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Superintendent’s updates: playgrounds, vestibule security, leadership pipeline and school garden
Summary
District staff reported progress on school security vestibules and playgrounds, a planned school garden at Eastside Elementary, leadership development cohorts, and early metrics including 32,184 PowerSchool parent sign-ins and 67 cell-phone violations so far this year.
District staff provided operational and program updates to the Haywood County Board of Education during the director’s report.
Staff said construction work shifting from night to daytime has accelerated visible progress at Eastside Elementary and elsewhere. New vestibule glass and security drops were described as being installed to create controlled entry points; staff said badge readers are being installed at every school with Sunny Hill noted as the only remaining site outstanding.
The district announced the creation of a school garden at Eastside Elementary to complement a new playground and said playground fences are scheduled to begin installation Sept. 15; fences will be installed before swings are attached due to ongoing construction safety.
Academic and personnel updates included a leadership development week for principals and other leadership cohorts launching on the 16th; Anna Roberts, a principal, was named a Haywood County participant accepted into the Tennessee Rural Principal Network in partnership with Belmont University. Staff also noted the family newsletter’s first issue had been viewed more than 500 times.
District metrics cited in the report included 32,184 total parent sign-ins to the PowerSchool portal since the first day of school and an average of 894 sign-ins per day. Staff also said the district had recorded 67 cell-phone violations so far this year, with four in the most recent reporting period; staff described those incidents as decreasing and not escalatory.
The director’s report closed with reminders about upcoming events including a board appreciation luncheon at Eastside and the next board meeting date.
