Ep. 89, Last Night @ School Committee: 7/26 Meeting Recap

Last Night At School Committee

Last night’s School Committee meeting was a special meeting with only one agenda item: Superintendent Skipper’s self-evaluation of her performance over the past school year. Superintendent Skipper framed her evaluation in four standards: instructional leadership, management and operations, family and community engagement, and professional culture. For each standard, the Superintendent provided a list of areas in which she felt BPS made progress over the past year but did not provide baseline data or measurable goals. This led to numerous questions from School Committee members seeking to understand how these areas relate to one another and the district’s goals within each of these areas for the year ahead. The report did not touch on student achievement data or goals to improve student outcomes, leading Chair Jeri Robinson to ask how these achievements will be tangible to the many students who still go to failing schools each day.

Chair Robinson concluded the meeting by announcing that, over the coming weeks, each School Committee member will write their own evaluation of Superintendent Skipper, and these evaluations will be presented at the next meeting on Wednesday, August 30.

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