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Board approves 2024–25 goals; superintendent outlines professional learning and raises summer-program attendance concerns
Summary
Trustees approved four board goals for 2024–25 and chartered committees; Superintendent Dr. Moyer summarized summer professional learning, new-teacher orientation and noted declining attendance in the summer learning program and the end of grant funding, tasks the district will study before budgeting next year.
The Northport-East Northport Union Free School District Board of Education voted to adopt its 2024–25 board goals and charter committees aligned to each goal on Aug. 22, approving committees for Whole Child Student Growth and Development; Belonging and Safety; Long-Range Financial Planning; and Communications and Community Engagement.
The board asked trustees to volunteer for committee service and agreed all committees will be open to the public. Trustee-read charters outlined expected committee duties: the Whole Child committee will monitor professional learning and student-growth data; Belonging and Safety will review belonging committees and equity-related dashboard elements; Long-Range Financial Planning will develop 5-year financial projections and incorporate anticipated lease revenue; Communications will explore improvements to district communications and consider a student representative to the board.
Superintendent Dr. Moyer and district presenters described a summer of professional learning that included about 700 staff seats across priority areas and work on curriculum alignment and a district "profile of a graduate." New teacher orientation will span two days with mentor assignments, laptop distribution and ongoing mentoring and coaching throughout the school year. A keynote for superintendent conference day by Bill Daggett will focus on preparing students for future workforce needs.
District presenters also flagged declining participation in the districtsummer learning program (a 4-week program of 16 sessions) and said the current grant that funded the program expires this year; preliminary data are being collected and the district will compare fall benchmark results to measure impact and inform whether to budget for the program going forward.
Trustees praised the professional-learning plan and noted the boardwill hold committee-of-the-whole meetings as part of the professional development process and public engagement.
What happens next: Committees will be chartered with membership returned to the chair; the Long-Range Financial Planning Committee will develop a 5-year outlook that includes any projected lease revenue, and the district will report back with data on summer-program outcomes and cost implications.
