Superintendent-level administrators presented the district's Continuous School Improvement Plan (CSIP) to the board July 24, saying the five-year plan will be developed around data, dialogue and engagement.

Dr. McGinnis (staff member) said the CSIP will use the Annual Performance Report (APR), state assessment results, graduation rates, attendance and behavior data, and MSIP 6 guidance to set priorities and allocate resources over five years. She said building principals and department leaders will draft school- and department-level improvement plans from the CSIP priorities and return to the board with feedback in the coming weeks.

Board members pressed for clarity on evaluations and staff feedback. A board member asked that evaluation and corrective-action communication be maintained as a district priority under recruitment and retention. Dr. McGinnis and HR staff explained they are revamping the teacher-evaluation system in a frontline platform to centralize evaluations and improve communication.

Administrators said engagement will include staff, parents, students and community members, with an August focus group and an academics committee review planned. The CSIP will be treated as a living document and used to drive teaching-and-learning priorities tied to the APR.

The board did not take formal action on the CSIP at the meeting but asked administrators to return with school-level plans and concrete resource tradeoffs (where choices must be made) so the board can prioritize among several important initiatives.