Connecting with Your Community – Not Just in Times of Referendum
When community members drive by your schools they see the same brick and mortar they’ve known for years. But, do they really know how much has changed inside those walls when it comes to educating today’s youth? For many members of your community, the only connection to the District may be the articles they’ve read about the sports teams in the local paper or an occasional news story about a special project or trip. For others, it may be a concert or performance they attend. Unfortunately, this may be the extent of what they know about the many valuable programs and services your district has implemented over the years. From my experience as a retired superintendent of schools, whenever my district sought to improve facilities or increase operational funding, it quickly became clear that the community didn’t fully understand the resources needed today to provide a quality learning experience. All too often at a referendum informational meetings someone would say “we sure didn’t