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District 25 discusses wellness, parent engagement and "trajectory changing" schools during goal-setting session
Summary
District 25 leadership reviewed preliminary district goals, discussed a CEC-backed wellness slogan—"Wellness, kindness, community"—and solicited Padlet feedback on priorities including parent engagement, attendance communications, and student supports drawn from a study on "trajectory changing" schools.
District 25 leaders presented draft district priorities and asked District Leadership Team members to give feedback on goals aimed at improving student outcomes and family engagement.
"Belonging, consistency, and coherence," the presenter said when summarizing findings from a study on schools that accelerate student growth, and asked members to reflect on how those elements should shape local goals.
A parent-and-community slogan developed with the Community Education Council (CEC) was described as "wellness, kindness, community," and staff asked DLT members how the district should define those terms and embed them into goals and activities for next year.
Members used a Padlet to submit written feedback during the meeting. Participants raised several recurring themes: rewording attendance and chronic-absence letters to avoid scaring families, increasing recognition and positive reinforcement for consistent attendance, making parent volunteering more flexible (shorter, time-limited shifts), and connecting family-facing programs to student financial-literacy lessons tied to an account activation program staff described.
"Maybe perhaps it's coming across as, more harsh than we would like it to," a DLT participant said about chronic-absence communications, and another said parents respond better to layered supports than to punitive language.
DLT members who are school leaders described challenges with parent participation after COVID and recommended small, purposeful volunteer opportunities. One member noted that existing parent leadership structures and SLTs could be used to coordinate engagement so the district does not add extra meetings.
Staff asked DLT members to recommend how to define wellness, kindness and community, and said they would collect student feedback as well to build a district definition.
The presenter said the June DLT meeting will be in person and urged members to attend as the district refines goals and action plans for the 2025–26 school year.
