Kent School District presented a fall update on its Building Bridges strategic plan (2023–2028), describing areas of progress and concern across four strategic goals.

Sarah Dumeau and Allison Liao summarized selected metrics: typical-growth math benchmark (I-Ready) improved from 43% to 48% year-over-year; the percentage of students earning college credit through dual-credit pathways increased from 55% to 58.9%; staff sense-of-belonging dipped slightly from 65% to 64%. The district reported it has delivered school-supplies support to all 44 schools for the current year.

Presenters introduced Panorama, a social-emotional-learning and staff-climate tool that allows the district to disaggregate results by school, grade, race/ethnicity and program and to target interventions. Leaders emphasized that priority initiatives are treated as time‑bound projects with planning, implementation and evaluation phases and that completed initiatives enter continuity planning rather than being abandoned.

Board members asked for detail on which metrics are trending up or down across the roughly 39 dashboard indicators and pressed for more analysis about why some targets remain far from goal (for example, state‑level proficiency gaps). Staff said the full dashboard is publicly available and agreed to provide additional breakdowns on request.

What happens next: Staff will publish and continue to update the dashboard and follow up with the board on requests for metric-by-metric trend analyses and on implementation fidelity.