A Note from Barry Lentz about Redesign

SCSD Board of Education Presentation

The presentation of the Nottingham Redesign Team’s Plan that was originally scheduled for the March 16^th meeting of the Board of Education's Curriculum Committee meeting has been rescheduled for Wednesday, March 30 at 4:00 in the Board Room at the District's Central Offices, 725 Harrison Street. There was not enough time for all of the scheduled presentations at the March 16^th meeting because of the special BOE meeting called for 6 pm to announce the hiring of the new Superintendent. The March 30 meeting is important  and it would be good for as many parents as possible to attend. There is more dialogue among BOE members and presenters and, when time permits, more opportunity for community comments. We are currently working on a new Power Point presentation for the BOE meeting that I hope to be able to send to the Nottingham community email list  prior to the meeting.

April 12^th Community Redesign Forum

The next community forum for discussion of the Nottingham Redesign Plan is scheduled for Tuesday, April 12^, in the Nottingham Cafeteria. The forum will be divided into two parts. The first part will begin at 6:30 PM and will run until 7 PM. This will be largely an information session for those who have not attended a previous forum and would like more background information on how Nottingham became a PLA school and what the PLA redesign process involves. At 7 we will transition to a presentation of the key components of the Redesign Plan. This will include a discussion of what is required for implementation and critical opportunities for community engagement.

The “final” draft of the redesign plan was just completed this afternoon, Wednesday, March 23. The term “final” is in quotation marks because it is not the actual plan that will be submitted to the NYS Education Department in late April. There are still many variables in play that could result in changes to the plan. After the presentation at the Board of Education meeting next week, we should have a much clearer picture about potential changes. Given the amount of time before the next forum on April 12, I am hopeful that we will be able to be specific about those aspects of the plan that are fairly definite and those which may require some degree of modification.

I will try to provide an email update by the end of next week. As always, I encourage folks to contact the parent reps on the redesign team--Shirley Copes (shirlgram08@hotmail.com),  Jim Fischer (jfischer10@twcny.rr.com) or me with questions or comments.

Barry Lentz

belsyr@aol.com