001All right. So, I am um happy to be able to start uh continue the conversation, I should say, on district goals. Um for for those of you who are listening and watching, there are a number of different type of goals a school district embarks upon each and every year. Um the superintendent has goals. Um all the administrators have goals. The board of education has board of education goals and then we have district goals. The district goals are like I often use this terminology. They're similar to a lighthouse that shines a beacon out for all paths for all of the schools who are ships and the direction towards that light. And it's about setting aspirational levels of work that we need to do. And then everything else channels from there that every person on their journey
002who oversees a department will turn around and say this is these are my benchmarks. This is my data. These are the things I want to accomplish this year and I'm using the board of education goals as that that end point as that guiding light to help direct my work this year. So um uh I thank the board of education. And it's not that they didn't set district goals in the past. These are just more explicit. They go on um on the website like many districts do to do that. So this year we have um a brief overview of what the goals look like then the board discussion on them and then it it's the board of education's role to adopt the goals and then they become district goals itself. So the first goal here that
003we have is because nothing happens without money is basically to develop a fiscally responsible 2627 budget that supports a high quality and equitable education opportunity for all students. So a a school district budget is really an educational plan. uh it outlines the resources, the tools, and the staff that are needed to accomplish what we set out to do each year. We should do in our work every single year, identify cost efficiencies. And this year in particular, given what's going on with the federal government and what we're hearing the constriction it will place on the state government, find ways to incorporate programs that are funded through grants into the general fund budget. So, I know that that is something um Miss McCoy and I have had number of conversations on and if anyone tuned in last
004spring, the board of education set that out as something very important to our work here in Oene. So, that's an example or my draft of a suggestion of a fiscal goal. Um should I go through them all and then we can have a discussion afterwards? Let's do that. >> Great. Okay. So the student equity goal, the student equity goal is to ensure continued support and articulation of the board's equity policy 0105. The policy holds the uni Aosene Union free school district accountable for the achievement and growth for all students and it commits to an inclusive, equitable and welcoming school environment, a diverse and culturally competent and inclusive workforce and prioritizes family and community engagement. If you take a look at our four pillars on our long range plan, it exemplifies the student equity goal in
005many pieces and shapes. um examples of um why it's important to highlight this very special policy is the work that Dr. De does in terms of of um in terms of her as director of student success. Um we have um regular about five times a year equity meetings. They are packed. They are so well attended. I know Melissa, you've been you're on that committee. You attend them. Annie, you've dropped by when people have time. It's a great thing and you could see a lot of the work that takes place. Um, uh, recently they committed to doing public service announcements on this. Um, they cover many different areas of this. Um, one of the things that came up in one of the equity meetings I mentioned before was the stress of scheduling and how a student
006schedule can u not create a very can create an unwelcome and environment for some kids when they approach um attending school. Um they oversee a lot of the work that we do with the MBK pro program and our prestigious ladies of power. Um and once a year there is on a Saturday and if anyone is interested in attending and seeing all the artifacts of this policy and listening directly from students I suggest you mark your calendars and attend that equity fair itself. Um we've asked Dr. daily um to give an overview again, a presentation about the uh work that she's doing in support of this policy and she will she's actually thrilled to do that and to give a presentation to the board and um put together a report on it um this year. Curriculum
007and instruction, we have three big ones and again these get articulated in different ways. Um the first bullet here speaks to what we've been doing for the past two years. Taking a look at our long range plan and each building developing smart goals um and taking a look at their data, their information from um the different committees, the work that they've done all summer and then putting together um particular goals that will help them improve instruction and the relevance of our curriculum and academic programs. This year will give a special um emphasis on the ARC program implementation as we completed three years and it's great to just check in to see what's working on it, what's not. Um and and to give the board a status uh report on that. Um we have a new
008board policy this year. Um that's why it should be in this. It's the curriculum review cycle. I want to thank the board for um putting forth in their work that we're going to take an area of curriculum and instruction and um basically put it through a lens a lens of a program evaluation model. That model itself will call for an internal evaluation where we use guiding questions that come from tri-states and a number of the large um um educational associations even um from the state education department. And then it includes an external evaluation. We bring in consultants. We bring in people with an outside lens. We invite feedback from parents and from uh from students to talk about um what they feel are uh strengths of a program and then importantly what are opportunities for
009improvement in that. And and the last piece of this is really what every school district should be doing this this year is being taking a look at the state of New York's portrait of a graduate. This portrait of a graduate calls all of us to stop looking at graduation as passing five regents exams and seat times and really think about a larger scope of work. Are there different career um and college pathways? Are there portfolios? Are there um internship opportunities? Are there cumulative projects that children can complete um in order to graduate? I will say that um Austining is one of five Maria in New York State for the PEK grant. >> Yes, we are five >> which basically was the the mission statement of the PEK grant or the foundation of it comes from
010a study done by the Westchester um um Westchester uh county economic partnership group and taking a look at four industries that require a new workforce. It's medical technology, cyber security, um computer science >> and medical information >> and then medical information and medical information itself. So these were industries that basically put together a report saying that we need workers. So the PEK grant basically helps uh educate students. They they will get um career experience in these fields. they will gain um college credit almost two years of college credit >> associates degree before they >> complete their associates degree >> right before they leave our high school and they gain a ton of work experience in those fields. So um I know New York State is looking at the five school districts in the state that
011have this PEK grant um to see what our data looks like and how it's going. Right. Okay. Well, thanks Alita. Was I behind a mic clicking? I apologize. Thank you. Oh my goodness. A super important um goal is our facilities goal. We have for those of you who um have been watched the past few meetings, we've been giving updates. We have a $210 million uh capital and improvement bond project. And um the board in their work towards that um requires me oversight of me alita of Jared to make sure that we are holding regular meetings. We're providing upgrades and that we stay on time and on budget towards that. In addition, we have a number of capital projects as well this year. If you've been at Brookside School, you can't help but miss the trailers
012and the dirt. we are doing a uh a two-story classroom addition to that building. Right? So that's why that's highlighted as a goal. Right? And um community uh communication and community engagement. Again, I make my pitch for the communications committee if anyone wants to join. And um basically it's to continue to develop and foster community partnerships as outlined in our long range plan. So, um those partnerships help support our individual students, support the diversity of their needs and of our students. And again, if you were at the um back to school event hosted by Oprime, we saw our SEPTA community, we saw Open Door, we saw Neighbors Link, we saw so many community partners and students helping out on that. And um it this this um goal comes from the point that we all know
013it takes a village to raise a child. So we want to make sure that we maximize our community platforms with our parents and our residents to inform and engage with our communities in ways that help folks to understand. So it's through feedback this year that you know Nicole Reese put together a whole group of short calendars and announcements. even what we're talking about back to school nights. Those are all part of last year's goal and what we're implementing this year. And then the last goal basically is to take a look, it's an ongoing goal, but it's such an important one because the board of education is a governance agency, right? So, it's it's a a a constant, which I appreciate, that the board holds retreats and brings in facilitators to help out, but it's to
014review and the board now has a governance committee. It's basically to review their roles and responsibilities and build team relationships with the superintendent with the executive council who are here and establish clear roles on each of uh clear understanding and shared understanding of our respective roles. um and basically to identify what areas do we need to strengthen, what areas do we need to provide additional oversight or a different approach. And then um in terms of the um conduct evaluations, the board started its own self-evaluation. They um last year was the first time I think using super val for the superintendent. >> Yes, second year. >> Last year was the second year. >> Okay. >> Yeah. So, super avail uh which are uh tools that are new but again trying to figure out do they meet
015the goals of this board of education and then this year because it's a big ticket in the budget um to prepare for the 2627 superintendent search process for so those were the uh overview of the goals as I heard from the board from our work together and for the board to consider. Thank you.