Henderson school administrators, teachers, students and community stakeholders met Thursday morning to review the past year’s District Improvement Plan and make changes to next year’s plan.
Throughout the session at the Henderson County Schools Professional Development Center on Green Street, district principals spoke about successful initiatives that individual schools have undertaken in reading, math, science, social studies, writing, English learner, quality of safety and climate, postsecondary readiness, and ACT test taking.
Attendees near the end of the meeting broke into groups to discuss different pieces of the District Improvement Plan. Members of each group received a section of the 2023 DIP and the group discussed activities, measures of success and progress monitoring (who’s responsible for measuring progress) and made suggestions about what to keep for next year and what to cut, as well as new if new additions should be included.
Brandy Haley, the school system’s director of accountability and assessment, said the groups were to determine what schools should be doing and no longer be doing.
At the end of the group work, the marked-up sheets were handed in to Haley, who said she will compile the results and upload them to the school system website.
The new District Improvement Plan will be voted on by the Henderson County Board of Education in January, Haley said.