Board vets wording, metrics in draft strategic plan; staff to add dates and glossary

Board and staff conducted a detailed review of the draft strategic plan, discussing priorities tied to instruction, culture and climate, staff support and family engagement. Multiple members warned that language such as "implement a new ELA and a new math" could be misread as introducing brand-new materials rather than continuing multi-year implementation; one member suggested changing it to "continue implementation" or adding a year for clarity.

Staff agreed to add dates, clarify whether actions are new or continued, reduce repeated phrasing across aims, and add a glossary for acronyms to make the public-facing plan clearer. "It made it look like it was something new," one board member said of the 'implement' wording; staff said they would revise the document and publish the plan after these edits, and the board set a cadence to receive twice-yearly data updates tied to progress metrics.