JAMESTOWN, N.C. – It was a packed house Tuesday night as Guilford County Schools Superintendent Mo Green took the stage to announce the district's new strategic plan.

"The vision and the hallmark of this plan, our plan, is a successful coupling of academic excellence with the development of strong moral character," Green said.

Green outlined eight areas where he'd like to see the district improve, like increasing the graduation rate to 90 percent, focusing on career and technical education and putting an emphasis on reading. The last area includes a challenge to students to collectively read 1 million books in a year.

"We also want to have some fun, by challenging everyone in our community to join us by putting a greater emphasis on reading," Green said. "We want to show our children that education and reading matters."

Green said he would like to expand the district's Twilight High School and improve technology in schools. He also plans on creating three to five regional districts within the county.

"This reorganization of central administration will place more resources and decision making authority closer to schools and more services for parents closer to home," Green said. "Each region will be lead by a regional superintendent whose offices will ultimately be located in the geographic area that he or she serves."

Green said the transformation won't happen overnight, but people say they are on board to help put the plan in place.

"I not only look forward to what's going to happen, I'm ready to work to make it happen. Because like he said he can't do it himself, but he has now said he values us," Mildred Poole said. "So we have an opportunity. The door is wide open for parents. And we should not only walk in, we should run in to take advantage of it."

The Strategic Plan will serve as the district's road map over the next three and a half years. GCS officials will begin to implement the plan over the next few months.