Instructional Services

Director of Instructional Services
Brian Read
bread@svcsd.org
(315) 839-6332

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Career Planning

We provide students in every grade level with access to activities related to career pursuit and exploration!

PLANS FOR THE 2025-2026 SCHOOL YEAR

Elementary School

Teachers will support students to complete individual career plans. The career plan templates are new this year and reflect teacher feedback that was provided last year.
Grade level teams will continue to collaborate to incorporate content related to careers into their lessons. New this year: Teachers were provided data specific to their students' career interests, as indicated on the career plans from last year, so that they can incorporate students' specific career interests into their lessons.

Middle School

Counselors will support students to complete individual career plans aligned with the templates provided by the State Education Department.
Students in grades 5 and 7 will complete the Career Cruising interest inventory which will give them information about potential career interests, and counselors will review this information with students in their individual meetings with them.
Representatives from the School and Business Alliance will implement lessons on some of the Power Skills.
Middle School Career Day! (Tentatively scheduled for March 2026)

High School

Counselors will support students to complete individual career plans in an online format.
Lessons on the Power Skills will be incorporated into the Freshmen Seminar course which is required for all 9th graders.
A career fair will be offered during student lunch periods (tentative date: November 2026), and the Career Bites series will be continued (local industry professionals sharing information about their work with students during lunch periods on various dates throughout the year).
Students in grades 9 and 11 will complete the Career Cruising interest inventory which will give them information about potential career interests, and counselors will review this information with students in their individual meetings with them.
Students in grades 10 through 12 will be able to attend field trips to visit various colleges.
Students in grades 10 through 12 will be able to attend various career-related field trips, including: UU Communications Day, MVCC Healthcare Career Fair, Law Day, and Construction Career Day.
11th and 12th grade students will have the opportunity to identify a preferred career field and engage in a day-long field trip to shadow someone in that field.
Students who participate in career shadowing experiences (explained in the bullet above) will have the opportunity to engage in week-long internships in their chosen fields (depending on the availability of professionals in the field).

Curriculum

Click here for the NYS P-12 Learning Standards by Content Area.

For this school year (2025-2026), each of our three schools has established a goal for developing curriculum documents that will support future collaboration to ensure our curricula are aligned to the New York State standards, aligned across all grade levels from kindergarten through twelfth grade, and appropriately prioritizing high-leverage skills and concepts.

This work is part of a multi-year plan for curriculum development, collaborative review, and modification that will result in a strengthened academic program for our students.

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Enrollment/Registration

Click here for information about enrolling your child in the Sauquoit Valley Central School District. (Spanish version; Russian version)

If your child is currently enrolled in our district and you are moving to a new location within our district, please read this letter.

For more information about enrollment, contact the district registrar, Marie Goodman, at (315) 839-6311 or mgoodman@svcsd.org.

For information about homeschooling, contact Director of Instructional Services Brian Read at (315) 839-6332 or bread@svcsd.org.

Intervention

Click here to view the 2025-2026 SVCSD Intervention Manual. Feedback and questions related to this manual may be sent to Brian Read, Director of Instructional Services, at (315) 839-6332 or bread@svcsd.org.

The purpose of the Intervention Manual is to clearly communicate the systematic approach we take in supporting each of our students to be successful in school.

Each school in our district has a multi-tiered system of supports and interventions that seeks to address the needs of each of our students.

A primary component of this system is high-quality, researched-based instruction in our general education classrooms. Students who are need of additional supports and/or interventions, as evidenced by screening or other assessment indicators, are provided with targeted interventions that match their unique needs. One of our academic interventions is Academic Intervention Services (AIS) which is provided to students who demonstrate a need for additional academic support as evidenced by state and/or local assessment data. Parents are kept abreast of the interventions that their child is receiving. Our Teacher Support Team (TST) and Student Resource Team (SRT) provide critical analysis and input on the intervention decision-making process.

We encourage any parent who is concerned about their child's progress to not hesitate to contact the child's teacher(s).

Professional Development

Professional growth is a top priority in the Sauquoit Valley Central School District.

We believe that we owe it to our students, parents, and community members to continuously engage in professional development opportunities so that we remain responsive to the unique needs of our students and offer them the best scholastic program we possibly can.

The following diagram outlines our process for collaboratively developing and tracking progress made toward goals in each of our schools on an annual basis.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GOALS FOR 2025-2026

2025-2026 Elementary School Plan for Excellence

2025-2026 Middle School Plan for Excellence

2025-2026 High School Plan for Excellence

Our BOCES also provides opportunities for professional development. Current offerings can be found here.

Social and Emotional Learning

We provide all students with instruction and related programming on the social/emotional competencies of self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision making, relationship development, and social awareness. This is instruction, which is aligned with the NYS Education Department Social and Emotional Learning Benchmarks, is provided by our counselors and social workers.

Click here for our district Comprehensive School Counseling Plan. The plan outlines the social/emotional learning programming we have planned for the 2025-2026 school year.