Hi There, Please let me know if you are coming on Wednesday.  If you already have let me know you do not need to respond again.  It is important for me to know because I would like to have some site council members and staff members be leaders of break out sessions, and I want to suggest who will need to go into specific groups as well.  Thanks, and see you Wednesday at 6:00pm in the multipurpose room. It will be a lot of fun!

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud.  You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root and bud, and fruit.  Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Agenda:

Lisa will share: Please hold questions until the end of the presentation.

        Thrust and purpose: Build a better mousetrap….

        State of the School: Numbers, Budget, People Power, Safety, Supervision, Resources, Supplies, Materials, Counseling, SRO, Sped, Gifted, Specials/Exploratory.

         Overview of purpose and action for this meeting:

        We have a great track record, but we can build more traction and leverage! We can build our leadership capacity amongst the teachers, the community partnerships and the students and our parents.

Exploring:

        What is great about West Sedona?

        What needs some work?

        What skills and attributes should a West Sedona outgoing 8th grader possess?

        MERRY GO ROUND ACTIVITY

Lisa’s short presentation on specific THEMES:

        Boot strap theory

        Sustainability (see hand out)

        Leadership

        Active Citizenship = building stronger communities.

        Civic engagement to create positive change

Brainstorming sessions:

        Session one: Brainstorm a list of community partnerships that we have and that we can still explore. Report out:

        Session Two:

        Break out sessions for planning. See topics and individual directions for each topic. Choose a leader, write legibly.

• 1. Increase Tax credit Participation/Other revenue generating ideas.

• 2. Build up Music/Fine Arts

• 3. Library volunteerism/offerings within our library

• 4. STEM-Science Technology Engineering Mathematics

• 5. Sustainability Team (Self Reliance) – gardening/apples/crafts/products/recycling

• 6. Sports

• 7. Other Site Council goals: Increase Hispanic parent involvement, increase foreign language offering.
  

Report Out-Action Items:

       Where do we go from here?

Closing: Leadership that bridges cultural divides

        Develop creative, analytical and practical skills and attitudes: creative to generate a vision; analytical to assess whether creative ideas are good ideas; practical to execute ideas.

        Skill development is encouraged through emphasizing public speaking, and communication and team building, persuasion, negotiation, mediation, framing, and creative problem solving.    

        Students analyze issues relating to ethics, risk assessment and decision making under uncertainty.

Dr. Lisa Hirsch

Principal West Sedona School

928-204-6601

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson