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Greater New Bedford VocTech reports progress on strategic plan and launches pilots for MTSS, scheduling and inclusive instruction
Summary
Superintendent Watson and school leaders described midyear progress on a multi-year strategic plan including exploratory-program redesign, districtwide professional development on accommodations, early MTSS rollout and a MyFlex pilot to expand after-school supports.
Superintendent Michael Watson on Tuesday updated the Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School District Committee on midyear progress toward the district's 2024–25 strategic plan, outlining work on exploratory programs, a phased multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS), and new professional-development and scheduling pilots.
Watson said the district has formed an eight-member team of exploratory teachers working to update rubrics and exploratory binders and that final guidance from the career and technical education director is expected in early May. "We are starting to look at new exploratory binders as well as a way to try to get kids access to all of the exploratory programs," Watson said.
The superintendent told the committee the exploratory changes are a scheduling challenge and will not be implemented in the fall. He described the current work as a "mid second half of the year…
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