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| Kevin Kalberg and Tanya Donohue |
It has been an interesting process as the group struggled to understand how we could be in the current situation and sharing their frustrations with our struggle in educating the voters about the need. They did accomplish the goal they were given and you can see the report on the district web page here. The board has some difficult decisions that will need to be made and the report will assist them in this process.
The committee was made up of nineteen citizens committed to our school system and determined to identify options that maintain the quality program currently in place and planned for the future. To a person, they volunteered to continue to support the board throughout the process and I believe will be there to support the final decisions made by the board. We owe them a huge thank you for their commitment to our school system and for sharing their time and thinking with us.
Committee members: Jett Thompson, Marcy Rice, Kaethe Long, Craig Mahoney, Chad Wall,
Michael Crowe, Megan Sheridan, Sean Cassidy, Christina Delia, Kartha Heinz, Kari LaBree, Kevin
Kalberg, Jill Saldivar, Joy Stramer, Kari Thomas, Catie Larsen, Tanya Donohue, Jim Flynn, and Dick
Peacock.
In addition to the citizens, there were two school board representatives; Tami Henkel, and Didem Pierson.
Support for the committee’s work was provided by staff members Mike Maryanski, Rob Morrow, Bruce Zahradnik, Fritz Gere, Robert Talbert, Terry Duty, and Kevin Patterson.
John Schuster represented teachers and Barbara Roessler represented classified staff.
4 comments:
Charles Swindoll famously said “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
The committee came up with both short and long term proposals for our 'impossible situations' that deal with the reality of the problem while also proposing novel ideas (ex. more online learning opportunities).
Maybe we could connect with experts at UW and pick their brains for ideas? Certainly we are not the only school district faced with this issue, and I bet we could call on their expertise for assistance. They may have seen a model that could work in our situation.
Maybe there's a way we could overhaul our administration, freeing up the facility and getting more adults with children? I know of several districts that have reestablished connections between administration and the students. This might also help limit the ‘disconnect’ between educational research/philosophy and its implementation. Additionally, it could possibly free up additional monetary resources.
Anyway, hats off to the committee for their hard work! Hopefully we’ll find an inspired way to resolve these difficulties.
Jonathan
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