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CISNCWhat can you do to help kids prepare for life?
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Communities In Schools and the ABC's Plus:
North Carolina’s Strategic Plan for Excellent Schools
Through our focus on the strategic goals approved by the State Board of Education, Communities In Schools of North Carolina (CISNC) supports the state’s Plan for Excellent Schools. Local CIS programs have this information and use it as a guide when they create their annual operations plans. Furthermore, CISNC is represented on the School Improvement Panel, which helped to craft this plan.
At both the state and local level, CIS provide the resources that facilitate
the realization of these important goals in each of the schools we serve.
The five goals are:
Goal 1 - High Student Performance 
Goal 2 - Safe, Orderly & Caring Schools
Goal 3 - Quality Teachers and Administrative Staff
Goal 4 - Strong Family, Community and Business Support
Goal 5 - Effective and Efficient Operations
Goal 1 - High Student Performance
1. Tutoring and mentoring services for over 6,000 children with programs
like Great Leaps and Jumpstart
2. Special short-term tutoring programs to increase passing rates on state
tests
3. After school programs to provide extra learning time
4. Summer programs to provide extra learning time
5. Identification of potential barriers to learning (School Success ProfileŠ)
6. Parent/child programs to increase parent involvement
7. Project REACH (AmeriCorps members directly tutoring)
8. ThinkCOLLEGEŠ and other college prep programs
9. Hispanic outreach and after school programs
10. Family Resource Centers and Community Learning Centers prepare children
for learning
11. Summer enrichment activities for children and families
Goal 2 - Safe, Orderly & Caring Schools
1. Focus on developing assets
2. Alternative schools
3. Alternative programs
4. Substance abuse awareness and access to services
5. Teen pregnancy prevention programs and special programs for teen parents
6. Teen Court programs
7. SOS and other after school programs (YMCA, Boys & Girls Clubs)
8. Teacher and staff training on behavior improvement
9. Focus on attendance and good behavior
10. Ft. Bragg Youth Leadership Camp
Goal 3 - Quality Teachers and Administrative Staff
1. Work to provide teachers with more time to teach by providing extra
support to most needy students
2. Celebrate teaching through appreciation events
3. Provide staff development and professional training opportunities in
partnership with other organizations
4. Work with local administrators to increase community support
Goal 4 - Strong Family, Community and Business Support
1. FAST (Families and Schools Together)
2. Family Resource Centers
3. Community Learning Centers
4. Faith-based partnerships
5. Business partnerships
6. Scholarships for students
7. Partnerships with state agencies to bring needed services into schools
8. Partnerships with community members to bring health and human services
into schools including United Way agencies
9. Training and technical assistance to local districts to build strong
community partnerships
10. Interagency collaboration at the local level through hundreds of local
partnerships
11. End-of-school-year celebrations for students and awards programs for
local volunteer efforts
12. Recruitment, training, matching and support for thousands of volunteers
working with school-age children
13. Community involvement in extended-learning opportunities by partnering
with other agencies such as 4-H, SOS, YMCA, Boys and Girls clubs
Goal 5 - Effective and Efficient Operations
1. Align our state efforts to the state improvement plan and train local
programs in all aspects of the state plan
2. Work with local schools as part of their school improvement plan
3. Work with local districts to assess individual needs of students and
determine intervention strategies (School Success Profile©)
4. Monitor and track student data
5. Work with local districts to maximize resources by increasing outside
funding through federal and state grants
6. Work with local districts to improve student achievement and add cost
effective intervention strategies.
