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Strategy Overview (10 minutes)
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(ID # 7432) Policy and Planning Strategy Overview (10 minutes)
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▶ 18:56 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: planning with miss Crisco Thank You miss Lindquist Thank You mr. O'Connell first on the policy and planning agenda for this evening is the strategy overview and I will be asking superintendent to speak to that when she has scrolled
▶ 19:10 Speaker 2: through yes thank you I finally got to it so as most of you know my my practice is I do a three-day administrative retreat in June we do some professional development and we do planning for the next year and every year we review the last year strategy overview what we accomplished what we feel we need to accomplish and we design a new report for this year going into the meeting this year I used a different approach I use what's called a tuning protocol protocols are often used in educational circles as a way to generate problem-solving conversation and so we used a tuning protocol on the last one which I felt was a little lengthy and at the end of the day the there was about 40 people again present and we came away I think with a more concise and a more highly focused strategy overview the work continues on personalized learning social-emotional learning building cultural proficiency across the district and building professional collaboration so that is what you see in front of you the principals have begun to share it with their staff they will use it when setting goals for educator evaluation this year and we will have that through line that we try for every year questions for the superintendent on the
▶ 20:46 Jennifer McAndrew: strategy overview miss McAndrew this is just a comment thank you I just wanted to call out and commend the among the many priorities that jumps out from this document the focus on cultural proficiency and increasing those skills and prioritizing those skills for educators and also in reviewing resources for bias and culturally responsive communication strategies I think is needed and important so I just wanted to call that out and thank you