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__** Northwestern Lehigh School District Strategic Planning Process Wiki Page**__

__**November update**__ Here are the presented to board (10.10.12), board approved (11.14.12), submitted to PDE (11.29.12) Strategic Planning Documents:



__**What's Next?**__ A BIG Tiger Thank You to all of our Strategic Planning members for their participation in this very valuable process. Our last Strategic Planning session was great! We heard from Core Foundations and Professional Education, Special Education and Safe/Supportive Schools, and Educational Technology. We will now wait for the online tool to open and begin the process of including all our narratives in the online tool for board approval and subsequent submission to the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

Save the date! Join us on October 10, 2012 for the School Board meeting and final presentation of all of our ideas! This final plan is expected to be submitted to PDE for November 30, 2012.

Here is the powerpoint from the session on May 30th if you were unable to join us!



__May 30, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. in the HS Auditorium:__ The teams of Special Education & Safe/Supportive Schools, Core Foundations/Professional Education, and Educational Technology will meet in May. At each team meeting, they will share documentation from school teams, prioritize support from District teams to provide support and recommend resources to building/department teams. Then join us on May 30th in the HS Auditorium for a presentation from each team and a wrap up of the final plan!

In preparation for the Educational Technology meeting, I'm asking that each of you participate in this 31 question survey about the educational technology and 21st century skills in our District. This will help us to plan for the educational technology needs in our District.

Here's the survey link: @http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/EDTECHSP

If you are interested in participating in the Educational Technology team, please send an email to holmanj@nwlehighsd.org

__May 8, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. in the HS Auditorium__: Join us for a presentation that shares the results from each Building/Department Team. You will hear from Northwestern Elementary, Weisenberg Elementary, Northwestern Middle School, Northwestern Lehigh High School, and District Operations. Each building/department will share their systemic challenges and action planning steps developed by each team. Also, we will share with the group the FINAL results of a great deal of hard work in each of the Mission, Vision, Shared Values, and Educational Community groups. Here's a sneak peek!

This wordle shows all of the words in our Mission, Vision, Shared Values, and Educational Community statements. Remember words that appear larger, appear more frequently in the statements.

__Looking ahead -__ In the month of May, the teams of Special Education & Safe/Supportive Schools, Core Foundations/Professional Education, and Educational Technology will meet. At each team meeting, they will share documentation from school teams, prioritize support from District teams to provide support and recommend resources to building/department teams. Then join us on May 30th in the HS Auditorium for a presentation from each team and a wrap up of the final plan!

In preparation for the Educational Technology meeting, I'm asking that each of you participate in this 31 question survey about the educational technology and 21st century skills in our District. This will help us to plan for the educational technology needs in our District.

Here's the survey link: @http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/EDTECHSP

If you are interested in participating in the Educational Technology team, please send an email to holmanj@nwlehighsd.org



__March/April:__ Expect invitations from building/department level action team leaders to meet with your group for the important process of action team planning based on the systemic challenges identified by the needs assessment data.

__February 29, 2012__ - Thank You to all of the participants for your valuable feedback tonight! We heard from our AWESOME students and were able to bring their voices to you tonight. The student's voices was one of the pieces of data that we considered for tonight's session. Tonight, you also viewed the results of your input on the survey as well as a variety of other data sources we regularly utilize to analyze student data.

Here's the powerpoint from tonight's session. The video is too large to upload. I will update each of the pages (Mission, Vision, Shared Values and Educational Community) with the results of tonight's sessions. Each of the statements was further refined by the groups so you'll see the most up to date results on each of those pages soon!

Each of you who volunteered to participate in school or department level teams will be receiving invitations to participate in school/department planning in March/April. Each action team leader presented accomplishments, challenges, and systemic challenges from their building/department needs assessment and data analysis. These systemic challenges will be the beginning framework for each goal and subsequent action steps moving forward. As these teams plan, you can visit their individual pages (links to the left) to participate digitally in the process even if you're unable to make the meetings!



[|Video - Strategic Planning Student Focus Groups VIDEO]



__January 25, 2012 -__ What an exciting evening! Thank You to all of the participants of the Strategic Planning Committees! There is a great deal of hard work in planning ahead but tonight was a great start to energize thoughts and opinions to get us started on the planning for the next three years! The Mission, Vision, Shared Values, and Educational Community pages of the wiki are updated with all of your feedback from tonight's session. I ask that you don't delete anyone's ideas but rather add ideas if you have additional thoughts after tonight's session. Thank you for an energizing evening of planning toward continuous improvement for our district!



media type="youtube" key="O35n_tvOK74" height="480" width="640" Video courtesy of: New Brunswick Department of Education

__January 13, 2012__ - Letters to all strategic planning team members were mailed today. The letters to students/parents/guardians was also mailed today.

- letter mailed to all team volunteers

- letter to parents/guardians of students

__January 4, 2012__ - Ms. Holman will be sending formal invitations to each team member detailing the dates for the District team meeting and letting them know that they will be receiving information from each school/department for their school/department meetings that will be held in March and April 2012. The board will approve the appointments of parents, community, board, and business representatives at the January 11, 2012 school board meeting. The parents of the students who are in grades 3-8 will be receiving letters letting them know that we intend to meet with their children throughout January and February, in small student focus groups, to gain some insight into their learning.

__December 30, 2011__ - The "team member" page has been updated to include all team member applications from the Google Doc. Please review your team members including the parent, community, and business applicants.

__December 29, 2011__ - Advertising in the newspaper (Morning Call In Your Schools and Northwestern Press) with Google doc application at nwlehighsd.org/strategicplanning



__December 6, 2011__ - Please visit your building/department page for your Getting Results Guide for your building and a **File Not Found** template. Please visit your building/department/subcommittee page for a word document "worksheet" broken into sections as it needs to be completed. I hope this is helpful with your building level planning! We will be collecting recommendations and soliciting applications to participate in the Strategic Planning process. We would like to have each stakeholder group represented in our large district strategic planning team. Dr. Wright and Ms. Holman will be meeting with focus groups of students in grades 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8 to gain some insight into their learning! We have an exciting few months ahead!

__November 23, 2011__ - Please visit our pages/tabs on the left as we begin the Strategic Planning Process. We will be accepting applications for volunteers to participate in this very important process. This process will be almost a year long and will guide the District for the next three years. The process has changed slightly and now involves School level teams and District level teams. The School Level needs inform the District level team to develop one consolidated plan for the District rather than six separate reports.