School Board Brainstorms Goals

SAU #39's new superintendent Peter Warburton spent time this week working with other school district leaders to develop a list of goals they want to accomplish in their district.

This week's school board meeting was Warburton's first as superintendent and he told the board that he aims to "hit the ground learning."

He told each member to list their top goals for their school district in order to improve the quality of education and organization within it. Warburton said the list of goals would be used to craft initiatives and action towards their completetion. 

The following is the list they came up with at Tuesday's meeting:

Goals

• Accountability system that measures the impact of differentiated instruction on all learners (implementation and effectiveness)
• Effective and consistent teacher and administrator evaluation systems
• Identify and implement any performance indicators across all schools
• A continuation of consistent policy development and adoption 
• Unified SAU
• Greater analysis in presentations, cost benefits, pros and cons, potential problems
• Communication – Reaching all taxpayers, regular outreach to communities outside typical strategies between schools
• Creating smooth transitions across schools – Develop a strong transition process. Increased melding between 8^th and 9^th grade
• Revising policies down to key elements. Remove non-essentials
• Develop a seamlessly integrated K-12 curriculum in all areas. Be strategic, more future oriented (Do not drop literacy as we move to math)
• Improve and clarify the way the super intendent and SAI board communicate. Be cheerleaders for one another
• Understand the bottom line on finances, where we spend
• Coherent performance indicators
• Develop a process that fosters cross school understanding
• Support one another
• Combine SAU resources to establish greater consistency
• The SAU board should work together to develop an alternative to decile systems
• Curriculum – Increase school board understanding of K-12 curriculum programs
• Collaboration