New Paltz Central School District

Goals for 2023-2024 and 2024-2025

1. Communication

         Improved communication (frequent, timely, thorough, and regular) between all constituent groups

• • District Office to parents, community, faculty, and staff
  • Building administrators to faculty, staff, and parents
  • Teachers to parents and students
  • School counselors to parents and students
  • Communication from teachers to parents
    • Extra communication for struggling students
    • Grades updated at regular intervals on Powerschool, parents informed
  • Improved webpage format
  • Continued use of social media (Facebook and Instagram)
  • Make information easy to find
  • Facilitate parent involvement in the school

2. Academic Rigor and Literacy

• Implement new literacy program in Duzine
• Explore options for a new literacy program in Lenape
• Implement progress monitoring using STAR in grades 3-8
• Ensure implementation of tier I, II, and III instruction
• Explore deficits in math instruction K-12
• Examine/improve horizontal and vertical alignment across the board
• Help students improve academic readiness including time management skills, resilience, and persistence
• Examine the disproportionality in students taking advanced and elective courses
• Ensure appropriate alignment of course grades and AP or Regents grades
• Examine the rigor of all courses to ensure students are challenged and accountable.
• Examine the readiness of our students to attend college or vocational schools
• Explore options for student enrichment

3. Student Absenteeism and Tardiness

• Make students feel welcome and safe in school
• Engage students in school so they want to come to school
• Closely monitor student attendance
  • Follow new attendance policy with 20-day limit
  • Immediately call parents when a student is absent from school
    • Make sure parents and students know that we want them in school
  • Send letters home to parents when students have reached 5, 10, 15, 18 class absences
  • Have attendance conferences with students who have excessive absences
  • Monitor student tardiness for all classes.  Work to solve the problem for frequent offenders with parent and/or administrative intervention

     4. Health and Wellness of students 

• Explore ways to involve more students in physical activities
• Explore ways to get students to eat healthier
• Educate parents on proper snacks to be sent to school with children
• Task wellness committee with facilitating community education on healthy living
• Ensure that social and emotional activities are happening in the schools
• Re-implement the CAFÉ program in the high school
• Work in partnership with the village youth center to support recreational activities for MS and HS students
• Consider more extracurricular activities for elementary students
• Address disproportionality with discipline
• Monitor effectiveness of the 2023-2024 code of conduct
• Explore and implement restorative practices in discipline
• Collect and analyze data of students accessing
  • Astor services
  • Drop in counseling with social workers and school counselors
  • School psychologists
• Collect and analyze data in effectiveness of SEL programming
  • New school counseling plan
  • New use of Wayfinder programming at MS
  • New instruction of life prep at HS