Gina Whelan

This document outlines the mission, philosophy, vision, and goals for Community Unit School District #4. The mission is to provide a safe and nurturing environment that equips students to be contributing members of society. The philosophy emphasizes maximizing student potential, fostering effective interaction, encouraging informed decision-making, and promoting lifelong learning through comprehensive stakeholder engagement. The vision focuses on maintaining a stable financial environment, ensuring safe and appealing facilities, fostering community responsibility for education, integrating instructional technology, and providing curriculum and assessment opportunities for post-high school success.

The Board of Education meeting will include a Truth in Taxation Hearing to discuss the FY24 tax levy proposal. Public participation will allow for comments and special recognitions. A closed session will follow to discuss personnel matters, collective bargaining, real property, investments, security procedures, student discipline, litigation, and attorney-client privilege. Action items include the approval of the tax levy, the Class of 2025 senior trip, and press policies. Information items include an annual review of average expenditures to the combined cash reserve balance.

The Mendon CUSD#4 Strategic Plan (2018-2022) outlines key goals and strategies across five areas: Fiscal Stability, Student Success, Staff and Program Capacity Building, Safe and Productive Learning Environment, and Strong School-Community Connections. Fiscal stability focuses on sound financial planning and exploring diverse revenue streams. Student success emphasizes providing varied and challenging academic, vocational, and extracurricular programs, fostering a caring adult connection for each student, and promoting social-emotional learning. Building staff capacity involves curriculum alignment, relevant professional development, and monitoring program effectiveness. Creating a safe and productive learning environment includes facility updates and maintenance. Strengthening school-community connections aims to cultivate partnerships to support student success. The plan uses strategies and action steps with assigned personnel and measures of success for each goal area.

The strategic plan for Unit 4 focuses on providing quality education in a stable financial environment, maintaining centrally located, safe, and secure facilities, and ensuring the community takes personal responsibility for student education through open communication. Key areas of focus include balancing the budget, identifying additional income sources, assessing the security environment, holding community meetings for public input, and developing a community scorecard. The plan also aims to enhance learning opportunities, integrate instructional technology, and complete a gap analysis of college prep and vocational tech offerings.

The Unit 4 Scorecard outlines key goals and initiatives across four strategic areas: Finance, Facilities, Instruction/Technology/Curriculum/Assessment, and Community. Financial goals focus on balancing the budget and evaluating cost-effectiveness. Facility goals center on security assessments, maintenance, and community partnerships. Instructional goals emphasize student success post-high school through technology integration, dual credit coursework, and vocational opportunities. Community engagement is promoted through open communication and community meetings. The scorecard uses indicators and timelines to track progress toward these goals.