Butler County Schools

STRATEGIC PLANNING TIMELINE

Strategic Leadership Team

The TASK

Envision a future and create a plan to achieve it

What MATTERS

to my user?

Here’s How Strategic Planning & Leadership Works

In Schools

Monthly Actions

Aligned to the board goals

3-5 Strands

Annual Deliverables

Interlocking themes

Self-Monitor with 30-60-90 plan

Today’s work

• Summarize the NEEDS of each user group:
• Student
• Parent
• Employee
• Community Leader
• Business Leader

Design Thinking Principles

Two tools for Empathy

Empathy Map

Needs Statement

Needs statements

A need statement distills your knowledge of the users and their need into a single sentence.

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“If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” - Henry Ford

Needs statement examples

Students need a way to quickly test solutions so they can get prompt feedback.

(Users) (Address this need) (Benefit in this way)

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Teachers need an efficient way to give actionable feedback so they can serve hundreds of learners.

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Teachers need a way to create interdisciplinary projects so they can offer more real world application.

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Employers need a simple way to impact instructional design so they can hire prepared workers.

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Student Advisory

Essential Questions:

1. What stands out as you look over the Empathy and Priority Statements of Stakeholders?
2. Is there anything missing from the Empathy and Priority Statements of Stakeholders?
3. Do you see any barriers to being able to achieve the competencies associated with the Empathy and Priority Statements of Stakeholders? How can we better master these competencies?
4. Would you add any competencies that are not added to the Empathy and Priority Statements that are listed?

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The big take-a-ways from the group’s feedback included:

• If all stakeholders do not engage or attempt to communicate and improve, then solutions we offer will not be useful;
• Students want to feel important and be heard by parents and educators;
• Better emotional development programs;
• More diverse options in the career pathways;
• Students need a way to uphold more responsibility to be better prepared for real-world experiences;
• Overall, any solutions offered for issues brought up here need to be centered on STUDENT success.

Butler County Schools Need Statements

• Students need a way to express feelings of anxiety/depression so they can discover new pathways to develop self confidence and self worth beyond social media.

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• Students need access to addiction support services so that they can find needed support services for both personal and in home issues with addiction.

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• Students need a one stop shop for resources and activities so that they can link and have access to after school and extracurricular activities.

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• Employers need a way to better understand the resources and partnerships that are available with the school system so that they can understand how they can connect to school resources that will benefit their business.

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• Parents need a way to learn how to best help their child that takes into account their busy schedule so that they can support their child's education within the home.

Butler County Schools Need Statements

• The community needs a way to define a shared vision of what future growth and expansion would look like in our community so that they can provide growth for younger adults while maintaining the characteristics of our unique small town.

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• Accreditation Review: Butler County Schools needs to regularly engage all stakeholders in the development, review, and refinement of standards based curriculum in order to meet the needs of the students, families, community, and business world while also meeting the standards for assessment of instructional standards.

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• Accreditation Review: Butler County Schools needs a consistent way to collaborate as instructional staff members on the development of rigorous curriculum and instructional programs that fosters student collaboration, problem solving, and inquiry to challenge students at high levels.

Butler County Need Statements

from Butler County Strategic Plan

• The County needs a way to encourage the establishment of industrial support through local and regional partners with a focus on workplace, infrastructure, and amenity development so they can increase per capita income and availability of quality jobs.

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• The County needs a way to promote workforce development so that they can better utilize existing training facilities, programs, and equipment to provide programs to meet the needs of residents and expand as necessary to stay abreast of the skills needed for the changing economy.

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• The County needs a way to partner with school clubs and extracurricular that support the development of entrepreneurial skills and knowledge in order to help guide and serve the entrepreneurs of our future.

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Butler County Need Statements

from Butler County Strategic Plan

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• The County needs a way to communicate known events, attractions, and activities citizens can participate in so that citizens are in the know for all community events.

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• The County needs a way to grow and support local fire and EMT departments so that the county has a 24 hour emergency response coverage for its citizens.

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• The County needs a way to strengthen and diversify the economic base of Butler County so they can support entrepreneurs and attract new business to Butler County.

Student Voice

(4 minutes)

Teacher Voice

(5 minutes)

Parent Voice

3 (minutes)

Share your thoughts

Community, Business and Civic Leaders

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● Read this article and watch the embedded video from a Texas community

● Look at this mentoring site to assess whether something like this could help

● Scan the KY Department of Education website for allowable ways industry can engage with high school students

• Review the KY Work-based Learning Manual enough to be aware that is exists

Share your thoughts

Parents

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● Do some online research for parent involvement ideas. You can start with these sites:

The Home-School Team: An Emphasis on Parent Involvement

Involved Parents

9 Ways to Build Strong Home-School Relationships this School Year

● Review the KDE website - Parent and Family Toolbox

Share your thoughts

Assignments for Teachers

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● Review literature for designing learning tasks for deep learning

PBL Works website

Differentiating by Offering Choice

To engage students, give them meaningful choices in the classroom

Review the 6 Deeper Learning Competencies

Six Teacher Moves for Deeper Learning

Recap of today’s work

• Summarize the NEEDS of each user group:
• Student
• Parent
• Employee
• Community Leader
• Business Leader

Parallel work is going on with the Butler County Deeper Learning Team

The Portrait of a Learner will help Butler County shift the learner experience to be more personally relevant, more engaging, more connected to the community and more reflective of the learning and career challenges faced by students today and in the future.

GRREC and UK are helping the Butler County Deeper Learning Team in the creation and implementation of a Butler County Portrait of a Learner.

STRATEGIC PLANNING TIMELINE

Next Steps

Superintendent Tuck

Next Step for the SLT

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You will receive an email next week from Supt. Tuck.

• Summary of this meeting
• Committee or Research assignments
• Invitation to our next meeting