Tell SPPS what you think about Large Scale System Change

Guiding Principles (from SPPS documents)
SPPS is at a crossroads. Business as usual is not a sustainable option for achieving our mission: a premier education for all. To more effectively and efficiently deliver on the SPPS mission, large scale system changes will:

• Target services to areas that will make the most impact on student achievement

• Scale-up research-based, successful models

• Retain and/or expand high demand, successful programs

• Remove institutional barriers to student and staff success

• Align resources to district priorities

• Seek equitable distribution of programs and resources

• Provide sustainable solutions

• Build internal capacity

• Eliminate ineffective programs

• Meet local, state and federal accountability obligations

• Consider community and ancillary implications

• Include all schools, programs and systems regardless of funding source

As responsible stewards of the public trust we must also ensure that as we implement changes we are careful to not:

• Exacerbate the achievement gap

• Increase racial isolation

• Perpetuate long-term enrollment decline

• Violate legal, contractual or grant rules

• Disproportionately impact particular segments of the community

• Create piecemeal or compartmentalized solutions