Bedford School Trustees to Create Learning, Space Advisory Committees

Bedford Central school officials want to create two advisory committees to deal with two subjects: one to study future enrollments and space issues, and one to focus on all the issues around student achievement and learning.

The district is already accepting applications for the second one. You can fill out an on-line application or download the application.

Here’s how Superintendent Jere Hochman describes the committees;

Student Learning Advisory Committee: The Board of Education is creating a District advisory committee concentrating on learning and achievement to offer advice on an array of topics including but not limited to:

• Learning: guiding principles of learning and student achievement
• Testing and Assessment: standardized testing; types and frequency of local tests and assessments; use of external tests as benchmarks of local student, school and district achievement; emphasis of assessment and testing with respect to time devoted to tested and non-tested content; test preparation
• Curriculum: guiding principles, processes, depth and breadth of the Bedford Central curriculum
• Achievement and Engagement: experiences and data to benchmark student achievement and academic engagement
• Communicating Success: benchmarking and communicating success: emphasis placed on rankings by national, state, and local publications; means of measuring and communicating student progress, growth, and point-in-time achievement; and means of communicating student(s) learning
• Mandates and Policy: understanding federal and state policies and reforms

The committee will meet a few times in the Spring and a schedule of meetings will be established for the 2015-2016 school year.

To fill out an on-line application please click here. To download the application please click here.

Advisory Committee on Space: The Board of Education is creating a District advisory committee whose charge will be to study District space and enrollment, the outcomes of which would not be implemented until 2016-2017 at the earliest. The committee will have representation from all of the communities in the district. It should be noted that in the interest of representing the entire district, not every applicant may be assigned to the committee; however there will be many opportunities to participate in components of the study and to offer input. The committee’s charge and application process are not yet available. If you are interested, please watch for more information in the near future.