Board Retreat - September 17, 2011
Here is the agenda for the Board Retreat of September 17, 2011.
Here are the minutes of the retreat.
Here are the minutes of the retreat.
Tuesday Open Thread
The speaker list is up for the Board meeting tomorrow; not as packed as I thought with just four people on the waitlist. The majority of the speakers are speaking on high school boundaries (with several wanting to talk about Ballard High). There are only three of us speaking about the Green Dot resolution asking the City to not grant the zoning departures that Green Dot has requested. It's me, long-time watchdog, Chris Jackins, and the head of the Washington State Charter Schools Association, Patrick D'Amelio. (I knew Mr. D'Amelio when he headed the Alliance for Education and Big Brothers and Big Sisters; he's a stand-up guy.)
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tired of hmmdrum
The only honorable thing for him to do at this point would be to resign and withdraw from his re-election campaign.
Then he could be free of any obligations whatsoever to voters and could spend more time with his apparent leadership guru: Cheryl Chow.
If he insists on staying on, he should at least pretend to be interested.
Look out for "theories of action" and lots of BS that moves board members FARTHER from their constituents....
http://broadeducation.org/asset/1049-091203.dm.pdf
I Am: Aghast
She's not asking them; she's telling them.
"Superintendent Enfield gave her welcoming comments and presented her comments as to how she intends to address the four pillars that the Board has asked her to focus on this year."
If this is really true -- then we DO definitely need a new Superintendent search this year. If the deal REALLY IS that the Board hires the Super, and the Super comes in with whatever program, pillars, agenda -- whatever you want to call it -- they think is best -- then it is obvious that the Board needs to figure out first what agenda (not what person, but what agenda) it wants -- and then go hire the person whose agenda matches theirs. Whatever other problems there might have been with a fast hire of Dr. E., there clearly was no time for the Board to vet and understand her agenda for the District. So, we had better get started figuring out what plan we want, and who has that plan as a selling point.
Director DeBell nominated instructional materials waivers. He wants that done by the time of the superintendent's evaluation. At the Board Retreat they agreed to make this a priority for 2011-2012. Unfortunately, at the last C & I Committee meeting Director Martin-Morris unilaterally decided to defer any more work on that project to June. Tough luck, Director DeBell.
Other projects nominated for priority treatment will also see action deferred into the future.
Program parity or program access, was determined to be a 2011-12 priority, but not due until September 2012. That means it will be reflected in the program placement decisions made in the winter of 2012-2013 for implementation in the fall of 2013. Not exactly fast-tracked.
Bell times faired worse. It was promised to be a focus in 2013, with a status discussion at the 2012 spring retreat.
Summer school/credit retrieval, faired worst of all. It was withdrawn for the purposes of the day's discussion.
So the Board made a number of proposals and the staff were able to reject them all.
go wall street occupation movement! Perhaps the only way change will happen. We need the masses to demand it.
pissedoffanonymous
Interesting, I noticed that Mr. Boesche or Mr. Harman were not present at the retreat.
Who is Don McAdams? He gets mentioned a lot.
Are the agenda and minutes actually available on the District website? I am having a hard time finding it.
I agree with Jan (@4:36) regarding coming up with the Agenda first for the next several years and then go look for the right person whether it be the existing interim or someone else.
A friend of Seattle
About Don McAdams look HERE.
Remember the Houston Miracle under Rod Paige, which was eventually revealed to be a complete scam. Of course this came after a huge realignment of policies and practices to make the miracle happen elsewhere.
I may not be a big McAdams fan but he has some good ideas on Government and management that the Board apparently pays to hear at retreats and then disregards.
Click on the HEREs that are linked at the original Board Retreat posting, which started these comments.