Strategic Plan 2021-2025
Empathy
Our students will compassionately consider the lives of others. They will acknowledge others' feelings, emotions, and experiences as valuable. As a result, all individuals will be able to understand, relate, and/or be moved to action by experiences and perspectives outside their own.

Develop Shared Understanding
Define, teach, and adopt common language and vocabulary surrounding empathy.

Model Empathetic Behaviors
Provide ongoing training to all staff on modeling empathy in the classroom.

Develop and Strengthen Active Listening Skills
Develop students' ability to observe, remember, and respond in ways that improve mutual understanding and trust.

Provide Uniform Opportunities for Growth
Embed social-emotional learning and anti-bullying into K-12 instruction.

Offer Community Service Courses
To instill a sense of servanthood, partner with nonprofits and/ or small businesses that serve others.

Adaptability
Our students will own and apply life skills to pursue their dreams in an ever- changing world. Students will know how to overcome challenges, problem-solve, and embrace adversity. Our schools, teachers, and culture will value productive struggle, perseverance, and flexibility.

Develop a Life Skills Curriculum and Instructional Delivery
Clearly define, articulate, and teach adaptable life and workforce skills.

Incorporate Different Types of Feedback
Analyze current grading practices and identify ways to use different types of feedback (with or without grades) to discern students' levels of understanding and comprehension and to foster a growth mindset.

Encourage Student-Led Learning
Create classroom environments where students identify and determine the "problems" they are inspired to solve and the "processes" they use to reach a solution.

Shift Culture & Climate
Foster a growth mindset where students, staff, parents, and the larger school community embrace learning through productive struggle and perseverance.

Inclusivity
Our students will thrive academically and socially in a sustainable culture of belonging and empowerment. Members of Warsaw Community Schools will recognize and honor each other as we celebrate our unique, diverse experiences.

Hire & Train Equitably
Ensure that our hiring and training practices acknowledge and represent a variety of cultures, ethnicities and perspectives.

Recognize and Appreciate Diverse Cultures and Traditions
Offer opportunities to help staff understand diverse cultures and traditions in order to increase belonging and acceptance.

Build & Strengthen Relationships
Extend invitations, establish trust, and warmly welcome new faces into the school community.

Leverage Virtual Mentorship
involve racially diverse community members in a variety of in-person and/or online opportunities for mentorship, connecting them with students who need positive role models that they can relate to.

Navigate Crucial Conversations
Empower students to be active participants in enriching the lives of others.

Encourage Dialogue & Storytelling
create spaces for students and the school community to celebrate what makes them unique.

Ensure that Students Have Access to Multiple Cultural Perspectives within the Curriculum
use inclusivity as a lens to make curricular decisions and inform teaching practices.

Experience
Through experiences both inside and outside of the Warsaw community, our students will gain applied skills to confidently pursue goals and successfully advance in their focused pathway.

Connect Students with Professionals
Engage students and professionals in workplace-based discussions and demonstrations.

Create a Progression of Work-Based Learning
Provide sequential experiential learning opportunities that build and expand as a student progresses from Kindergarten through senior year in high school.

Create Transparency with Pathway Portfolios
Document each student's selected pathway in a portfolio, including relevant courses, work-based learning, co-curricular activities, and athletics.

Create Incentives for Students to Pursue Opportunities
Inspire students to pursue real-world experiences.

WARSAW COMMUNITY SCHOOLS

Our mission is to inspire and equip all students to continuously acquire and apply knowledge and skills while pursuing their dreams and enriching the lives of others.