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Show School Board outlines future goals By DONETA GATHERUM FARMINGTON At the conclusion con-clusion of one school year and the beginning of another, it is a wise practice to look at what has been accomplished and plan ahead to insure in-sure progress during the next school year. This was the intent of several short reports presented to the Board of Education at their meeting of Sept. 16. Supt. Lawrence Lawr-ence Welling and five of his staff members gave a status report on the 1985-86 goals and objectives, and related these goals to the ones set for 1986-87. First to report was Personnel Director Mel Miles. He reviewed the District's new employee recruitment re-cruitment and selection program which was started 10 months ago. According to this report, there are more interview opportunities given to more candidates. The Continued on page two School Bisltiici compares goals Continued from page one program includes principal and departmental de-partmental heads involvement. Interview In-terview training was available for principals to help make a more competitive, fair evaluation selection. selec-tion. In the future, Mr. Miles will be developing a competitive selection process for other positions in the school district. Other goals for the Personnel Department include computerizing the personnel office and developing a way to assign substitute teachers. Supt. Welling reported on the evaluation tool for teachers and principals that was developed during dur-ing 1985-86. Dr. Welling noted the pilot program was tried in one school, and this year it will be expanded ex-panded for all schools in the Dis trict. 1985-86 was the first year for principal evaluation, and this program, prog-ram, which starts with the principal defining his own goals and objectives, objec-tives, will be carried over district wide. Ways to communicate with the public were highlighted by Bonnie Durrance-Doyle, Public Information Informa-tion Officer. She noted the greatest success seems to come when the local schools communicate with the homes through monthly or semi-monthly newsletters. The District office is a resource place where local schools can get helpful information. The growth of the volunteer program and the adopt-a-school program, which is a corporation-civic corporation-civic club effort to assist schools, was also mentioned as new and successful public relations prog rams. The career ladder program that has received much attention this past year was reviewed once again by Stephen Whitesides. He stated the career ladder committee met 22 times during the past school year to improve upon the plan. "At this point, the time line for 1986-87 has been set up. Things are fairly stable and I don't expect major changes," Mr. Whitesides stated. The goals for the curriculum and instruction department were outlined out-lined by Dr. John S. White, newly appointed Associate Superintendent. Superinten-dent. He observed there was ongoing on-going training for principals on the elementary and secondary level in the state CORE curriculum. This is a four-year program which is updated up-dated each year. A curriculum specialist spe-cialist for the science, math and computer departments was hired and this role will be defined in relation rela-tion to computer education on all levels. Dr. White said his department depart-ment would continue to implement the state CORE curriculum as needed. Finally, Dr. Larry Wilson talked about the gifted and talented programs prog-rams that are now offered in the elementary schools. He said present pre-sent programs will be maintained and that special programs would be expanded into the Junior high schools. This year Central Davis and North Layton Junior High Schools will sai1 a Schoolwide Enrichment En-richment Model (SEM) program to extend special learning experiences experi-ences to the broad base of stu dents, and to give special attention to those students with high interest in speciality areas, dmg 1 |