Martin County School District staff and a Studer Education partner on Tuesday presented a finalized five-year strategic plan and an organizational scorecard the district will use to track annual progress and operationalize the plan.

Heather Platt, the district’s director of professional learning, told the board the strategic plan builds on stakeholder input gathered through surveys, focus groups and collaborative sessions and identified five strategic themes that will guide district work. "The discovery phase informed the development of our strategic plan," Platt said. "Their voices shaped the foundation of our work."

Cathy Oropallo, a director and leader coach with Studer Education, described the scorecard as a working roadmap that links five-year goals to annual SMART goals, aligned measures, strategic actions and progress measures. The scorecard will include quarterly "stoplight" indicators (green, yellow, red) for quick assessment and will cascade from district-level measures to department and school goals.

Oropallo said the approach focuses leadership development, aligned measures and short-cycle improvement to accelerate results. She gave district-specific examples: a district-level SMART target tied to a district services survey (timeliness mean score) moving from 3.96 to 4.06 by 2026, and a departmental mean target moving from 4.16 to 4.11 as aligned annual goals.

Board members asked clarifying questions about how the scorecard measures service excellence and timeliness. Oropallo said the district will define service across multiple attributes, including accuracy, attitude, accessibility and timeliness, and that progress measures will allow the district to adapt actions during the year.

The district will present a summary scorecard to the board quarterly, with a working scorecard maintained by lead teams that will track strategic actions, progress measures and champion leads at the department and school levels.