NUSD Board Meeting Highlights - August 18, 2015

The Board met on Tuesday, August 18, to discuss the priorities and goals for the District.

Superintendent Hogeboom reviewed the outcomes of the meeting and the process moving forward.

Outcomes of the meeting:

Priorities and Goals

• To agree upon the most important priorities for the 2015-16 school year
• To review the Strategic Plan goals and the LCAP goals: Is anything missing?
• Do we want to write our goals as SMART goals?

Mission, Vision, Values and Student Graduation Skills

• Do we want to revise our Mission and Vision
• Do we want to identify the Values and Skills we want our students to have upon graduation?
• If so, what process do we want to use to develop these? Can we develop a timeline?

The Board reviewed:

• Strategic Plan Goals 2014-2017
• LCAP Goals and Action Items 2015-2016
• NUSD Mission, Vision and District Motto
• Human Relations and Respect Mission Statement

(all documents can be found on the NUSD website)

After much discussion, the Board identified the following priority areas:

• Support all staff members: attracting and retaining
• Strengthen academic programs at high schools
• Overall community engagement and involvement
• Closing achievement gap and issues of equity
• Technology: curriculum and infrastructure
• Community involvement in facilities master plan

In order to focus, measure and attain the objectives, Superintendent Hogeboom suggested three (3) goals:

• High schools, including co-enrollment, strengthening academic programs
• Equity/closing achievement gap
• Community engagement and involvement

Attracting and retaining staff members will continue to be a goal and priority at NUSD and addressing facility needs will remain an overarching objective for the district.

Superintendent Hogeboom next addressed the mission, vision, and values of the district. He suggested a Vision Steering Committee of key stakeholders to address this and suggested the following process and timeline:

Suggested Process

1. Establish a Vision Steering Committee of key stakeholders (20?)

2. Get input from all school sites (during a Wednesday PD day)

3. Get input from School Site Councils (October 22?)

4. Get input from North Marin PTA

5. Get input from NFT/CSEA

6. Other groups to get input?

7. Community Meetings and Town Halls??

8. Vision Steering Committee revised draft and prepares final recommendation

9. Board Adopts new Mission, Vision, Values and Graduation Skills

Suggested Timeline

Tuesday, October 13 Vision Steering Committee meets to develop draft Mission, Vision,

Values, Graduation Skills

October 14-Nov. 30 Receive input from all stakeholder groups

Tuesday, December 3 Vision Steering Committee meets to finalize draft recommendations

Tuesday, December 8 Board of Trustees meets to approve final version

Superintendent Hogeboom will present an update to the Board at the September 1 Board Meeting.