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Centennial School District ties goals to Future Ready Index, credits multi‑year investments and ESSER funds for gains
Summary
Centennial School District leaders told the House Education Committee they set district goals around the PA Future Ready Index, prioritized long‑term, job‑embedded professional development and used one‑time ESSER funds to hire coaches and specialists; leaders said growth‑focused strategies and staffing hires are producing measurable improvements.
Centennial School District officials told the House Education Committee that they used the PA Future Ready Index as a planning tool and backed goals with multi‑year investments in staff, coaching and curriculum.
Centennial superintendent Dana Bedden said the district tied board goals to the Future Ready Index in 2020 and then aligned staffing and professional development to those targets. “We tied our goals … to the future ready index, specifically, to make that a focus,” Bedden said. Bedden told the committee the district used an influx of federal ESSER funds to accelerate work and hired instructional coaches and specialists; he said Centennial had about $7,000,000 in ESSER funds and planned to use roughly 92 percent of that money for teaching and learning activities.
Why it matters: District leaders argued that a multi‑year, people‑centered approach — hiring coaches, investing in…
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