Superintendent Dan Kieser briefed the board on plans for the next meeting and the district’s school-improvement focus for the year.

Kieser said the board development meeting will begin at 5 p.m., earlier than the board’s typical 6:30 p.m. start, and will include a tour of buildings and 10-minute presentations from each building leadership team on their SAIL plans. “We break the year up into three 100-day cycles,” Kieser said, describing an iterative process of focusing strategies to produce interim indicators and improved state measures.

He said the district’s annual meeting will begin at 6 p.m., when Erica Pickett will present the budget and projections and the community will have an opportunity to weigh in. Immediately following the annual meeting, the board will hold its regular meeting and is scheduled to adopt the budget and levy; Kate Algren will present interim indicator data. Kieser said fall testing is still being completed and that staff will coordinate providing interim-indicator materials to the board in advance of the development session.

Nut graf: The superintendent’s report sets expectations for the board’s review of school-improvement plans, timing for budget adoption and when the board will receive interim data ahead of formal votes.

Kieser reminded members that state school report cards will be released in November and that those cards will provide retrospective data on last year’s performance. He said the focus for the development session is “coherence” — consistent strategies and routines aligned to district goals — and that building teams will report on first-100-day priorities during the presentations.

Ending: Staff will provide interim indicator data to the board prior to the development session when fall testing concludes; the board will consider the levy and budget at the regular meeting following the annual meeting.