| 1. | 2/5/2008 2:35:00 PM | Consider additional staffing in gifted education.
Continue work to keep class sizes low. |
| 2. | 3/19/2008 5:29:00 PM | >Continue to aggressively explore creative ways
to reduce class size.
> Investigate, research,and build a viable model
for proposing year-round school in our district.
> Investigate the possibilities,effects, pros,
and cons of Spanish-English bilingual education
at the elementary level. |
| 3. | 3/17/2008 9:22:00 PM | 1) Focus on becoming a more eco friendly school, community. This I have not heard ever mentioned and seems relavent with the push for being "green".
2) I am a big supporter of charter/alternative school.
3) Character Educ. programs can only help in my opinion.
4) How about a class for staff who would like to learn spanish to help connect better with ESL students who they can't communicate with.
5) |
| 4. | 3/18/2008 11:55:00 AM | I feel we can be great if we do the things we focus on well. I believe there is a lack of focus and a history of moving on to the next great idea, without making what we already do better. We only have so much time. If we keep adding things, what are you taking away? |
| 5. | 3/18/2008 12:14:00 PM | Character Ed.
Alternative middle school for 7-8 students. |
| 6. | 3/18/2008 12:38:00 PM | Decrease class sizes; limit number of diverse students in a single class. If you have ELL, CD, LD, ED, GATE all in one class--difficult to serve all needs. |
| 7. | 3/18/2008 12:52:00 PM | Continue to find ways to support student with Autism Spectrum Disorders. |
| 8. | 3/18/2008 2:52:00 PM | There seeems to be a lot of goals being thrown at us and this concerns mean. Each year we are setting new goals before we are accomlishing the existing ones. We never seems to stick with initiatives long enough to see if they are working before we are on to the next. It was stated that these proposed goals are for 2008-2013 but I am not confident in that. I would love too see an actual timetable for these goals. |
| 9. | 3/18/2008 9:05:00 PM | Assistance for ALL special needs students and grey area students both within the SPED curriculum AND when manistreamed. |
| 10. | 3/19/2008 1:24:00 PM | Just a comment: Give time for us to catch our breath and implement the many changes before putting more on our plates. |
| 11. | 3/19/2008 1:56:00 PM | I don't like hearing that additional teaching positions will not be considered. We need to continue to look at concerns such as class size and be willing to pursue what's going to be best for student learning and safety.
I'm curious how all of these items came about. What process is used to establish the strategic plan? |
| 12. | 3/19/2008 5:00:00 PM | Significant shortage of FTE's!!!
Class size too high. |
| 13. | 3/19/2008 5:03:00 PM | I strongly believe we need more training in dealing with the growing population of mentally ill children, more support staff to help us help these children. I also believe an alternative middle school could be implemented perhaps the other part of the day that Crossroads is not being utilized. |
| 14. | 3/19/2008 5:59:00 PM | Support for teachers in dealing with students/parents that are mentally ill.
Support for teachers that deal with non-english speaking students (perhaps develop an emersion program) |
| 15. | 3/20/2008 3:26:00 AM | Where will we find time to do what we are doing and add more. Quantity of tasks to do is going up. Is quality suffering? |
| 16. | 3/20/2008 1:50:00 PM | Address class size and scheduling for the allied arts programs. The lab classes NEED limits for learning to take place, and the set-up time for instructors and the collect of materials is much more intense/involved than in other areas of instruction. |
| 17. | 4/9/2008 5:01:00 PM | I feel it is important to not allow multiple initiatives to muddy the waters if we are to see our primary objective clearly. In other words, I echo the sentiment of colleagues who say that we need time and support to implement agreed upon initiatives. |