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Board reviews updated strategic‑plan measures and data dashboard; readings scheduled for July
Summary
The board reviewed proposed updates to strategic‑plan measures, including baselines and targets for state assessments, graduation rate, social‑emotional metrics, discipline (suspension) tracking, parent engagement and staff recruitment; members asked for alignment and suggested refinements before a July reading.
The Emporia Board of Education reviewed proposed updates to the district’s strategic‑plan measures and a new data dashboard intended to track progress on academics, social‑emotional metrics, parent engagement and staffing. The item was presented as a reading with additional discussion and follow‑up requested before formal adoption.
District leaders said the measures reflect renewed baselines after post‑COVID renorming of state assessments and FastBridge norms and showed targets such as maintaining a graduation rate at 95% or higher. The district proposed tracking in‑school and out‑of‑school suspensions as better calibrated measures of behavior across grade levels and raised confidentiality concerns for small counts.
On parent engagement, the district proposed maintaining strong conference participation in preschool and elementary grades and exploring alternate metrics for the high school, such as PowerSchool logins, because typical conference attendance is lower there. Board members suggested pilot ideas (for example, advisory‑class projects requiring a trusted adult to attend conferences) and asked staff to investigate whether PowerSchool app logins can be tracked for reporting.
Other measures presented included increasing ParentSquare family usage by 2 percentage points, maintaining high job‑fill rates for licensed and classified staff, reducing licensed staff turnover to under 14% and completing required safety and security drills across schools. Board members asked staff to add suspension counts to the dashboard and to continue work on secondary math implementation fidelity; staff said a July reading will include additional details and an action plan.
No votes were taken; the board will revisit the measures at the July meeting after staff incorporate requested clarifications and additional data.
