Holyoke advisory team plans community forums to gather input on superintendent evaluation and communication

At a community advisory team meeting for Holyoke Public Schools, members and community participants discussed plans for two community forums meant to collect public input on the receiver's superintendent goals — with special emphasis on the superintendent's professional-practice goal of strengthening communication with stakeholders — and to surface priorities that could inform both the current evaluation and future hiring.

The advisory team, which falls under the local control subcommittee of the Holyoke School Committee, is charged with gathering evidence for the receiver's evaluation. Mildred, chair of the local control subcommittee, described the receiver's required submissions: a personal professional-practice goal (she said the receiver's was to "strengthen communication with stakeholders"), a student learning goal and two to four district improvement goals. The district goals discussed in the meeting include use of STAR beginning-of-year data for a student learning goal; implementing…