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Superintendent outlines entry-plan findings, calls for multi‑year strategic planning process
Summary
Superintendent presented entry‑plan findings and proposed a multi‑year strategic planning timeline, urging community representation and alignment with school and district improvement plans; committee discussed timelines and the need to finalize school improvement plans by early summer.
Superintendent Dr. Bruno presented findings from his entry plan and proposed a timeline to develop a three‑year strategic plan for the Groton‑Dunstable Regional School District, emphasizing the need to align a multi‑year plan with year‑by‑year district and school improvement plans.
Dr. Bruno summarized areas for focus identified during his entry period: literacy and phonics work in grades K–4, improving growth for the district’s lowest‑achieving students and students with disabilities, strengthening writing at the middle school, and narrowing performance gaps. He also reported work underway to build instructional leadership, expand professional learning communities and increase transparency on budgeting and communication to rebuild trust and staff morale.
Dr. Bruno proposed recruiting a strategic planning committee of roughly 20 community representatives, faculty, staff, students and town leaders; hosting community dialogue events in fall 2025; producing a draft strategic plan by December 2025; and presenting a final plan by June 2026. Committee members noted that existing district improvement plans and school improvement plans should feed directly into the strategic plan and urged that the committee finalize district‑level goals and school improvement plans before the end of the academic year so they can inform next year’s work.
Committee discussion centered on sequencing: members asked that the district ensure school improvement plans are completed and presented to the committee in May or early June and that a workshop for committee members on evaluation rubrics be scheduled in May for the superintendent evaluation timeline. Dr. Bruno said school and district improvement planning work is already underway and that the strategic plan would be grounded in those annual plans; he offered to circulate timelines and proposed dates for a committee workshop.
No formal vote was taken; the committee agreed to pursue the timeline and to bring school improvement plans and the superintendent’s evaluation materials forward for timely review.
