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Superintendent Redmond updates board on 2025–27 strategic plan progress, highlights student connectedness results and CTE expansion
Summary
Doctor Redmond told the board the district is making progress on 15 action steps across four pillars — staff learning, student safety/support, student growth, and family communication — reported high connectedness survey results for high school and described plans to add two CTE pathways next year.
Doctor Redmond presented a mid‑course update on the Warrick County School Corporation strategic plan for 2025–2027, reporting progress across the plan’s four pillars and outlining next steps.
She said all 15 action steps are at least in progress, with two currently between 'exploring' and 'in progress.' Under staff empowerment and professional learning, Redmond described district efforts to create time and structures for teacher collaboration (road shows by the Department of Learning, middle‑school focus groups and a teacher leadership academy with 21 participants). She said the district is considering alignment work between high‑school technology/CTE and the WPCC pathway center.
On student safety and support, Redmond summarized a high‑school connectedness survey and said districtwide responses showed 78 percent of surveyed high‑school students reported involvement in school activities. For three targeted items — having at least one trusted adult in the building, reporting having a friend, and knowing how to report a safety concern — she said the district recorded 93 percent, 98 percent and 95 percent, respectively. Redmond said building principals will be able to identify and reach out to students who answered 'no' to any of those questions and that the district will resurvey at the end of the year.
Redmond also described adjustments to safety‑drill timing to vary drills throughout the day and announced that communications about a new open‑gate system and three parent safety meetings will go out in January. On student growth and success, she said the district is expanding MTSS foundations to middle schools, working on transitions from fifth to sixth grade and eighth to ninth grade, and will add two new CTE pathways (early childhood and computer science) next school year.
On family communication, Redmond said the district is creating a parent hub of videos and resources (delayed briefly by the district website vendor change) and is coordinating parent series on mental‑health topics. She described a range of school examples for disseminating contact information for counselors and social workers and said all 18 schools have reported how they will share that information.
Redmond closed by noting other district recognitions and local presentations by school teams. Board members asked follow‑up questions about rolling the diploma/accountability model into future planning; Redmond said final accountability changes expected in December could affect course‑taking requirements and that the district will bring details back early next semester.
