Fremont City Schools board backs SRO contracts, reviews staff-development plan and five-year forecast

Fremont City Schools board members on the November regular meeting heard a district presentation on staff development and student behavior supports, approved contracts for three school resource officers and routine personnel and procurement items, and reviewed a five-year financial forecast that assumes modest revenue growth and continued increases in benefits and expenses.

Superintendent Hirt framed the district's second core strategic objective as supporting and developing staff, saying the district will "support and develop our staff" through three action steps: build a culture of connection and well-being, adopt a preschool-through-12 literacy focus and continue individualized professional-development choices. Principal Christina French described Krogan Elementary's PBIS (Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports) work, saying the school completed a fidelity inventory and has implemented Tier 1 at about 46% and Tier 3 at about 32%, but identified a gap in Tier 2 supports. "Our goal is to provide targeted intervention for Tier 2 students," French said, describing a newly formed Tier 2…