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Plymouth-Canton leaders outline six-year dynamic plan, year-one departmental action plans
Summary
Superintendent Doctor Merritt and department leaders presented the district’s six-year dynamic plan and 2025–26 action-plan priorities, including new performance indicators and a public-facing dashboard initiative to track progress.
Superintendent Doctor Merritt and the district’s core leadership team presented Plymouth-Canton Community Schools’ multi-year “dynamic plan” and department-level action plans for the 2025–26 school year at Tuesday’s board meeting.
Doctor Merritt described the dynamic plan as a six-year strategic compass launched in 2021 that is organized around strategic themes of equity and inclusion, community engagement, student-centered learning, and innovation. “We want everybody to really understand what are those focus areas for each department this year to achieve these goals,” Merritt said, introducing the core team.
Chief Academic Officer Jennifer Curry outlined academic priorities focused on embedding a district-wide learning profile, strengthening multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS), formalizing the curriculum adoption cycle and piloting new high-school resources. Curry said the department will use a mix of data systems — including Panorama and NWEA — plus school-improvement plans and a year-long professional-development strategy to track progress.
Chief Human Resources Officer Abdul Matt said HR will focus on recruiting and retaining staff and simplifying benefits through online enrollment tools and partnerships with vendors to improve staff support. Jill Minnick, chief finance and operations officer, described finance, facilities and food services goals that include improved financial reporting, expanded reporting templates with Wayne RESA partners and equitable access to student meals via the federal Community Eligibility Program where appropriate.
Several board members pressed administration on how the district will measure progress. Merritt said departments are creating key performance indicators (KPIs) and using a project-management tool (monday.com) to produce an internal “green/yellow/red” performance view; the administration said it intends to convert that into a public-facing dashboard and begin rolling it out in the 2026–27 school year.
Board members asked for specifics about equity in athletics and activities, diversifying staff to match student demographics and long-term timelines for the dashboard; administrators said preliminary reporting on athletics and activities funding will come in November and promised HR/diversity metrics during scheduled presentations in the winter.
The presentation also included goals from communications, student services and student and family engagement, and the administration requested the board hold departments accountable to the dynamic plan during future budget and policy decisions.
