District Direction
Mission
The Coxsackie-Athens community works collaboratively to create personalized learning opportunities. We develop self-directed college and career ready students who are prepared to succeed in our global society.
VISION
Coxsackie-Athens inspires learners to achieve extraordinary success.
Anchor Strategies
How we will work, make decisions, and allocate resources in order for all of us to achieve extraordinary success. Our five ANCHOR STRATEGIES guide our daily work.
2030 DESTINATION POSSIBILITIES
In the spring of 2019 a team of school community members looked into the future and created four possibilities for C-A Schools to reach by the end of the new decade. These possibilities have become our destination as we navigate the 2020's.
1. By 2030 C-A Schools will have transitioned to become a community school serving our whole community as a valued partner in the education, wellness and success of all learners from birth to adulthood.
2. By 2030, C-A schools will be a place where space and time are flexible as students will be using a variety of technological tools in creating self-directed learning pathways to demonstrate life, career and college ready competencies.
3. By 2030, all students will be developing a partnership with an international or domestic organization that results in a student designing and proposing a solution to a real world problem their organizational partner has.
4. By 2030 C-A students will be exemplary communicators, collaborators, critical and creative thinkers as well as have the attributes to self direct their learning in any setting.
Board of Education GOALS
2023-2024
In order to sustain a healthy, non-discriminatory environment in which students can learn and employees can work productively the district has established the following goals:
Continue to educate our students and staff on the impact of bullying (including cyberbullying), harassment (sexual or otherwise), and hazing. We will decrease the number of discipline referrals directly related to bullying, harassment and hazing.
Continue to expand ways our school serves our whole community as a valued partner in the education, wellness and success of all learners from birth to adulthood.
Expand opportunities by examining our use of time and space for students to be exemplary communicators, collaborators, critical and creative thinkers as well as have the attributes to self-direct their learning in any setting in order to be life, career and college ready.
Increase the number of times a student is designing and proposing a solution to a real world problem that is relevant to their lives and futures.
Continue to clarify, build and refine our approach to teaching math and literacy(inclusive of phonological awareness, decoding, sight word recognition and vocabulary).
Building Level & District Wide Performance Targets Aligned to Goals (E-M-H-D)
Board of Education Priorities: 2021-2023
The Board of Education identified the following three areas to focus additional attention to :
Increase opportunities for students to develop positive decision making habits.
Expand the quality and quantity of community and staff connections.
Ensure students graduate with the life skills necessary to achieve extraordinary success.
Coxsackie-Athens Schools
2025 Performance Goals
Set August 2022
In order for all students to graduate Ready, our performance goals for 2025 are:
Wellness:
Support of student and staff wellness will be indicated by 100% of students and employees being able to
identify one ally and improved results on climate surveys each year.
Reading:
73% of students PK-8 will be reading at or above grade level by 2025. This will be a 19% improvement from 2022.
Math:
73% of students PK-8 will demonstrate grade level proficiency in math by 2025. This will be a 17% improvement from 2022.
Research Based Projects:
100% of students will be creating at least three research-based products every year by 2025.
Life Readiness:
100% of students will demonstrate competence in a majority of the Life Ready Skills and Financial Literacy Indicators appropriate for their school level by 2025.
Coxsackie-Athens Schools
2022 Performance Goals
Set August 2019
In order for 95% of our students to graduate, our goals are:
1. Writing/Research: (BOE priority #3)
100% of students K-12 will produce a research-based writing product every year. Improving 28% from 2019.
2. Reading: (BOE priority #3)
80% of students K-8 will be reading at or above grade level. Improving 6% from 2019
3. Math: (BOE priority #3)
76% of students K-8 will demonstrate grade level proficiency in math. Improving 10% from 2019.
4. Social Emotional Learning: (BOE priority #1)
100% of students will engage in SEL training every year that will result in a 10% decrease in discipline referrals each year and improved results on the school culture assessment tool.
5. Life Ready: (BOE priority #1 & #3)
100% of students will demonstrate competence in a majority of the Life Ready Skills indicators appropriate for their school level.
Coxsackie-Athens Central
2019 Performance Goals
Set 6/2016
BY 2019:
93% of students will be completing high school.*
100% of students will be engaging in community service annually.
88% of students in grades K-8 will be reading at or above grade level.*
90% of Students will be meeting or exceeding grade level/building standards for thinking and learning for understanding and producing quality work.
Thinking and Learning for Understanding
Knows how and where to access, interpret and apply information.
Able to direct own learning.
Competence in evaluating & selecting technology to meet needs and apply to tasks.
Quality Producer
Has strong work ethic.
Ability to assess own work and make improvements.
Ability to set high goals/standards and meet them.
* Though our current goals are not 100% we are and will be constantly striving to have ALL of our students reading at grade level and graduating.
2018-19
Priorities
The Board of Education identified the following four areas to focus additional attention to during the 2018-19 school year.
Increase opportunities for students to develop positive decision making habits.
Expand the quality and quantity of community connections.
Ensure students graduate with the life skills necessary to achieve extraordinary success.
Below is a graphic that shows our core values: empathy, gratitude and taking action surrounding our BOE goals. The next layer in represents our mission of developing self-directed learners. The five areas of the pentagon represent our anchor strategies for engaging, enabling and empowering our students and staff in order to inspire them to achieve extraordinary success.
District Alignment
Each layer builds coherence(working in the same direction), around our vision of inspiring all learners from the district level to classroom level.
Core Values
Empathy:
We understand each child has a story and by getting to know each of our students our EMPATHY for their challenges and successes guides our support for them. We also have empathy for our colleagues, not only when they are facing challenges but also when they are out in front leading us.
Gratitude:
We have GRATITUDE in knowing we have an enormous responsibility each day to help kids be successful and there is no better satisfaction than working in a school where kids come first.
Take Positive Action:
We know that in order for us and our students to continually improve we must have hope and TAKE POSITIVE ACTION for ourselves and every kid, every day.
Board Goals:
Our Board of Education has established goals that align with its core responsibilities of monitoring and communicating student academic progress and providing the resources necessary for student success after receiving community input.
2016 Board of Education Goals & Commitments
1. The BOE monitors the progress towards achieving the district's three-year goals and buildings’ annual targets indicated by quarterly public discussion of the data provided by district staff.
2. The BOE develops a budget that optimizes resources to support the mission, vision and goals of the district and will promote that budget to the broader community to assure passage.
3. The BOE engages collaboratively and respectfully with our families and all partners indicated by the sustained family involvement and community support of district goals and budgets
4. The BOE promotes effective governance by educating prospective members and committing to ongoing capacity building for each member.
5. The BOE fosters respect and pride by promoting expanded opportunities to formally and informally recognize members of the school community.
2016 Goals
Graduation Rate
–90% of students will graduate.
Mastery & Passing
–The number of students reaching mastery and passing will increase by 15% in all classes and on all district-wide and state assessments.
Participation
–100% of students will positively participate and serve the community.
Post Graduation Placement
–100% of students will have a guaranteed placement.
Interconnected World
–The district will expand the experiences students have to our interconnected world through inquiry and languages.
Mission:
Our mission's cornerstone is to develop self-directed learners. Below is a graphic showing the attributes associated with being self-directed.
Anchor Strategies:
The five anchor strategies of "The Pentagon" is how we will succeed. All our work, decisions and resource allocation directly supports these five principles. Below is a short description of each strategy.
Vision:
We believe in order to inspire we must engage, enable and empower both students and teachers. In regards to students there are nine questions we can ask to monitor our lessons ability to engage, enable and empower.
Engage
Does the instruction allow students to focus on the assignment or activity with less distraction?
Does the instruction motivate students to start the learning process?
Does the instruction cause a shift in the behavior of the students, where they move from passive to active social learners?
Enable
Does the instruction aid students in developing a more sophisticated understanding of the content?
Does the instruction create scaffolds to make it easier to understand concepts or ideas?
Does the instruction create paths for students to demonstrate their understanding of the learning goals in a way that they could not do with traditional tools?
Empower
Does the instruction create opportunities for students to learn outside of their typical school day?
Does the instruction create a bridge between school learning and everyday life experiences?
Does the instruction allow students to build skills, that they can use in their everyday lives?