Questions+or+Comments

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 * Yes, this would be #5 as communication supports all the other strategies of the district. :) Carol**

Do you see this being #5? I agree with the need for communication training, and a clear plan for communication.

In rethinking our "Faculty Goal" I think that the "Training will be mandatory" is too important to be a subtopic.

Below is a proposal I'd like to add. It is probably too wordy, but it gives you an idea. It is somewhat based on the article "Communication and Marketing as tools to cultivate the public's health: a proposed "people and places" framework." I found this article at BioMed Central on the web. I substituted the words School/Student in place of "health".

** Employees of GCISD will become skilled in using the art of effective "communication to produce and exchange information to inform, influence or motivate individual", families, GCISD employees, and community audiences about issues that affect each student’s ability to reach his/or her potential. **

1. The district will provide administrators, teachers and staff with on-going training in the art of effective communication which will include: a. Defining the attributes of effective communication. b. Comparing and contrasting the type and availability of communication vehicle that can be used to convey information to individuals, families, GCISD employees, and the community. Define which vehicles are most appropriate for one-to-one, one-to-few, one-to-many or two way messages. c. Exploring the use of the student’s social network - parents, popular peers, teachers, coaches, websites, etc – to help promote behavioral change. d. Exploring technological advances in ways to dispense information in the most efficient and time-saving manner (example, CISCO School  Messenger) e. Other topics could be added as growth is made in successful communication.

2. Each campus will choose a “meeting free day” each week so that employees could focus on communicating with parents, students, community resources, or other GCISD employees to solve problems, build relationships, follow-up of past communications, etc. An on-going Log of communications would be kept to document problems, solutions, questions, need for follow-up, etc.

3. At faculty meetings school employees could share successes or failures in comunication experiences.

ADDITIONAL COMMUNICATION goals:
 * Recognize that research has shown that students do better when parents are involved and supportive of their schools and schoolwork, target communication with parents, exploring what the barriers are to parents being involved in the schools or schoolwork and work toward solutions.