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Teaching and Learning outlines FY26 requests, including business-teacher position, world-language expansion and capital equipment
Summary
The district's Teaching and Learning presenter reviewed FY26 goals, highlighted AP and pathway successes, and requested additional staffing (a business teacher), elementary world-language exploration, math specialist parity with reading specialists, and instructional/capital materials including CNC machinery and medical-intervention kits.
Marybeth, presenting the FY26 Teaching and Learning budget to the Pembroke School Committee, summarized academic wins, curricular pilots and staffing and materials requests for next year.
She highlighted recent accomplishments in Advanced Placement offerings and access: 16 seniors completed an internship or certificate aligned with a college-and-career pathway, the district moved from a College Board AP Bronze honor to an AP Silver honor, and 47% of seniors scored a 3 or higher on an AP exam. The department expanded pathways to include global citizenship, music and information technology, added AP Spanish Literature and AP World History, and continued Project Lead The Way engineering and biomedical sequences.
Marybeth asked the committee to add a full-time business-teacher position so the pathways coordinator, Mary Ellen Gates, can work full time on student placement, internship coaching and employer partnerships. "I am asking next year that we add a point for business teacher, which would allow Mary Ellen Gates, our pathways coordinator, to attend to full full time to placing students, coaching people, supporting interns, and working with the businesses," she said.
Other requests included exploring an elementary-world-language program (starting Kâ4 for exploratory exposure), mirroring the reading-specialist model with math intervention staff, and adding AP Precalculus and AP Seminar and a third year of Project Lead The Way sequences. Marybeth said the district is piloting science curricula with the intention of selecting one for broad adoption and that the district will continue to refine grading and assessment practices in 7â12.
Instructional-material and capital asks include computer-integrated manufacturing equipment (CNC mill), robotics arms, medical-intervention kits including a thermal cycler and stitching kits, and curriculum subscriptions for elementary writing and science pilots. Marybeth said about a third of the requested materials are grant-funded and that the department is "presently funded at a hundred and $50,000," which will offset part of the request.
No formal committee vote on the FY26 requests occurred during the presentation. Marybeth said administrators will next refine priorities and recommended items as part of the district budget process.
