The Courier of Montgomery County reports that Conroe ISD, with a new school board operating, is working on a strategic plan. They want one that will coordinate campus goals put together in past years by legislation and former trustees.
While the district has goals, according to Superintendent Curtis Null, it lacks a strategic plan.
He says what’s missing is a “strategic plan that would help align all those goals.”
The need for a plan has been discussed, but a focus on bond elections and the COVID-19 pandemic has delayed the effort.
The district has an improvement plan in place, according to Deputy Superintendent for the District Bethany Medford. She said it focuses on specific goals, including performance gaps, to better student outcomes but does not have a longer duration strategic plan.
Medford presented during Tuesday’s workshop five goals. Those goals included school leadership and fiscal responsibility, student achievement and post secondary success, recruitment, development and retention of staff, a collaborative school culture that is safe and effective instruction. She said the goals all “hold equal weight.”
Input from the community is what board members said was key to development of a plan, which would, in the end, improve student outcomes district-wide.
Setting district goals for reading was a priority for Board President Misty Odenweller. She says, “Everything comes down to that literacy and reading part.”
