Superintendent Brian said district leaders carried out 12 site-level data reviews between Thanksgiving and winter break in which principals presented and attended one another’s data-review presentations.

“This was a really powerful thing,” Brian said in the meeting, describing principals’ appetite to learn from other sites’ practices and strategies. The reviews surfaced several priorities, including raising classroom rigor to meet Oklahoma standards, increasing instructional walkthroughs with feedback, and using existing evaluation tools (Marzano model) more effectively as a teacher-growth tool rather than a punitive checklist.

Administrators said they will share a refined summary with the board once the raw shared Google document is cleaned and converted to measurable data. The superintendent said the district plans to repeat the site-review process in the spring to assess whether changes were implemented and effective.

District staff also announced several calendar and training items of operational importance: a PowerSchool text opt-in day on Jan. 20 to support spring registration changes; a statewide MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Supports) training on Jan. 24; and a deadline the district described for MTSS compliance by 2029. The superintendent said the district will send a small team to the statewide training.

Board members asked clarifying questions about whether district-level PLCs or grade-level meetings already addressed similar issues; staff said the site-review process was complementary to monthly administrative meetings that focus more on policy and compliance items and that the new reviews focused specifically on classroom instruction and scalable practices.

No formal board action was required for the instructional review initiative; the board received the report and asked for follow-up summaries.