Team Formed To Tackle School Improvement Plans

Superintendent Joe Casey announced at Tuesday night's Melrose School Committee meeting that he has formed a working group to develop plans that will create more consistency within the annual school improvement plans developed by each school council.

The School Committee recently approved the school improvement plans for Melrose High School and Hoover Elementary School. Casey said he put out a request for volunteers to help the district determine an outline of what should be included in every school improvement plan.

Members of the working group include:

• School Committee member Kristin Thorp
• School Committee member J.D. LaRock
• Melrose High School Principal Joe Dillon
• Melrose Veterans Memorial Middle School Principal Tom Brow
• Lincoln Elementary School Principal Brent Conway
• Horace Mann Elementary School Principal Jeff Strasnick
• Community member Gerry Mroz

Casey said he has also asked each school to identify a parent and teacher to attend an organizational meeting of the team that will take place after the school year ends.

"We'll ask how we would like to capture all the different types of data, what should go in there (the school improvement plan) and what's the purpose," Casey said, "to find a way to identify what Melrose would like to see as its model school improvement plan."