Greenburgh CSD

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Greenburgh CSD 7 Planning Process

• Overview for District Team
• June 2, 2003

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To download presentation

• Go to www.prismdecision.com
• Click on Client Downloads
• Enter password westchester
• Follow instructions
• Or go to Greenburgh 7 website
• Available June 3 by end of school day

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Sean Brady

• Owner PRISM Decision Systems, LLC
• Manager-Strategic Planning, Generation at NYSEG
• Teacher of English and G/TGrades 7-Community
  College
• International presenter on planning,
  decision-making and creativity

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Mission

• Provide dynamic group processes and
  state-of-the-art systems to accelerate group
  decision-making
• Maximize the human potential of collaborative
  groups to make and implement decisions that
  achieve their preferred future

Vision
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Consulting services and tools

• Strategic planning
• Academic improvement planning
• School benchmarking and target-setting
• Needs assessments
• Resource allocation
• Alliance management
• Training
• Meeting automation

• CoNexus matrix decision making, strategic
  planning, resource allocation, focus groups,
  large meeting automation
• Concept System web-based needs assessments,
  focus groups, planning
• Frontier Analyst benchmarking, measuring
  efficiency, setting performance targets

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Education engagements

• City School District of Albany
• Binghamton City School District
• Broome-Tioga, Herkimer, WFL, SCT BOCES
• Johnson City Central Schools
• Lockport City School District
• Maine-Endwell Central School District
• NYS Education Department
• Oswego City School District
• Syracuse City School District
• Three Village Central School District
• Union Endicott Central School District

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Other engagements

• City of Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Mercy Health System of Philadelphia
• Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bell Labs)
• National Institute for Health
• The Los Angeles Times
• Washington, DC Metro Area Transit Authority
• Science Applications International Corp.
• Times Mirror Corporation
• United Health Services
• GHS Federal Credit Union
• First Heritage Federal Credit Union
• DOT Federal Credit Union

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Agenda

• Governance roles of various stakeholders in
  decision-making process
• Grant must pass criteria
• Must research configuration, model options
• Elementary decision process
• Meeting schedules
• Update on secondary and lottery task forces
• District task force review and consensus re
• Elementary task force decision process
• Secondary task force decisions and progress
• Lottery task force decisions and progress

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Governance

• Elementary, secondary and lottery task forces
  research and recommend configuration and model
  options that meet grant criteria
• District task force reviews recommended options,
  identifies strengths and concerns, suggests
  enhancements, and votes to determine degree of
  consensus support
• As districts governing body, the Board of
  Education and superintendent will
• Review elementary, secondary and lottery task
  force recommendations and the district task
  forces assessment of those recommendations
• Make final decisions

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Grant criteria

• The grant allows flexibility within following
  must pass criteria
• Recommendations for reconfiguration must include
  equal school choice or increased opportunities as
  presented in the grant
• Models must be research-based
• The lottery process must maintain demographic
  balance throughout the district

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Must research options

• Configuration
• Three K 6 buildings
• Models each school researches at least one of

• Communities for Learning
• Core Knowledge
• Different Ways of Knowing
• Direct Instruction

• School Development Program
• Success for All
• International Baccalaureate
• Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound

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Elementary planning process
Present final recommendation to Board of
Education
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Weighted criteria matrix
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Elementary meeting 1 June

• Introduce new facilitator
• Assess teams progress
• Review decision process flow
• Questions, clarification and enhancements
• Review must pass criteria for all configuration
  and model options

• Generate additional decision criteria and weight
  using CoNexus
• Review must research configuration option and
  identify additional configuration options
• Select models to research
• Assign research teams

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Elementary June meetings

• Teams
• Research configuration and model options
• Prepare preliminary presentation to elementary
  task force
• Present preliminary presentations to one another
  and get feedback
• Assess need for additional summer research in
  order to finalize their presentations for the
  first September meeting

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Elementary meeting 2 September

• Present configuration options
• Questions and clarification
• Strengths, concerns, enhancements analysis
• Present model options
• Questions and clarification
• Strengths, concerns, enhancements analysis

• Develop reconfiguration options that combine
  configuration and model options
• Assess the reconfiguration options and select two
  to five for more intensive evaluation

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Elementary meeting 3 September

• Review, modify and agree to final decision
  criteria
• Use CoNexus to weight the final decision
  criteria
• Assess each reconfiguration option (configuration
  option plus models) against the weighted decision
  criteria
• Agree to a reconfiguration option (configuration
  option plus models) for recommendation to the
  Board of Education

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Stakeholder review

• Test reconfiguration recommendation with
  stakeholders, including district task force
• Strengths
• Concerns
• Enhancements

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Elementary meeting 4 September

• Review stakeholder feedback
• Modify reconfiguration recommendation based on
  stakeholder feedback as necessary
• Agree to final reconfiguration recommendation to
  Board of Education
• Prepare Board presentation

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Elementary task force schedule
District task force meets on underlined dates
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District task force assessment

• Updates
• Secondary task force
• Lottery task force
• Strengths, concerns, enhancements and consensus
  for each of
• Elementary decision process
• Secondary recommendations and process
• Lottery recommendations and process