Strategic Planning, part 2
A few days ago, we received an email message from the Hillsboro School Board chair Monica Cordrey. It was in regards to our previous post on the strategic planning meeting, where I expressed the concern that the team assembled for the strategic planning was not really representative of our schools, with too many people from the top of the district org chart and too few parents and teachers. Chair Cordrey's message tried to assure me that my concerns were not founded, but instead made things a lot worse...For example, on my concern about having too many people from central administration in the team:
"Staff" on this list include 4 building principals, 2 teachers, one classified employee, and the respective union leaders of our Classified and Licensed staff (whom would certainly not call themselves "management!"). Of those remaining folks who actually are District-level management, we have our Superintendent, our Business Manager who handles daily oversight of the budget, the Deputy Superintendent in charge of facilities, transportation, Hispanic outreach and personnel, the Assistant Superintendent who works with daily school operations including curriculum and school improvement, our Special Education Director, and the Director in charge of technology and information services.
So we have two teachers and one classified employee who are there as themselves, and not as representatives of their union or as managers of their department.
Three Board members participated, as well as two high school students. We included representatives from law enforcement, city government, and the business community, as well as parents. We went to great lengths to balance the team by gender, as well as to find advocates for students in elementary, middle and high school.
Add to the list two high school students and an unknown number of parents, not including those parents who are on the team to represent other organization, such as the chamber of commerce. So my guess is that students and those people who have the most contact with students make up roughly about 1/4 of the team (1 classified, 2 teachers, 2 students and perhaps 3 parents our
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