Jo-Ellen Fairbanks-Schutz

This document outlines the strategic planning process for the Luxemburg-Casco School District, which aims to guide future readiness and continuous improvement. Key priorities emerging from community engagement and feedback include enhancing career pathways, providing clear guidance for families, strengthening mental health and student supports, improving clear and trusted communication, and fostering stronger community connections. The overarching themes emphasize maintaining pride in staff and student opportunities, ensuring coherence and consistent follow-through, prioritizing strong foundations and life skills, and deepening partnerships for authentic experiences.

This document outlines the Luxemburg-Casco School District's Academic and Career Planning (ACP) framework, a student-driven process designed to prepare students in grades 6-12 for post-secondary success. The plan details the district's comprehensive approach to ACP, which includes labor market analysis, robust family engagement, a structured ACP curriculum and support system, extensive postsecondary education and workforce preparation initiatives, and ongoing professional development for staff. It emphasizes strong community partnerships with over 700 businesses, individualized student support, and equitable access for all students, including those with disabilities, to achieve the district's mission of inspiring minds, challenging students, and promoting excellence, and its vision of preparing students to thrive in a global community.

This document is a Strategic Planning Survey Report, completed in December 2025, compiling feedback for the Luxemburg-Casco School District's strategic planning process. It details community and stakeholder responses regarding the district's current mission, vision, and core values, and gathers input on important educational and personal competencies, desired academic setting elements, guiding core values, and key areas for improvement over the next five years. The report aims to inform possible updates to the district's identity and guide future strategic priorities.

The meeting included a budget hearing presenting the 2025-26 budget, followed by resolutions to authorize the School Board to levy a tax for the operation of the School District, borrow money for immediate expenses, set salaries for School Board members, reimburse travel expenses, hire attorneys and pay legal fees, furnish textbooks and school lunches. Additionally, a motion to establish the date for the 2026 Budget Hearing and Annual Meeting was discussed, along with other new business within the power of the annual meeting.

The Title I Schoolwide Program Plan for Luxemburg-Casco Primary School focuses on inspiring minds, challenging students, and promoting excellence to prepare students to thrive in a global community. Key areas include literacy and social-emotional learning, with strategies to educate parents on district assessments and implement positive behavior systems. The plan also addresses family engagement, communication, and the coordination of federal, state, and local resources to support high-quality teaching and student transitions.