How Can I Have an Impact on the Direction of our District? Answers Here!

As school starts, I want to inform you about 3 opportunities for you to get involved.  I have lots of people say they'd like to be more involved, but other than PTA, what can they do?  Also, you want to have an impact in your child's education, but how much time does it really require.  Well, here you go.

1) I am looking for one volunteer to serve on the District Community Council for the Ridgeline/Timberline/Westfield area.  The DCC is the public input arm of the district.  It will require you to attend about 80% of the School Community Council meetings from those 3 schools, and then attend a meeting at the District Office once every two months to report on any issues from those 3 schools.  Please let me know if you are interested.  This is a great opportunity to have input, to communicate the local issues, and to provide feedback.

2) The district would like 3 volunteers from the 'empty nest' crowd to participate in a single evening focus group in September.  The aim is to find a way to better communicate and involve our empty nesters in the direction and focus of the district.  Please let me know if you are interested in participating.

3) And finally, the Alpine Parent Society is in full swing.  A few enterprising mothers have started the society to attend and report on Board meetings and any other important doings of the district.  It is on a rotating basis, and you only need to commit to 2 times each year.  Each meeting will be about 1.5 hours.  So, this would be a total commitment of 3 hours each YEAR.  This helps to increase the transparency of the board, and to allow the local community to have an impact.  Also, just because Parent is in the name, it really means any taxpayer in the district.  So, just like the empty nest coalition, you needn't have kids in district schools to participate.  Here's the link: http://alpineparentsociety.wordpress.com/  We had great success with this in Highland City.  I think the goal is to have a couple of people attend each board meeting.  But for right now, they just want to get people in the swing of things.  Please sign up today!

Thanks for your support!

Wendy

School Community Council Elections

Applications for School Community Councils (SCC) are taking place now.  The SCC's are the "rubber meets the road" for school involvement.  Some of the SCC decisions are:

• Develop a school improvement plan
• Develop a school Trust Land plan
• Participate in the development of a school-level professional development plan and its implementation
• Develop a child access routing plan
• Advise the school administration on local school issues
• Provide an opportunity for issues of concern in the community to be presented to the school administration.
• Review school-wide U-PASS data (not individual data)
• Develop a reading achievement plan

If you want to get involved, the SCC is the place to be.

I would be happy to post any information about any of the candidates for SCC positions on this blog.  I would like to get as much information out to everyone about these positions.  If you know of election information for each school, please let me know.

The only information I have so far is Highland Elementary's application deadline is this Friday, April 1, 2011.