001roll call and then we'll add Miss okay okay um president osbor here vice president cordiva secretary Hamilton here member Martin here member edbert she's on her way so we'll note it when she gets here okay so if you would those of you who are here if you will stand to join us for the pledge and Allegiance Mr hilon I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all I salute the flag of the state of New Mexico the symbol of a perfect friendship among United cultures thank you so the only business we're conducting today is the approval of the agenda I'll make a motion to approve second we have a motion by Mr Hamilton
002a second by Mr Martin uh to approve the agenda all in favor I opposed motion carries having done that we can start our work session okay and I I want to welcome Aurora Laura um she I think she's going to give you some of her background she's been amazing to work with we're really enjoying working with her and with the company and so I just want to give you the floor to lead us through and this is Bert has reached out and she's about 10 minutes out okay okay great well thank you all everyone for having me here today my name is aora Laura and I work with K12 Coalition and I have been leading the strategic planning process um with the senior leadership team of this district and so we're going to talk to
003you today about um the overall process the timeline all the steps that we're going through and then we will um also then go deeper into core values vision and Mission and talk about what we want to see in those foundational pieces we'll share with you what the steering committee said get your thoughts um and then we'll talk about next steps so we're gonna go ahead and go to the next slide okay and I just kind of went over this but our objectives today just to understand the process and timeline for the development of the Strategic plan and then um we're going to develop and refine cor values vision and Mission so to get started though i' like to go ahead next slide get to know um a little bit more about our board members in
004the room I'd just love to know for each of you how um your name how long you've been on the board and one Gorder or phrase to describe how you're feeling about the next strategic plan um my name is Sean Hamilton let's see I've been on the board for was a test I don't know that think think about I think it's about seven years now and uh I guess my word would be excited great uh Cindy Osburn I've been on the board I think eight or nine years not sure but anyway and I'm Terry Martin and the old man so I don't know how long long time is it 20 years pretty close yeah amazing yes okay great um do we want to go on the have other people share should we just move on
005the rest we I think you know the rest of us because we've been part of the group yeah okay great we'll just kind of move on to the next thing so I do want to share with you a little bit about um myself and my organization so I am with KW Coalition and we are a company that works with districts around the country on strategic planning and other types of projects to help um improve the educational experience for students and teachers and families um the people who work in our company we are practitioners and so we are people who have worked in the field for many different Year many years working in a variety of different roles so we really understand this work from the lens of practitioners um I also want to share that
006this is a partner driven process and so although we have a way that we typically go about helping districts build strategic plans we do tailor it and help to make sure we're doing in a way that makes sense for the community and so we have a lot of input we try and have uh work with the the district to put together a student committee that's got all different types of stakeholders we do what makes sense in terms of focus groups and we have them tailor our surveys and we do a lot of Engagement with the board so we um we really try to make sure that the district is weighing in on the best way for us to do it so we can build a product that is um really really that really resonates with
007um the whole Community um and then the other thing is we understand that there are just a lot of challenges in terms of um implementing small and large scale systems and initiatives and so because we've been practitioners we understand different complications and things and so that's why we we really try to listen and do what makes sense for the district um I'll go ahead and share a little bit about myself since I'm the one who's um our project lead for working with this um Network or District but I've been in education myself for 25 years um got my start as an elementary school teacher in Houston and then um kind of went through a variety of different roles in districts all the way um the last 25 years moving on to becoming a middle and
008high school principal principal supervisor chief of schools all the way up through superintendent I'm the former superintendent for Oklahoma City Schools so I've experienced strategic planning from a lot of different roles and just really understand the importance of making sure the voices of stakeholders at every single level are included in this process because um that's absolutely what is needed to make sure that this makes sense for everyone in the community so now I'm going to share with you a a little bit about our overall process for how we build strategic plans um in the beginning what we work on is the foundational pieces which are the core values vision and Mission and this is these are the pieces that we're going to talk about today but we use these as the basis upon which to
009build the rest of the Strategic plan after we work on those pieces we work with the district to help build a portrait of a graduate and then we look at a lot of data um and our result for our stakeholder survey to then identify the priorities goals strategies um action steps and measures so this is a process that we'll do over six months and we kind of take them one step at a time but just so you know these are the overall pieces that we'll be going through in our work with this District I will share that in the beginning so we do a lot of work and I'm going to talk a little bit about the steering committee in just a few slides but we engage a lot with the board on the core
010values vision and Mission because we have the board is the decision maker on core values Venda Mission so we gather a lot of input from the steering committee we'll get feedback from uh focus groups and constituents uh but we bring all that feedback to you all and and work with you all to help sort of refine the core Val's vision and Mission that we will then build the rest of the plan upon um and then we also work closely with you all to get your feedback um to help us build the portrait of a graduate and feedback on priorities and goals and and so we'll do a couple work sessions along the way to keep you in the loop to get your feedback so we're continually um making this a plan that works Mak sense
011for everybody and then we primarily after we've kind of gotten all those pieces solidified work with the staff and the steering committee on the details of what goes underneath the priorities and goals so we work with the content level experts to then build the details about so specifically what will we be doing to reach those goals how are we going to measure success along the way so you all will be able to see that and know it but we're going to work with them on refining the details that go into those pieces so next I'd like to share just our overall timeline for the completion of the Strategic plan in this District um we started back in December and January with kind of project planning and then we started meeting with our steering committee back
012in January and we're doing one meeting per month where we work on different pieces of the plan um we are in the process right now of gathering data to look at uh with our steering committee at our meeting in two weeks and we're also administering stakeholder surveys that are out right now for everyone in the community to take and work session right now um we'll do a second work session um sometime between April and May we'll have focus groups happening in April and May and then the whole plan is set to wrap up in June uh after we've worked out the content as well we will work with a graphic designer um to help get pictures and images from the district to help put put this in together into a nice document um to share
013with the community so I want to tell you next about our steering committee and um one of the things that we think is really important to do as we build our strategic plan is to put together a team of stakeholders that represent all different types of groups from the community to um help just advise on the development of this plan and so our steering committee has about 30 how many members 30 I think there's 32 not including Gina Sarah and myself great yeah so we got about 32 members on the steering committee and on the steering committee we have um students teachers administrators parents members of central office community members um we've got um the military base representative we've got just representes from a lot of different um groups around this community and their job
014is to work with us and meet with us once a month to work on the development of this plan the reason it's important that we work with the steering committee is because we really think it's important to make sure that the voices of all types of stakeholders are elevated in this process and that they can serve as ambassadors for the for the processes as well so at the end of the day we want to make sure that this is a a plan that has been built um with input from everyone around the community community and if people later ask how did this plan get developed we want people to be able to share I was part of this process or here's how we use the feedback that we got from the community to really integrate
015it into making this um a plan that works for everybody and so they will be able to share that they've been part of the process how we analyze the results from the survey what we did with the feedback from the stakeholder groups um in the focus groups and then at the end we also have them U provide thought leadership on implementation of the plan so as we finalize plan in June we then want to be thinking about over the next 5 years how are we going to make sure that we're holding ourselves accountable to what went into the plan and what would they like to see from The District in terms of reporting out over the next five years about our progress um how you know how we're doing in terms of the goals or
016do we need to make adjustments and just making sure that this becomes a living document that doesn't just end up in a binder on a shelf but this is something that the community knows is driving the work of the district and people know how we're doing in terms of that plan so here is what we're doing with that steering committee over the course of the next six meetings um and we've currently done meeting number one and two but in the beginning of our first meeting we looked at sample strategic plans from around the country just to identify what are the things that we like and don't like um that we would like to be build into the Clovis plan and to also identify what level of information and detail we would like to have included
017um just in terms of the public facing document and then kind of the internal one that has the additional details um that people can also review at meeting number two we got their feedback on core values vision and Mission and we're going to share with you their ideas today to get your thoughts on it as well and then at our next meeting when we come back in two weeks um we are going to work on building a portrait of a graduate and then start to look at data and work on um beginning to generate ideas for the priorities and goals that will guide the work for the next five years we'll do part two of our data meeting um uh the following month in April then in May we'll work on um the measuring progress
018and our action steps and then in June we will do the final content review um before it comes to the board for approval so today so that was kind of the overview of the process today we're going to go into detail actually I'll open it up to any questions you all have about the process itself before we go into core values Vision admission I'm on yeah okay I have good great all right so now we're gonna jump into core values vision and Mission so I'm gonna explain first what the three of these things are um can we go on yep one more slide all right so so we'll go over big picture and then we're going to go in detail into each of them but core values are the set of beliefs that drive all
019behaviors of the district the vision describes what the district hopes to achieve or be in the future and the mission articulates what is unique about who the district is what the district does and who the district serves so if the vision is where we're going in the future and what our dream is for the students of this District the mission is more about what are we doing to achieve that so okay so we're going to go now deeper into the core values and go ahead next slide all right so we already kind of talked about this but the core values vision and Mission are these foundational pieces upon which we build everything else on this District so this is going to start with what are the things that we as a district stand for next
020slide uh would one of you like to read uh this quote about what a core value is value is a I'm sorry a value is a way of being or belief that we hold most important living in living into our values means that we do more than profess our values we practice them we walk our talk we are clear about what we believe and hold important and we take care that our intentions words thoughts and behaviors align with those beliefs thank you that's a quote from bernee Brown and another way to look at it um it's you can kind of look at this uh as sort of a tree metaphor but these are the things they're kind of the roots of what we do they direct the behavior and decision- making of our organizations employees
021so we're going to look at some examples from other districts and then um before we then identify kind of what we would like for our district but just so you know we've pulled just different ones that our company has worked with in other places these are not necessarily in any way like CL New Mexico but we are just yeah and we are just showing you other how other boards what they've select what types of words they they felt resonated for them and a lot of times what the districts do for core values is they will select select a set of Words which represent the values and then they'll write a description of what those values mean for that District um so here we go with proo Utah the core values that they selected are beling
022growth empowerment creativity and Community next slide uh Ferguson florant said student centered Excellence Innovation and relationships to Cab County uh humanization professionalism respect Integrity dignity empathy uh Maplewood Richmond Heights just belonging Integrity inspiration courage and success uh Cabrio Unified School District chose students first inspiring classrooms welcoming schools teamwork approach lifelong learning now I want to share with you um some examples from New Mexico and what I will share is a lot of the examples that I saw in New Mexico are actually core beliefs not core values and so we could do either one um this is what Los crues uh put as their core values which I actually think are phrased a little bit more in terms of core beliefs which are similar it's just in more of a statement form but L cruus wrote
023um that their beliefs are being accountable for every child Foster growth and Innovation grounded in research and evidence guide all decisions through the lens of equity sustainability and respect commit to the inclusion and success of every student maintain a safe healthy and caring environment p and maintain Partnerships with parents students staff and community members and embrace the power of collaboration um what we will talk about in a moment are would you prefer to go in terms of the statement version or the word version with a definition but this is um an example and I will share from most other districts in New Mexico they went with the statement version but I did want to share some simple words versions okay um we also want to share um the school district had done some work around
024kind of their social media pillars and identified some themes that they wanted to make sure that they're reflecting out in the Social Media communication that they do um and so we wanted to share these because some of these represent words that we might want to be then including in the core values but um they share that the content pillars for what they're communicating out uh academic excellence and Innovation Community Connection um news and updates it's not really a core value but um enriching experiences Wildcat Champions and then state and local initiatives so things like Excellence Innovation Community um you Champions like those kind of things might be some words that we might want to see reflected in the core values so then we also worked with the steering committee and we asked in that big
025group of 35 people um we asked them to write down like what are words that really resonate for you if we're developing a set for uh Clovis Municipal schools and we put put together those ideas into a word cloud the ones that are larger are the ones that emerged more times from people in the room and so you can see the words that really Rose to the top um was some of the ones that resonated a lot being things like Integrity Community Excellence Joy Innovation um and then I also just want to point out that some of the words might have kind of similar meanings so even if it's not bigger it could mean there's sort of a synonym on there the other but I'll give you a moment just to scan through these before
026we open it up to discussion around what words resonate for you as board members let's just take a few seconds to scan it okay so what I would love for us to do and we'll leave this up on the screen but I would love for us to talk about two things one what are words that you feel um really resonate for you in terms of words that that would be good core values for the Clovis Municipal schools um and it could be things off this list it could be things that you saw on earlier Pages or other ideas that you have um and then the other thing I'd love for us to talk about is in terms of developing them would you like to go the route of developing a set of words with the
027definitions or would you prefer that we go more towards the statement um side and make them core more like core beliefs which is what we saw for lost cruus so we'll just open it up to any discussion you have at this point I could start yes so honestly just looking at these words were there's a many that I would choose but um community and collaboration and empowerment are a couple of the ones that really stand out for me one working as my regular job at Canon and really trying to integrate um some of our military folks when they come and just to be part of the community understand that that's how we make change is through that and that collaboration piece and then just empowering people to make the to be part of the change
028so for me those are the three and if I was to choose I would actually choose statements uh okay great I like the statements too and I think I like all your words the one that I think that um also for me is a big one is accountability because I don't think if if you don't have accountability then the rest of it really doesn't doesn't matter you know what I mean so I think that's a big one too um I would go with words and I'll tell you why because when I was in the commit younger people uh said you know words just single shot opportunity to briefly read through so I I like the idea of words I love um Excellence Innovation and tradition because I think those are related to Clovis there was
029um you know we have Rich Traditions here that we always want to include but I love all the other things community and collaboration all those things Excellence all include so when you were on the committee they um words resonated more than like a I don't want to say that I'm just saying that there were young people because clearly I'm not in that camp and they what they said I'm on said people are not going to read that you want them if you want them to be engaged with the document and you want them to read that then right I'm not that's good to hear that's good to right that's what I thought sometimes we just think what we personally would like to be able to see that's what resonates yes so that was a big
030conversation so I'm kind of coming out of the dark on this I hate that not my first rodeo but I agree with the words that we should do it with the words and if I'll pick three from this up there I excellent Community opportunity great so part of what we're hoping to do is narrow it down to probably somewhere between three and six um and so I don't know if you want to have any other kind of group conversation around this um what we will be doing is kind of taking your thoughts and putting together putting them together into a draft and eventually we will be taking these to focus groups where we'll kind of take your ideas and then get feedback from um about those ideas from um groups of teachers students parents community
031members administrators so we'll we'll be able to bring back some feedback but I don't know um you know we've heard several people kind of Share three or four if you want to have any more Collective discussion around those or or want us to just kind of put those together and get feedback about those pieces El did you say I think that the community piece is I heard that from everybody and our community has so many unique opportunities for us yes the uh Canan connection plus we just have differences Even in our city different communities and groups that I think even in the business sense uh as for input we we get a lot about that and uh we kind of proud ourselves with our educational system which is the uh CHS and also TCC you
032know and our students normally that go through that they go on and be pretty good at what they s like to do so Community is a big one I think we all think right yeah yeah the other that you said the other one I heard pretty often was Excellence that's one tradition I don't know how y'all feel about that that was a conversation well no I think there's a big there's a big group of people in lovis that tradition is a big thing that's a that's a big part of our community so I think that's that's great to to have that in there the conversation around that was staying rooted in our tradition but being very forward thinking and I think that's where Cindy's word of inovation came in is that we don't want to
033stay stuck in the past but we want to honor that yes and what that's represented for this District over the decades and why there are things that are so important to community members it's because of that that rich history and and tradition yeah um but then being Innovative collaborative and how we move forward and plan for the future is that a good representation of the conversation that we had what do you guys I'm sorry oh no then there's conversation about you know we're going to get to that later but what we're actually preparing kids for is something that probably doesn't even exist at this point so you know what what is the word that described that we have Excellence we have Innovation we have but we you know growth not a year what's what's the
034thing we want to say about that so we can all future something whatever the future is right exactly and part of that probably will emerge when we do the portrait of a graduate um because we're we will then identify terms that we are trying to instill in our graduates when they leave us to be successful in their future so I do think there we may want to put that in core values but also I think it's also it's it definitely will show up when we do the por of a graduate at our next meeting yeah so Excellence is one of the the and integrity you know like our wrestling kids certainly showed Integrity when they stayed behind it yeah I like Integrity too important Community value I think what do you guys think about accountability
035I do really like Integrity though too because again that is another well it's it's an Air Force yeah so when you talk about Community that's part of one of cor values on that side of I would think accountability would be too yeah so let's let's talk about that a minute like go ahead accountability sort of feels like people are watching me and I'm accountable but Integrity to me means I'm doing it because it's the right thing and because nobody's watching me I'm just doing it doing it because I don't know you're right to me though accountability is holding ourselves to all the stuff that we're talking about right now so as we because if we do all this but we don't hold our El accountable to it it doesn't really it's it's for nothing you
036know that's that's my but I'm I'm open I mean I don't it doesn't have to be that I mean I I love Integrity too I just that's what I think when I think of that and again I was just want to add is opportunity you know what I'm saying each one of our student have a uh equal opportunity to go forward and be successful right right you said three to six words right I've written six that you've all just talked about do you want to hear what you got community Integrity accountability Innovation tradition and opportunity are the six that you all just talked about you say that again did you have Excellence because I thought I was one to the other maybe I missed that one do you have seven Community Integrity accountability Excellence Innovation
037tradition and opportunity and if we want to drop accountability and just have integrity I mean I'm good with that you guys to the it's kind of more same so the one we all agree on is community community anybody else want to contribute to that conversation you guys weigh in are interested in what everybody has to say and just know also we want to take seven out to the focus groups and things and come back with with their feedback as that help us narrow we we also can do that um you guys want to have a conversation about opportunity you want to explain what you mean by that well I think based on the different Pathways our students take some go academic some go votch the opportunities are there with the combination of what we have
038here as far as CCC we got a lot of them that's going into nursing uh going into whatever they are early college early college and all that but they have equal opportunity to do that because we don't have limitation on it it's up to the students and their parents to to to have that opportunity to be Advanced or Excel or whatever because I know several of the our seniors when they graduate already got College crits I think if I looked at opportunity I would use empowerment instead of opportunity to empower those individuals we know the opportunities are there but we have to empower them to be able to make the choices to take those opportunities and run with it so I would change that word to but that's I have no problem with that Excellence
039anybody want to discuss that I think it's pretty self-explanatory um Excellence I mean you want to be good at whatever we're doing right the best the best okay Excellence is also a near foral value so we always say Excellence at all we do because that's what we have to look at we may not always have the best day every day but we're going to try the best that we can and so that Excellence is just carries on no matter you're always striving for it yeah I can see you working towards excellence in all of the other in to reach Excellence as you're striving towards bringing those values to life yeah so we replace opportunities with um empowerment I couldn't read my own writing put my glasses on that I did the chicken scratch that would
040probably catch so then that leaves it is this what you have Renee Community Excellence Innovation empowerment Integrity accountability tradition yes is that what we're left not in that order so that was challenging but yes well I'm a random oh I'm sorry I don't know that there really was an order but oh well she got down in a different order so you want to read the list again so we can see if there you guys have any different thoughts anybody not liking what we have so far I I just want to share that there was a lot of talk about joy that you know there needs to be happiness and people need to be enjoying all things that are demanding but I I don't have a feeling about that one way or the other but there
041was a lot of conversation why don't we put it down and send it back to the sure we don't have to have narrow it down today do we no no it would be nice to know that accountability is not exclusive of Joy or not exclusive of accountability yeah I think it ties back to community too you have a strong sense of community and strong sense of belonging Joy usually comes hand in hand with mhm and I think it links to tradition too you know there's a lot of joy in they all build on each other all that right yeah okay well we can yeah take this narrow down I mean we've gone from a lot to at least a shorter list so what's great is we will take that back to the steering committee to
042get kind of their thoughts on this narrow down list and then also when we do our focus groups um either in April or most likely in April um we will gather their input as well and then come back to you with the feedback on the narrowed list and what people like the best um and also just know typically what happens when we narrow it down especially when it's hard to get them to the exact you know set of words typically we sometimes notice two you know some are kind of connected and so part of you know one might weave its way into the definition of another so we show those connections so um that will be our next step and next time we come back to you we'll bring you some more feedback on your
043narrow down list and then you can take that feedback and and um hopefully land on some actual the list of core values so and then if you'd like we can also gather input from the community about um words versus statements just in case from the broader Community there there's some different um thoughts because I know even here we were split so right that's what I was going to say I wanted to clarify with everybody about statements versus words you guys still feel like statements are preferable I'm I'm if everybody would rather have words then I'm okay with that too um okay you know the the the words sometimes can mean different things to different people and and you know sometimes the statements tend to you know narrow it down to kind of more of what
044what we're trying to accomplish but if words are the way to go then I'm not I think we get to define the words though we do and so it could be that the the statements are and a stat yeah so I'm good either way okay I'm good either way okay great well thank you for that um feedback on core Valu so like I said next time we come back to you we will have feedback from the community and this this Ser committee so I know all right great well let's transition into Vision so a vision describes what the district hopes to achieve or be in the future it is usually a short short statement usually one sentence aspirational um and it kind of distills the essence of what the organization or the district um really
045stands for and is working towards so we're going to take a quick look and just make some guesses I'm going to start by showing you some vision statements from companies because um what you'll see is you're able to kind of guess based on what they're saying like what company that is but also it just gives you some examples to show you sort of what types of things we're working towards when we build a vision statement so um we'll just make some guesses out loud if you don't have any we're we're going to show the answers in just a moment but uh here's one here's one uh making the best off possible ice cream in the nicest possible way any guesses what company that might be I know at least one of you have seen answers
046BL B all in my head that's okay go and click Ben and Aries to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful you got that one all right to make people happy this one's challenging any clue Disney There You Go Disney uh to to develop leaders who will one day make a global difference it is Harvard we will help people live longer healthier happier lives go ahead CVS and to reduce human trauma and economic costs associated with automobile accidents W you knew it was insurance so we just wanted to show you some examples so you can just kind of get in your mind what a vision statement looks like these are some from other companies um this is another way a different approach to how you could look at um a vision
047statement neither way is correct it's just we want to give you different ideas before we get into thinking about one um this is a lot and I'm on the next slide I'm going to show you what we mean by this so I know there a lot of words but um sometimes companies or districts might think about including a couple different elements into a vision statement um output being um so we've got just when you define what you do as an outcome you transform your product or service into a benefit um vision statements that talk about benefits are more inspiring than those that talk about the product or service itself and I'm going to show you an example on the next slide but a Twist you know including something that um is unique about what our
048district does um it can help you bring focus and inspiration to your vision quantification it's how we're going to measure um success ESS and then a human connection is something that helps people conjure a mental vis a mental image when they read your vision statement so on the next slide we'll just see an example um and this is again from a a company but producing and selling locally sourced which is the twist cakes and pies the output that are so delicious and satisfying that every customer who leaves our store how they're quantifying it does so with a smile human connection so it's just another way you could potentially think about this we do not have to include all of these pieces but we just want to show you some different takes on how a vision
049statement might um be developed so now we're going to look at vision statements from other districts again these are some districts that we've worked with before and then I've got some New Mexico examples um but here um morisville graded School District creating a better Community by empowering every individual to grow Thrive and succeed Maplewood rich on Heights inspiring and preparing students to be leaders Scholars stewards and cens who will thrive in a diverse and changing World Chapel Hill carbo our schools exist to provide experiences that Empower Inspire and engage Durham igniting Limitless potential Austin we are Austin's home for inclusive learning high expectations for all children High outcomes for every student Los Angeles La unified will be a progressive global leader in education providing a dynamic and inspiring learning experience where all students graduate ready
050for success for Portland all Learners will be fully prepared to participate and succeed in a diverse and everchanging world and now um New Mexico examples uh Santa Fe Unity is strength learning is everything dreams are Unlimited Los cruus where all Learners Thrive Gadson um Gadson Independent School District will successfully Empower students to pursue their calling in life Rio Rancho find and develop the potential in every student so we wanted to show just lots of different examples we go ahead and go to the next slide we asked the feed so we showed those slides to this hearing committee and we asked them to give us words or phrases that really resonated with them that we might want to build into a vision statement and so again over um on the left you've got words that really
051resonated with people and some phrases that they that they liked from some of the examples that we might want to include phrases including opening the door to a brighter future find and develop potential in every student building brighter Futures empowering where tradition meets Innovation connecting to the Past preparing for the future cultivating a community of Learners so these were some ideas that really resonated with them and then we asked them to potentially draft some examples which we're going to look at on the next slide so these were initial thoughts that they wanted to share with you um Empower and ignite Wildcats to develop their potential and create their future in a diverse everchanging World Inspire growth curiosity and lifelong Readiness empowering students to thrive in a changing World empowering students with passion grit and adaptability
052to thrive and contribute as a productive member of society cultivating Relentless growth and future focused Innovation doing that we Empower students to thrive with integrity and reach their Limitless potential in an everchanging world and empowering every student to discover their potential through innovative opportuni are doing that we build a welcoming Community where curiosity ignites future success and high outcomes for all so we wanted to share these examples with you just to to show you their initial thinking and kind of get your thoughts on what direction we might go in with a vision statement so you're welcome to respond to anything the steering committee came up with um if any resonate or phrases out of them resonate combinations that you might want to do or based on anything else you saw that you liked where might
053we go with a big statement and we also can just if you if you narrow it down even to some phrases we can we can generate some ideas again to take back to other groups and um get feedback on but any open any open discuss the top and the bottom I do tooing is definitely the the word is the word m I like how they use wild cats in the top one yeah the first one and the last one is jumps off to me you see the prev mm I like that one where it says where tradition meets in ation yeah that's good too I WR that is your paying homage to everything that's happened in the past but you're still Forward Thinking so you could say Empower wild cats to whatever and then include
054tradition and innovation in there to create their future kind like using the bottom with the bottom one and the fourth one like empowering every student every student's growth and future Focus Innovation and maybe we can add the that piece for the future or something to connect that but to thrive with integrity and F inless potential I don't know about the Ever Changing world I Mar that [Music] out one more time maybe the cool thing whenever you use the word Wildcat it kind of throws the tradition in there for you you know what I mean yeah we go back one side again or tradition meets Innovation go for oh you can go back to the next one sorry I'm sorry probably should have used more words than just use your all your word where tradition meets
055Innovation by empowering every student's growth and future Focus Innovation Innovation twice I would even like if we combin them like how can ignite wild cats to develop their potential passion grit and adaptability to thrive as a productive member of society I mean what's the ultimate goal of what we're doing so if we say where tradition empowers every student growth and future focused Innovation we then will Empower students to thrive in integrity and reach their Limitless potential I do think Wildcats need to be in there too if you use Wildcat instead of student yeah and which one are you talking about in bottom one bottom one you use the bottom one or even just instead of saying empowering every student you said empowering every wild cat okay I'm just GNA say from a is it grammar
056or syntax the bottom one needs some something need something help from the it's not yeah we we took them off the pages but I would recommend that weit yeah so we need to again I think the more suct language the better off I I couldn't agree I mean they okay so say again what you said right down because I've pulling from every single one okay um the where tradition empowers every Wild Cat's growth and future Focus Innovation by igniting and then I have't go back um ignites to and ignites to thrive with integrity and reach their Limitless potential I was trying to pull some of the words that we continuously see to make it make because you're right this last one some of there was a lot of conversation about grit and adaptability is that
057we need to work really hard about giving our kids determination and the ability to overcome adversity a little bit that they can't just give up and say oh well it's too hard oh that's too much don't expect me to do it so there was a lot of discussion about put back on the New Mexico examples just a couple I just want to show you just when we talk about Simplicity just kind of put the other ones from other districts that we saw in New Mexico are pretty simple so I just want to kind of remind that maybe we think about taking some of the words and just shrinking again I agree because it doesn't stay in your mind if it's too long you're like well as as the younger people at my table told yeah
058I like a marketing and Communications perspective the more suct to the point the easier it is for people to remember so if you think of almost like a tagline type of a thing like this is what we're known for as a district it makes my job easier when I'm communicating hey this is what we stand for that's one of the young people well and we're going to get to mission next and Mission has a lot more detail and so some of what you're saying might work its way into the mission statement but for vision I'd say we we do probably want to try and lean towards simpler oh and Miss ner that's a good sa okay so we can go back to the um student committee ideas but I just wanted to kind of refresh
059your memory about like how we might want to shorten the chat GP comes up with empowering wild cats honoring tradition igniting Innovation and building a future of inless posi well God bless Chad G is the future is there any way you can just pull up a blank page Brandon and type that in so we could look at it I'm sorry well you're brilliant over there sometimes you have to se yeah a few just a few of the ideas is to did you write out something Renee I know you I couldn't keep up with Amy it's okay I was trying to make it short and pull words out and then it just kept getting longer so right there are a lot of good words so now I was just pulling out words trying to put it
060into a sentence I'm sorry you can tell me no you're looking for what what output do you want what's the twist how you quantify it yeah and you don't have to have all those PE pieces we just want to like give you ideas of I think it's essential to have that quantifi the so what so why are we doing all this stuff so that so [Music] what infection building a future he's a musician he's not I like that the other thing I want to just remind you too is that in our conversations we focus not only on the student experience but the employee experience because having the best employees makes a difference for the outcomes that we accomplish for our kids so we tried to frame a lot of things in that context as well
061would you even have the word and would it it just be honoring tradition igniting Innovation building a future of Endless Possibilities I agree and good J yeah tradition period or we could stick in building brighter Futures right there yeah instead honoring tradition igniting Innovation building brighter Futures so we say are we saying we're empowering wild cats by honoring tradition white or we get the hyphen makes me wonder what what they're G I kind of feel like Sean does when we use the word wild cats I think that implies tradition because again I still think it's a lot words your words emo why can't we take off the empowering wild cats and just say honoring tradition igniting Innovation building brighter Futures people and then Hy wild cats well I mean yeah or you can put wild
062cats in the ma the brigh futes you say honoring tradition igniting Innovation empowering wild cats instead of the building B fures yeah gonna face today stay in your box and Renee you said you know to focus on employees as well but I think empowering wild cats we're all wild cats when we work here so it's not just student focused yeah the Innovation says that as well yes and honestly from the world I from that's why I like the honoring tradition because that's that's exactly the world I came from there's this huge line of tradition that you as a staff member are a part of as well as trying to build for the students even if you are a youngster soora are are you saying that when they get to the lengthier mission they could draw
063back on words like grit and determination and accountability and yeah and that's what we're going to take a look at next so we unless there's any more yeah but as I say anything that kind of didn't circulate we can pull over into the next one because the mission is longer um and it it has more detail about kind of what we're doing and how we're doing it and so I I do think that can be pulled in there so the only thing that I don't want to though monkey ranch or whatever you say um I can see Integrity accountability Excellence innovation tradition and joy all coming to life in those three word phrases um the only value that you all talked about a while ago is community that is not necessarily reflected in well that's
064where we'd have to have the clarity that when we talk about wildcats we're talking we're referencing everybody but it would that not be like when we talk about when we give those words of our beliefs they don't necessarily have to be also repeated in our vision this is what makes our beliefs great yeah I just wanted to just hopefully there's alignment between but so is empowering wild cats enough for people to iner successful citizens World citizens whatever you know I I don't want to add to it but I want to be sure that the message is there that we're all about creating a future success for our kids just add for Success empowering brast for Success yeah that a strong important success I guess well you could use Excellence there fure wild cats to be
065excellent It's awward when poor Excellence it's what if you were achieving Excellence by honoring tradition igniting Innovation and empowering Wildcats there you go achieving it five but then you almost see comments again and it was too long I think since there's three parts to it we have opportunities to provide Clarity in the mission but also pull from the suggest the mission we maybe help def find we what we mean by wild cats meaning the community Integrity Excellence those are all attributes of being a wild cat do we want to move on to the mission yeah okay we can think on it okay that sounds great and and like I shared this is not final so we can always we'll take it out and bring back for feedback or if we want we can go back
066at the end okay let's move on to Mission then need a recliner I know feel bad look so the the mission is typically a little bit longer and it articulates what is unique about who the district is what the district does and who they serve who the district serves um it doesn't have to include all of these parts but we're trying to help you think about we're getting more specific spefic here and this is what we're doing in order to achieve our vision um some districts do feel like it comes too long and clunky to include all of those parts but we are trying to just get your like some ideas in your mind um what we do what we did first with the steering committee is had them brainstorm what is unique about who
067we are as a district who we serve um and what we do and I'll go ahead and share you with you what the steering committee said and we'll talk about these three things um so studing committee said you know who we are we're diverse we have Rich Traditions wild cap fried we student focused Risk Takers high expectations creative and Innovative of who we serve we are economically and culturally diverse and we serve diverse populations including military um longtime Family Heritage agricultural families migrant families and what we do we serve all students Embrace Heritage while we uh progress we're data driven and we offer a wide variety of activities so want to just open it up to any comments that you have about um who we are who we serve and what we do any other
068ideas that you have um and like I said we're not including all of these in the mission but we wanted to just get your mind thinking about like what sorts of things we might include so any discussion about these things though things that resonate or other ideas that you have I think it's a good overall see that who we are picks up back into the mission State okay well we can kind of move forward but this was sort of their ideas as we then enter into the mission statement um conversation let's go the next slide so back one so now we're going to look at some sample mission statements from other districts and then we'll look at what based on this what the steering committee said U so at Jackson Public Schools we develop Scholars
069through world class learning experiences to attain an exceptional knowledge-based critical and relevant skill sets and the necessary disposition positions for great success Maplewood Richmond Heights is an inclusive School District where students staff families and community members are seen heard and valued for their unique backgrounds cultures talents and beliefs we support educate encourage and nurture one another to reach our full potential in order to create a better Community next slide um Durham Schools public schools Embraces educates and empowers every student to innovate serve and Lead Austin uh we prepare every student with the know Knowledge and Skills to thrive in college career and Liv Gadson Gadson Independent School District will provide diverse educational opportunities that Empower students to be successful in an Ever Changing World um some other ones Rio Rancho you're dedicated to graduating students
070who are responsible ethical and productive citizens equipped with a solid foundation for individual success SFA to ensure every student a safe high quality and engaging education which values diversity equity and social justice and fully maximizing maximizes District the resources and Los cruset Los cruus provides a safe caring Equitable and student- centered learning environment that cultivates Civic and Community engagement promotes excellence and honors diversity okay so next slide we um the steering committee looked at those and wrote some drafts for you to to respond to glovis mun Municipal schools is rooted in a Heritage of excellence and driven to shape brighter Futures we Empower students through Innovative learning unwavering support and a commitment to resilience integrity and growth through strong Partnerships with families and the community we strive to provide students with the knowledge to navigate
071and everchanging world we are seeing some themes overlap with their ideas from Vision uh Clovis Municipal schools is dedicated to educate lead and serve students and families from Rich and cultural backgrounds through a wide variety of opportunities and a welcoming safe and fostering environment uh create a student- centered environment that Fosters growth joy and Forward Thinking preparing students to be self- ready and productive citizens that will Thrive today and tomorrow uh CMS is committed to a student focused environment that transforms challenges into opportunities upholds high expectations Fosters resilience in honors tradition in Legacy of excellence and CMS is dedicated to fost ing the backgrounds cultures and beliefs of every individual as we stay Community oriented holding high expectations for all as they strive with Integrity for individual success so just wanted to share with you
072these examples that got drafted and just get your responses um and it could be responses to any of these changes you would make other ideas you have based on our vision conversation um what direction should we head in for the mission I like first one first one and the fourth me to Sean first and the [Music] Environ and that goes with our our vision statement the fourth one goes I like that too which one's yours number four four I know I liked you for some reason I like the fourth one I was just thinking that reading all the other ones I do find where that we didn't use safe in any of our things because it is one of the things that the focus has and this ship do but is definitely in the spotlight
073and I think you're going to see that in survey results yeah and so I don't know ifms is committed to a safe student focused environment that's what I agree to that can we change CMS to CL Municipal schools is committed to a safe and student focused environment just spell it out yeah I think I think anytime you use an abbreviation I think I think it'd be better yeah I'm good with that wow wow wow KN that one good job that was amazing is that you Joe is that what you said great so CL Municipal schools is committed to a safe student focused environment that transforms challenges into opportunities upholds high expectations Fosters resilience and honors traditions in a legacy of Excellence ding ding ding wow wow okay pass the serest too period okay all right
074yeah this really reflects the conversation that was had with the steering committee yeah yeah great okay um so I do actually go forward no let me talk about next steps and then we'll open up to general question and answer as far as I can go oh okay um I must have there's not one more slide on yours no ma'am okay um well steering committee number three um is going to be on March 26 so we're coming back to meet with the steering committee again we will share your thoughts from today we'll let them know kind of where we've landed as a board get their feedback um and then what we're working on with them next is the portra of a graduate which are the set of skills that we want and characteristics we want our
075graduates to have by the time they our system in order to be successful in their future so we work on that we have also been um we've had a stakeholder survey out um where for anyone watching at home we would love everyone to take this survey it is very short but what we've got on it is a list of a long list of things that the district could possibly be working on over the next five years and we ask you to pick the top five um and just literally click on five that you really think you would love the district to focus on um improving as part of the next strategic plan so we're asking everyone to weigh in and vote on that um we will share the results with the steering committee in two
076weeks and when we come back so um if everyone can take that in the next week that would be ideal we're keeping it open right now through March 21st we've had um over 200 responses so far but we are going to show show the committee the full results you all will see it as a board to and then we're going to disaggregate it by different um stakeholder groups so they're going to see overall however everyone rated it and then they're going to see here's how your students rated things your teachers your parents your community members your administrators um so we've got the rankings and then the other thing down at the bottom um that no one is required to answer but it's open-ended for what would you like the district to start doing in the
077next five years stop doing or continue doing to support um Stu you know improve student outcomes in this District so we will also do an analysis of the findings and disaggregate It Again by he the themes that we heard from parents from community members from teachers um students everyone so we're going to share those results with the steering committee um two weeks from now uh based on the numbers because we know you've got a spring break coming up as well we may keep this open through April and so we probably will so we'll share with them where we've landed by um March 26th and then we'll keep it open through mid April um so you know we can hopefully get even more people to participate but we're going to look at that we will also
078start to dig into the district data and so we'll be looking at academic data but also HR data attendance discipline a number of different um data sources to then narrow down and start to identify the priority areas and the goals that we'll put into the next strategic plan so we're doing that over the next two meetings but we're about to start to get into the meat of what we want to see improved and um by how much and how we're going to do it at our next couple meetings and then uh we will come back to you in a month or two to share with you the results both of the survey um any additional feedback that we've gotten from the steering committee and depending on when we schedule that for we will also be
079doing focus groups to get their feedback as well and we'll share those results with you as well if we've completed them by the time we have our next work session so um so now let's go ahead and just open up to any questions that you have uh about the process or what we did today or what's coming up next I don't have any you I think it's a great process I appreciate all the you know communication back and forth between all the different groups and I like how we're getting everybody involved yeah great and for anyone watching at home just know there will be plenty of opportunities both on the survey and focus groups for everyone to come and be part of this process and um and you'll be able to see how we take
080the feedback we get from those we'll share the actual feedback we get and then you'll see discussion on how we are incorporating that feedback into into the drafts that we build so okay well um that's all that I have then I want to thank you so much for your time today I think this was a great productive meeting and I look forward to coming back to you next time with feedback on the work you did today and then survey results and um drafts of whatever we've gotten by the time our next session comes to place so all right thank you so much move to a Jour second by Mr Hamilton all in favor