Superintendent Dr. Lehman presented a fall overview to the board that summarized strategic-plan progress, newly calibrated 5 Essentials survey results, and discipline data.

Strategic plan: Dr. Lehman said the district adopted a six-goal strategic plan during the 2022-23 school year that included 55 strategies and roughly 185 action/sub-action steps. He reported that 8 strategies are fully completed, 36 are in progress and 11 are pending; overall he placed the completed share at about 14.5 percent of strategies. Upcoming priorities for the next year include improving employee onboarding, student feedback and grading practices, staff professional development, bus rostering (a check-in/check-out system), a transportation handbook, a bus purchasing rotation, a new district website, identifying a single family-communication tool, exploring funding for facilities needs and improving facility cleanliness.

5 Essentials survey: The superintendent said the state recalibrated the 5 Essentials data this year, which changed scoring and made year-to-year comparisons difficult beyond the prior year; staff were told the state widened the distribution so more items fall to neutral. Under the new scoring, the district recorded four "strong" items and 33 neutral items. Highest-rated measures included teacher expectations for post-secondary education, student-teacher trust and community social resources; lower-rated measures included student perceptions of English instruction and the importance of high school for their future. Dr. Lehman said the data will be used to guide school-level improvement work and that building principals will review disaggregated results with staff.

Discipline data: Dr. Lehman reported declines districtwide in several discipline measures, including out-of-school suspensions, in-school interventions and founded bullying incidents. He said the district recorded 16 verified instances of bullying last year and that overall numbers for several measures were down from the prior year, though middle school and GIS saw increases in some categories. He attributed improvements partly to social-emotional learning and response training for staff, and said the student success committee will review the data in more depth.

Dr. Lehman also gave a facilities recap of recent projects (building renovation, CES and GIS playgrounds, roof replacements, high-school track and press box repairs) and described community and association work he performs on behalf of the district. The board did not take formal action on the overview; the presentation was provided as the superintendent's required periodic update.