The Process

We live in an ever-changing world that is full of possibilities.

It requires higher-level thinking, creativity, content mastery and innovation. In Rockwood, it's our privilege, challenge and responsibility to ensure all students graduate ready to thrive in this world.

How Will Rockwood Plan for The Future?

This year, we are beginning an important journey. Over the next few months, we are launching a new five-year strategic plan to set the future direction of our schools. The Way Forward represents our commitment to every child, every family and every employee of the Rockwood School District.

As we make our way, we will ask questions, listen, evaluate and take an even closer look at what we can do better. We will create a visionary roadmap that will include the aspirations, goals and priorities shared by our community.

How Long Will This Work on A Strategic Plan Take?

The Way Forward will take us well into the next five years. While this is a long-term process, we are well aware that we don't have all the answers today for how to design every solution we will need over the next few years.

Our Strategic direction will not change over time, but the tactics may change as we learn, monitor and grow. Innovations will emerge from schools over time in response to their own unique improvement needs.

We will use the power of design-thinking to inform our steps. Design-Thinking is a mindset and approach to learning, collaboration, and problem solving. In practice, the design process is a structured framework for identifying challenges, gathering information, generating potential solutions, refining ideas, and testing solutions.

Roadmap

How will we measure success?

We will evaluate our already successful school district to see how we can continually improve. This will extend beyond the measures of state testing to look at how our students are learning and growing—academically, physically, socially and emotionally. We will incorporate real-time formative, as well as long-term summative measures to define progress as we achieve our goals.

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