VISION AND GOALS

By Maximino S. "Max" Duran

MY VISION AND GOALS FOR IMPROVING OUR DISTRICT

• Restore public confidence.
• Focus on the accreditation of every district school.
• Improve our education by forming a united, dedicated and collaborative school leadership that is focused on elevating academic excellence.
• Restore discipline as a necessary precondition to creating a safe learning environment.
• Insure that teachers are teaching in their credentialed core subjects and are willing to use varied teaching strategies to accommodate all learning styles.
• Minimize the practice of hiring teachers with emergency credentials. Assist them to become fully credentialed by fostering programs of continued education and restore mentor programs.
• Restore a culture that supports positive character traits such as respect, responsibility, trustworthiness, caring, good citizenship, fairness and compile programs that prevent bullying.
• Reduce overcrowding at our campuses.
• Engage our students in a challenging educational environment.
• Work diligently toward securing approval by the State Allocation Board of our Hardship Application to construct a portion of our new high school.
• Work with other elected officials to explore options at re-opening the Gym.
• Foster an atmosphere of learning, not only for the brightest of our students but create programs to assist those at-risk or having learning difficulties.
• Improve our employee's moral.
• Open dialogs between parents, staff and the Board to exchange ideas on educating our students.
• Expand our Deferred Maintenance Program to correct hazards and unsafe conditions that exist at our campuses.
• Increase Developer Fees to the MAXIMUM level possible.
• STOP DEFICIT SPENDING and live within our budget.
• Finally, we must restore Class Size Reduction with full funding to our classrooms.