Amy MacCaull

The strategic plan emphasizes improving academic outcomes for all students by strengthening the Tier 1 curriculum, implementing evidence-based instructional strategies, and aligning assessment practices with learning standards. It focuses on enhancing communication with families, fostering professional learning for staff, and integrating learning environment systems in a fiscally sound manner. The plan prioritizes the student experience, staff experience, infrastructure and operations, and family and community engagement to fulfill the district's mission.

The Lyncourt Union Free School District's Blueprint for Excellence outlines a strategic plan focused on four priority areas: The Student Experience, The Staff Experience, Growth & Sustainability, and Family & Community Engagement. The plan aims to improve academic outcomes, enhance student engagement, strengthen communication with families, foster a supportive work environment for staff, ensure fiscal soundness, and build strong community partnerships. Specific strategies include implementing evidence-based instructional strategies, enhancing family communication, providing high-quality professional development for staff, improving safety and security measures, and developing a sustainable model for social-emotional supports. The plan emphasizes a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) to address student needs and ensure all students reach their full potential. The plan's core values include integrity, compassion, equity, excellence, critical thinking, collaboration, community engagement, and diversity.

The 2020-2024 Technology Plan for Lyncourt School focuses on aligning instructional practices with ISTE standards, providing ongoing professional development for staff, upgrading technology infrastructure to support a one-to-one device model, and enhancing IT support. The plan emphasizes using technology to enhance teaching and learning, improve student outcomes, and create a robust learning platform accessible anytime, anywhere. Specific areas of focus include establishing technology learning standards, providing professional development opportunities using the SAMR model, upgrading network infrastructure, and ensuring adequate IT support to minimize downtime. The plan includes annual evaluations and adjustments based on staff and student feedback.

The Lyncourt Union Free School District's 2018-2021 Instructional Technology Plan focuses on providing equitable access to technology for all students, establishing digital citizenship standards, and providing professional development for staff. The plan aims to leverage technology to enhance teaching and learning, support diverse learners (including students with disabilities and English Language Learners), and foster a culturally responsive learning environment. Specific goals include ensuring equal access to high-quality digital resources, creating and implementing digital citizenship standards, and providing professional development opportunities for all staff. The plan outlines action steps for achieving these goals, including planning, purchasing, implementation, and evaluation phases, with specific timelines and budget allocations. The plan also details how technology will be used to support students with disabilities and English Language Learners, and how professional development will be provided to teachers to support these student populations. The plan includes a staff plan, investment plan, and addresses administrative management aspects such as information security and privacy.

The meeting included an executive summary, public comments, and a consent agenda covering minutes and financial items. Educational presentations covered NJHS ceremonies, staff development, parent reading partnerships, a PTO fun fair, student solos, and AIMS Web data. Old business included the 2017-2018 budget development calendar and policy #5411 on procurement. New business items included the 2017-2018 draft calendar, BOCES BOE openings, equipment disposal, cell phone reimbursement, a LTA contract resolution, a library proposition request, a science and math donation, debt service fund appropriation, a 2017 capital outlay project, a builder's risk policy, and bullet aid use. The superintendent's report covered BOCES services, state education updates, a meeting with a district superintendent, and a NYSSBA conference proposal. Board members' reports and additional public comments were also included. An executive session covered CSE/CPSE recommendations and personnel items, along with negotiations.