May 18, 2020 at 6:30 PM - Goals Committee Meeting

Description:  At the May 11th Board Meeting, the Board voted to not move forward with the #Socialschool4edu contact for next year, and per that discussion, it was determined that the Goals Committee should review the issue of social media.  I appreciate the opportunity to discuss this issue with the committee.

In my opinion, this issue is much larger than the social media contract, but is part of a discussion around the Administrative Restructuring Framework that we started to outline and put into place last year.  In that document (attached) there is a space for a Communication Specialist Position (that was approved but not filled in the 2019-2020 school year), which is directly related to our social media strategy.

There is an inwoven narrative around this framework, the social media strategy / Communication Specialist Position, and the relation to the multi-year phasing of this restructuring plan.  I would like to share this narrative with the Committee on Monday evening, and discuss options for how we move forward with some of the variables, including the social media part of this discussion.

As an FYI, there are options for the social media work other than the #socialschool4edu approach.  We can discuss those on Monday and then set forth our approach on this topic as we move into the Additional Board Meeting on May 26th, and the Regular Board Meeting on June 8th.

Description:  The purpose of this agenda item is to discuss the vision for the work of the Goals Committee for the next year.  As part of this discussion, we can identify any short-term work that the Committee would like the district to embark upon given our current needs.

Some possible discussion items for the short-term include our involvement in the Wisconsin Public Education Network http://www.wisconsinnetwork.org/

Also, do we want/need to provide more budget detail to parents/community on school finance related issues, particularly given the unique circumstances we find ourselves with COVID-19 school closures and potential state revenue impacts on public schools.