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Webster School Committee approves strategic plan after debate over safety and implementation details
Summary
After extended discussion about school safety and how the plan will be implemented locally, the Webster School Committee voted June 9 to approve its strategic plan while directing staff to provide aligned school improvement plans ahead of the next meeting.
The Webster School Committee voted Tuesday to approve its district strategic plan after members debated whether the document contains sufficient detail on student and staff safety and on multi‑tiered supports.
Member Miller, who raised concerns during the meeting, said she repeatedly reviewed the draft and could not find language she expected addressing safety. “I could not find that addressed,” she said, adding that the district needs clear steps and resources to make goals achievable rather than only high‑level goals.
Superintendent Mrs. Frangeli and staff responded that the strategic plan is intended as a higher‑level framework that will be supported by cascading action plans at the school level. “By implementing the structures, we're gonna be reducing student behavioral incidents, and it tells you how we're gonna do and how we're gonna measure those benchmarks at the end,” Mrs. Frangeli said, describing work on MTSS (multi‑tiered system of supports), progress monitoring and stakeholder surveys.
Committee members discussed timing and options for further review; staff told the committee that school improvement plans aligned to the strategic plan must be submitted to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education by June 30 and that those more detailed plans will be available to the committee ahead of the June 22 meeting. One member suggested a workshop to unpack evidence‑based interventions and how schools will measure progress.
A motion to approve the strategic plan was moved and seconded; a roll‑call vote was held and the motion passed. Committee members were told the committee will receive school improvement plans and related action plans that translate the strategic goals into school‑level implementation steps.
The approval leaves the strategic plan in place as the district prepares and submits the required school improvement plans to DESE; the committee discussed but did not adopt specific additional language to the strategic plan itself at the June 9 meeting.
What happens next: staff will provide the three aligned school improvement plans and more detailed action steps for committee review prior to the June 22 meeting.
