Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Corey Golla
2/23/17
The Center for Public Education argues that public education has five core
purposes.
goals and progress of the schools that serve as the foundation of their
community and the bulwark of their success. As such it is imperative that school
establish this community will result in results that are well below the standards
that our students deserve. Our engagement plan will fulfill these obligations.
Based on the model presently used in the School District of Menomonee Falls
and developed in partnership with partners engaged with Studer Education and
the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, our plan will engage
all stakeholders in the planning, monitoring, and improvement of our core work.
As public educators it is our obligation to engage the community we serve
to assure that our vision is shared, our results meet their expectations, and we
work collectively with them to support students from the cradle to their career.
The plan to include this will include a five-year review of our mission. Rather
than allowing this to devolve into a debate over semantics we will purposefully
solicit input on what community members feel is critical to them in education and
ask them to discuss our current success in meeting their expectations. We will
changes are needed. The mission statement is a general statement that likely
includes most values. The significance lies in the work we do to accomplish our
mission.
We are their succession plan. We can initiate the engagement in the five year
review but a more significant partnership will be forged through the establishment
of advisory committees that can guide programming and curriculum in our career
technical areas and in our career planning with students. These groups will
include employers, students, administrators, and teachers. They will meet twice
service sectors. Our engagement plan will include a collective impact team
action. (Strive, 2017) We will establish clear metrics aligned with the Redefining
community through civic associations like Rotary, Optimists, and Kiwanis. This is
an additional way to share your commitment and connect with citizens on a more
personal level. It will also pay dividends in understanding how schools are
the values of the community and assures that all students have an opportunity to
succeed in school. They are also expected to assure that the school is achieving
systems will view their board as a partner and engage with them in meaningfully
Our engagement plan with the board will begin with on boarding. In a
and that will include the board. They will be integral to the strategic planning
process and should have a basic but clear understanding of the improvement
principles that guide the work. This combined effort will serve our students and
clearly understand how the schools are progressing toward their goals. These
reports will illustrate the historic trends in the key areas as well as the most
recent results and action plans. The board cannot be shielded from results that
are below what is expected. To sustain an effective partnership they will need to
In addition to this partnership the board will also receive feedback from the
stakeholder surveys that is specific to their work. Parents and employees will be
asked to reflect on the boards leadership and service with specific items on the
engagement surveys. This will allow them to closely monitor their level of
Given that they are the core of the work this is a grave oversight. Students
the engagement plan as well. Students will serve critical roles in the hiring
process as equal members of the advisory committees that guide hiring. Their
insights into how candidates engage with students can be critical. Our classroom
alongside teachers as they plan the best strategies to accomplish their learning
students in an annual survey comparable with what is used for employees and
parents. The results of this survey will be monitored over time and against
benchmark schools across the country that also partner with Studer Education,
will also engage students through annual student forums with graduating seniors,
minority students, high performing students, struggling students, 8th and 5th
These forums will allow us to clearly identify things that are working well for
students that we can build on while also identifying pain points that we can work
system that promotes the most meaningful work and develops a platform to re-
forums that specifically target minority populations and our families who have
students with disabilities. This will help us understand those challenges more
intimately. Parents will also be represented on the career path advisory boards
as a way of engaging them in the design and program development work in the
process meaningfully, transparently, and with clarity. Our aim will be to train
every employee to be a master problem solver deeply engaged and leading their
work.
employees in this work the goals of the district need to be clear and the reporting
of results need to be agile and actionable for teams. Our employees across the
system will be integrally engaged in the strategic planning phase each year.
Their teams will clearly understand how they connect to district goals and the
building scorecards.
of the evaluation
aligned as carefully
and collectively as
We will continue to survey all employee groups twice a year with a format
similar to the other stakeholder groups. The rollout of results will be more
deliberate. Leaders will be expected to share the results and host feedback
Specific questions will be asked around the lowest scored items so it is clear
what the staff was thinking as they responded. Similarly comment trends will be
linked to questions to better understand the results. Administrators will set goals
These check-ins will have the same goals; identify bright spots, pain points, and
celebrate excellence. Our entire approach with employees will be driven by trust,
the improvement principles, and the end goal of engaging everyone to empower
health care and education. Our work is transformative and at its most dire levels,
life saving. Neither system can be done well without keen attention to outcomes
understanding or those we serve and those engaged in the work. As such, a full
commitment to a robust engagement plan for all those touched by the work is