Old Rochester Superintendent Doug White shared the district’s strides toward social and emotional health, transparency improvements and improved instructional strategies at Wednesday night’s Joint School Committee meeting.

The goals were presented as part of the mid-cycle review, and White broke down what each school did to continue improving.

The overall theme for the goals is “All for All."

“It’s about doing everything for every student in our building,” White said.

Continuing to better improve social and emotional support was again an important aspect of education that the district wants to work on. White gave the implementation of The Great Body Shoppe curriculum in Mattapoisett elementary schools this year, and the upcoming implementation of the same curriculum in Marion and Rochester next year, as examples of the improvements the district is making.

White said the district is also working with school personnel to increase transparency and awareness of the administration’s mission and goals. To do this, White said the district supported a leadership training program for teachers, which saw 22 participate. To improve transparency, visuals were also added to all budget meetings this year.

High level instructional strategies, as well as solid communication between schools and parents, are also a priority. To reach this goal, the district supported the development and implementation of a standards based report card for the 2017-18 school year, as well as multiple information sessions for parents about it. White also said the school had sent increased emails to parents to keep them up-to-date on their child and the school.

This improved communication was a big positive for committee member Christine Marcolini.

“[The district] is really going above and beyond to bring parents into the building,” she said. “It’s been a really nice, positive change this year.”

Committee member Sharon Hartley agreed, and said after seeing all the progress made toward the district’s goals was exciting.

“I just feel so hopeful and excited about where we go from here,” she said.