Board sets goals for school department
Board sets goals for school department
By Lucas Knowles
Editor
The Scarborough School Board and school department have outlined their goals for both the short term and long term.
At its meeting last week, the School Board finalized a list of goals that range from target dates of January 2007 to June 2011.
Goals were divided into the categories of educational initiatives, administration, facilities, wellness and community involvement.
Under educational initiatives, goals include identifying and implementing maximum student/teacher ratios, developing an academic support model, increasing instructional time, implementing programming that will help students to achieve Maine’s Learning Results (a set of standards for students outlined by the state), maintaining and strengthening assessments and setting achievement goals for those assessments.
Administrative goals include developing “teaching specialists,” reviewing the current organizational structure in the schools, using data, updating and implementing the K-12 Comprehensive Developmental School Guidance Proposal and the K-12 Scarborough Library/Information Centers Proposal.
Goals for facilities in the plan are mostly contingent on whether town referendums for an addition to Scarborough Middle School and the construction of a new Wentworth Intermediate School passed on Election Day. The plan also calls for a strategic facilities plan to be drawn up for the K-2 primary schools.
Under wellness and community involvement, goals include implementing a wellness policy, providing opportunities to improve wellness for staff and students, involving community members in school activities more frequently, increasing “effective communication” with the community and increasing access to facilities for community groups.
Methods proposed for achieving goals range from conducting research and compiling data to getting feedback from staff.
Superintendent David Doyle said the goals will hopefully impact the school system in many ways and will become more specific in the near future. He said education has changed during the past few decades and the goals are meant to reflect that change.
“I think we are becoming more and more aware that we are part of a shrinking globe and we preparing kids for that,” Doyle said.
According to Doyle, the School Board will have more workshops to help formulate more concrete goals.
By Lucas Knowles
Editor
The Scarborough School Board and school department have outlined their goals for both the short term and long term.
At its meeting last week, the School Board finalized a list of goals that range from target dates of January 2007 to June 2011.
Goals were divided into the categories of educational initiatives, administration, facilities, wellness and community involvement.
Under educational initiatives, goals include identifying and implementing maximum student/teacher ratios, developing an academic support model, increasing instructional time, implementing programming that will help students to achieve Maine’s Learning Results (a set of standards for students outlined by the state), maintaining and strengthening assessments and setting achievement goals for those assessments.
Administrative goals include developing “teaching specialists,” reviewing the current organizational structure in the schools, using data, updating and implementing the K-12 Comprehensive Developmental School Guidance Proposal and the K-12 Scarborough Library/Information Centers Proposal.
Goals for facilities in the plan are mostly contingent on whether town referendums for an addition to Scarborough Middle School and the construction of a new Wentworth Intermediate School passed on Election Day. The plan also calls for a strategic facilities plan to be drawn up for the K-2 primary schools.
Under wellness and community involvement, goals include implementing a wellness policy, providing opportunities to improve wellness for staff and students, involving community members in school activities more frequently, increasing “effective communication” with the community and increasing access to facilities for community groups.
Methods proposed for achieving goals range from conducting research and compiling data to getting feedback from staff.
Superintendent David Doyle said the goals will hopefully impact the school system in many ways and will become more specific in the near future. He said education has changed during the past few decades and the goals are meant to reflect that change.
“I think we are becoming more and more aware that we are part of a shrinking globe and we preparing kids for that,” Doyle said.
According to Doyle, the School Board will have more workshops to help formulate more concrete goals.
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