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Superintendent reports progress on behavior program pilot after Grants Pass visits
Summary
The superintendent updated trustees on visits to Grants Pass School District to study its behavior program model. Principals and staff attended, and the district plans further principal-level meetings to determine how to adapt the program locally while preserving small-group instruction.
The superintendent told the board the district had sent roughly 22 administrators and staff on site visits to Grants Pass School District to examine a behavior program designed to remove students temporarily from classrooms, collect behavioral data, and support reintegration.
Doris and David, who have worked with principals on the follow-up, said the principal team will meet to decide how the district might replicate aspects of Grants Pass while accounting for local resources and school-size differences. Trustees heard that some principals are ready to move forward while others are more cautious pending the principal-level discussion. Staff said the goal is to use targeted environments to help students return successfully to regular classrooms, not to create permanent exclusion.
Board members asked whether PBL (small‑group instruction) staff would be reassigned and whether the program would displace existing interventions; staff replied that the intent is to preserve small‑group instruction though some reduction rather than elimination of PBL may occur because of enrollment and staffing constraints. The superintendent invited board members to observe the principal PLC meeting scheduled the following day.
