Beatrice Public Schools principals presented progress on the district strategic plan and school-level priorities, describing classroom-level steps to make instruction more consistent and to monitor student progress with shared data systems.

At the elementary level, leaders said the district will emphasize Tier 1 instruction across classrooms, adopt common behavior language aligned with PBIS, and require incident reporting to capture where and when behavioral problems occur. Staff described using EduCLIMBER to aggregate DIBELS and IXL results and to create common formative assessments so teachers can spot and reteach missed skills across grade-level teams.

Administrators highlighted a "guiding coalition" of teachers that will hold PLCs accountable and help ensure fidelity to the district's core instruction. The coalition, they said, will centralize formative-assessment results and help identify students who need targeted interventions through MTSS teams.

At the high school, leadership described two primary goals: reduce the percentage of behavior referrals per cohort over three years and increase graduation rates year over year. Officials said a recent cell-phone policy rollout showed fewer violations than expected and described early-stage interventions for freshmen to keep students with their cohort and improve on-time graduation.

Staff identified specific next steps: continued MTSS-team meetings, progress monitoring tied into EduCLIMBER, and reporting back to the board on data from the winter screener and early intervention pilots. Board members praised the work and asked follow-up questions about implementation timelines and supports for special-education students who lag in graduation rates.

No formal votes were taken on instructional policy during the transcripted portion of the meeting; administrators will return with data and timelines as implementation continues.