TELL US: How well are we communicating the District’s news?

By Lynn K. McMullin


Several times over the past year, I’ve had the chance to mention the BOE’s Strategic Planning document -- the plan that has become the cornerstone of changes, when we initiate them, and so much of what we regularly do day-to-day.


Communications is one of the five goal categories in the plan: it became a goal when members of the strategic planning committee focused on the need to improve the quality of communication at all levels of the school system.  The committee members felt that leadership in a highly communicative environment should be more about orchestrating conversations, than dominating them.  In other words, our communications should be more responsive and collaborative.  Rather than ‘share information,’ communication should build confidence and trust.


We're over a full year into the Strategic Plan, and it's time to measure how we’re doing with this particular communications goal.   So, we’re putting out a survey today, January 7th, and one of our key questions is specifically about trust: How confident are you with the information you receive? We sincerely want to know more about the quality of our communications and their impact on our relationships with you and our wider community.


Thus, I'm hoping that you’ll take the time you would normally spend reading this blog to go to the on-line survey and weigh in.   Click here… and tell us what’s working and what isn’t.   (Or, type or copy and paste http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/boecommunicationssurvey in your browser's address bar.)  The survey, which takes less than 5 minutes to complete, will remain open through Friday, January 21st.


In the end, every communication avenue we try is always aimed at finding the most effective means of connecting you to what is going on across the school system.

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A follow-up to the December BLOG on our students kind hearts....
This fall, 18 students came to Walter Lowell’s home in Avon to help with fall clean-up
The students donated the money they were paid by the Lowell's to the Canton Food Bank located at the Trinity Church in Canton. Another way our students give back to their Community.