Who are We? We are 1SC!

Hello, Sand Creek staff, students, parents and community members!   Your Sand Creek 1SC Team is excited to welcome you back and to kick off the 2024/2025 School Year!  We hope you had a wonderful summer and are refreshed and ready for the new school year to begin.

This year, we will continue to focus on creating a culture of continuous improvement at Sand Creek Schools.  Our main overarching district goal is to “Improve Student Academics through the Implementation of the MTSS Framework”, MTSS stands for “Multi-Tiered Systems of Support”.  It  is a very broad goal that works to ensure we have all systems and processes in place to meet the needs of each and every student.  It is also broken down into activities and initiatives that center around three main supporting strategies: 

Academics and Curriculum; Culture and Climate; Social/Emotional Learning

You can find more detail on our continuous improvement goals under the Continuous Improvement tab at the top of the school website. 

As all of us here at Sand Creek strive for continuous improvement, we have in place several ways we monitor and evaluate how we are doing on our goals.  These various data sources include:  surveys, NWEA and M-Step assessments, attendance data and tracking PBIS/discipline data.  Our efforts this year will include a renewed focus on analyzing this data that we have at our fingertips, and using it to drive instruction, implement change, and increase academics and behavior. 

"1SC"

You will hear us, as well as your student, repeat the phrase “1SC” often.  1SC stands for our expectations for students and staff at Sand Creek Schools in all areas - Safety, Respect, Ownership, and Teamwork. This was a focus of our PBIS initiative last year. 

1SC also reflects the idea that we are one team – one Sand Creek team – a unit that works together toward our goals no matter what position you hold.  Each member of the 1SC team is valuable and necessary to our success – whether that be an administrator, teacher, support staff member, student, parent or community member.  We need you all and need your support and we will be most successful towards our goals if we truly work together as 1SC.

Strategic Planning

I am so excited about the work we have been doing and this focus of the coming year.  I am also excited to be launching of our Community-Wide Strategic Planning process that will kick off in September.  I hope that you read my article on this upcoming initiative in the June newsletter.  This process will involve more data collecting in the form of community and staff input events, surveys and other efforts.  These efforts will result in a shared vision and goals for the future of the district.  Stakeholder feedback will be an important part of this planning process and all community members, parents; students; and district staff members will have the opportunity to give input on the strengths of the district, opportunities for improvement; barriers for implantation and their vision for the district.  Through stakeholder feedback, we will look at strengths, opportunities and future goals of where we want to go; and then prioritize and focus our efforts to get there.  Please watch for more information on this.

Let’s go, Sand Creek!  Make the 2024/2025 school year the best yet!

Press Release - Strategic Planning Process

Sincerely,

Sharon Smith, Superintendent

Go Aggies!