CEFF committee to facilitate next Knowledge Café
January 20, 2012
from CCSD’s “Highlights”
Please join Lyn McKay, Superintendent of Schools, and members of the Chappaqua Education For the Future committee (CEFF), at a Knowledge Café on Wednesday, February 15th from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the Bell Middle School Auditorium (50 Senter Street.)
The CEFF committee has identified three ideas for moving the district forward that will become its focus.
1) Pursue a paradigm shift toward a focus on 21st century skills
2) Foster risk-taking and creativity…value process and product
3) Establish practices to enhance the social and emotional health of students [In its January 31 meeting, board of ed members will discuss whether to adopted a Third Strategic Question on this subject.]
This Knowledge Café will engage the community in a larger discussion of these ideas. To facilitate the planning process, please take a moment to RSVP by Monday, February 13th.
The CEFF should add: (4) Determine how to pay for curriculum and program changes without increasing CCSD taxes (i.e., what will be cut), and (5) Implement a quality assurance process to assess major changes and expenditures made in past 5 years and report this information to the public (i.e., what worked & what did not work).
At the 2/28/12 BOE meeting, we need an objective assessment of the major changes and investments made in the past 5 years before we hear the Superintendent’s 2012/13 CCSD school budget proposal.
