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Committee approves 2025 school improvement plan with AI guidance and cultural fair goals
Summary
The committee approved a five-goal school improvement plan that adds work on ethical AI use, employability rubrics, expanded local assessments, MyCAP adoption, and cultural heritage fairs.
The Greater Lowell Regional Vocational Technical School Committee voted to approve the 2025 school improvement plan, a five-goal document developed with input from parents, teachers, counselors, administrators and student members of the school council. Assistant Superintendent/Principal Barton presented the plan and asked the committee for approval.
The plan’s goals include developing district guidance on ethical and effective use of artificial intelligence in instruction and student work; continuing development and piloting of an employability rubric to assess and improve students’ career-ready skills; expanding locally administered assessments and culminating projects now that MCAS is no longer used as a competency determination for graduation; implementing the MyCAP digital portfolio platform for grades 9–12; and increasing student opportunities to share cultural heritage through a proposed cultural fair or integration with the civics fair.
Assistant Superintendent/Principal Barton said the district will form a committee in August to examine AI tools across academic and technical programs and to draft classroom and assignment guidelines. Barton described employability rubric work as a continuation of a committee that collaborated with advisory groups, parents and students during the year and said pilots will test the rubric’s classroom use. On assessments, Barton said the district will increase final exams, projects and presentations as locally grown measures of student achievement.
On MyCAP, Barton said the counseling department has begun professional development and that counselors will work with students to populate the digital platform with career goals, resumes and placement records; Barton said parent access to MyCAP was not specified and the district would follow up.
Student members suggested a cultural-heritage fair, and Barton said options include a stand-alone event or pairing the idea with the existing civics fair so parents and community members can attend. Committee members moved to approve the plan; the motion passed on a roll-call vote.
