Community Planning Team 0n 6/9/19
Our multi-stakeholder Community Planning Team met for the first time this academic year. The charge for this meeting was to align ourselves as a team, embrace new and continuing members, and explore our role in the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (MSA) accreditation and self assessment. An insightful and empowered collection of parents, faculty, leadership, and students gathered ideas and evidence to support the particular MSA indicators, that let AISC know how we are performing in the areas of Strategic Planning and Foundational Documents. It was a pleasure to see multiple groups working coherently towards our goals in this area, with the team working attitude I have come to expect, and still vastly appreciate, within our AISC community. See the slide deck here, and feel free to ask any of our team members about the work of the Community Planning Team.
Faculty Futures Summit on 11/9/19
Last week the AISC faculty discussed and developed ideas related to a selection of Strategic Pathways, during a wednesday early release professional learning session. The event challenged us to escalate our thinking and innovation to the strategic level, and align ourselves with the work from our Futures Plan. Using the Futures Plan document (now on recycled paper) we identified specific pathways in which many areas of the school are involved, and in which many faculty hands do the work.
The event culminated in a further stimulus to extend and elevate our ideas to the extent that we are considering new futures planning pathways, and embracing emergent ideas about what the future of our school, and education, may look like.
Find the presentation here, and look forward to seeing the resulting data as it feeds back into our strategic pathways in the coming weeks and months of review.
