Gather input from all teachers about a “research-based general classroom teacher evaluation instrument.”

Develop a district improvement plan for addressing issues and test scores related to No Child Left Behind.

Assess the purpose and effectiveness of current school boundaries.

And do it all in the next three months.

“It’s a very, very ambitious list,” said Superintendent Rick Doll, sizing up the Lawrence school district’s workload for the coming months. “We have lots of things we’d like to add onto the list, but we don’t have the time.”

The list of goals — approved unanimously Monday night by members of the Lawrence school board — includes tasks not only for the remainder of 2010 but also stretching well into 2011.

The goals fall into four general categories: improving students’ learning; addressing the district’s existing and future buildings and their boundaries; efficiently using dwindling resources to meet expanding goals; and following up on endeavors launched a year ago.

Whether it’s establishing a “data warehouse” — one to collect and collate an array of grades, test scores and other information so that teachers can focus their educational efforts with each particular student — or looking into ways to introduce “flexible” scheduling or extend online resources to students struggling with traditional formats, district officials plan to be busy paying attention to issues that matter.

And that’s even if some of the topics likely won’t be deliberated anytime soon. Reassessing school boundaries, most notably for the district’s two high schools, is slated for study but no action.

“We’re preparing for future discussions … if and when you want to take that next step,” Doll said, noting that administrators would gather data about the effects of policies and practices on existing boundaries, then offer recommendations to the board for consideration. “That certainly can be a goal for next year.”

The list of goals, in the works for more than a month, now gives administrators a clear to-do list for the coming year.

“We’ll all be better as a district as you work through this,” said Marlene Merrill, a member of the board