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District reports Q2 strategy-map progress; board approves budget amendments and tables board-salary policy
Summary
Superintendent Dana Minogue and staff reported second-quarter progress on literacy, special education interventions and staff compensation work. The board approved midyear budget amendments and tabled an update to board salary policy pending clarified language about an annual CPI provision.
Superintendent Dana Minogue presented the district's quarter-two strategy-map update to the Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District Board of Education on Feb. 24, summarizing work on literacy, multilayered supports, special-education program evaluation and staff compensation.
Minogue told the board the strategy map "gives our community information. It provides us with direction, and it holds us accountable to what we said we're going to accomplish during the course of the school year."
Board members heard that the district administered a statewide reading screener (AIMSweb) in January as part of Act 20 work and that educators have developed reading plans for students who scored below the benchmark. Teaching-and-learning committee remarks noted that about "25 percent of our kids, under third grade did qualify for a reading plan per state statute," with a technical figure cited as about 26.5% in discussion. The presentation said next year the district will move the screener to the fall so reading plans can be in place earlier.
District staff described the intervention systems now operating in elementary schools and said social-emotional screeners are also being used to identify students who need additional supports. Minogue noted the district is implementing recommendations from an external special-education program evaluation and is considering a replicated self-contained intervention model observed in a neighboring district.
The strategy update covered staff-focused priorities: compensation work for noncertified employees, review of supplementary pay and negotiations planning for certified staff. Jared Rosing, assistant superintendent for business operations, reported teams are developing a noncertified compensation model and collecting feedback across employee groups. The board was told an insurance-advisory group will review renewals and wellness incentives in March.
On community and operations priorities, Minogue said the district had paused a comprehensive 4K evaluation pending improved local census-response data and noted ongoing work on sustainability projects and an external AI assessment. She said the district will bring a refreshed strategy map that centers the district's "portrait of a graduate" in coming quarters.
Votes at a glance: The meeting recorded several formal actions. The board approved the consent agenda (bills payable), approved the requested midyear budget amendments for 2024-25, and voted to table a first reading of board policy I-D0.4 on board salaries pending clarifying language about an annual CPI provision. The transcript recorded motions, seconds and "aye" votes but did not include roll-call tallies in the public audio for all items.
