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Westbury UFSD presents 2024–25 goals, sets measurable attendance and course targets
Summary
Superintendent’s report and cabinet presentations outlined four district goals for 2024–25, including a 7% reduction in students meeting New York State chronic-absenteeism thresholds and a 5% increase in credit-bearing courses, plus expanded device take-home eligibility and a proposed principals academy.
Westbury Union Free School District officials presented a set of four strategic goals and related objectives for the 2024–25 school year during the board meeting. The district released a vignette of the larger goals document and said the full plan would be posted on the superintendent’s web page.
The framework centers on four priorities: scholar achievement; leadership, culture and communication; district operations and financial management; and family and community engagement. In the scholar-achievement pillar, the presentation identified specific, measurable objectives: reduce the number of students meeting or exceeding the New York State chronic-absenteeism threshold by 7% and increase the number of credit-bearing courses taken by Westbury High School scholars by 5%.
Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction (Secondary) Bridal Gallivan framed the work as aligned with New York State’s Graduation Measures Initiative and the district’s International Baccalaureate program, saying the district is building “new pathways available to students to demonstrate that they are ready to graduate.” Gallivan also described work to define essential curriculum elements (the district’s “boulders, rocks and butterflies”) for literacy and mathematics in grades K–8.
District leaders said the technology plan includes expanded take-home Chromebook eligibility, potentially allowing students as early as third grade to bring devices home to support learning outside school. Under operations, the district listed capital work (a new bus loop and expanded parking at Drexel Avenue Elementary), an application for Smart Schools funding to enhance safety and security, and completion of a high-school production studio with upgraded audio-visual systems.
On leadership and culture, officials proposed creating an aspiring-principals academy (minimum eight sessions) to build an internal leadership pipeline and launching a digital recognition program, Highlight, intended to increase positive staff-to-staff acknowledgement; the district reported 181 highlights after a recent launch.
Officials tied family-engagement objectives to concrete actions: at least four districtwide family workshops focusing on attendance, the introduction of three new interscholastic sports for 2024–25, intramural programs in grades 1–5 and middle school, and continued use of student advisory councils to gather scholar input before major decisions.
The presentation also highlighted the district’s third annual social-emotional learning (SEL) fair, which administrators said had broad participation from staff, vendors and community partners and was supported by a consultant, Dr. Teresa Taylor Williams, who helped lead the initiative for three years.
Next steps: the board was asked to approve the goals and related objectives at a later vote; officials said they would provide regular progress reports at future Board of Education meetings and the full goals document will be accessible on the superintendent’s page online.
