February Meetings

February will be an important month of school board meetings to pay attention to since the completion of resident FEEDBACK means developing the framework around a new facility plan.

Community Surveys from the facility planning process are complete and will be presented at the FEBRUARY 2nd Workshop Meeting. (Link to the Agenda HERE) “Mr. Peter Leatherman will provide the board and community with a summary of the survey results. (He) will also share how our districts perceptions and response connect to other districts, the state and nationally.” The districts Achievement and Integration Plan is a topic I have covered extensively over the past two months under my TRANSPARENCY SERIES: A&I DEFINED, SPEECH, SOCIAL, EQUITY and RESULTS. Achievement and Integration is on a three year cycle and is due to expire this year, so Director of DEI, James Magee will be presenting the first reading of the new three year plan at the Workshop Feb. 2nd. The Final draft is to be brought before the school board for approval at the Meeting on February 16th.

The 833 school district just released NOTICE of a Strategic Planning Meeting scheduled for Saturday, FEBRUARY 4th from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. “School Board Members will attend a meeting facilitated by TeamWorks International about Strategic Planning. The purpose of the meeting is to receive information about the work of the Strategic Planning Committee and provide input on the mission, vision, core values and direction of the Strategic Plan. Who is Team Works International? That’s a good question since they are in the business of “transforming” school districts (Link to their website HERE). Among their list of clients is the Stillwater Area School District, which I find of value to consider since our two districts are “braided” through the MDE A&I program. Founder and Executive Consultant, Dennis Cheesebrow just recently presented to them on January 24th (View their meeting HERE at minute 15:30.)