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ENTRY PLAN RECOMMENDATIONSMay 13, 2008
Mark P. Mondanaro
Superintendent of Schools
Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda UFSD
Goal 1:Develop and ensure effective district governance through effective and positive Board-Superintendent Relations
Strategies/
Activities
Time Participants Lead Person
Budget Results
1. Develop new
BOE Goals.
Fall
2007
Erie County School Boards Superintendent
Board Members
BOE President
Annual allocation
Goals adopted 12.11.07
a. Develop monitoring or
progress Tool.
Spring 2008
BOE Members
Public Relations
Supt.
Public Relations
N/A Evaluation
Goal 1:Develop and ensure effective district governance through effective and positive Board-Superintendent Relations
b. Revise Goals.
Summer
2008
Superintendent
BOE Members
BOE President
Annual allocation
Re-adoption if necessary.
2. Ensure BOE participation in required and desired governance training.
Annually BOE Members District Clerk
Annual allocation
Updated records and submissions.
Goal 1:Develop and ensure effective district governance through effective and positive Board-Superintendent Relations
a. Attend annual State, SLN, and FRN Conferences.
Fall 07
Spring 08
BOE Members
Supt.
BOE President
&
Mary Lou Saur
Annual allocation
Increased operational knowledge.
b. Attend ECSB Seminars.
Quarterly BOE Members
BOE President
&
Mary Lou Saur
n/a Increased operational knowledge.
Goal 1:Develop and ensure effective district governance through effective and positive Board-Superintendent Relations
3. Revise BOE required and necessary policies.
Monthly BOE President
Vice President
Supt.
Cabinet
BOE President
&
Mary Lou Saur
Boces
5,000 Updated,
approved
and disseminated policies.
4. BOE self-evaluation of governance.
Annually BOE BOE President n/a Completed instrument.
Goal 1:Develop and ensure effective district governance through effective and positive Board-Superintendent Relations
5. Board is updated with timely information regarding district operations.
Weekly Supt.
Cabinet
Superintendent
Mary Lou Saur
n/a Electronic weekly updates delivered.
Goal 2:Increase student achievement for all students while simultaneously closing the achievement gap
1. All students will achieve competency in the NYSTP.
2014 Faculty
Students
Janet
Gillmeister
(see allocations for activities)
100%
passing rate
for students.
a. Train leadership teams in building-wide Instructional Improvement Plan
formation.
Summer
2008
Administrators
SIT Reps.
CLS
Staff-Dev
Data and research
Janet
Gillmeister
Pending Completed training.
Goal 2:Increase student achievement for all students while simultaneously closing the achievement gap
b. IIP steps will include:
* Needs Assessment
* Conclusion Statements
* Root Cause Analysis
* Strategies
*Milestone formation
* Bldg. & Dist. Follow-up
Fall
2008
(same) Building Principals
Pending Detailed, simple plans.
2. LASW protocols and professional staff collaborative time established.
Fall
2008
(same) Janet Gillmeister
Pending LASW protocols established.
Professional learning community collaboration established.
Goal 2:Increase student achievement for all students while simultaneously closing the achievement gap
3. Create building Data-Dashboards to facilitate easier principal and faculty student achievement data access.
December
2008
Data-Research
IDAB
Tech. Staff
Faculty Admin. Reps.
Barbara Battaglia
Annual allocation
Building Dash Boards
4. Increase accelerated student achievement participation & offerings (AP, possible IB, etc), as well as levels of distinction performance.
September
2008
Principals,
CLS & faculty
Janet
Gillmeister
Pending recs.
Increased participation and level of distinction performance
Goal 2:Increase student achievement for all students while simultaneously closing the achievement gap
5. Stabilize and decrease need for students to be classified by CSE
a. Form RTI district committee charged for recs. & policy.
Spring
2008Faculty
Parents
Administrators
Thomas Wolff
n/a
Recs. received and acted upon
6. Support recs. from district co-teaching committee (structural, instructional, student learning)
Annual Administrators A. Erzkus
M. LoVullo
Rec. dependent
Recs. acted upon by administrators
Goal 2:Increase student achievement for all students while simultaneously closing the achievement gap
7. Administrator assigned to at risk student programs including:
* GED waivers
* Suspension Education
* Placement
* Transitions
* Credit Recovery
Summer
2008
Superintendent
Cabinet
Mark Mondanaro
08-09 budget approval
Assignment
Goal 2:Increase student achievement for all students while simultaneously closing the achievement gap
8. Support and evaluate current literacy program.
Annual Administration
Faculty
Janet Gillmester
$100,000 local
Consultant
Title 1
Increased student literacy and program evaluation.
Goal 2:Increase student achievement for all students while simultaneously closing the achievement gap
9. Raise Curriculum scan aggregate perception scores to at least 4 for all areas.
2 years Administration
Faculty
CLS
Data-Research
Mark Mondanaro
Pending action plan
November 2010
a. Develop action plan to include: internal audit, curriculum cycle formation to SED cycle, and adopted BOE policy.
Summer 2008
Administration
Faculty
CLS
Data-Research
Janet Gillmeister
Pending Completed action plan
August 31st, 2008
Goal 2:Increase student achievement for all students while simultaneously closing the achievement gap
10. Revise elementary report card.
08-09 Faculty
Parents
Administration
Janet Gillmeister
n/a pending recs.
Revised report card implemented
September 2009.
11. Maximize time on task.
Example: H.S.
* 45 Min. Periods
* 30 Min. Lunches
* Grading Policies
08-09 Faculty
Counselors
Administrators
Parents
Principals n/a Detailed plans for increasing time on task for 09-10 school year.
Goal 2:Increase student achievement for all students while simultaneously closing the achievement gap
12. Revise Annual
Performance Plan Review (APPR).
July
2008
Administration
Faculty
BOE
Steve
Bovino
n/a Revised BOE approved APPR including district wide evaluation format.
Goal 3:Improve public trust, commitment and confidence through open, honest communication and responsive corrective action to identified obstacles to student achievement and conditions of teaching and learning
1. Develop long range facilities plan for possible late 2008 vote.
2008 Architect
Faculty
Administration
Gerry Stuitje
$50,000 Approved long range and/or phased plan.
2. Collaborate with Town to achieve common goals for youth.
On-going Leaders Mark
Mondanaro
Pending Improved opportunities for youth pending
findings.
Goal 3:Improve public trust, commitment and confidence through open, honest communication and responsive corrective action to identified obstacles to student achievement and conditions of teaching and learning
3. Fund ONLY programs that are working in both good and bad financial times.
Annually Cabinet Mark Mondanaro
Pending evaluations
Based on program evaluation.
4. Follow through with all internal and external financial audit recommendations in a timely fashion.
Post
reports
Cabinet Gerry Stuitje Recommendation
dependentCompleted compliance
Goal 3:Improve public trust, commitment and confidence through open, honest communication and responsive corrective action to identified obstacles to student achievement and conditions of teaching and learning
5. Maintain fund equity and keep the tax rate stable.
Annually Financial Department
Gerry Stuitje n/a Revenue vs. expenditure increases
tracked for
stable tax rate.
6. Decrease the appropriated fund balance while creating a viable capital reserve.
Annually Financial
Department
Gerry Stuitje n/a Established capital reserve.
Goal 3:Improve public trust, commitment and confidence through open, honest communication and responsive corrective action to identified obstacles to student achievement and conditions of teaching and learning
7. Follow through with all internal and external Public Relations Activities outlined in Assistant to Superintendent for Public Relation’s Entry Plan.
Plan oriented
Principals
Faculty
Students
Parents
Employees
Community
Michael Haggerty
Pending
(annual allocation)
Completed steps and improved Public Relations.
8. Establish a Kenmore Education Foundation.
[501(c)(3)]
December
2008
Faculty
Community
School Attorney
PR
Mark Mondanaro
Attorney fees
Established Kenmore Education Foundation.
Goal 3:Improve public trust, commitment and confidence through open, honest communication and responsive corrective action to identified obstacles to student achievement and conditions of teaching and learning
9. Migrate to a more capable and comprehensive financial management software program.
December
2009
Payroll
HR
Financial
department
Gerry
Stuitje
60,000
(BOCES aidable)
Completed migration and user training for all financialcomponents
Goal 4: Increase organizational effectiveness and efficiency
1. Revise Program Supervisor allocation through formula criterion
(pupils, SES, AYP)
08-09 Cabinet
Administration
Mark Mondanaro
n/a Re-allocation
as evidenced.
2. Increase CLS delineation to further support student achievement
(principals as contacts as opposed to “in charge” of subject areas”
08-09 Cabinet Mark Mondanaro
Contractual Increased CLS’s starting with Math and
ELA elementary.
Goal 4: Increase organizational effectiveness and efficiency
3. Revise Director of Data and Research to include accountability.
08-09 Superintendent
KAA
Board of Education
Mark Mondanaro
Pending Established Office of Accountability,
Data, and Research
4. Upgrade Director of Student Services to oversee Special Education.
08-09 Superintendent
Board of Education
Mark Mondanaro
Pending Established
Executive Director.
Goal 4: Increase organizational effectiveness and efficiency
5. Re-establish Director of Technology
(align tech. to Asst. Supt. for HR as intermediate step)
? Superintendent
Board of Education
Mark Mondanaro
$70,000 Eventual position
6. Transfer field trip and fund raising oversight from ASCI to PR.
08-09 Superintendent Mark Mondanaro
n/a Duties transferred
Goal 4: Increase organizational effectiveness and efficiency
7. Restore some permanent B&G positions and reduce B&G substitute expenditures.
08-09 Cabinet
B & G Supervisor
Mark Mondanaro
(-130,000) Established FTE.
8. React to and follow through with external clerical study recommendations.
March
2008
Outside
consultant
Stephen
Bovino
Pending Pending
recommendations
Goal 4: Increase organizational effectiveness and efficiency
9. Establish stringent position control system.
07-08 Ron Moser
Payroll Financial Office
Stephen
Bovino
n/a Position control payroll system established in HR Department.
10. Evaluate remaining work flow systems for efficiency.
08-09 Consultant Mark Mondanaro
Pending Pending recommendations
Goal 4: Increase organizational effectiveness and efficiency
11. ASCI to supervise Principals as CLS phase in and reorganization continues.
January 2010
Janet Gillmeister
Mark Mondanaro
Mark Mondanaro
Pending ASCI evaluations of Principals.
Goal 4: Increase organizational effectiveness and efficiency
12.Migrate STARBASE student information system to BOCES system of choice.
10-11
School year
Tech. services
Principals
Clerical
Data-Research
Cabinet
Joanne Mendola
$35,000
(BOCES aidable)
New student information system.
13. Create student central registry.
09-10
School year
Principals
Clerical
Tech. Services
Thomas Wolff
$40,000 Central District student enrollment registry.
Goal 5:Establish a supportive, positive, and effective district climate singularly focused on achievement and “Good to Great” systems thinking
1. Establish BHAG for 2020, including Core Purpose and Core Values.
Spring
2008
Faculty
Parents
Students
Community
BOE
Employees
Don Smyton
and
Michael Haggerty
$125.00 Completed Core Purpose and Core Values, along with 2020 BHAG and parallel
Vivid Description.
2. Increase Perceptual Data on Jim Collins survey.
Every 1.5 years
Employees Mark Mondanaro
n/a Increased,
quantified results.
Goal 5:Establish a supportive, positive, and effective district climate singularly focused on achievement and “Good to Great” systems thinking
3. Convene student World Café: an integrated set of design principles for hosting conversations that matter.
08-09 Students
Interested faculty
Superintendent
Michael
Haggerty
Pending What do we now see and know as a result of these student
conversations?
Next steps
Revise based on feedback Complete Final Entry Plan Comprehensive
Report & Establish Tracking System Publicize! Take Action! THANK YOU!
Abbreviation Appendix:
BOE= Board of Education SLN= State Legislative Network ECSB= Erie County School Boards FRN= Federal Relations Network NYSTP= New York State Testing Program CLS= Curriculum Learning Specialist LASW= looking at student work AP= Advanced Placement. IB=International Baccalaureate SWD= Students With Disabilities RTI= Response to Intervention GED= General Education Development SED= State Education Department ASCI= Assistant Superintendent For Curriculum and Instruction HR= Human Resources B&G= Buildings and Grounds BHAG=Big Hairy Audacious Goal IB=International Baccalaureate