Superintendent's Goals

Superintendent Dr. George Parker has announced his goals for the 2018-2019 school year. The goals are aligned with the five areas of the strategic plan:

• Quality Curriculum
• Employee Expertise
• Accountability Systems
• Community Connections
• Financial Resiliency

• Develop and communicate a Framework for Effective Teaching; and establish a division-wide plan for building teacher capacity to improve teaching and learning through professional development and access to resources.
• Conduct a divisionwide Instructional Resource Audit to determine the quality, variability and equity or teacher classroom resources.
• Schedule an audit of the K-12 curriculum by an external service provider by the end of the school year.

• Support teacher retention by establishing a two-year Novice Teacher Professional Teaching Program by Spring 2019.
• Improve employee communication and climate through the establishment of Teacher and Support Staff Advisory Committees which meet quarterly with division leadership to discuss employee, climate, academic or safety related concerns.
• Collaborate with local government to Identify, Communicate and Advocate for reasonable adjustments to employee compensation and benefits based on the regional market.

• Establish metrics for assessing the effectiveness of the SPARK Program and Identify any necessary program adjustments by Spring 2019.
• Identify and acquire the necessary assessment tools to enable NNPS to: Assess grade-level equivalence; Determine student growth or progress; and provide intervention support for students who require Tier 2 or Tier 3 academic assistance.
• Decrease the disproportionate percentage of removals from instruction for Black students and Students with a Disability by 5% for the 2018-2019 school year.
• Utilize a tiered support model, with a K-12 collaborative school support team structure, to build capacity and increase the number of accredited schools to 30 schools (10%).

• Host a State of Schools Address for the community.
• Establish at a minimum (2) new community or business partnerships that support expanding opportunities for workforce development.
• Establish at a minimum (1) new partnership with higher education or local business that provides access and opportunity to higher education or employment for lowincome students.
• Complete an inventory of all community, business and educational partners for the division by December 2018

• Monitor and ensure completion or progress on all division capital projects to include SCOT and Huntington Middle School.
• Monitor and communicate the status of revenue and expenditures related to the FY19 Budget to ensure proper fiscal accounting and reporting.
• Develop and communicate effectively, division priorities and budgetary needs through the development of an Estimates of Needs and Proposed FY20 Operating Budget.
• Cultivate community and stakeholder support in the development and approval of the Fiscal Year 2020 Operating and Capital Budgets.
• Ensure reporting of school spending is in accordance with the new ESSA requirements.