Provide an opportunity for each child to be challenged and grow to reach their full potential. Ensure that a student’s economic background or ethnicity does not dictate their success.
Provide guidance and communication
Improve communication of our academic and professional development opportunities through traditional, digital, and social media.
Prepare students for college and LIFE
Increase the funding of our CTE (Career & Technical Education) Programs, where students can learn valuable vocational skills such as cybersecurity, personal finance,
Enable innovation
Enable teachers to innovate and lead content and environment creation to provide students with compelling learning experiences that prepare them for life.
Enhance learning
Leverage opportunity of both in brick-and-mortar classroom and distance learning to create a student learning experience based on integrating disciplines through projects and connecting to experts and the world outside of the classroom.
Connect to community
Work with local businesses and experts to provide student access to real-life projects and skills
Safety and Security
Secure School campuses
Work with teachers, counselors, administrators, students, and parent committees to develop and implement comprehensive protocols and procedures to secure our campuses both from physical and biological concerns.
Increase the number of mental health specialists
Increase funding for mental health specialists and counselors so that students have the appropriate access to whatever help they need.
Participate in School Safety Pilot Programs
Explore opportunities to innovate school safety solutions
Fund College and Career Advising
Provide students with the appropriate college and career advising and personal counseling they need
Fund Conflict Prevention
Support teachers to add to their skill set awareness and strategies for managing behaviors for effective classroom management
Provide Cultural sensitivity and School Emergency Training
Continue to support cultural sensitivity and education programs so that our schools and classrooms are inclusive and sensitive to the different backgrounds of every student.
Space to Learn
Shrink classroom sizes
Find solutions to decrease student-to-teacher rations in our classroom, in both physical and distance learning models.
Repair and improve existing infrastructure
Update and repair our internet infrastructure, including bandwidth, and new servers, updating our websites to be more accessible and easier to navigate.
Improve relationship and collaboration with City
Work very closely with city planners to ensure the city and school planning are in line with what we can successfully support in our school, and so the board can determine how best to use our resources.
Salaries and Budget
Limit budget impact
Make thoughtful and aware decisions given the current budget crisis, while maintaining a commitment to teachers and students to provide them resources enabling them to reach their best potentials.
Recruit and Retain the Best Teachers
Offer competitive salary packages to that San Marcos Unified School District can recruit and retain the best educators
Intelligent per-student spending
Spend enough on per-student to ensure all students receive the best education possible.
