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Notes from the November retreat
Marketing is "Building relationships" Discovers the inherent worth of the people you are teaching Pedagogy/Purpose Faculty: Chance to refine, thru faculty development & recruitment Excietement about who you are (Different from others) Leadership Parents/Students Students: food; music, social life, who to be with, et c. Hyde School 3 Day retreat for parents to accept student Retreat topic: parenting skills For marketing: Social, Environmental, Learning (SEL) "Learning Community" => Parents Exeriential Education Love of Learning (Non coercive) [marketing challenge] Quaker tradition of learning Spirituality Silence to improve contemplation Who Are We? Communicates to others == Credo: Latin for "from the heart" Here's the Draft Credo Association of Experiential Education Jobs Clearing house Create environbment for non-midwestern activity Alpine tower Small school is niche school: Promote who you are Mechanics of communication: OWNERSHIP (Not implementation) survival is [in?] not being overloaded Requires large inventment of heads time LRP is continuity a map picture Days comments: Lucy: Likes "Ownership" instead of "implementation" "Leadership"? Irving: Epiphany: To see how plan is also "his" Nancy: Can we get to say LRP w/o causing stomachs to turn LRP "embodies" previous stress & tension Ken: Moral education at Friends Council on Education been harder on ourselves John's perspective helpful Optimism about future although pain in past Weekend employement upcoming issue Sense of the meeting Perry-O: "Messy" day - looking for "to-do list" Margie -- Ownership == has latest plan w/implementation steps Joe -- Reflections On the Retreat George question value of phrase "ownership" board / CEO conflict inevitable like chart: different leadership needs for a board and head more joint board / Staff meetings Barb: was necessary after all to meet Lucy: wishes more fo SFSC could have been here Bruce: Mediation is always helpful. Thank you, John Braman. - John had a 3x3 grid of dots for us to connect with one continuous line... "we make our own boundaries" was the idea on that I think, as in "think outside the box" - there was the "concentric ownership" page with a dot surrounded by larger and larger circles that had arrows pointing back and forth between each. I think that was showing that the "ownership" phase of the LRP involves lots of communication in all directions and that all need to believe in it - at the end John listed what he thought those not there needed to hear from the day: - school has excellent potential, need to codify who and what we are - concentric ownership - define, identify mechanics of communication - Ken needs to prioritize with SC help - don't over commit staff - all the things in the S.W.O.T. discussion - and we should develop action steps at the next days meeting - the SWOT stuff are a way to focus on planning, prioritizing Some random quotes/thoughts Lucy wrote down... - money won't buy love; causes many problems - conflict is healing, move on, NOT a Quaker thing, very common with volunteer boards - us/them to be avoided - Implementation of LRP is a management decision; prioritize (differences of opinion have been our problem) - board should do conflict resolution, training,.. - holding hands and making plans |