Seattle School Board Retreat Wrap-Up
The Board retreat was last Saturday. I was one of two observers along with reader Cecilia. As I previously mentioned, I felt a lot of good energy and reason for hope from this new team. There were a couple of people around the table that felt the need to point out how many new people there were but there is nothing to be done except regroup and move on. Rapid turnover is not good for any organization but I personally feel this is a good team (as does the Superintendent). I also mentioned a couple of things that the Superintendent said that stuck out. One, that staff needs to not be overloaded because they have a lot on their plates already. He said, " our system lends itself to that..." He said "If we want to hold onto people, we need to set aside peripheral things and work on specifics." I agree BUT the Board has to be able to ask for data and discussion so they can do their work. More on this later on in the discussion...