I need your vote this November.  To explain why, first let me tell you why I chose to run in 2020.

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I graduated from Holmes High School in the spring of 1993.  The education and guidance I received opened many doors in my life.  I was blessed to attend some of the best schools in the world and ended up in Philadelphia working as an architect.  I met my wife there and started our family, and I remember vividly when our daughter turned five years-old our discussions of where our daughter would go to school.  The reputation of the public schools was not great, but with few other options, we walked into our neighborhood school and what happened next was truly transformational.  For the next two years, we invested ourselves into the school community and it made all the difference.

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A few years later my family moved to Covington, and I had the chance to send my kids to the same schools that I attended as a kid.  We invested ourselves and our kids into our neighborhood schools.  I joined the Site Based Decision Making Council at my children's school and worked to make the school the very best it could be.  

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So it was devastating in my daughter's final year of elementary school she told us she didn't want to go to the middle school.  That is when I knew I have to get involved in the district to help in whatever way I could.

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So I ask for your vote, because as an Holmes Graduate, I have intense pride for our district, as a parent of district students I understand opportunities to improve our families' experience, and as a current board member and former site-based member I understand governance within the district and how we can get things done.  Lastly, as an education architect in a recognized international design firm, I work with some of the highest performing school districts around the world, and see how they build their vision with their community and execute that vision, and I believe we can do that here in Covington.

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In my first term, I said I wanted to make Covington Schools a top choice for all Covington families, and that is still my goal.  I saw our declining enrollment as a symptom of declining trust in our district.  The remedy is a type of refreshing transparency where we clearly state what our goals for our students and community are and show our progress.  We all have a healthy skepticism about state testing and its ability to show our students growth, but what if we can identify our priorities and report our continued improvement with data?  

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This is what we have done.

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In 2021, we completely reimagined our five year strategic plan in an inclusive and collaborative effort involving the development of a Portrait of a Learner - a community led visioning effort focused on the wholeness of our students - as well as a intra-district effort to build a SMART Strategic Plan, with measurable and time-based goals.  For two and a half years we have declared what our goal are and reported out the data.  It make up the basis of our Community Report Card, which will be going public this school year.  This effort provides the community with the information they need to know how we are doing with OUR work.  

 

So what's next?  Well, we are four months away from finalizing our District's Master Plan.  Maybe you've had an opportunity to get involved?  Maybe you want to get involved!  Here's how, visit our website:

 

https://futurecovingtonschools.com/

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Here you can review the progress we've made and provide feedback or get involved.  Once we complete it we will need to determine the next steps and share them with the community.  Our schools belong to our community and this will be a vision we build together.

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I look forward to working with you to create a district that is focused on our kids' futures!  Join me!

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-Steve​​​​​