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District outlines integrated approach to instructional coaching and lists several upcoming contract and license items
Summary
District staff presented a plan May 19 to integrate instructional coaches into a unified Student Success Team and said five coach positions are targeted for reduction in the 2025–26 budget; the committee also previewed multiple curricular contracts and license renewals.
The Bethlehem Area SD curriculum committee on May 19 discussed a planned reorganization of instructional coaching and previewed several procurement and service items on the May 19 regular board meeting agenda.
Doctor Leeson (staff member) presented a vision to integrate the district’s specialty coaches into a unified Student Success Team that supports teachers across content and grade levels. The presentation said coaching should focus on evidence‑based instruction, teacher reflection, co‑planning and classroom modeling rather than evaluation. Staff said the district expects to reduce five instructional‑coach positions as part of efforts to balance the 2025–26 budget and to move toward a smaller, more integrated coaching cadre while retaining specialized English, math, social‑emotional and technology coaches as needed.
The curriculum committee previewed several procurement items for the full board meeting including a Keys to Literacy professional development and materials contract, renewal of Acadience Reading licenses for benchmarking and progress monitoring, renewal of Flight (a small‑group instruction/MTSS tool), a Brockle Middle School Mind & Body Club memorandum of understanding as a summer program, and a Valley Youth House MOU to provide school‑based behavioral health services at Marvine Elementary. The facilities committee had also earlier noted a custodial supplies procurement to cover year‑end needs.
Staff said coaching is intended to support teachers with classroom management, student engagement and implementation of district initiatives (for example, any new device procedures). Staff did not provide individual coach names to be reduced; the presentation framed the reductions as part of integration and budget alignment and said changes would be taken one year at a time.
The items were presented as information and as agenda previews; no final board votes were recorded in the committee meetings.
