Re: Forum for School District' Finances and closing of school Archived Message
Posted by Sunflower on January 24, 2013, 10:21 am, in reply to "Re: Forum for School District' Finances and closing of school"
The PTA was the host back in the early 2000's (2001-02) I believe. There were 10 or 11 candidates that ran that year I if I remember right. Jeff Parker, Mark Eavenson was a write in, a preacher, Arthur ? from Collinsville School District, and others. Everyone was invited to join. The meeting was a bit strange though, there was a woman in the meeting that would not stop talking about the district serving hot dogs she was out of touch and was obsessed about the lunch program. Then there were very good questions like what was the district planning on doing about the drop out rate of the HS. The meeting got off course a couple of times mostly the hot dog lady and the teachers but for the most it was a good meeting. The teachers used the meeting to air dirty laundry to the potential board not appropriate at all and to say the least very uncomfortable. But, they are the ones taking the professional course right now to learn how to act and not be so divisive so one can assume that this has been addressed by Mr. Briggs already. http://www.gcsd9.net/news/1.2.13InstituteDay.pdf The goal of Transforming School Culture is to provide a framework for understanding how school cultures operate and how leaders can overcome staff division to improve relationships and transform toxic cultures into healthy ones with the ultimate goal of improved learning for all students. Anthony Muhammad contends that in order to transform school culture, we must examine and understand educators motivation for hanging on to paradigms that are contrary to those articulated by their school or district. In this book, Dr. Muhammad explores many aspects of human behavior, social conditions, and history. Drawing upon his study of 34 schools (11 elementary, 14 middle, and 9 high schools) from around the country, Dr. Muhammad describes the underlying tensions that impact culture among four different groups of educators in a school. Much of the book is devoted to introducing readers to these groups: Thank God!! So.....you may want to contact the PTA in the elementary schools. The PTA President of the chapter was the one in charge of the meeting. It was in March of that year so its not too late to put it together. If you can not get information locally about the chapter you can contact Springfield IL and they can give you the names for the contacts in our school district. Good Luck and Best Wishes to You!
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