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CCPS blueprint coordinator gives status update; focus shifts from writing to implementation
Summary
Dr. Johnson, CCPS chief operations officer and blueprint coordinator, told the steering committee that submissions to MSDE and AIB are underway, that the district must document a 10% salary increase and career-ladder negotiations, and that the work will move from plan-writing to concrete action plans with fiscal notes.
Doctor Johnson, identified in the meeting as chief operations officer for Calvert County Public Schools and serving as the blueprint coordinator, briefed the Calvert County Blueprint Steering Committee on the district’s implementation progress and next steps.
“We had to provide reports on the 10% salary increase,” Doctor Johnson said, describing a set of documentation already submitted to the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) as part of the blueprint review. She said MSDE had returned questions and requested revisions before the plan moves to the AIB for further review.
Johnson listed other deliverables CCPS submitted this summer: the comprehensive literacy plan, a 9th-grade tracker report and the first renewal submission for the MVC program. She said career-ladder negotiations are ongoing and that the district has not yet negotiated level 4, which will require additional meetings.
The presentation organized priorities around four pillars: (1) pre-kindergarten expansion and partnerships, (2) professional learning and growing teachers including induction and mentoring, (3) strengthening core instruction and implementing a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS), and (4) student supports including health and wellness.
Johnson emphasized a shift from drafting the blueprint to building implementation action plans and tying each prospective change to a fiscal note. “So when we think about exploration, we’re talking about during the day of tutoring… What would that mean if we have to pay tutors to come into our schools,” she said, noting those considerations will affect staffing, schedules and budgets.
Committee members praised the presentation and asked staff to return with next steps that could be shared with the Board of County Commissioners before the budget season. Johnson said she and staff will prepare materials and consider inviting pillar chairs to present when appropriate.
The committee took no formal policy action at this presentation; the meeting recorded discussion and follow-up assignments.
