Meeting: 08/19/2026 - 07:45 AM DLT Meeting District Leadership Team (DLT)
Location: HS Library
The Westwood Community School District’s District Leadership Team (DLT) agenda includes consideration of professional-development funding requests, updates on professional development and curriculum resources, an assessment change, and standing technology and SIAC items. The packet also outlines responsibilities assigned to the committee under Iowa statutes and administrative code.
Key Items on the Agenda
District Leadership Team Responsibilities
The packet describes several responsibilities for the DLT, including monitoring implementation of statutory and administrative requirements and monitoring teacher evaluation requirements to promote fair and consistent evaluations throughout the district. The committee is also charged with developing model evidence for Iowa teaching standards and criteria, with an emphasis on minimizing paperwork and focusing on teacher improvement.
Additional responsibilities identified in the packet include:
- Determining the use and distribution of professional-development funds provided to the district under applicable Iowa Code provisions.
- Monitoring professional development at each attendance center to ensure alignment with district, attendance-center, and individual professional-development plans.
- Determining compensation for teachers serving on the committee for required work performed beyond the normal workday.
Requested Professional-Development and DLT Funds
The agenda includes approval of requested PD/DLT funds. The recommendation is to approve requests for the teachers listed in the underlying request materials.
The packet notes:
- 20 + 5 hours available.
- A Professional Learning PD Funds document, Google Form, payment form, and approval form are referenced as part of the request process.
The extracted packet text does not provide individual teacher names, requested amounts, or a total proposed expenditure.
Professional Development
The DLT is scheduled to receive information about professional development, including an August PD item, Alpaca, and PD Days. The packet also includes the district’s philosophy and mission as context for this portion of the agenda.
The stated mission is to provide the environment and curriculum necessary to help all students achieve their fullest potential. The philosophy emphasizes personalized programs that recognize individual abilities, interests, needs, and creative potential.
Curriculum Updates
The curriculum update is identified as an informational agenda item and focuses on skill-building resources across multiple grade levels.
The packet identifies:
- K–2: Building Fact Fluency
- K–6: Boost
- Grades 4–6: IXL
- Grades 7–12: ALEKS
- Grades 6–12: Math samples
The extracted packet text lists these resources but does not specify proposed purchases, costs, implementation changes, or requested DLT action.
Assessment Update
The assessments portion of the agenda includes one specific informational update: science is moving back to 11th grade.
The packet does not provide additional detail about the assessment involved, the reason for the change, or its implementation timeline.
Other Agenda Items
The agenda contains separate sections for Technology and SIAC, but the extracted packet text provides no substantive details for either item.
The meeting agenda concludes with a recommended motion to adjourn.
What to Watch at the Meeting
The most concrete action identified in the packet is the requested approval of PD/DLT funding for teachers. Other substantive agenda material is primarily informational, including professional-development planning, grade-level curriculum and math resources, and the change moving science assessment back to 11th grade.
Civic Translator summarized publicly available meeting materials from the official Westwood Community School District meeting source.
