Each January I am invited to present a proposed budget to the Board of Education, but a significant change in the process this year allowed me to advocate for what the schools need rather than attempting to package our program into a budget with a pre-determined bottom-line. This change freed me to consider a multitude [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Presentation of the Superintendent’s Budget
Posted in Uncategorized on January 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Stonington Public Schools And Client Satisfaction: “Are We Getting It Right?”
Posted in Uncategorized on January 8, 2012 | 21 Comments »
Communication is most definitely a two-way street. Public schools are accustomed to providing feedback to students, but in my opinion we can do a great deal more to solicit meaningful feedback from students and families. The options seem endless. There’s the full-blown survey, the scheduling of focus groups, or one-on-one interviews with a random sampling [...]
2011 in review
Posted in Uncategorized on January 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 13,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 5 sold-out performances for that many [...]
