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Natick's Strategic Plan

Over the next several meetings the School Committee will focus much of its time on the progress being made in our district goals. For example, tonight  Goal #2 will be discussed.  These goals are an essential anchor for my work on this board with the hope that they always reflect deep listening to our students & families and our professionals.  

As we go through these goals, I am looking for the SMARRT objective under each of the 4 main goals and interested in how a district adapts a 5 year plan in the middle of the course.

As a new member, I have some basic questions to understand the document and how to best serve it: 

  • Who helped take the plan from yearly district goals to our multi-year strategic plan? What's the process like to form these goals? What is the process like to evaluate them?
  • Has the change from yearly goals to a multi-year strategic plan helped us be more prepared financially for things coming down the line? 
  • What is the process that is undergone for revisions to the plan?  (Obviously thing change - COVID, more awareness around race relations in the Unites States, new guidelines around dyslexia from the state, audits completed in subject areas, SEL competency updates, core programs like Open circle discontinuing.) What is the process for how we adapt a 5 year plan?
  • How do we best gather input from teachers, staff, administration, students, families, residents and town leaders so that we can assess the direction we need to go and how to adapt? 
  • When do we start planning for after 2023 what does that process look like? 
To start with these questions, I found some helpful information in some previous years minutes: 

It looks like the current strategic plan was developed with a desire to show work through a multi year format in August 1st, 2019 and possibly to link better the district goals to the Superintendent's evaluation.  Before that, the goals are listed as yearly goals for the district,  for example, July 21st, 2015.  

more to come... 


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