Green Bay Area Public School District board approves personnel moves, previews strategic-plan timeline and to assume election duties from city

The Green Bay Area Public School District Board of Education approved three personnel items during a special meeting and then spent its work session mapping out how the district will report on strategic priorities, make modest handbook changes, and pursue energy-efficiency projects while preparing to run its own school-board elections.

In the special meeting that opened the evening, Jeanette read motions to approve staff employment, transfers and resignations. "I move that the employment of staff as presented be approved," she said; online voting was used and trustees announced the motions carried with all board members voting in favor. The board moved immediately into the work session.

At the start of the work session, David Johns presented a calendar that will give each priority area a substantial monthly focus beginning in September and running through July of the following year. He said the structure was designed to provide the most timely available data for board review and to link updates to annual goals and the five-year strategic plan. "One thing that we heard was the importance of maintaining a quarterly focus on academics," Johns said, explaining the plan will include four academic updates and a standardized board memo and dashboard to support presentations.

Johns also told trustees the administration will later ask…