We, the Board of the Parkrose School District, greatly appreciate all the work currently being done in the area of School Improvement. This hard work by teachers, educational assistants, and administrators is helping our students achieve at new levels. We realize that extra effort is required to make the Professional Learning Communities work well, and that these efforts we will help the Parkrose Students reach their full potential. We also understand that this is a change, and that change can be difficult. The Board fully supports the efforts of Dr. Gray and Dr. Monteith in their efforts to carry out these best practices in education. We also understand that continual feedback from teachers and other educational staff is important to make sure that we together do the best for Parkrose students. Parkrose schools sole purpose is to actively support students, and their educational experience, if we fail to improve we fail them.

There has been, in education, a practice that searches for the, "Silver Bullet". The pursuit of these single faceted programs that hope to meet the needs of all students often fail, therefore we change programs often. These constant program changes have caused much frustration in the past.

We believe that the multi-program approach we are working toward is the direction we need to take in order to be true to our mission statement. Therefore, we will continue to support AVID (Achievement via Individual Determination), along with vertical alignment and horizontal alignment of instructional practice. We will also continue to refine the Power Standards, encourage implementation of the District Educational Initiatives, common formative assessments, and Professional Learning Communities. In this way Parkrose students will reach high standards and be beacons of hope in the community.