Amy Elizabeth Butler

The Roseland Park Elementary School Plan for FY2025 outlines a comprehensive, data-driven approach to enhance student achievement and well-being. The plan focuses on addressing challenges in mathematics, reading, and attendance through a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) for academics and positive behavior interventions and supports (PBIS) for behavior. Key strategies include differentiated instruction, targeted interventions, professional development for staff on instructional models and inclusion, and robust parent and family engagement activities. The plan aims to foster a positive school climate and culture, improve instructional effectiveness, and ensure all students meet challenging academic standards.

The strategic plan for Picayune School District focuses on empowering students to maximize their gifts and talents and contribute to a global society. Key strategies include identifying and utilizing community resources, developing a proactive public relations movement, implementing staff development programs, and designing integrated K-12 curricula that promote positive character traits and service projects. The plan also emphasizes expanding staff thinking beyond traditional approaches to meet twenty-first-century educational needs.

The school plan for South Side Elementary School focuses on improving student achievement through various strategies. Key areas of focus include addressing student attendance issues, providing targeted support to struggling students, implementing evidence-based instructional strategies, and enhancing parent and family engagement. The plan aims to create a safe and orderly environment, promote positive behavior, and ensure that all students have the opportunity to meet challenging state academic standards.

The school board meeting covered various topics, including a $2.65 million grant received for the Early Head Start program expansion, plans for construction at South Side Elementary School (including a cafetorium, classroom conversions, and improved entrances, parking, landscaping, and drainage), recognition of a student's national achievement and a cheerleading team's state victory, approval of a new workers' compensation insurance contract, review of a power easement contract proposal, discussion of the district's cell phone policy, and approval of donations, finance matters, the 2008 audit report, and a Medicaid billing agreement.

The Picayune Junior High School's FY 2024 School Plan prioritizes student encouragement and resilience, aiming to foster lifelong learning and the ability to overcome challenges. Key areas of focus include improving student attendance and discipline, providing targeted support for at-risk students (including English learners, homeless, and foster students), and implementing evidence-based strategies to improve academic performance in ELA and mathematics. The plan includes benchmark assessments, supplemental instruction, remediation programs, technology integration (Chromebooks), and the utilization of certified tutors. Additional focuses are on improving school climate and culture through improved classroom management and tiered support systems for behavioral issues, enhancing professional development for teachers, and increasing parent and family engagement through various communication channels and activities. The plan also addresses the coordination of Title I funds with other federal, state, and local programs to support student needs.