| Sonoma County, CA | November 2, 2010 Election |
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Maintain Schools and Programs at better levels than nowBy Eric KirchmannCandidate for Board Member; Cotati/Rohnert Park Unified School District |
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It is little surprise that we are facing the greatest challenge in our organization's history. We must maximize our existing resources and maintain existing schools and programsIn better times I was able to serve on both the Technology High School Planning and Feasibility Studies. This involved thirty-six months of study, meetings, visitations,and generating final reports and attaining final approvals of all governing agencies and contracting for services. No program "just happens", nor do good ideas simply come into being without hard work, careful planning, and time. It is foolish to believe that any successful program just happens. The level of work and time involved in creating and sustaining a program is extensive to say the least. Bringing people together and forming alliances with stakeholders is also a task which takes years not months to master. Many committee are formed, and work done to generate needs assessments and plans, only to find that resources are not available no matter how worthy the cause. All of the programs we have exist due to the hard work and long hours put in by interested parties on all levels, none were created on the fly, or because someone thought it would be easy to replicate a program implemented elsewhere. One size fits all is not the way of education or planning educational programs. What we face now is the need for community support in making plans for our future including our schools and our programs and this involves the community on all levels paramount being funding and planning. We have recently made progress in regards to future planning by forming the Superintendent's Community Committee to address short and long term needs and plans. This is one of many steps bringing stakeholders together to create a plan for our organization's future which assuredly involves schools and programs and utilizing all resources available. Leadership is a process of applied experience and bringing people together, not deciding something looks good or might work. Creating programs is not as easy as going shopping and picking glossy packages from the shelf. Programs have to be grown and nurtured, created with all involved participating, and then maintained by those involved not top down but from the ground up. Like gardens schools grow to nourish and suit needs, learners take to what sustains them; not what some authority tells them is good for them at the time. |
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