Strategic Plan Overview

Dear Oxnard School District Community:

I am pleased to present the Oxnard School District’s strategic plan: Oxnard Empowers. Our plan is oriented around a set of core beliefs and priority outcomes for our students and employees that will guide our work over the next five years. We have developed specific objectives to be addressed through focused and transformative strategic initiatives. Through this plan, we will reach measurable targets for student success and employee performance.

Changing the World! Inspired, Accomplished, Multilingual Global Citizens – In School and Beyond. In Oxnard School District, we nurture self-confident and empowered multilingual global citizens, strong in their multiple identities and potential, who achieve inspired levels of individual, community, and social accomplishment in school and beyond in their endeavors.

Over the past two years, parents, students, teachers, staff, and community members have provided input about their perceptions and priorities for our school district. This past fall, we carefully reviewed this information and thoroughly analyzed data on our past performance to form the framework of Ignite, Transform, Nurture and Embrace.

Our community seeks academic excellence for all of our students while supporting each student to make continual progress toward their individual aspirations. Students must be the focus of our work and the center for all of our decisions. Now more than ever, we must also be attentive to the mental health and wellness of our students and employees. Social justice movements and the pandemic have been a time of change for our country, our school district, and our families resulting in stress and loss that cannot be overlooked if we are to embrace a future of innovation, growth, and renewal. Our employees are the drivers of our success, and we must do all we can to ensure they are valued and supported so that in turn, our students have the best possible educational journey.

Our strategic plan to Ignite, Transform, Nurture and Embrace provides a concrete roadmap for this work. Our implementation of this plan will ensure that we are the best choice for Oxnard School District students and for our employees. Our schools, staff, families, and communities all play a critical role in student success at every age. Join us in making our plan to Ignite, Transform, Nurture and Embrace come alive in our schools and throughout our community.

Thank you for your continued support and involvement with the Oxnard School District.

In partnership,

Dr. Ana DeGenna
Superintendent

We believe:

• We have a professional obligation to work for equity and excellence.
• Physically, social-emotionally, linguistically, and culturally safe and affirming environments are essential to our diverse students’ full affective, academic/cognitive, linguistic, social-emotional, and creative development.
• Our students’ potential is unlimited.
• Relationships built on integrity, mutual trust, respect, and caring form the necessary foundation for sustainable success in our schools and district.
• We must continuously expand our professional competency, exhibit servant leadership, and hold ourselves accountable to our students, families, community, and colleagues for our intentions, our actions and our results.

1. 2019–20

   Strategic Plan areas are identified.

2. 2020–21

   Student Profile is adopted.

3. 2021–22

   Student Profile is launched. Standards of excellence are defined.

4. 2022–23

   Input and feedback are collected from staff, students, and parents, and a current-state analysis is conducted.

   The Leadership Team affirms the district essentials and expanded mindset, community leaders select the plan name, and stakeholders are convened to draft recommendations for action.

Five core values are the roots of everything we do:

• Equity & Excellence
• Safe & Affirming Environments
• Achievement/Performance, Multilingualism, & Global/Sociocultural Competence
• Relationships built on Integrity, Trust, Mutual Respect, and Caring
• Professional Accountability & Service

The Five Initiatives

1. 1

   Dramatically accelerate student academic engagement and achievement across all Oxnard populations through coherent additive approaches, essential pedagogical principles, and high-leverage practices.

2. 2

   Create and maintain safe, affirming, equitable, and enriched culturally and linguistically sustaining multilingual learning environments of high intellectual performance across all content areas and in all areas needed for 21st Century success.

3. 3

   Provide strategic direction, guidance, and support to sites and district departments focused on improving the quality of instruction, interaction, and engagement in every classroom in every school so that all students reach high levels of academic excellence, multilingual achievement, global competency, and healthy identity development, agency, and voice.

4. 4

   Create and grow family and community alliances focused strategically on their collaborative leadership role in supporting and promoting student success for all students, as defined by the Oxnard Student Profile.

5. 5

   Create a coherent and sustainable district-wide infrastructure and culture to support and communicate the District’s identity and strategic work on behalf of all students, facilitate strategic plan implementation, monitor progress and assess effectiveness and sustainability, and position the District as a leader in equitable and excellent education.

Theory of Action

Each commitment builds on the one before it — from the student outward to the whole community:

1. If

   Student Success

   We commit to a vision of student success that has at its center engaged and achieving students prepared for success in high school and beyond.

2. And if

   Classroom Leadership

   We are relentless in clarifying and supporting classroom leadership focused on improving the quality of classroom instruction and interactions.

3. And if

   School Leadership

   We build and support school leadership that provides instructional clarity and coherence for optimal learning for all students.

4. And if

   District Leadership

   We organize district leadership around our core values and instructional priorities.

5. And if

   Family & Community Engagement

   We engage our families and community in active support.

6. Then

   We will become a district of highly effective & equitable schools.

Our instructional priorities are the lenses through which we focus our work — framed as two key questions.

Our priorities rest on five pillars