Daniel T. Connor
Superintendent
227 Main Street
Goshen, NY 10924
(845) 615-6720
District news
Administrators, Board members work on three-year goals and objectives
August 30, 2011 – On Saturday, August 13, district administrators joined the Board of Education at a goal-setting summer workshop to create goals and objectives that will serve the district over the next three school years, through 2013-14.
The district began this goal-setting process during the summer of 2009, when Superintendent Daniel Connor approached Terry Olivo, chief operating officer of Orange-Ulster BOCES, with the idea of establishing measurable Board goals and objectives for the district. Olivo referred Dr. Mary Ann Wilson, assistant superintendent for instruction, to assist Connor with this task.
A three-year plan was established and adopted by the Board of Education, and now the district is working to set goals and objectives for the next three school years by examining the existing goals, looking at where they are in regards to meeting them and modifying and developing new strategies when necessary.
During the summer workshop, district administrators identified the goals’ measurable objectives, action plans and strategies, and person(s) responsible for implementing the goals. Dr. Wilson and the building principals are now in the final stages of finishing the goals and objectives, which will be reviewed and adopted by the Board of Education in October.
“The implementation is the next big challenge,” said Connor. “School administrators will begin working with faculty and staff to apply these goals throughout the district, and a schedule will be set to review the goals and report our progress in achieving them to the community.”
The goals are measurable goals, meaning that they
will be continually monitored, reviewed, and their progress reported to
the community twice each year.