At James Kennedy Elementary, we strive to achieve our mission of “Success for all through learning and caring” through our Action Plan for Learning goals, approaching learning, instruction and assessment from a holistic approach as we focus on supporting the Whole Child: the physical, the spiritual, the emotional, and the intellectual.

For the 2024-25 school year, we will continue to work on our Action Plan goals over the past several years, maintaining our focus on literacy and social-emotional learning (SEL) for all our students. Both our Literacy Goal and our SEL Goal are aligned with the District Framework for Enhancing Student Learning, and we make our decisions and shape our plans for action through this lens.

This year, our staff collaborated to reassess our past goals to ensure they fully outline our hopes for each learner. With staff input, we co-created and updated our goals to be the following: