District Strategic Plan

By 2025, Findlay City Schools will rank in the top 3 of their 20 similar districts, as defined by the Ohio Department of Education.

Action Steps to Ensure We Meet This Objective:

1. Ohio Improvement Process
2. Evidence-Based Practices

Establish, expect, and uphold an environment of belonging for 100% of our students.

Action Steps to Ensure We Meet This Objective:

1. Analysis Survey: Secure a survey to analyze student and teacher sense of what belonging means.
2. Establish a Belonging Team: Establish a Diversity, Equity, and Belonging Team.
3. Investigate Involvement
4. Celebrate Diversity: Educate and celebrate the evolving diversity of our global community.
5. Professional Employee Development: Attend professional development for all Findlay City Schools employees to address the growing and changing social/emotional needs of our student population.
6. Improve Climate & Culture: Improve the climate and culture within work/school and community by:
7. Community Involvement: Create a group of community volunteer ambassadors and students to bridge collaboration between community members and students.
8. Trojan True Ambassadors: The Trojan Ambassadors will lead FCS staff and the community to unite #TrojanTrue /Trojan Country.

Strategic Objective 3:  Financial

Develop and implement plans to ensure sufficient funding for current and future operations, programs, and facilities with transparency for all stakeholders.

Action Steps to Ensure We Meet This Objective:

1. Community Involvement with Finance & Facilities
2. Facilities & Continuous Improvement
3. Safety & Security
4. Technology

Academic Achievement – By 2025, Findlay City Schools will rank in the top 3 of their 20 similar districts, as defined by the Ohio Department of Education.

Culture, Climate, Morale – Establish, expect, and uphold an environment of belonging for 100% of our students.

Finance – Develop and implement plans to ensure sufficient funding for current and future operations, programs, and facilities with transparency for all stakeholders.

• Continue to work towards the goals, strategies, and action steps outlined in the district plan developed by the District Leadership Team.
• Research and implementing evidence-based practices, programs, and strategies have proven to have an impact on student achievement with a focus on students with disabilities and economically disadvantaged subgroups.
• Research similar successful districts to determine best practices that attribute to their achievement scores.
• Prioritize financial and human resources toward support and implementation of evidence-based practices, programs and strategies.
• Investigate programs and clubs that fill gaps in student involvement as identified by the survey.
• Establish a system, such as a “club fair,” that includes both school and community groups and resources for all students with an emphasis on middle school.
• Providing staff and students with a clear system of behavioral expectations.
• Uniting as Trojan Country.
• Educate parents/community on the unique experiences and strengths of Findlay City School students.
• Directly working with small businesses and Findlay organizations.
• Findlay City Schools branding led by Trojan Ambassadors.
• Increase communication and financial transparency with all stakeholders.
• Utilize new software and technology to communicate the financial status of the district.
• Involve district leadership in the budgeting process and district spending decisions.
• Stakeholders will work to develop opportunities for community involvement and feedback in the planning of future Findlay City Schools facilities and assessment needs.
• Stakeholders will maintain a 5-year maintenance plan aligning permanent improvement revenue with capital and maintenance needs.
• Stakeholders will utilize measurement tools to assess building needs, improvements, functionality, maintenance costs and students served.
• Findlay City Schools will continually work at providing timely security measures to ensure safe and educational facilities.
• Develop a stakeholder committee to meet monthly, semi-annually, and annually to plan and discuss district-related safety and security.
• Findlay City Schools will provide access to technology that meets the needs of the evolving learner.
• Develop a stakeholder committee to meet monthly, semi-annually, and annually to plan and discuss district technology needs and future planning.