Huntington School Board members and the officials who run the district on a daily basis are continuing their pursuit of a set of seven challenging goals that trustees have determined are worthy of their focus.
Huntington trustees Christine Biernacki, Kelly Donovan, Bill Dwyer, Thomas Galvin, Michele Kustera, Xavier Palacios and Theresa Sullivan settled upon the goals following a series of in depth discussions with administrators at multiple public meetings.
Trustees and school officials have been dogged in their determination as they go about pursuing the goals. The goals will also play in a role in decisions made during development of the 2022/23 school year budget.
A copy of the goals has been posted on the district’s website. They include:
• Formulate and implement a school opening plan and procedures based on such core guiding principles as safety, flexibility and maintenance of in-person learning and extracurricular opportunities.
• Further develop culturally responsive and technologically transformative K-12 learning environments designed to meet the needs of individual learners within a diverse school community.
• Evaluate and address gaps in student and staff social and emotional well-being, including helping to reestablish or build upon interpersonal connections throughout the district that may have been limited throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Expand the Response to Intervention process to address gaps in learning resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic on an individualized basis.
• Build upon existing means of home-school communication and collaboration in an effort to address family needs through in-person and virtual means.
• Engage in ongoing review of the district’s Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act and American Rescue Plan Act funding allocations to ensure that they provide the maximum benefit to district schools, students and programs.
• Explore and/or evaluate long-term options for safe, efficient and fiscally responsible means of transportation of eligible students to/from school and district-related events and activities.