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Kerr Elementary Hosts Math Festival District Embarks on Comprehensive Planning Process
KERR ELEMENTARY HOSTS MATH FESTIVAL
Thanks to a $3,000 grant from the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival through the PPG Foundation, Kerr Elementary School second- and third-grade students participated in a math festival. According to Dr. Ashley Constantine, Fox Chapel Area School District’s executive director of elementary education and instruction, the festival enabled students to work on logic puzzles, mazes, and other problem-solving tasks to practice their math skills in a fun learning environment. “This was a really wonderful hands-on learning experience, and I was in awe of our students’ math creativity.”
The Fox Chapel Area School District is in the early stages of working on the district’s new comprehensive plan. The formation of the plan will involve stakeholders from all parts of the district. This includes venues for dialogue from teachers, support staff members, administrators, school board members, parents/guardians, community members, and local business owners, including focus groups and a survey. Every school district in Pennsylvania must submit a new comprehensive plan to the state’s Department of Education every three years. The district will be folding the comprehensive plan completion into a larger strategic planning process. The comprehensive plan will include a steering committee and three subcommittees (Learning and Teaching, Supports for Students, and Community Engagement). The first part of the comprehensive planning process was completed in the
spring with the approval of the district’s special education plan. The remaining portions of the district’s comprehensive plan are its induction and professional education plans, and information on its programming. The comprehensive plan will be substantially completed by February (for submission to the Pennsylvania Department of Education in March) and the full strategic plan by June. Fox Chapel Area School District administrators and members of the comprehensive planning steering committee (from left to right) Deputy Superintendent Dr. David McCommons, Superintendent Dr. Mary Catherine Reljac, and Director of Student Achievement and Instructional Verification Dr. Stephen Edwards, meet to discuss the groundwork of the district’s comprehensive plan.
