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Warren County board approves 2025–27 strategic plan focused on student growth, safety and staff development
Summary
The Warren County School Corporation board approved a two-year strategic plan that keeps four core pillars — student growth and success, student safety and support, staff empowerment and professional learning, and family communication and support — and adds targeted action steps and monitoring dates.
The Warren County School Corporation board approved the district’s 2025–2027 strategic plan after a presentation by Dr. Redmond, who reviewed priorities and action steps for the next two school years.
The plan, which was presented to the board and placed in the board packet for action, retains four pillars: student growth and success; student safety and support; staff empowerment and professional learning; and family communication and support. The board voted to approve the plan as presented.
Dr. Redmond said the strategic plan is intended to keep work aligned across stakeholders and ‘‘helps organize our time and energy.’’ He told the board the plan is also a communications tool so families and community members can quickly see district priorities on the website.
Board discussion and staff remarks emphasized that the plan builds on prior work. District staff reported they reviewed progress on the previous plan, checked off most prior action steps, and used stakeholder input — from students, parents, teachers, administrators and the board — to identify remaining gaps and new actions. The presentation listed measurable progress indicators and specific action steps tied to each pillar.
Key action steps and clarifications included: - Staff empowerment: expand leadership opportunities beyond teachers to groups such as paraprofessionals, custodial staff and maintenance staff, with targeted leadership development offerings; staff noted building administrators had begun planning for those groups. - Student safety and support: a renewed focus on student connectedness, including planning for a possible student survey shortly after school starts to measure engagement and sense of safety. - Drills and safety practice: a student-initiated change to vary drill times so practices occur at different times of day (for example, during lunch or passing periods) rather than always during homeroom. - Family communication: a planned parent series developed with Youth First and led by district staff and Mindy Martin, the new mental-health facilitator, starting with two evening sessions (one at a middle school, one at a high school) to pilot attendance and topic interest. - Student opportunities: work to improve districtwide consistency on transition activities (for example, fifth-to-sixth and eighth-to-ninth grade transitions) and to expand advanced coursework, CTE pathways and internship options under the district’s new diploma framework.
The board will monitor progress: staff set calendar dates to provide progress updates around either just before or just after the Christmas break and again at the end of the school year, and said adjustments would be returned to the board if data indicate changes are needed.
The motion to approve the 2025–2027 strategic plan passed by voice vote after a motion by Mrs. Wilhelm and a second by Mr. Baker; individual roll-call votes were not recorded in the minutes.
The plan will be posted on the district website and used to guide district planning and reporting to the board.
Less urgent details: staff said much of the work is already underway in pockets across the district and that the plan is intended to reduce fragmented implementation by standardizing actions and monitoring across schools.
