Maria Albano

This strategic planning framework for Mamaroneck outlines a process from defining organizational promises to implementing actions and achieving measurable impact. Key strategic areas include enhancing personalized learning, mentorship, and expertise; improving academic programs through professional development, data analysis, and curriculum evolution; and modernizing infrastructure and technology. The framework emphasizes a continuous cycle of envisioning, analyzing, planning, doing, and deciding to address problems and aspirations.

Mamaroneck's Strategic Framework focuses on continual improvement of student performance through a dynamic, evolving approach. It connects teaching and learning to the mission, adapts to current needs, and measures success through meaningful outcomes. The framework emphasizes personalization, mentorship, and expertise, supported by community collaboration, to foster inquiry, curiosity, and integrity.

The 2021-22 Mamaroneck UFSD District Goals focus on four key areas: promoting children's social/emotional learning and development; advancing educational equity by ensuring all students are seen, known, and valued, and have access to district programs and opportunities; developing innovative and authentic curriculum, instruction, and leadership structures to enable high-quality teaching and learning; and engaging families and the community in supporting children's learning. Specific objectives include unifying elementary SEL programs, developing middle and high school advisory programs, conducting a district-wide equity audit, revising curriculum and student codes of conduct, launching an equity leadership model, recruiting diverse staff, creating outdoor learning spaces, investigating community partnerships, focusing on small group instruction, enhancing STEAM and humanities courses, revising high school course offerings, evaluating administrative structure, launching workshops to strengthen home-school connections, and creating opportunities for stakeholder feedback.

The Mamaroneck UFSD Board of Education meeting focused on the 2017-18 Superintendent's Recommended Budget. Key discussion points included a pilot program for social and emotional learning with Yale University, instructional technology initiatives (BYOD proposal, elementary computer science and robotics), IT network and technology expenditures, transportation program expenditures, and staffing and program adjustments. The budget also detailed areas of review, including mindfulness, inner resilience, and social-emotional learning (SEL) initiatives, along with a RULER framework implementation. Significant portions of the budget were dedicated to technology, including infrastructure upgrades and software support, with detailed comparisons to previous years' expenditures. Transportation costs were also reviewed, with adjustments to athletic transportation, field trips, and contracted transportation. Finally, the meeting addressed program adjustments and staffing changes, including teacher reductions and additions across various departments.

This Board of Education meeting focused on the Mamaroneck High School elective program, reviewing its benefits, impact over time, and the importance of diverse strengths. Key discussion points included program growth, enrollment trends, and disproportionality in enrollment by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. The meeting also covered elective course offerings, changes over the past 10 years, the process for choosing electives, variables in scheduling, factors influencing student selection, and data on elective participation by students, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. A budgetary exercise explored the implications of offering every student two electives. Next steps included studying enrollment growth's impact, exploring connections between Hommocks Unified Arts and the MHS elective program, revisiting recommendations from a previous program review, and investigating why students of color and low-SES students are over-represented among those taking no electives.