While the district has hired an executive director of Academic Services, it also should develop consistent approaches to delivering adopted curriculum, establish performance benchmarks for each grade level and school, and monitor and evaluate performance. These practices must be institutionalized to avoid future disruptions in student achievement. During this same period, the average teacher turnover in districts both in the region and the state were 13.5 percent. To slow the increasing turnover rate, the district should look to how other districts foster communication and involvement at all organization levels. Elgin ISD should then develop an approach that involves the board, superintendent and district staff, especially teachers.
Principals chair the committees on each campus to guide and facilitate discussions.
Only at the high school was the site-based committee viewed as effective by the principal and committee members.