Executive Summary
Splendora Independent School District is located in a very small community 40
miles north of Houston, Texas. The district is comprised of one high school, one junior
high school and three elementary
...
Executive Summary
Splendora Independent School District is located in a very small community 40
miles north of Houston, Texas. The district is comprised of one high school, one junior
high school and three elementary schools. With a current overall student population of
more than 4,100 students, the district is poised to grow within the next five years.
Splendora’s mission of “Cultivating Exceptional People” begins with great
leadership from the superintendent and the school board. They believe that reaching
the mission begins with a strong vision statement. They focus on doing things “right” as
indicated in their vision, listed below:
Right People
Right Things
Right Way
Right Resources
Right Relationships (About Us/Homepage. n.d.)
The district has a strategic plan in place to become a district of innovation. This
plan will all “Splendora ISD will be able to implement the Board’s vision of developing
and providing an educational setting where every student is empowered to be selfmotivated, confident, adaptable in learning, critical-thinking, and a productive citizen.”
(District of Innovation/Overview. n.d.)
The plan includes district-level decision making, teacher certifications, flexible
appraisal/evaluation procedures, flexible school calendar, and flexible minimum
attendance criteria.
The execution of this plan includes creating internal committees comprised of
parents, community members, administrators, and teachers. Each committee will
research and analyze data, disseminate and compare the data and decide if change is
relevant. Once the decisions are reached the committee will either create a plan of
action or reject the proposed plan.
Financial implications in a school setting are vastly different than the corporate
arena. Schools receive state funds based on attendance. For the sake of this
assignment, we will focus only on the financial implications of school attendance.
According to Missing School Matters.org (n.d.), student attendance equals
approximately $38 per child which calculates to approximately $20,000 per week for
high schools in the state. Attendance is part of this strategic plan and help ensure that
attendance is at the forefront of our minds as we plan for the coming years.
While this strategic plan is focused on several issues, the overarching goal is to
become the best district possible and provide our students the opportunity to become
the best citizens they can be through real-life relevant instruction that is both innovative
and flexible.
Vision, Mission and Value Statement
The most important goal of superintendent, Dr. Jeff Burke, is to “cultivate
exceptional people” and impart on them the ability to build relationships with
administrators, students, parents, and community. His belief is that he can achieve this
goal by hiring the right people who will do the right things in the right way using the right
resources and with that, they will build the right relationships. Building relationship is
one of the most important things throughout Splendora ISD. (About Us/Homepage,
n.d.)
In addition to the mission and vision, Splendor has a set of core principles that
drive their goal to becoming a district of innovation. These core principles are the
expectation from the highest level of superintendent, to the lowest level of janitorial staff.
No matter what your title is within the district, you have the ability to drive change. The
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