 🏫 School Board Enthusiasts 🏫 The UnifiEd Student Voice Team's School Board Blog As we shuffled our way down the aisle to present our Student Suicide Prevention Policy, the gawking eyes were staring lasers at us. I was so nervous that...
🏫 School Board Enthusiasts 🏫 The UnifiEd Student Voice Team's School Board Blog I (Carson) recently went to the facilities plan community input meeting at Hixson High School. The presentation that was made was very...
🏫 School Board Enthusiasts 🏫 The UnifiEd Student Voice Team's School Board Blog The November school board meeting started with a moment of silence for the victims of the Woodmore bus crash. While this was very touching, I (Carson) felt that the school board could have done more than just a moment of silence and pictures on the screen. For example...
🏫 School Board Enthusiasts 🏫 The UnifiEd Student Voice Team's School Board Blog First off, this meeting was an average meeting. There was minimal fighting, some boring presentations, and some helpful information. With the start of the board meeting, the first thing that is easy to notice are the new additions in the room.
 🏫 School Board Enthusiasts 🏫 The UnifiEd Student Voice Team's School Board Blog This meeting was probably one of the least divisive school board meetings that I have ever seen. Throughout the entirety of the meeting the conversation was focused on improvements, progress, and goals for our school system. The most divisive part of the evening was...
 🏫 School Board Enthusiasts 🏫 The UnifiEd Student Voice Team's School Board Blog Policy Board Meeting:
I [Carson] really enjoy Policy Board Meetings. They serve as a great look behind the scenes, in theatre terms, as to what it takes to run a school system from a legal perspective.  🏫 School Board Enthusiasts 🏫 The UnifiEd Student Voice Team's School Board Blog Overview:
The School Board and County Commission met in a joint meeting on July 23rd to discuss the possibility of a ten year facilities master plan. This was only the preliminary discussion, so the plan is still very malleable and receptive to change. You can see the full details of this preliminary plan here. This will become especially evident as the steps progress to community input meetings around September. The goals of this plan are to:  🏫 School Board Enthusiasts 🏫 The UnifiEd Student Voice Team's School Board Blog This meeting is a work session, so it lacks the typical recognitions and introductions of a typical meeting. Additionally, nothing is voted on at this meeting so all discussion is for the purpose of revising documents and policies that are in the works and not for the purpose of debating on how to vote on something. If you are more of a fan of the democratic process and discussion side of school board meetings and not the arguing and politics side of school board meetings, then this is the meeting for you.
 🏫 School Board Enthusiasts 🏫 The UnifiEd Student Voice Team's School Board Blog Work Session
This work session seemed to stick to the ideas of what a work session should be. School board members went around asking questions, stating their thoughts, and proposing innovative solutions.  🏫 School Board Enthusiasts 🏫 The UnifiEd Student Voice Team's School Board Blog Overview
The past few meetings we’ve blogged about typically had a big issue or two that were being discussed during the meeting; however, this meeting really didn’t. The biggest ‘issue’ in this meeting and the topic with the most conversation was the calendar for 2020-2021. That said, there were some really inspiring moments in the meeting in the recognitions section, the Future Ready 2023 end of year presentation, and the consent agenda. |
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