BWSD Board Goals

2025-2026

Pillar 1: Growth and Mastery – Student Progress

●  Support students and teachers in the classroom.

▶Continue to close the gap for those students that need supplemental instructions and/or assignments to improve students’ success.

▶Maintain Support of the Administration’ s organizational structure that best serves the District.

▶Maintain requirements for staff to adhere to District’s Health and Safety Plan.

▶Maintain communication with the Allegheny Health Department, Pennsylvania Department of Health, PIAA, WPIAL, and other local school districts.

▶Continue to Support the District’s plan to provide students with choices and opportunities to personalize their education through authentic, project-based learning experiences, such as the block scheduling at the high school and the pilot at Whitehall Elementary School. 

●  Continue to expand remote learning for our Cyber Academy to provide alternate opportunities for our students.

▶Continue to improve our full remote learning plan for all students in the event that building closures are warranted due to the pandemic or weather.

▶Continue to expand changes to the curriculum, as described in the Strategic Plan, to continue to provide more choices and relevance for the students.

▶Continue to encourage teachers to expand authentic instruction and classroom methodologies that better meet the needs of today’s learner.

▶Maintain extracurricular activities and athletics in accordance with the District’s Health and Safety Plan.

▶Maintain requirements for attendees and participants to adhere to the District’s Health and Safety Plan.

▶Maintain communication with the Allegheny Health Department Pennsylvania Department of Health, PIAA, WPIAL, and other local school districts.

 

Pillar 2: School Culture and Engagement

●  Continue to stay apprised of the construction projects at each school. and discuss issues promptly as they arise.

▶Consider all potential alternatives when planning projects, construction, and reorganization projects.

▶Continue to Provide fiscal oversight of all aspects of the construction.

●  Continue to work with Administration to ensure that all schools operate at the same high levels Pre-K-12.

▶Continue to support the creation and implementation of curricula and align resources to support the social-emotional growth of students, address cultural sensitivity, social justice, multiple perspectives, and representation.

▶Maintain support for necessary changes to bus routing; school start, construction, athletics, activities, and other logistics.

▶Continue to work with Administration to deal with any concerns of faculty, staff, and the community.

▶Continue to consider student safety and security at all levels and buildings.

▶Continue to expand practices that are responsive to the social- emotional growth of students.●  Continue to work with Administration to implement District operations at all levels.

▶Continue to support the programs to develop authentic opportunities for students, staff, and parents to engage in diverse experiences.

▶Continue to develop a blueprint for the operation of each school and accompanying transportation plan that meets the needs of the District.

▶Continue to ensure that all students possess the knowledge, skills, and habits to be safe and socially responsible consumers and producers of digital information and ideas.

▶Continue to support the Journey of a Highlander at all levels to provide the students with the skills needed for success.

 

Pillar 3: Community Partnerships and Engagement

●  Continue to strengthen and expand relationships with the staff and members of the community, clearly articulating the District’s goals and priorities, addressing local and broader issues affecting the District, and building support for the District’s initiatives, programs, and goals.

▶Continue to invite teachers and staff to participate in Board meetings for recognition, awards, and commendations.

▶Reestablish meet and greets and other public relation opportunities to promote a unified District and to let the

staff know they are appreciated and supported.

▶Continue to improve and expand public relations and marketing plans to engage all stakeholders.

▶Continue to explore ways to involve more of the community with the District.

▶Expand time during monthly meetings to have updates on the District’s communication plan and to highlight the District’s programs and accomplishments.

▶Provide and expand additional ways for the public to access information so that the community understands their schools and knows how to be engaged in positive and productive ways.

 

●  ​Student School Board Representatives continue to provide specific monthly updates to the Board regarding Baldwin High School student life, athletics, and other news, and report Board and District news back to the Baldwin High School students, faculty, and staff. Student representatives also routinely update the Board with noteworthy items regarding the J. E. Harrison Middle School, McAnnulty Elementary School, Whitehall Elementary School, and R. A. Lutz Elementary School.

●  Maintain supportive relationships that place an emphasis on opportunity, equality, and acceptance.

 

Pillar 4: District Organization, Growth and Capacities

●  ​Oversee the continuation of renovation projects throughout the District.

▶Continue to create and implement alternatives and enhancements to the traditional use of time and space to promote learning in creative and collaborative spaces and have the time to go deeper in the learning.

▶Review all proposals, estimates, bills, and invoices to assure that budgets are followed

▶Continue to support the implementation of appropriate facilities for grade-level centers at the elementary level.

▶Continue to seek detailed monthly updates on construction status costs.

▶Continue to maintain the District’s operations that provide all appropriate student, faculty, and staff resources in the most fiscally responsible manner as possible.

▶Maintain and expand the support for the re-establishment of secondary programming and organization with a focus on expanded learning opportunities that address the needs of the future-focused learner.

▶Continue to Consider taxpayer burden when making all planning decisions that could require additional revenue.

▶Encourage and support the establishment of the Middle School concept at Harrison.

▶Expand the exploration to look for alternatives to tax increases when possible.

▶Maintain the support of the human resource management and oversight department to recruit, develop, support, and retain outstanding personnel across the School District.

▶Continue to work with the Administration to provide fair, but fiscally responsible, contracts.

 

●  Continue to work with the Director of Safety and Security to explore new practices and implement current practices that maintain the safest possible environment for students, faculty, and staff.

●  Maintain the support for the completion of activities associated with the annual budget with an emphasis on distribution of resources and directing the overall operational activities in support of the District’s core mission of student growth and high academic achievement outlined in the Strategic Plan.

▶Maintain Board Member input during the budget preparation process, when appropriate.

▶Continue to evaluate the needs of the District with regard to positions and personnel.

●  Continue to maintain fiscal accountability through responsible budgetary decisions while moving forward to improve learning spaces and updating of facilities.

▶Expand ways to use the District’s finances in better ways to meet the needs of today’s learner.

▶Explore and expand additional sources of revenue including grants.