LEARN, LEAD, SUCCEED

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LEARN, LEAD, SUCCEED

• Idaho School Boards Association
• Donagene Turnbow, President

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ISBA FOCUS FOR THIS YEAR

• LEARN
• We want to learn what other education
  stakeholders are focusing on this year in hopes
  that we can come to consensus with them
• LEAD
• We want to lead with other education stakeholders
  to regain the trust and confidence in all of us
  that seems to have been lost over the years
• SUCCEED
• If we can learn and lead, we will succeed.

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LEARN How do we come to consensus?

• We must become the most informed trustees,
  superintendents, parents, legislators, and other
  education officials.
• We should be open to the ideas and discussions of
  other entities.
• We should not be single focused.
• We should be realistic about what we want and
  what is actually doable.

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Lead How do we get the general public and
constituency to see all of us as leaders in
education?

• No one entity is responsible for education in
  Idaho we all are.
• We should accurately represent the wishes and
  opinions of our entire organizations.

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Lead How do we get the general public and
constituency to see all of us as leaders in
education?

• We need to begin rebuilding the trust that seems
  to have been lost, among all of us, as well as
  the constituency of this state.
• We need to be willing to commit to the hard work
  and many hours it will take to succeed. It will
  take more than the time and effort we expect to
  do with our respective jobs.

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SUCCEED Together we can accomplish more than we
can apart.

• Success means agreeing on a long term strategic
  plan for education in Idaho.
• Success means partnering from start to finish
  with other education entities.
• Success is partnering with higher education to
  ensure our students are prepared and to produce
  high quality teachers.

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SUCCEED Together we can accomplish more than we
can apart.

• Success means finding a way to excite all
  students about learning.
• Success means looking outside the box and finding
  every avenue available for student learning.
• Success means finding a way to involve parents at
  all levels.

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SUCCEED Together we can accomplish more than we
can apart.

• Success means embracing all students from rich to
  poor, brilliant to challenged, and all ethnic
  backgrounds.
• Success means working with industry and
  businesses in Idaho, and seeking out new
  businesses, that will employ our educated
  students so they can remain here and contribute
  to our society.

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SUCCEED Together we can accomplish more than we
can apart.

• Success means using other states best practices
  that they used to create consensus among all
  education entities and bring initiatives to the
  legislature that were ultimately successful.
• Success means bringing no more than one or two
  initiatives per year to the legislature for
  approval.

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SUCCEED Together we can accomplish more than we
can apart.

• Success means finding a way to integrate local,
  state, and federal social services with our
  education system so that our students and parents
  have access to all the resources they need.
• Success means reducing the need for remediation
  thereby reducing the costs in higher education,
  health and welfare roles, and prison numbers.

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LEARN, LEAD, SUCCEED

• ISBA IS READY!
• WE HOPE YOU ARE TOO!