MRPS Board of School Directors

Visioning Committee

committee members

On Wednesday, February 2, 2022 the school board appointed the following members to the Visioning Committee:

Cale Ellingson, Student

Amirah Lewis, Student

Merrick Modun, Student

Elliott Muller, Student

Emery Richardson, Student

Carmen Richardson-Skinder, Student

Amelia Woodard, Student

Caitlin Brower, Community Member

Dottie Guiffre, Community Member

Melissa Houser, Community  Member

Tina Muncy, Community Member

Sigrid Olson, Community Member

Joe Carroll, Teacher

Suzy Ford, Staff

Libby Bonesteel, Superintendent of Schools

Nick Conner, MRPS Community Liaison

Rhett Williams, School Board

Seiji Ohashi, School Board


2022 Meetings

 
 

The MRPS board seeks community input on a district-wide vision that will help guide the board, administration, and educators.

In 2018, Montpelier Public Schools and Roxbury Village School combined to form Montpelier Roxbury Public Schools. The board and administration have worked for cohesion through policies and procedures and are now embarking on a process to bring our communities together to discuss and determine what our vision for high-quality education looks like for our students.

MRPS has contracted a consultant, Nathan Suter of BUILD, to support a broad community engagement process that effectively captures the voices of students and community members often underrepresented.

This process will serve to engage the community to gather qualitative data to capture what an exceptional education within MRPS looks like. This includes questions such as how to ensure all students from Roxbury Village School and Union Elementary School through Montpelier High School have equitable access to resources, a diverse and culturally responsive curriculum, with the district maintaining financial sustainability.

The MRPS school board will establish a committee to hold this process, led by BUILD. The process will conclude with the following elements:

  • A written summary of findings,

  • Accessible qualitative data points that represent the feedback from the community engagement and discussion process,

  • Recommended next steps,

  • Facilitation of meetings with the school board and administrators to determine actionable steps on how to use the findings for future decision-making at the policy, procedural, financial, and day-to-day level,

  • A tool for communicating the process, findings, and action steps to our community.

Committee members* will be paid a stipend of $45 per meeting via BUILD. *Board members and administrators excepted. MRPS staff (teachers and support staff) will be compensated by MRPS directly as stipulated by the contract.

For questions, please contact Nathan Suter.