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School Board establishes new goals, works on outcomes
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Tue Aug 15, 2006 14:39:42 PDT
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Last year the Tehachapi Unified School District’s Board established a list of goals and shared them with parents, students and, most importantly, the staff.
According to board president Kim Armbrecht, the next step is to incorporate the staff’s ideas into this school year’s goals.
The board’s goals for the new school year are to establish a framework for effective communication throughout the district; to identify the needs of students to be productive graduates; to achieve long-term financial viability by controlling costs, using resources efficiently and maximizing funding to meet educational goals; and to hire, develop, and retain highly qualified personnel.
Last year, Superintendent Marian Stephens created an advisory committee, which issued surveys as a vehicle for gaining feedback from the staff.
“The committee made it very clear to the board that our internal communication could use some modification. That’s why it is so important to incorporate communication as one of our new goals,” Armbrecht said.
He also said that the 2006-07 goals will be presented to staff at meetings at the start of the new school year.
“We need to share the progress of last year’s goals. They are guide posts that are continually renewed.”
According to Armbrecht, he will be meeting with staff and welcoming all employees of the district back for the new school year over the next couple of weeks.
“All employees are equal in stature and value to us,” he said, adding that having a mutual understanding is important, and that every one has to be on board for the goals to be successful.
Armbrecht said that setting goals is a good start, and will enable the board to begin establishing longer term goals within a three to five year plan.
“It helps if we are out there and getting the feedback. We develop the goals and the superintendent does the implementation and develops a program whereby the issues can be resolved,” he said.
He said that according to the surveys, the issue of communication remained a consistent concern.
“We think it is important to address the issue and this is our way of doing it. We have to be there getting their (the employees) pulse. We are going to ask the superintendent to report on the progress,” he said.
Armbrecht said that quite a lot has been done already in reference to improving internal communication, but more needs to be done.
“It is our job as a board to represent the public and to interface with the public school system. It has to have a vision and a purpose and a pathway to get there,” Armbrecht said.