P.J. Brooks

The 2025-2030 Strategic Plan for Monmouth-Roseville CUSD #238 is centered around empowering students to achieve excellence. The plan focuses on fostering a culture of high expectations, ensuring a rigorous education, and cultivating a positive and welcoming learning environment to prepare students for post-secondary success. Key areas include exceeding proficiency benchmarks, providing diverse course offerings, cultivating a safe and encouraging environment, strengthening family and community partnerships, and providing optimal learning facilities while maintaining a balanced budget.

This document details Monmouth-Roseville 238's approach to supporting multilingual learners, outlining pedagogical models such as Protected Instruction, English Language Development, Bilingual education, and Spanish for Native Speakers. The mission is to develop English language proficiency through rigorous programs and research-based strategies, while fostering appreciation for native languages and cultures, to cultivate confident, multicultural, and multilingual students. The vision aims for multilingual learners to achieve academic and social success using both English and their native languages. The document also provides demographic insights and essential information for parents regarding support services.

The board meeting included introductions of new teachers and presentations regarding the Education Foundation fundraiser Blingo. The board approved the consent agenda, including minutes from the previous meeting, the treasurer's report, and financial reports. The superintendent reviewed financial information, discussed the veto of the minimum teacher salary legislation, and thanked the Jameison Center for taking over the Weekend Meals program. The board adopted the 2018-2019 Budget and Appropriation Ordinance, approved the application for Recognition of Schools, and reviewed the 6-Day Enrollment Report. They also approved the EIS Administrator and Teacher Salary and Benefits Report, authorized the transfer of funds to the Debt Service and Transportation Funds from the Working Cash Account, and approved a high school performing arts field trip to New York City every four years. Additionally, the board approved the renewal of the district self-insured medical plan and updated 403b plan documents. The board then moved to a closed session and later approved a personnel agenda, district employee salaries, administrative salaries, and a memorandum of understanding between the Monmouth-Roseville Education Association and the Monmouth-Roseville Board of Education.

The 2025-2030 strategic plan is designed to empower students to achieve excellence. It focuses on fostering a culture of high expectations, ensuring all students receive a rigorous education within a positive and welcoming learning environment, and preparing them for post-secondary success. The plan emphasizes rigorous curriculum, instruction, and assessment, strong community relationships, and the importance of all staff playing a vital role in the holistic education of the child. Key objectives include meeting or exceeding state standards, offering diverse course options, cultivating a safe and encouraging learning environment, strengthening family-school partnerships, and providing optimal learning facilities while maintaining a balanced budget.

The meeting included discussions and actions on various topics, such as the adoption of the 2016-2017 Budget and Appropriation Ordinance, allowing ROE #33 to be the administrative agent for the Pre-K grant starting in 2017-2018, establishing a Board of Education Extra-Curricular Committee, and resolutions to authorize the transfer of funds from the Working Cash Account to the Transportation and Debt Service funds. The board also reviewed the Monmouth-Roseville CUSD #238 6 Day Enrollment Report and the EIS Administrator and Teacher Salary and Benefits Report for the school year 2015-2016. Additionally, there was a first reading of several board policy amendments and a discussion and approval of the Software-Technology Support Specialist job description.