Strategic Planning Process Overview (audio) 4/15/09

 Strategic Planning Process

Overview

Steering Committee

School Committee Superintendent

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Who is the Steering Committee?

Co-Chair• Judi Bassignani - Principal, Parmenter Elementary• Miriam Goodman - Director, FPS Finance

  Members• Colleen Ahern - Teacher, Sullivan Middle School• April Crehan - Student, Franklin High School• Renee Danho - Community, Dean College• Ted/Pamela McIntire - Parent• Susan Rohrbach - School Committee• Steve Sherlock - Community• Peg Sweeney - Parent• Rosanne Walsh - Teacher, Remington Middle School

 Administration Liaisons • Wayne Ogden - Current Superintendent of Schools• Maureen Sabolinski - Incoming Superintendent of Schools

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Steering Committee Objective

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validate and 

revise as necessary

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What is a Strategic Plan?

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The Strategic Plan has three components

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One: It contains a Vision

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Two: It is based upon Core Values

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Three: It has a Mission Statement

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You'll know where to go (vision) and what to take (core values)

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 You'll be able

to makeadjustmentsas you go (mission

statement)

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To end up where you need to be

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?

 What do we want 

Franklin's schools

to look like in 5 years

? 

?

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You get to have your say by completing a survey on the core values

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 If you are part of a

group:  

You should pick twopeople to represent

your group

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Spread the word about the survey

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Collect the paper surveys

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Paper surveys can be returned to

 • Schools

 • Library

 • Dean College 

(Rene Danho, Dean Hall)

 • Town Hall

 • Senior Center 

 • Steering Committee

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Online survey link =

The link to the online survey will be published as soon as it is available

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When the results are available, we'll make an announcement

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Anticipating a question

What does the 2004 Strategic Plan look like?

The next two pages provide (1) the Vision, Core Values

and (2) the Mission Statement

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Core Values, Vision - 2004

CORE VALUESFor our Mission to be successful, we believe:  • All learners are to be afforded equal access to educational opportunity and

success • Educators are driven by high expectations and clear challenging standards

that are widely understood by the community • When people affected by change are involved, the best decisions are made  • A planned program of professional development enriches members of the

school community

 VISION

The Franklin Public Schools is committed to excellence in education and holds students to high expectations for responsibility, achievement

and personal growth

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Mission Statement - 2004

MISSION STATEMENT

This mission of the Franklin Public Schools is to provide the environment and the resources to enable and to encourage every student to become:

• An enthusiastic lifelong learner who is self-motivated and inquisitive • Successful in reaching his/her emotional, intellectual and physical potential

 • Capable of success in higher learning

 • A critical and creative thinker who can communicate skillfully through a broad range of

disciplines • A compassionate individual respectful of other points of view and appreciative of

differences; and • A self-confident, responsible and active member of an ever-changing world

community

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Your action items

• Be aware of the survey

• Spread the word  • Participate

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Questions?

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