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Pembroke committee urged to pursue 18‑month strategic plan; facilitator cost estimated at about $35,100
Summary
Committee members and staff recommended developing a first district strategic plan to guide goals and budgeting; staff said DESE facilitation or Teaching Learning Alliance support would limit outside costs to roughly $35,100 for facilitator services.
Members of the Pembroke School Committee said the district should prioritize creation of a strategic plan to align goals across administrators, principals and the committee.
Allison (identified in the transcript only by first name) summarized staff work compiling committee goal feedback and said the committee lacks a multi‑year strategic plan as a guiding framework. She and other members recommended an 18‑month effort to build a plan that will inform budgets, policy and building‑level goals.
Erin (identified in the transcript only by first name) and committee members discussed options to limit cost. Staff noted DESE offers facilitation support and that the Teaching Learning Alliance has been used by nearby districts. Allison said districts reported a facilitator‑level cost in the neighborhood of $35,100 for a “soup‑to‑nuts” engagement, and that a DESE‑facilitated approach could reduce cost to day‑or‑two facilitator fees while giving the district tools to conduct the remainder of the process in‑house.
Committee members asked how a strategic plan would change public accountability. Allison said a plan would give the public a clearer statement of priorities and allow the committee to produce simple progress reports—quarterly ‘report cards’—to demonstrate progress against stated goals.
There was no formal vote on Jan. 7. Committee members asked staff to gather request‑for‑proposal (RFP) information and local pricing for facilitators and to return to the committee with options; staff estimated they would bring materials to the committee by the first meeting in February or soon thereafter.
The discussion was informational and intended to lead to a future procurement or RFP process.
