C1+Strengths.Growth

C1 Areas of Strength and Opportunities for Growth

//**Below you will find the results of the work done by Focus Group chairs and the Core Team to hone in on and prioritize dominant growth items that appeared across the category. In addition a DRAFT Action Statement was developed to encompass those dominant items- this will become part of the Schoolwide Action Plan in Chapter 5 of the Self Study document. Please review the prioritized growth items and the action statement. At the bottom of the page, you will see your focus groups original Areas of Strengths/Growth. Please make comments/edits/additions at the bottom of the page- not directly into the text.**//

Category C: Areas of Growth (Boldface indicates incorporation into ACTION STATEMENT)

CATEGORY C: PRELIMINARY ACTION PLAN for October 22: Increase opportunities for interdisciplinary learning, using and serving the resources within the greater community.

Areas of Growth:

1. Opportunities for incorporation of service learning across all departments

2. Formalized assessments for CCS program to insure formative understanding ( NOTE: Benchmark for ACTION STATEMENT )

3. Effective strategies to better involve parents in school activities and academic/spiritual growth of their children ( NOTE : This would be an identified __ACTION STEP__  toward the fulfillment of the ACTION STATEMENT below.)

Instructions for Identifying Strength and Growth
Utilize the **Narrative** for the identification of areas of strength and areas of growth. These should be a bulleted list of noun statements.

For example, your list would look like. . ..
 * **Areas of Strength (a good thing)**
 * "what do we have. . . "** || **Areas of Growth (a thing we need)**
 * "what do we need. . . "** ||
 * * The use of a wide variety of research data in programmatic improvement || * Greater inclusion of higher order thinking skills across all content areas ||

Area C1 Chart for Strengths and Areas of Growth


 * **Areas of Strength (a good thing)**
 * "what do we have. . . "** || **Areas of Growth (a thing we need)**
 * "what do we need. . . "** ||
 * * MCHS is an inclusive community of faiths rooted in the charisms of Holy Cross, such charisms are evidenced throughout the school
 * MCHS finds ways to ensure that students who want to attend a retreat (Kairos) will be able to even if there's financial hardships
 * Opportunities for students to seek help with their faith-journey (theology classes, school chaplain, director of faith and service)
 * MCHS offers many different types of retreats targeted with different themes
 * A growing presence of "all-departmental" teachers participating in/on retreats
 * Wide variety of grade-level speakers, personal perspectives, faiths, traditions, present at Mass
 * MCHS has a wide range of definitions of service learning that each benefit the communities they serve || * Theology “Spiritual Portfolio” needs an “end result” and/or culminating and reflective bit of assessment to be agreed upon by the Theology department, perhaps including a "formal presentation" component
 * Support faculty/staff on how to “implement prayer into classes,” namely non-Theology courses here at Moreau Catholic
 * More "press" on what various classes and club/sport programs are doing with community-based service learning
 * More opportunities and workshops to learn how to implement service learning in all courses
 * Theology department recognizes its need to further develop a UC/CSU recognized upper-level course that covers Christian Spirituality, perhaps via apologetics, myticism, social science, etc. ||

**Focus Group Comments on Prioritized Areas Growth**
C.1 notices that our "Areas of Growth" on C.1 appears to be identical with the "Areas of Growth" in both C.2 and C.3.

For Area of Growth #1, please include the key component of "immersion" alongside "service learning," as the two are interrelated and essential.