Goals
Goal #1
Merritt Academy will promote academic excellence for all students in the core curriculum of math, language arts/reading, social studies and science.
Strategies:
- Maintain high expectations and performance standards
- Motivate students to attain mastery in the core curriculum areas
- Develop an educational team who will utilize innovative and research-based methodologies for teaching
- Develop programs to support and challenge each student
- Develop academic co-curricular programs/activities to support and challenge each student
- An academic excellence committee will oversee the selection of quality textbooks and materials
- Michigan Education Assessment Program (M.E.A.P.)
- Comprehensive Test of Basic Subjects (C.T.B.S.)
- Portfolio assessment
- Analyze student Grade Point Average
- Chapter/Unit Tests
- Progress Reports ( Report card and written reports to parents)
- Teacher observations
Goal #2
Merritt Academy will help each student discover and develop his/her unique gifts, talents and abilities
Strategies:
- Maintain class size of 24 students
- Utilize teaching methods that encourage imagination and creativity
- Create an environment in which each student can discover and develop his/her unique gifts, talents and abilities
- Select and train staff who will help each individual student recognize and attain his/her highest potential
- Portfolio assessment
- Teacher observations
- Report Cards/Progress Report
- Standardized assessments measuring abilities/interests
- Curricular and co-curricular competitions
- Monitor curriculum offerings and student schedules
Goal #3
Merritt Academy will encourage exemplary character development in each student.
Strategies:
- Select texts and resources that reflect positive character attributes
- Establish standards of conduct and discipline for the Board of Directors, faculty, staff and students
- Recognize and reward expressions of positive character
- Teach and model exemplary character qualities such as honesty, integrity, respect, courage, loyalty, etc.
- Promote positive interpersonal relationships and communication skills
- Monitor behavior problem referrals
- Teacher observations
- Student surveys
- Monitor positive behavior
- Measure staff and student understanding of exemplary character qualities
Goal #4
Merritt Academy will prepare students to become productive citizens and community leaders.
Strategies:
- Maintain high expectations and performance standards
- Model and teach the positive values of traditional moral and ethical standards
- Promote community volunteerism
- Utilize community and business resources
- Written evaluations of academic progress
- Measure student involvement in co-curricular activities
- Monitor student involvement in volunteerism
- Evaluate use of outside community resources
- Teacher observations
Goal #5
Merritt Academy will prepare students to become productive citizens and community leaders.
Strategies:
- Expose students to state of the art technology
- Provide students with access to and instruction in the use of state of the art equipment
- Provide the services of a multi-media resource person
- Provide training for the faculty in the use of multi-media resources
- Monitor curriculum offerings and student course selections
- Teacher observations
- Measure teacher understanding and proficiency in use of technology
- Measure student understanding and proficiency in use of technology
- Monitor use of community and/or business resources
Goal #6
Merritt Academy will encourage the development of cooperative relationships with parents and the community
Strategies:
- Develop a mentoring program
- Promote parent-school interaction
- Develop a community information network using a variety of media
- Promote community volunteerism
- Develop business partnerships to promote entrepeneurism
- Monitor parent attendance at school activities, programs, meetings and conferences
- Meetings/conferences
- Measure mentoring involvement
- Measure the use of the community information network
- Measure community volunteerism