plan. We are pleased with the progress we have made thus far, and excited about the future – of our District, our community, and, most importantly, the 100,000+ students who daily bring to us their limitless potential.
The District has created performance measures, targets, and initiatives to ensure success in each goal area. A monitoring and data collection process has been developed, and rigorous progress check procedures have been implemented. At the local level, on-going training sessions are offered to all principals in order to support the work of aligning, refining, monitoring, and evaluating the continuous improvement efforts of each individual school.
As a community of learners, we are committed to excellence in everything we do – within the classroom and throughout the District. This continuous improvement process permeates each aspect of our Strategic Plan, and we are honored to partner with you to make it a reality for all.
2019 – 2024 Strategic Plan
2014 – 2019 Strategic Plan
High-Level Timeline
TASKS |
COMPLETION DATE |
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FY19 Comprhensive Review | September 5, 2019 |
FY19 4th Quarter Monitoring Cycle | August 22, 2019 |
Board of Education approves the 2019-2014 Strategic Plan | July 8, 2019 |
Strategic Plan Summer Work Sessions with all Divisions | June 6 & 11, 2019 |
Strategic Plan Work Session with all Principals | June 4, 2019 |
FY19 3rd Quarter Monitoring Cycle | May 2, 2019 |
FY19 2nd Quarter Monitoring Cycle & Mid-Year Review (cross-divisional) | January 24, 2019 |
FY19 1st Quarter Monitoring Cycle | November 2, 2018 |
2019-2024 Strategic Plan Community Engagement Sessions | October 9, 15, 16, 22, 25, 29, & 30, 2018 |
Board of Education FY18 Comprehensive Review | October 8, 2018 |
FY18 Comprehensive Review (cross divisional) | September 6, 2018 |
FY18 4th Quarter Division Sessions | August 23, 2018 |
FY18 3rd Quarter Division Sessions | May 3, 2018 |
FY18 2nd Quarter Monitoring Cycle & Mid-Year Review (cross-divisional) | February 22, 2018 |
Continuous Improvement Planning System Monitoring Cycle 2 (all schools) | February 1, 7, 20, 22, & March 8, 2018 |
Board of Education FY17 Comprehensive Review | November 6, 2017 |
FY18 1st Quarter Division Sessions | October 12, 2017 |
FY17 Comprehensive Review (cross divisional) | September 7, 2017 |
FY17 4th Quarter Division Sessions | August 24, 2017 |
FY17 4th Quarter Monitoring Cycle | June 30, 2017 |
FY17 3rd Quarter Division Sessions | April 13, 2017 |
FY17 3rd Quarter Monitoring Cycle | March 31, 2017 |
Strategic Plan Parent/Community Focus Group Session | February 23, 2017 |
2nd Quarter Monitoring Cycle & FY17 Mid-Year Review (cross-divisional) | January 20, 2017 |
Continuous Improvement Planning System Monitoring Cycle 1 (all schools) | October 24, 25, November 1 or 4, 2016 |
1st Quarter Division Sessions | October 6, 2016 |
Board of Education FY16 Comprehensive Review | October 3, 2016 |
1st Quarter Monitoring Cycle | September 30, 2016 |
FY16 Comprehensive Review (cross-divisional) | August 31, 2016 |
4th Quarter Division Sessions | August 4, 2016 |
4th Quarter Monitoring Cycle | June 30, 2016 |
Continuous Improvement Planning System training sessions (all schools) | June 9, 13, 16, 20, 22, or 23 |
3rd Quarter Division Sessions | April 14, 2016 |
3rd Quarter Monitoring Cycle | March 31, 2016 |
Board of Education FY16 Mid-Year Review | December 7, 2015 |
2nd Quarter Monitoring Cycle & FY16 Mid-Year Review(cross-divisional) | November 18, 2015 |
1st Quarter Division Sessions | October 6, 2015 |
Board of Education Presentation & Progress Report | October 5, 2015 |
1st Quarterly Monitoring Cycle | September 30, 2015 |
FY15 Comprehensive Review (cross-divisional) | August & September 2015 |
Training and support sessions for all principals | July 2015 |
End-of-the-year monitoring | June 30, 2015 |
Regional superintendents trained on protocols, processes, and tools for monitoring school plans | June 2015 |
Quarterly monitoring completed | March 31, 2015 |
Monitoring and accountability system developed and implemented | January 2015 |
Performance measures and targets presented to the Board | December 2014 |
Sign-off completion of strategic plan | On/before June 30, 2014 |
Complete phase 2 milestone | On/before June 30, 2014 |
Begin phase 2 of the strategic planning process | January 6, 2014 |
Board of Education approves the vision, mission, motto, beliefs, goal areas, and performance objectives | December 2, 2013 |
Complete phase 1 milestone | November 29, 2013 |
Begin phase 1 of the strategic planning process | September 1, 2013 |
Select the entire strategic planning committee | August 19-30, 2013 |
Preplanning meetings with vendor | August 19-30, 2013 |
Finalize an engagement letter with vendor | August 6-16, 2013 |
Obtain board approval for RFP selected vendor | August 5, 2013 |
Key Documents
Resources
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Associate Superintendent
Office of Accountability
678-676-0300
Dr. Linda Frazer
Director, Strategic Planning
Office of Accountability
678-676-2834
Mrs. Gerri Minor
Administrative Assistant
Strategic Planning
Office of Accountability
678-676-0550