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North Attleborough district highlights deeper-learning push, anti-bullying rollout and MSBA building campaign ahead of June 3 ballot
Summary
A district staff member told the North Attleborough School Committee the district focused this year on implementing deeper-learning initiatives, streamlining budget materials, revising and rolling out an anti-bullying plan to about 650 employees, and concentrating on an MSBA school building project that will go to a town ballot June 3.
A district staff member reported to the North Attleborough School Committee on May 6 that the district concentrated this year on implementing deeper-learning initiatives, streamlining budget materials, revising and disseminating its anti-bullying plan and pushing a Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) project that will appear on the town ballot on June 3.
The staff member said the district “put our foot on the gas this year” on deeper learning and aligned professional development around that theme, and worked to make budget documents clearer for stakeholders. “My goal really is about streamlining the budget,” the staff member said, adding that the district aimed to make presentations and documents “thorough, and accurate, but easy to understand, and focused.”
The district revised its Bullying Prevention and Intervention Plan and the staff member said the School Committee previously approved that revision. The plan was rolled out at the start of the school year to roughly 650 employees, the speaker said; the rollout included a short explanatory video and a dedicated section of the district website. Leadership team members also received training from the district’s legal counsel on the policy, procedures and how to conduct investigations, the staff member said.
Much of the speaker’s remarks centered on the MSBA building project. The staff member said the effort has occupied “the vast majority of my time this year and everybody in this room” and described the current period as a “sprint to the finish year.” The speaker noted that the project will be decided by a town ballot vote on June 3 and called it “probably the biggest decision the town’s gonna make in its history,” adding optimism about the outcome.
The report also described ongoing work with a colleague named Gil on budget development, and emphasized that deeper-learning goals informed professional development offerings throughout the year.
The School Committee meeting record provided no vote tallies or formal motions related to the items discussed during this report. The committee previously approved the revised bullying plan, but vote details were not specified in the meeting remarks.
