Seattle Schools Strategic Plan Motto
Every Student.
Every Classroom.
Every Day.
Three Goals, 50,000 Journeys.
I'm good with this. I just would like to see the entire plan more streamlined and focused as the motto.
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.)
Comments
-katy.did
-SWED
-Gretchen
HIMSmom
It sounds like merely an attendance mandate. I'd like to see sort of goal(s) attached:
"every inspiration" or
"every inquiry" or
"every dream"
That one always gave me the picture of a minder with a whip thrashing the minions of students and staff alike.
There was also the problem that not all students were achieving and not all staff was accountable.
Onward.
DistrictWatcher
reader
Is there anything we could do to stop the individualization of programs? The good ole' days meant going to school with your neighbors. Let's return to neighborhood schools, even for the APP students. Smart is one thing, but gifted is another.
Teacher
"We need to look at your mission statement."
At the next break I went to my classroom, fired up my computer, and went to the Dilbert.com random mission statement generator.
I wrote down the output, replacing the word "business" with the word "education" and took it back to the whole staff.
They loved it so much that after some minor wordsmithing, it's what they eventually adopted.
The big joke was that I was the only one in the building who knew the truth that in the tradition of Jerry Seinfeld, it was "a mission statement about nothing".
The moral of the story:
Don't confuse a mission statement with hard work or productivity. Our staff was extraordinarily hard working and productive and our students learned a tremendous amount while in our care. The change from the old mission statement to the new mission statement had zero effect on that level of effort or that level of productivity.
Neither will this mission statement at the district level
Ex-SPS
"Let's return to neighborhood schools, even for the APP students."
Okay, teacher, explain to us how ALL students, even APP students, will be served at their neighborhood schools.
S parent
My entry would be:
Students, staff and teachers
Working as one to create a better world
For the whole world