Austin R. Stofferahn

This District Level Plan serves as a roadmap for the Crawford Central School District, aiming to cultivate educated, confident, creative, and healthy citizens prepared for a global society. The plan prioritizes several systemic challenges, including the consistent implementation of effective instructional practices, the use of standards-aligned assessments to inform instruction, early identification and support for academically at-risk students, addressing barriers to student learning, fostering a positive school climate with strong family and community engagement, optimizing resource allocation, and ensuring a staff of highly qualified teachers. The overall vision is to provide an education that challenges and prepares all students for their academic and social potential, promoting lifelong learning and responsible citizenship.

This Professional Development Plan, mandated by Act 48, outlines a comprehensive framework for continuing professional education for the Crawford Central School District from 2024 to 2027. It details various professional development activities, including graduate coursework, in-service training, curriculum development, and conference attendance, aimed at enhancing educator content knowledge, teaching skills, and assessment capabilities. The plan focuses on specific areas such as Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS), bullying prevention, intervention programs, ACES training, school safety and wellness, and structured literacy. Its overarching goals are to meet the educational needs of the school entity and its professional employees, improve language and literacy acquisition for all students, close achievement gaps, and provide support for diverse learners, ultimately linking professional development to educator effectiveness and student achievement.

This Professional Development Plan for Crawford Central School District outlines the required professional education initiatives for the period of 2021-2024, as mandated by Act 48. The plan focuses on enhancing educator skills, improving student outcomes, and addressing the specific needs of diverse learners through initiatives such as curriculum audits, trauma-informed care, gifted and talented programs, diversity, equity, and inclusion workshops, data utilization, parent engagement, and various compliance-related trainings, with the goal of improving language and literacy acquisition for all students and closing achievement gaps.

The committee meeting focused on deliberating items for the upcoming voting meeting, including bond refunding for the 2008 Series C issue, an agreement with Woodring Detective Agency & Security Service, LLC, a student branch agreement with Meadville Area Federal Credit Union, a Title I Rewards School grant, a client agreement with Apex Learning, Inc., an agreement with Transportation Solutions, and a wood chip biofuel purchase agreement with Keystone TreeCycling, Inc. Additionally, the committee recognized teachers for Orton-Gillingham certification, received updates on summer educational and food programs, discussed bus route posting schedules, and reviewed personnel recommendations and general district concerns.

This document outlines the Crawford Central School District's K-12 Comprehensive Counseling Program, designed to provide developmental counseling addressing the academic, career, and personal/social development of all students. The plan details specific program goals for elementary and secondary levels, identifies key stakeholders including students, parents, educators, business/community, and post-secondary partners, and defines the multifaceted role of school counselors. It further describes the program's delivery system, encompassing guidance curriculum, prevention and intervention services, individual student planning, and system support activities, all aimed at preparing students to become productive members of society.