Omaha Public Schools highlights principal-supervisor support teams as core of districtwide school improvement

Omaaha Public Schools officials on Wednesday outlined a districtwide support-team model led by principal supervisors that they say is intended to standardize school improvement work across elementary and secondary schools.

The presentation, delivered to the Omaha Public Schools Board of Education by four principal supervisors and district staff, described support-team meetings that principals lead, attended by principal supervisors, curriculum staff and other leadership team members. Carrie Collins, an elementary principal supervisor, told the board: "We truly are excited to share our work and present on the purpose and process of our elementary and secondary support team meetings." Collins said the meetings began in fall 2021 for elementary schools and have expanded to include all secondary schools after a secondary pilot last year.

District leaders said the meetings use a plan-do-check-act cycle to align instructional coaching, data analysis and follow-up. "The goals for the support team meetings all center around the school improvement and the plan, do, check, act cycle," Tom Wagner, the secondary principal supervisor, said. He described a three-part meeting structure: a principal-led state-of-the-school check-in,…