Trotwood schools acknowledge takeover fear
Dayton Daily NewsAug 26, 2018
District leaders hope the state report card to be released around
Preliminary test results received this summer, while better than the previous year, may not be enough to get them over the hump. But the critical student growth calculation is virtually impossible to forecast before the report card is released.
Olverson has experience with the state takeover process, having come to
"This is a part of letting me become CEO. We'll have a new plan in place, and that's what the CEO is doing (in a state takeover)," Olverson said. "It's almost like the school board turned this around themselves."
School board President
"There is plenty of room for improvement, and we are confident that the systems and staff that we have put in place will significantly raise student achievement," said Moore, who called herself the district's "head cheerleader." We WILL go from 608 to great."
This month, the school board held a two-day retreat with school staff and community leaders to establish goals tied to the new strategic plan. The goals include building a continuous improvement framework, responsiveness to all students, and family engagement, plus providing high-quality staff, academic and other supports for students, and sustainable financial and operations departments.
On Tuesday, the public is invited to attend one-hour stakeholder meetings at
The draft version of the strategic plan is available on the district's website, along with a survey asking residents for changes they'd like to see.
They said students do talk about the takeover threat, with Holloway saying she hopes the schools don't have to start over again after the current staff has made good changes. Tobler said some people's image of
"Something needs to be done to get to the kids who don't care about the tests or don't take the tests seriously. It's not about the teachers or the curriculum, it's about the students wanting to apply themselves and ... look at their futures, because some kids don't care," she said.
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