OR Superintendent's Announcements from Board Meeting

At tonight's school board meeting, new interim superintendent Leon Levesque announced some personal initiatives he has been working on and will be putting into action.  This was his first board meeting at Oyster River and was welcomed by a few public commenters.

I am grateful he is here and hopeful that he will be a strong, effective leader for our students, staff, and community.

Here are the announcements he made tonight:

• Publish a monthly letter on the orcsd.org website discussion past month's activities and current month's goals
• Initiate public forums to hear from all stakeholders
• Meet with student senate and students in general over the coming months
• Had already met with teachers and came away with nothing but high praise
• Set up a board work session in August to complete next year's goals during his interim tenure
• Already wrote and hopes to publish soon a community wide educational curriculum survey to get inputs and thoughts on where to lead the education of the district in the future.  Also added that this survey and its progress will be discussed at future board meetings.
• With a perceived knack for following policy, urged all board members to stop using personal email accounts and only use orcsd.org email addresses moving forward to adhere to a new board email policy as well as avoid issues with the Right to Know law
• Allow time to take care of the issues facing the district and community but hopes to channel this energy in the right direction and ultimately get back to the business of schooling