Adopted: July 1993
Revised: December 2024
Download 601.2.3AR - Comprehensive Achievement and Civic Readiness
1. Purpose and Definition – In accordance with the requirements in Minnesota Statute 120B.11:
1.1 Minnesota schools are required to develop comprehensive goals and action plans to create “Comprehensive Achievement and Civic Readiness,” focused on the following:
1.1.1 Meeting school readiness goals;
1.1.2 Closing the academic achievement gap among all racial and ethnic groups of students and between students living in poverty and students not living in poverty;
1.1.3 All students attaining career and college readiness before graduating from high school, and
1.1.4 All students graduating from high school.
1.1.5 All students prepared to be lifelong learners
1.2 District 196 maintains a comprehensive website for reporting student achievement goals and results, in addition to explaining strategic work to improve curriculum, instruction and student achievement in District 196.
2. Content – In accordance with the requirements in Minnesota Statute 120B.11, subd. 2, District 196’s comprehensive, long-term strategic plan (roadmap) to support and improve teaching and learning aligned with creating comprehensive achievement and civic readiness includes the following:
2.1 Clearly defined district and school site goals and benchmarks for instruction and student achievement for all student subgroups identified in Minnesota Statutes 120B.35, subd. 3, paragraph (b) (2);
2.2 A process for assessing and evaluating each students’ progress toward meeting state and local academic standards, assess and identify students to participate in talent development opportunities to accelerate their instruction, adopt early-admission procedures consistent with Minnesota Statute 120B.15 and identifying the strengths and weaknesses of instruction in pursuit of student and school success and curriculum affecting students’ progress and growth toward career and college readiness and leading to comprehensive achievement and civic readiness;
2.3 A system to periodically review and evaluate the effectiveness of all instruction and curriculum, taking into account strategies and best practices, student outcomes, school principal evaluations under Minnesota Statutes 123B.147, subd. 3, students’ access to effective teachers who are members of populations underrepresented among the licensed teachers in the district or school and who reflect the diversity of enrolled students under Minnesota Statute 120B.35, Subd. 3 paragraph (b), clause (2), and teacher evaluations under section 122A.40, subdivision 8;
2.4 Strategies for improving instruction, curriculum and student achievement including the English and, where practicable, the native language development and academic achievement of English learners;
2.5 A process to examine the equitable distribution of teachers and strategies to ensure children in low-income families, children in families of People of Color, and children in American Indian families are not taught at higher rates than other children by inexperienced, ineffective or out-of-field teachers.
2.6 Education effectiveness practices that:
2.6.1 integrate high-quality instruction, curriculum, and technology that is rigorous, accurate, anti-racist and culturally sustaining; and
2.6.2 ensure learning and work environments validate, affirm, embrace, and integrate cultural and community strengths for all students, families, and employees; and
2.6.3 provide a collaborative professional culture that seeks to retain qualified, racially and ethnically diverse staff effective at working with diverse students while developing and supporting teacher quality, performance and effectiveness.
2.7 An annual budget for continuing to implement the district plan., and
2.8 An identified list of suggested and required materials, resources, sample curricula, and pedagogical skills for use in kindergarten through grade 12 that accurately reflect the diversity of the state of Minnesota.
3. Community involvement – The District 196 Curriculum, Instruction and Advisory Council is established to ensure active community participation in all phases of planning and improving the instruction and curriculum affecting state and district academic standards consistent with section 2 above and to make recommendations to the School Board consistent with the requirements of Minnesota Statute 120B.11, subd. 3.
4. Annual Review and Report – The School Board shall annually hold a public meeting to review the plan the content of which is defined in section 2 above and is available on the district website. The meeting shall include a review, and revision where appropriate, of student achievement goals, local assessment outcomes, plans, strategies, and practices for improving curriculum and instruction and cultural competency, and efforts to equitably distribute diverse, effective, experienced, and in-field teachers, and to review district success in realizing the previously adopted student achievement goals and related benchmarks and the improvement plans leading to comprehensive achievement and civic readiness. A report will be published on the district website and a summary report that will be submitted electronically to the commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Education.
5. Site Teams – Each school must establish a site team to develop and implement strategies and education effectiveness practices to improve instruction, curriculum, cultural competencies, including cultural awareness and cross-cultural communication, and student achievement at the school site.
6. Survey – The school district shall periodically survey affected constituencies, in their native languages where appropriate and practicable, about their connection to and level of satisfaction with school. The district shall include the results of this evaluation in the summary report required under section 4 above.
References: - Minnesota Statute 120B.11, School District Process for Reviewing Curriculum, Instruction, and Student Achievement Goals; Striving for Comprehensive Achievement and Civic Readiness
- MSBA/MASA Model Policy 601, School District Curriculum and Instruction Goals
- MSBA/MASA Model Policy 603, Curriculum Development