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RSU 5 selects Great Schools Partnership to lead two-year strategic planning process
Summary
The district selected Great Schools Partnership after a competitive RFP process and formed a strategic-planning advisory committee that includes parents, students, teachers, administrators and two board members. The work will span about two years and include surveys, focus groups and a portrait-of-a-graduate process.
Superintendent Jean and staff reported that RSU 5 has selected Great Schools Partnership to facilitate a districtwide strategic planning process that the district expects to run over two years.
The superintendent described the advisory committee assembled in September and noted it includes parent/community representatives from Durham, Freeport and Pownal, a student representative, two teachers, two board members, two building administrators, the director of instructional support, the assistant superintendent and the superintendent. The district issued a request for qualifications and interviewed candidates in October and November; three consulting groups submitted proposals and two were interviewed. The advisory committee recommended Great Schools Partnership.
Planned public engagement includes surveys, focus groups, a staff workday in March, student input and town-level outreach. The process will identify themes, measurable goals, and portraits of a graduate, an eighth-grader and a fourth-grader. The district asked Great Schools Partnership to work for a two-year period to allow time for broad public participation and to collect and analyze requested district data. The board will receive updates and the district expects a formal plan for adoption in the 2025–26 school year.
Board members said they had already begun outreach to municipalities to advertise participation opportunities and emphasized reaching marginalized or hard-to-hear groups as part of the engagement strategy.
