Everything’s getting ready for your return after our opening with staff this week. We all gathered on Monday and Tuesday to start our work together. We’ll have a holiday tomorrow and continue with our preparations on Thursday and Friday. It’s been wonderful catching up with everyone as they return, hearing about summer adventures, new learnings from conferences and classes, and generally getting reconnected.
Our focus this year centers on the Board adopted strategic themes that we will begin our continued development work in the weeks ahead. These broad themes form around a single significant goal that overarches our strategic design work and captures the work of our Core Values from the year before.
WE ENSURE EVERY STUDENT LOVES LEARNING AT ASW!
The initial take on our ongoing strategic process was received by the board, adopted, and is available here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0thleA1n_fNQWZiM1lBTTlXYjg
Our focus this year revolves around the strategic themes articulated in this guide along with the examples of strategies that we may tackle. The four broad themes:
- Every learner knows exactly what they need to do next.
- Our students define the way that we learn at ASW.
- We break down silos and promote collaboration at all levels.
- We make the financial and other investments needed to reach our long term goals.
I’ll have more to share at our Director’s Welcome Coffee next week on Tuesday, starting at 8:30a. Looking forward to seeing all of you! Enjoy your final weekend and take note of the divisional directions below!