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Los Gatos Union presents draft five-year strategic plan with ambitious ELA and math targets
Summary
District leaders unveiled a draft strategic plan centered on an LGUSD "success profile," expanded MTSS coaching roles and performance targets that aim to lift ELA to about 82% and math to about 80% within two years, backed by new coaching positions and planned curriculum adoptions.
Los Gatos Union School District trustees on Tuesday heard a detailed draft of the district's five-year strategic plan that reframes the former student success profile as an "LGUSD success profile" and links staffing changes and curriculum work to explicit academic targets.
Superintendent Paul Johnson introduced the presentation, saying the plan was built from surveys and 41 community focus groups. Dr. Rhonda Beasley, who led the academic goal-setting discussion, told trustees she expects headline outcomes within the plan's early years: "By year 2 of our reimagined leadership, our ELA proficiency should be at 82% plus and math proficiency at 80%," she said, noting the district's most recent composite sits at about 79.4%.
The draft lays out six major objectives in plain language: academic excellence, student wellness, innovation and creativity (including STEAM and project-based learning), community and global citizenship (exploring a TK—8 world-language pathway), sustainable finance and infrastructure, and professional growth and leadership. The presentation emphasized distributed leadership through newly created MTSS coaching and specialist roles intended to move support from individually funded specialists into an integrated system of coaching and in-class support.
Board members and steering-team speakers described how the plan grew from site-based leadership seminars and a districtwide steering committee. The leadership team said the strategy reframes previously siloed supports into a more coordinated model so classroom teachers receive systematic coaching, while specialists remain available for direct intervention.
Several trustees pressed for concrete measures and budget clarity. The plan's finance sections were tied to a separate budget presentation that showed projected revenue increases driven by local property taxes and a new state professional-development block grant.
Why it matters: The district tied ambitious proficiency targets and staffing reorganization to a multi-year budgeting approach. If implemented as drafted, the plan would reshape coaching support and instructional roles across elementary and middle schools and set measurable accountability markers for literacy and numeracy outcomes.
What happens next: The board discussed but did not formally adopt the strategic plan; presenters said the plan remains a draft and will be refined before adoption. Trustees asked staff to return with finer-grained budget and implementation timelines for the reimagined MTSS roles and the curricular adoption process that underpins the academic goals.
