Projects:

• Formalize process to ensure all students have an Individual Career Academic Plan (ICAP)
• Establish internships and job shadowing opportunities
• Increase advanced coursework participation

Key Performance Indicators:

• Increase 4-year Graduation Rate to 90% district-wide
• Increase number of students meeting Evidence-based Reading/Writing and Math on external assessment benchmarks.
• Increase rates for student matriculation directly into higher education to 70% from 63% in ‘19
• 100% of students will annually participate in the ICAP process.
• Establish 5 partnerships for internship/job shadowing opportunities
• Increase to 30% of HS students enrolled in AP courses from 25% in ‘21.
• Increase to 68% of enrolled students scoring 3+ on AP exam from 65.6% in ’21.
• Increase % of underrepresented and under-resourced groups enrolled in AP courses to reflect their associated percentage of total student population

Project:

• Provide professional development on customer service to all certified and support staff
• Define then educate staff and community on culture of service to foster buy in
• Enhance the customer experience by further developing an inviting learning environment
• Recognize and celebrate outstanding customer services success stories
• Refine and simplify the student enrollment process

Key Performance Indicators:

• 80% of employees believe customer service training will help them be more successful in their job.
• 85% of parent feedback reinforces a positive customer service experience

Projects:

• Celebrate the NPS story
• Create communication standards for district
• Evaluate, improve and provide support for the mass notification system
• Adapt techniques and utilize best practices to maximize communications success.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Increase frequency and engagement of stories on district platforms.
• Create and implement social media and communications guidelines for site level
• Train and support principal use of Blackboard 
mass notification tool, including increased use 
of Spanish communications.
  
  

Projects

• Promote and train on use of Crime Stoppers app
• Provide active aggressor training
• Continue implementation of safety and security investments, including access controls and storm shelters, through bond completion
• Implement behavior threat assessment training
• Continue COVID-19 mitigation
• Develop and implement SRO performance survey

Key Performance Indicators:

• The degree to which parents and staff feel NPS environments are safe, secure and positive will average 4.0. or higher in district surveys

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Projects:

• Curriculum standards alignment.
• Personalized learning
• Student and family opportunities beyond the traditional school day/calendar.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Increase percentage of elementary students showing typical and aggressive growth in reading and math.
• 100% of teachers will know and have an understanding of the Oklahoma Academic Standards
• Increase the number of programs and opportunities for additional remediation and enrichment available
for students at all levels

 Projects

• Partner with and support the NPS Foundation
• Increase outreach to the area business community
• Conduct an internal needs assessment to develop strategic community partnership priorities
• Develop and enhance partnership programs that focus on student achievement
• Develop and implement community education programs


Key Performance Indicators

• Share and crosspost foundation stories on district platforms
  
• Highlight teacher grant success stories on NPS platforms
  
• Add at least one new community business partner
• Assist in creation of new fundraising position
• Establish new partnerships for internship/job shadowing opportunities
• Establish new community education programs

Projects:

• Recruit and retain a diverse and culturally competent workforce
• Foster an environment of cultural awareness and belonging with staff and students
• Create a diversity, equity, and inclusion framework to ensure a welcoming, inclusive, and equitable school community.
• Review, develop and deploy policy, practices, and programs that support students and staff from all backgrounds.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Track who is applying for our jobs vs who is getting hired 
• Track number of recruitment events attended and the diversity of those colleges/universities
• Track the retention rate of employees
• Climate survey data ranked at 4 or higher
• Collect and monitor focus group and diversity council qualitative input

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Projects

• Maintain a balanced budget.
• Create new vehicles to develop new revenue opportunities
• Utilize a process for ongoing assessment of expenditures for cost savings
• Educate Community and Administrators on School Finance information

Key performance indicators:

• Achieve a 9% ending fund balance.
• Community passes school bond elections with 80% or better support.
• Grow student enrollment 2% each year 
from Oct. 1 previous year.
• Increase non-ad valorem local revenue by 5% each year.
• Annual revenue budget exceeds expense budget by minimum 1%.
• Non salaried, discretionary expenditures increase at 10% or less annually.
• Increase number of Community Members and Administrators informed about school finance  by 10% each year.
• Participants evaluate the program through a feedback survey and rate the program a 4 out of 5.  

Projects

• Aggressively Recruit & Retain Employees to NPS
• Create a Tiered-System of Career Development
• Develop and Strengthen Employee Information and Feedback Mechanisms
• Increase Feelings of Health and Wellness/Workplace Satisfaction
• New teacher support

Key Performance Indicators:

• Number of Recruitment Events Attended and Prospective Candidates Contacted
• We will retain 80% of our certified teachers annually.
• 90% retention rate of 1st and 2nd year teachers.
• Employees will have the opportunity to provide formal feedback at least once per quarter with at least a 75% return rate.
• Survey data regarding employee feelings of health and wellness and workplace satisfaction will be ranked at 4-or-higher.