The Superintendent’s Evaluation Subcommittee has four goals it wants to accomplish.

The subcommittee was a group of faculty members from across the three towns, and Christine Marcolini, chair of the Marion School Committee, said it was the first time she felt like the superintendent’s goals really reflected all of the schools.

“This is the first time I’ve walked away and thought, ‘These are our goals,’” Marcolini said at the Joint School Committee meeting. “We put a lot of work in.”

The four goals focus on social and emotional learning, budgeting, technology and instructional strategies.

Superintendent Doug White emphasized that they did not want to number the goals because no one goal was more important than any of the others.

The social and emotional learning goal is an effort from the subcommittee to make sure teachers are getting the support they need to be able to develop and learn strategies to encourage social and emotional learning among students. This will help students understand and work through their own feelings, as well as the feelings of their classmates.

“We need to make sure we’re changing some of our strategies so we can meet the social and emotional needs of all our students,” White said.

The next goal focuses not only on creating a budget that will pass but also making sure the money is going toward the programs it was intended for.

“I’m working with stakeholders to develop budgets that support the districts' goals and continue to work with school committees to allocate expenditures to achieve goals,” White said.

Technology, an integral part of the STEM (science, technology, engineer and mathematics) curriculum is also a focus for the district.

“We need to create maker spaces or creative spaces where kids can explore different technology,” White said.

He also stressed the importance of educating parents and staff on the positive and negative effects of using technology.

The subcommittee's final goal is to have a high level of instruction in schools, ensuring students are being challenged to help them achieve more.

“We want to consistently monitor the strategies and scores to make sure high expectations are being set,” White said.

Tina Rood, chair of the ORR School Committee and Rochester School Committee, said it’s important that kids are challenged on an individual level.

“I definitely agree that academic rigor is where we need to be, but we also need to do parental education on what that can mean for each student,” she said.

The goals were created with the future in mind, and progress will continue to be evaluated throughout the next two years.