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School board reviews draft strategic plan goals, asks for clearer metrics on talent and attendance
Summary
District staff presented a draft three‑year strategic plan with five goal areas and invited board feedback. Trustees pressed for measurable targets on staff retention, chronic absenteeism, technology uptime and AI guardrails and asked for broader employee input when the public draft is released.
District strategic‑planning staff (S11) briefed the board on a draft framework for a three‑year strategic plan covering five goal areas: academic success; safety and resiliency; talent; organizational efficiency and fiscal responsibility; and communication and engagement. “Our purpose of today's discussion is really just to talk to you about the process that we've been going through,” Strategic plan lead (S11) said, and asked the board to help prioritize goals and targets.
Board members engaged around the talent goal — particularly vacancy and retention rates for bus drivers, paraprofessionals and other high‑demand roles — and the design and anonymity of staff surveys. S6 noted the plan will use surveys and a new platform that can drill down into staff responses, and several board members urged adding exit/stay interviews and mentorship programs as strategies to retain paraprofessionals and bus personnel.
On safety and resiliency, staff proposed continuing the district’s focus on chronic absenteeism and aligning the definition to the state standard (15 unexcused days), and described attendance dashboards and targeted outreach as current strategies. Board members asked for clarity on when schools require parent meetings, tiers of support, and opportunities to examine programs that are already working at high‑performing campuses.
Trustees also asked for measurable, board‑level metrics: proposals included specifying targets for bus‑ID scan utilization, work‑order completion time, positive food‑service fund balance, internet uptime and technology utilization rates. One board member said, “I can see why that one might be a little bit challenging at first glance to understand,” (S9) and asked staff to return with measurable baselines and progress reports.
Staff outlined next steps: publish a public draft to the district’s engagement platform, hold community input sessions in April, convene a board workshop in late April for deeper discussion of measurable targets, and plan to return additional drafts through May–July with the goal of board approval before the next school year.
No formal votes were taken during the briefing; the board asked staff to incorporate the requested clarifications and metrics in subsequent drafts.
