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Board highlights professional learning plan, bond projects and new bond website
Summary
Trustees summarized a professional learning plan focused on literacy supports and behavior-embedded coaching, and provided updates on 2023 bond projects including the Aquatic Center schematic budget, Northern Hills Middle planning and a new public bond website with project schedules.
The Forest Hills Public Schools board spent substantial time reviewing instructional support plans and bond-project progress.
Speaker S3 summarized the district’s professional learning plan, saying it is designed to support district goals—particularly literacy interventions—and to deliver differentiated professional development that incorporates behavioral supports, job-embedded coaching and collaborative time for teachers on days when students are not in the building. Speaker S3 noted Kim Van Antwerp of the district inspection office gave a presentation the board found useful.
On facilities, Speaker S2 reported the Aquatic Center project had reached the schematic budget phase and said the district’s goal is to bid the work in July and begin construction around a year later, with a target start near next October. Northern Hills Middle is in an early ‘‘meet-and-learn’’ phase involving teachers and building users, and the district has stood up a bond facilities team that will meet quarterly; Dr. Fossum and Speaker S2 said they will serve as representatives.
Speaker S2 also described a newly launched 2023 bond webpage with photos, project schedules and projected budgets extending across an 8–10 year timeline to help community members track when specific schools will be renovated.
The transcript records these updates and planning steps; it does not include final construction contracts, bid results or funding reauthorizations in the excerpt provided.
Next steps: bond-team quarterly meetings, continued planning for Northern Hills Middle, and public access to the bond project schedule via the district site.
