What I’m Focused On

Management Dashboard. Business leaders commonly utilize a management dashboard to monitor the health and wellness of a business. Why doesn’t our school system leadership do the same. These tools help to communicate clear priorities, create transparency in progress, and enable accountability for the entire organization. I would push for such logical methods to be used to ensure our school system leadership is maintaining focus and the community’s priorities.

Bring Back Honors. A while back, Sharon started phasing out honors classes for 9th graders—like Honors English I and Honors World History I. Parents pushed back hard, but the change stuck, and it limits the options for our highest achieving students. Freshmen can take honors-level math, science, languages, music, art, and theater—why not English and social studies too? I fundamentally believe we should strive to keep these types of options open to our students and then actively try to lift up as many students as possible to fill these classes.

Textbooks. I’m an aerospace engineer, but you don’t need my background to see why textbooks matter for high school math and science. Sharon taxpayers already paid a lot of money for these books—so why aren’t they being used? Utilizing these types of resources also helps to minimize the non-teaching time required of our teachers.

I’d love your input as we work to make Sharon’s schools shine again. Together, we can do this—feel free to reach out anytime!