APPENDIX

 D   • Big  issue  is  economics  

  • Continuing  high  rate  of  unemployment  
 
Question  4:  What  do  you  believe  will  be  our  greatest  challenges,  • as  aGas  
 community,  
price   in  the  coming  3-­‐5  years?  
  might  we  overcome  those  challenges?  
How   • Concern  over  job  loss  because  of  change  with  
health  care-­‐  become  more  competitive  
   
• Funding  going  down  for  schools  
 
Compilation  of  all  recorded  comments:  
 
 
• Financial  abilities  of  schools  to  provide  
• Gas  prices,  economy  -­‐  food,  field  trips,  sports,  
resources  to  kids  -­‐  continue  positive  
projects  
relationship  with  community  -­‐  but  will  it  be  
• Income  or  jobs  (increases  of  jobs  price)   enough  
• Work  is  taking  over  school  studies   • Funding  -­‐  do  more  with  less  
• Gas  prices  -­‐  prevent  field  trips  or  athletic  
• Legislation  &  funding  
events  (alternatives  in  transportation  and  for  
gas)   • Economy  uncertain  
• Taxes  that  are  increased   • Global  economy  changing  
• Public  funds  for  education  -­‐  could  change   • Maintaining  facilities  
school  vouchers   • How  do  we  prepare  for  a  growing  population  
• Economy   • Public  transportation  
• Transportation   • Job  creation  
• Finances   • Opportunities  to  everybody  
• Any  economy   • Large  companies  move  into  Warsaw  how  can  
• Gas  prices  going  up   we  expand  
• People  with  no  job  having  to  sell  their  house   • Gas  prices  
won’t  get  all  their  money  back   • Money  -­‐  legislation  regarding  pulling  funding  
• Schools  cutting  specials   from  public  schools  to  put  to  others  
• If  Libya  still  a  protest,  gas  prices  will  still  go  up   • Funding  
• If  there’s  no  money,  we  can’t  put  technology   • More  things  on  plate  and  less  funding    
in  schools   • Tax  base  shrinking  
• Taxes   • Jobs  outsourced  
• Job  market  crash   • Money/finances  
• Mass  transportation   • Having  student  with  money  challenges  -­‐  
• Gas  prices   homeless,  provide  better  education  earlier,  
preschool  
• Economy  
• Economic  climate  with  restructuring,  
• School  size   downsizing  
• Real  estate   • What  if  we  all  pull  in  rather  than  giving  out?  
• Need  different  jobs   • Laying  off  staff  of  WCS  with  a  shrinking  pot  of  
• General  funding   financial  reserves  
• Gas  prices  -­‐  bus  system   • Teacher  training  -­‐  how  do  we  train  teachers  
• Energy  crisis  affecting  our  schedule   when  we  don’t  have  the  finances  to  train  
them?  
• Getting  support  for  PLCs  
• Financial  challenge  is  very  present  (how  do  
• Economy  –  orthopaedic  community  =  major  
we  raise  wages  of  support  staff?  Benefits  -­‐  
changes  due  to  new  health  bill  
costs  are  always  rising)  
• Teacher  Union  Changes  –  pay,  educate,  
• Students  in  free/reduced  lunch  category  is  
pay/performance  
large  percentage  -­‐  how  do  we  meet  the  needs  
• Transportation  costs  
of  these  students?  
• Jobs  of  Grads  who  live  in  Warsaw    
• Decreased  funding  
• Money  vouchers  –  charter  schools  
• Government  
• Economic     • Economy/loss  of  jobs/outsource  
• Transportation  –  gas  prices,  size  of  district   • Finances/smaller  budgets  -­‐  more  remote  (tech  
• Growth  is  good  but  we  are  outgrowing   people),  week  at  home  instruction/online,  4  
buildings  &  staff   day  school  week,  take  advantage  of  CTE  

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 courses  and  funding   • Plan  for  the  unknown  and  emergencies  
• Loss  of  finances  -­‐  local,  state,  federal  money  -­‐   • If  we  don’t  have  enough  taxes  to  run  the  
could  lead  to  specials  being  cut/teachers   schools  
• Competitive  =  Sell  Our  Corp.   • School  finances  -­‐  always  a  challenge  
• Financial  restrictions/school  funding   • How  will  we  go  from  schools  with  libraries  
• Class  sizes   and  books  to  children  carrying  around  iPads  
without  the  financial  resources?  
• Finances  
• Budget  restraints  (music,  art,  sports)  maybe   • Federal  funds    
“pay  for  play”  -­‐  already  doing  fundraisers  -­‐   • Creating  jobs  
grant  writer  to  help  focus  on  writing  grant  to   • A  growing  drug  problem  in  the  community  -­‐  
purchase   legislation/enforcement  of  laws  
• Size  of  high  school   • Meth  
• Financial/economic  outlook  on  our   • Teen  pregnancy  -­‐  teach  abstinence/protection  
community  hard  to  predict   • Try  to  resolve  the  problem  of  meth  in  the  
• Financial/money  that  will  be  necessary  to   community  
attract  the  highly  effective  educators  to  stay   • Health  issues  (wanting  to  take  adderall  or  
in  education   energy  drinks)  
• Community  finances/economy   • Kids  losing  motivations  to  want  to  go  to  
• Transportation  costs  w/  growing  community     school  
• Kids  not  understanding  the  importance  or  
• Economy    
punishments  
• Jobs    
• More  drugs  
• Fuel  costs    
• Homelessness  
• Real  estate/  housing     • Impact  of  poverty  -­‐  use  Ruby  Payne’s  
• Gas  prices  –  transportation  issues     framework  
• Natural  gas/  electric  busses     • Unemployment  -­‐  affecting  family  values  
• Challenge  -­‐  Funding  –  offerings,  class  size     • Drugs  
• Money     • Growing  %  of  working  teens  lead  to  school  
• If  it’s  worth  buying  only  pay  once  to  do  it   dropouts  and  concentration  at  school  
right!     • Getting  jobs  after  college  
• Gas  prices     • Free  time  after  school  
• Taxes     • Meth  problem  in  the  community  
• Economy     • Keeping  up  with  counselors  -­‐  emotional  
• Money     support,  scholastic  support  
• Jobs     • Dropouts  
• Gas  prices   • Drugs  –  make  some  medication  prescription  
only,  need  greater  info  
• Taxes    
• More  problems  –  economic,  issues,  drugs  =  
• Economy     need  more  help  for  students  
• Natural  disasters     • Students  and  families  need  to  be  better  
• Creating  jobs     informed  
• Economy     • Continuing  to  reduce  the  drop  out  rate  
• Gas  prices     • Drug  (meth)  issue  
• Smaller  classes  size     • Pregnancy  rate  
• Finances     • Counselor  to  student  ratio  –  How  do  we  meet  
• budgeting  seems  to  be  the  biggest.  I  think   emotional  needs  of  students  –  5  counselors  
making  changes  in  many  places  could  help   can  only  focus  on  class  schedule  changes,  
this.  Consumables  could  be  looked  at  to  see  if   SATs  etc.  
there  are  reusable  resources  that  could  be   • Teenage  parents  being  able  to  complete  
utilized  and  maybe  offering  more  volunteer   education  while  having  adequate  care  for  
activities  (like  a  work/study  program)  for   their  children  
students  in  the  upper  levels  would  present   • Drugs/meth  problem  &  teen  pregnancy  are  
wonderful  opportunities  for  students  where   affecting  students  and  community  
maybe  saving  money  to  hire  someone  to  do   • Drug  abuse,  teen  pregnancy,  poverty:  they  
the  same  job.   have  needs  -­‐  emotional,  physical/health  
• Financial  aspects  of  education   • Lack  of  parenting,  parenting  skills  

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• Ruby  Payne  families  increasing  demographics   • Drugs/meth  
• Meth  and  other  drug  issues  now  effecting  our   • Equal  opportunities  –  competitions    
schools  -­‐  how  do  we  provide  a  systemic   • Drugs  in  the  community    
approach  to  stop  it   • Teen  pregnancy  –  no  one  talks  about  it  –  
• Plan  to  support  children  and  families   education,  prevention,  personal  choices,  
• Homelessness,  poverty  -­‐  more  emphasis  on   values    
adult  ed  and  opportunities   • Family  –  community  wide    
• Drugs  in  our  community  -­‐  increase  DARE   • Drop  out    
• Teenage  pregnancy/abortion   • School  values    
• Children  whose  parents  are  drug  users  (jail  
• Save  money    and  go  to  a  school  near  you    
time,  etc)  
• You  can  see  many  problems  now  and  could  be  
• Kids  don’t  have  intact  families   prevented  before  they  get  out  of  hand  
• Homeless  students   • Grandparents  seizing  their  grandkids    
• Family  structure  breakdown   • Community  Barrier  with  ESL  students  (2  way  
• Greater  gap  in  socioeconomics  -­‐  less  in  middle   street)  
class  who  have  driven  community  character   • Children  of  parents  that  just  don't  care.  
• Parenting   Parents  are  throwing  more  &  more  
• Community  schools   responsibility  on  the  school  for,  not  only  
• Fewer  community-­‐based  programs   education,  but  raising  them  to  be  responsible  
adults!?  This  should  not  be  the  school's  
• Divide  between  haves  and  have-­‐nots  
responsibility.  Parents  need  to  be  more  
• How  will  we  meet  the  needs  of  our  most  
involved  in  their  child's  education  first  &  
impoverished  children/families?  
foremost  -­‐  how  can  you  require  that?  
• Lack  of  parental  involvement  and  lack  of  
Uncaring,  noninvolved  parents  =  uncaring,  
ability  to  see  future  
noninvolved  students.  
• Drugs/meth   • The  greatest  challenge  is  trying  to  get  all  
• Longer  school  day?  So  kids  don’t  go  home  to   children  to  believe  in  their  dreams  to  be  the  
bad  experiences  =  provide  opportunities   best  that  they  possibly  can.  Education  should  
• How  do  we  find  a  way  to  reach   be  there  top  priority  and  they  need  to  accept  
disadvantaged  children?   that  role  with  open  arms.  There  are  so  many  
• Meth  and  drugs   kids  today  that  don't  and  they  follow  in  their  
• How  to  get  parent  involvement?   parents  footsteps  to  ride  the  medicaid  train.  
• Staying  in  tune  to  the  economic  changes  as   Too  many  5th  generations  of  medicaid  live  
far  as  training  for  available  jobs  and  being   here  and  all  they  tell  their  kids  is  to  get  
too  slow  to  embrace  upcoming  technology   pregnant  and  live  free  on  the  government.  It  
• How  to  provide  instructional  time  during  the   is  really  sad.  
day  while  class  time  is  in  session  (i.e.  ESL,  Title   • Employment  for  those  who  do  not  seek  post  
I)   secondary  schooling.  As  a  community,  if  we  
• In  lower  socio-­‐economic  -­‐  don’t  have  the   want  to  keep  our  young  people  in  Warsaw,  
opportunities  -­‐  we  need  to  have  areas  for   we  need  to  find/open/create  employment  
them  to  go  get  these  opportunities   opportunities  for  those  who  do  not  choose  to  
• Motivation,  morality   go  to  college.    
• How  do  we  keep  kids  active?  Parent   • The  biggest  challenge  I  believe  will  be  
responsibility   attendance  of  students  due  to  the  more  rules  
• Stress  on  families  -­‐  food  costs/work   for  them.  The  more  rules  the  more  broken.  
More  they  rebel.  A  child  should  be  able  to  talk  
• Values  
in  lunch  line.  That  is  their  free  time.  What  
• Socio-­‐economic  effects  on  a  day-­‐to-­‐day  basis  -­‐  
child  does  not  argue?  They  are  children.  
financially  needy  kids  
• Meth  issue  will  get  greater  -­‐  this  is  affecting   • Parent  involvement  falling  off  
our  community   • Community  culture  is  changing  -­‐  students  
• Parents  must  get  more  involved  in  the   with  greater  needs  
education  of  their  child  -­‐  it  will  get  worse  -­‐   • Getting  community  involved  -­‐  70%  of  people  
how  do  we  fix  this  -­‐  take  parents  to  court  for   here  are  students  who  teachers  required  to  
lack  of  child’s  attendance  -­‐  perhaps  tie   come  
financial/taxes   • Parent  involvement,  yet  keeping  schools  safe  
• Get  an  active  way  of  getting  parents  involved   • Family  involvement/support  -­‐  lack  of  parental  
supervision,  involvement  -­‐  community  

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 involvement  -­‐  “it  takes  a  village”   teachers  begin  teaching  to  tests  that  do  not  
• Community  involvement   fairly  assess  student's  abilities  in  writing  and  
reading.  The  focus  must  be  on  teaching  sound  
• Traditional  family  unit  is  changing  
strategies  which  students  can  use  to  pass  
• Gap  between  high  income/low  income  
these  tests,  but  that  are  transferable  beyond  
families  -­‐  community  closet  
their  K-­‐12  education:  critical  thinking,  
• Family  structure  changing!  (family  values?)   problem-­‐solving,  and  writing  skills.  
• Combating  drugs  in  schools   • Government  run  schools  =  ?  
• Participation   • Not  too  many  initiatives  -­‐  do  fewer  very  well  
• Cyber  bullying  -­‐  how  do  we  get  ahead  of  this   • Another  big  challenge  will  be  all  of  the  new  
potential  problem  and  make  students  aware   laws  being  pushed  for  Indiana  educators  and  
of  how  hurtful  and  harmful  this  can  be   schools.    
• Reading  test  3rd  grade   • Wider  range  of  testing  
• Mandates  we  receive   • We  are  expanding  too  rapidly  to  hold  and  
• Keeping  up  with  mandates  from  the  state   connect  with  every  student  
• What  to  do  with  next  year’s  third  graders  who   • Population  
don’t  pass  ISTEP?   • Illegal  immigration  
• Demands  for  state  testing  -­‐  taking  more  time  
• How  do  we  grow  the  population?  
in  school  day  -­‐  keeping  up  with  state  decisions  
• Issue  of  language  spoken  at  home  -­‐  foreign  
to  make  these  changes  (how  does  the  state  
languages  need  to  begin  at  earlier  grades,  
know  what’s  best  for  students?)  
foreign  language  requirement  for  all  students  
• Politically  motivated  mandates  -­‐  state  and  
at  elementary  levels  
local  (orthoworx)  
• Language  spoken  
• Standardized  tests  -­‐  mandated  improvements  
• Learning  and  other  languages  in  elementary  
• Mandates  without  backing  
• People  leaving  and  go  to  private  schools  -­‐  
• Testing  -­‐  making  testing  a  higher  priority  has  
have  school  choice  to  have  them  stay  
harmed  our  children  -­‐  they  are  losing  class  
• The  amount  of  poorer  people  &  how  harder  it  
instructional  time  -­‐  less  testing,  more  
will  be  to  get  on  feet  
instruction  -­‐  have  variety  of  ways  to  measure  
student  abilities   • Languages  
• Streamline  testing  so  that  there’s  more   • Equal  opportunities  
teaching  time  on  task   • Immigration  
• Big  brother  -­‐  more  authentic  teaching  and   • Number  of  children  in  school  
less  standardized  testing   • Extremely  conservative  community  –  not  open  
• Government  dictated  learning  keeps  us  from   to  change  
teaching   • Community  support  
• Bad  questions  on  standardized  tests  -­‐  don’t   • Polarization  of  community  -­‐  economically,  
want  to  have  to  teach  to  the  test  if  the  test   language  diversity  
does  not  reflect  needed  knowledge  
• Competitive  marketplace  -­‐  we  need  PR  
• Continued  overemphasis  on  standardized  
• As  aging  baby  boomers  grow  -­‐  schools  are  not  
testing  and  finding  resources  to  subsidize  
preparing  the  types  of  workers  with  
penalties  
appropriate  skill  set  to  supply  our  local  
• Are  we  going  to  lose  personal  touch  with  
orthopedic  companies  
people  with  all  the  emphasis  on  testing,  iPads  
etc   • Where  and  how  we  do  our  work  
• Do  the  goals  of  our  community  match   • Parents  and  teachers  same  as  above  
expectations  from  Indiana  and  US  Dept  of  Ed?   • Accepting  diversity  
• States  not  valuing  $  in  education   • Singapore  math  has  been  challenging  for  
• State  mandates  (3rd  grade  retention)   parents  but  is  a  positive  thing  for  the  future  of  
our  children  -­‐  we  need  to  work  more  at  
• School  vouchers    
helping  parents  understand  the  philosophy  
• State  
• Keep  the  middle  class  -­‐  big  separation  
• Standard  tests     • Economy  -­‐  ability  to  offer  diverse  classes,  loss  
• Teach/  test/time     of  people  moving  into  community  
• Keeping  standards  high  and  holding  back   • Losing  students  to  other  schools  
those  who  aren't  ready  to  move  on.   • Fighting  student  flight  -­‐  our  best  and  brightest  
• State  mandated  testing  and  standardization   need  to  want  to  choose  to  return  to  Warsaw  
of  curriculum  will  present  a  challenge  if  

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 rather  than  leave   • Losing  the  orthopedic  children  because  they  
• Commuters  working  at  biomedical  places  but   want  to  live/go  to  Ft.  Wayne  
living  elsewhere   • Orthopedic  companies  to  collapse  (could  have  
• Maintaining  small-­‐town  feel  but  still  expose   the  ability  to  have  programs,  loans,  or  money  
our  community  to  more  variety   to  help  new  businesses  -­‐  also  programs  to  
• How  do  we  connect  all  this  communication   help)  
and  get  more  feedback?   • If  they  fell  apart  so  will  we  (orthopedic  
• Improving  community  relationships  (getting   industries)  
local  companies  more  involved)   • Something  to  change  the  orthopedic  
• Increased  diversity  -­‐  need  training     companies  -­‐  layoffs,  closures  
• Orthopaedic  Companies  –  what  if  they  left  –  
• Languages  needed/cultural  
should  we  have  a  plan  
• How  do  we  make  people  see  Warsaw  as  
• Orthopaedics  think  their  too  high  up  for  the  
“good  enough”  
school  system  
• What’s  happening  in  other  communities?   • What  value  do  the  ortho  companies  have  in  
• Challenges:  jobs,  economics,  creating  an   us  and  vice  versa  
environment  conducive  to  attract  the  then  
• Orthopedic  companies  moving  
professionals  to  come  back  and  live  in  our  
• Orthopedic  centers  (we  could  be  more  
community,  keeping  orthopedic  companies  in  
welcoming  to  other  cultures)  
our  community  
• Changes  in  orthopedic  industry  -­‐  will  they  stay  
• Diversity  -­‐  ethnic,  socioeconomic   here?  (keep  them  here  through  Orthoworx,  
• Continuing  to  market  our  schools  so  people   Lilly  grants,  turn  out  good  blue  collar  workers,  
desire  to  move/live  in  Warsaw   make  sure  people  are  happy  to  come  to  
• Growth  in  community   Warsaw)  
• Huge  diversity  -­‐  the  people  who  have  vs.  the   • Keeping  the  orthopedic  companies  here!  
people  who  don’t  have  -­‐  continue  to  bridge   • Orthopedic  capital  explodes  -­‐  community  will  
the  gap  because  it  is  getting  larger   be  changed  
• Do  not  lose  the  sense  of  small  community  as   • Technology  -­‐  easier  ways  to  cheat  -­‐  will  
growth  occurs   prosper  but  you  will  find  more  cheating  
• Our  schools  are  the  hub  of  our  community       • Confidentiality  as  technology  increases  
• Agriculture     • Technology  will  sooner  or  later  consume  
• Diversity     everybody’s  life  
• Population     • If  people  keep  relying  on  computers  -­‐  book  
• Legal  immigration     won’t  be  used  for  information  
• Electronics  -­‐  we  can  have  problems  funding  
• Legal  immigration    
them  
• Becoming  more  diverse  with  community    
• Technology  
• Keep  school  celebrations  and  healthy  
• Accountability  for  those  who  cyber-­‐bully  
wholesome  homemade  values  =  homemade  
others  
snacks  are  safe!    
• Dependence  on  Technology  (not  personal)  
• How  do  we  work  together  success  when  life  
Personal  interactions  will  diminish  
flops  -­‐?  
• Not  all  schools  are  wireless  
• Goodwill  to  All!!  
• Best  prepared  for  technology  but  how  do  you  
• the  decline  in  respect  that  our  culture  is  
fund  long  term?  
experiencing.  
• What  can  we  add  to  community  so  that  if  
• Protecting  the  environment  
orthopedic  industry  slows  we  still  have  a  
• Open  communication   reason  for  families  to  stay?  
• Translators  seem  to  be  in  short  supply  for   • Funding  for  new  technology  for  both  students  
meeting  with  families   and  teachers  
• Why  are  kids  going  to  Canterbury?  Do  they   • Technology  barriers  -­‐  trying  to  keep  up  -­‐  1:1  
know  our  advanced  students  have  a  better   computers  but  also  problems  with  bandwidth  
chance  of  making  it  into  an  Ivy  League   • Smart  boards  are  underutilized/not  used  well  
school?  
• Ability  to  meet  technology  changes  and  costs  
• Warsaw  infrastructure  -­‐  2  roads  –  center  /  
Detroit    a  mess  5  pm  Friday     • Technology  -­‐  catching  up,  maintaining  
• Communication  needs  to  be  improved  with   • Embracing  technology  too  much  -­‐  rely  on  
parents/  community  especially  and  the  HS   texting  rather  than  human  face-­‐to-­‐face  
level     conversation  

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• All  the  technologies  will  change  and  they  will   • How  to  keep  the  schools  up  to  date  with  
be  new   technology  -­‐  challenge  is  to  sustain  it  
• Nano  technology   • How  to  fund  new  technology  -­‐  
• Overusing  technology   business/financial  support  
• Using  technology  as  a  positive  learning   • How  do  we  deal  with  the  increase  of  online  
practice   learning  
• Technology  -­‐  give  kids  something  else  to  do   • How  do  we  invest  in  technology  in  order  to  
besides  technology   make  the  biggest  impact  on  kids  
• Challenge  kids  in  technology,  but  don’t  let   • Digital  community  /  schooling    
lower  students  lose  basic  learning  skills  -­‐   • Technologies    
bridge  the  gap   • Too  much  tech  not  enough  time  to  enjoy  the  
• Online  opportunities  both  pro  and  con   world  around  you  
• How  do  we  keep  up  with  technology  -­‐   • Technology    
training,  equipment   • Tech  improving    
• Online  classes  -­‐  how  would  we  prepare  for   • Technology    
this  -­‐  negative  effects  of  this  -­‐  lose  the  
• Cyberbullying  
personal  touch  
• Tech  training  for  teachers    
• Changes  in  technology  
• Being  able  to  provide  students  with  needed   • Under  used  tech  in  class    
opportunities  (tech)   • Financial  and  the  impact  of  the  a  generation  
• Technology  -­‐  addition  of  classes,  evolving   being  immersed  in  the  cyber  world.  
curriculum   Collaboratively  find  ways  to  balance  the  
• How  do  we  deal  with  the  increase  of  online   budget  and  deal  with  issues  as  cyber  bullying.  
learning?   • Advances  in  software  
• How  do  we  invest  in  technology  in  order  to   • Our  students  will  know  computers  better  than  
make  the  biggest  impact  on  kids?   teachers  
• Technology  -­‐  can’t  keep  up  with  the  pace  -­‐   • Technology  
already  outdated  -­‐  need  one  on  one   • Incorporating  technology  into  schools  and  
• How  will  online  education  impact  our  schools   knowing  what  to  do  without  a  computer  
• Embracing  future  in  education  ideas  and   • Technology  -­‐  being  up  to  date  
technology   • Need  to  identify  all  kids  in  need;  help  kids  in  
• Challenges:  technology  training  for  teachers,   the  “middle”  
Warsaw  is  a  conservative  community  to  allow   • How  will  we  provide  the  curriculum  so  kids  
children  to  have  ownership  in  the  classroom,   will  pass  iRead?  
find  a  strong  and  appropriate  way  that  will   • How  do  we  help  students  be  aware  of  all  the  
promote  and  sell  the  value  of  the  changes  to   options  they  have  available  to  them?  
come  in  our  community  (i.e.  Providing  one  to   • How  do  we  help  kids  understand  they  are  not  
one  computers  or  iPads),  monitoring  the   just  “consumers”  but  they  can  also  be  
usage  of  iPads   creators/developers?  Kids  need  different  ways  
• Keep  our  kids  up  with  technology  -­‐  things   to  be  taught  
change  so  quickly,  1:1  computers   • More  for  the  average  student  
• Technology  advances   • Do  we  need  divide  to  two  high  schools  
• Keeping  polarization  from  happening   • Sports  more  accessible  
(between  those  strong  in  technology  and  kids   • How  do  teaching  methods  need  to  change  to  
who  can’t  read)   keep  young  (technology  driven)  children  
• Technology  -­‐  every  kids  needs  a  device,  can   interested?  
we  involve  our  industries  because  they  want   • Sports  –  too  political  –  if  no  $  you  struggle  to  
students  to  eventually  be  employed,  keeping   be  involved  
up  -­‐  bridging  gap  with  socioeconomics  in   • Worries  over  things  that  “take  away”  from  
families   school  day  -­‐  quality  vs.  quantity  
• Technology  and  communication  with  students   • Teachers  challenged  with  different  learning  
(how  do  we  help  our  students  be  up  to  date   types/styles  in  already  large  classes  and  
on  technology  and  still  communicate  with   portions  of  class  failing  -­‐  no  time  to  re-­‐teach  
each  other)   • Language  barriers  -­‐  are  English  speaking  
• Make  sure  our  newspapers  equally  present   students  being  worked  with  on  order  to  
the  positives  in  all  our  schools  to  avoid  bias   communicate  with  their  increasing  ESL  
• Keeping  up  with  technology  but  funding  is  a   classmates  
problem  which  will  increase  

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• 5-­‐10  years  for  seeing  an  overall  younger   • Address  failure  -­‐  it  is  unacceptable.  There  
teaching  staff  -­‐  could  result  in  a  loss  of   should  be  more  provisions  and  interventions  
resources  for  the  newer  teachers  coming  in   so  that  failure  is  not  an  option.  Students  and  
(loss  of  experience)   families  must  have  resources  that  recognize  
• Need  to  teach  foreign  language  to   alternative  options  within  the  school  -­‐  
elementary   inclusion  and  mainstream  -­‐  so  that  students  
• Barriers  teaching  Spanish  speaking  students   are  supported  and  encouraged  to  optimize  
actual  Spanish  language  and  also  with  the   their  potential.    
parents   • Lack  of  diverse  opportunities.  Sports  
• Look  for  ways  to  meet  the  educational  needs   opportunities  abound,  but  where  are  the  arts  
of  our  free  and  reduced  community   and  humanities  where  the  community  can  be  
• How  to  get  the  same  group  to  visualize  and   involved.  We  need  a  performance  venue  that  
embrace  a  better  future  through  educational   would  better  house  the  performing  arts  that  
opportunities   do  exist.  We  could  use  the  PAC,  but  it  seems  
• Students  must  be  challenged  and  educated  on   like  it  is  some  sort  of  sacred  temple,  only  used  
how  they  might  fit  in  a  future  job  market   by  the  school  and  who  the  school  feels  would  
• Support  non-­‐English  people   be  'worthy'.  EXPAND  your  horizons  man!  
• Students  know  more  than  teachers   • How  to  help  students  learn  in  a  language  that  
is  not  their  heart  language  at  a  pace  
• Challenge  -­‐  teaching  kids  to  think!  
commensurate  with  the  curriculum  and  
• Teaching  students  to  respect  teachers  in  their  
educational  goals.  Many  more  specialists  may  
teaching  
be  needed,  increasing  funding,  than  ever  
• Top  students  need  to  continue  to  be  stretched   before  to  address  these  three  challenges.  In  
• Longer  school  days   addition,  increasing  the  volunteer  base  for  
• Change  the  way  we’re  learning   most  schools  may  address  this  need.  If  
• Prepare  the  people  who  live  here  -­‐  how  do  we   qualified  individuals  would  be  recruited  to  
get  them  to  go  into  those  careers   teach  English,  tutor,  counsel,  etc.  the  need  
• Being  able  to  find  resources  for  our  kids   may  be  met.    
• Literacy  rate  going  down   • The  growing  needs  of  our  students-­‐  teachers  
and  staff  are  having  to  take  on  more  
• Finding  time  for  teachers  to  teach  
responsibility  for  teaching  students  life  skills  
• The  importance  of  preparing  a  generation  for  
in  addition  to  academics,  even  though  
the  future    
academic  standards  will  be  raised,  too.    
• Educating  children  for  jobs  that  don’t  yet  exist  
• Provide  ways  for  students  to  become  aware  
• How  do  we  reach  Latino  culture  -­‐  students   of  opportunities  (clothing/health  needs)  
seem  not  to  care  about  school  
• Less  problem-­‐solving,  less  people  time  
• Balanced  calendar   • Time  schools  start  for  elementary  compared  
• Full  day  kindergarten   to  high  school  
• Finding  time  for  teachers  to  teach   • Have  a  school  for  what  you  want  to  learn  
• Lose  liability  mentality  and  raise  arbitrating   • Education  
skills/  values   • Education  easier  to  get  -­‐  is  a  basic  college  
• It  (sports)  finds  a  way  to  live  life  fully!  Yes!   degree  worth  less  -­‐  now  need  master’s  degree  
• Liability     to  get  ahead?  
• Everything  will  change  except  for  the  Basics   • Always  new  requirements  
and  fundamentals     • Making  our  schools  attractive  (educationally)  
• Language     • Working  with  a  generation  of  learners  who  
• Misconceptions  about  the  quality  and  rigor  or   are  so  different  in  philosophy,  culture,  and  
Warsaw.       approach  to  life  from  their  older  teachers.  It  
• Without  fundamentals  nothing  else  matters     will  take  a  concerted  effort  to  engage  them  
• Education     from  Kindergarten  through  High  school.  
• Helping  all  students  getting  an  education   Dealing  with  the  problems  previous  
generations  have  created  in  the  breakdown  of  
• One  counselor  for  each  grade  –  not  enough    
families  and  the  baggage  so  many  kids  carry  
• Science  and  social  studies  need  to  be  taught  
that  inhibits  their  ability  to  learn.    
in  all  elementary  schools    
• Changes  in  school  administration  causing  
• Reading  by  everyone  by  grade  level  
major  shifts  in  programs  
• Languages     • Recruiting  GREAT  teachers  -­‐  how  to  
• Fine  arts  elementary  –  senior     encourage  other  teachers  to  leave  

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• Changes  in  leadership   preparation  for  
• Qualified  staff  (because  of  low  pay)   colleges/scholarships/benefits,  online  help  
sessions  
• Impact  of  changing  leadership  
• More  discipline  in  school  w/o  losing  quality  
• Different  teachers  teach  different  things  -­‐  
teachers  
how  do  we  evaluate  teachers  (comparing  GT  
• Teen  Pregnancy  –  need  stronger  DARE/sex  ed  
to  special  needs)  
awareness  during  MS  /  HS  
• Continuing  to  attract  highly  qualified  
teachers!   • Stress  healthier  life-­‐style  
• Teacher  involvement  in  community   • Encouraging  boys  to  go  to  college  
• Lots  of  teachers  are  retiring   • Reducing  the  rate  of  pregnancy  in  schools  
• Keep  our  superintendent  and  principals  -­‐  too   • Drugs  –  security  check  points,  check  book  
much  turn-­‐around   bags,  breath  test  
• Motivation/Poor  family  life  of  student  –  use  
• We  need  a  vision  that  stays  -­‐  consistency  
broader  based  mentoring  program  (peer  
• Impact  of  changing  leadership   mentoring)  
• Challenge  -­‐Recruiting  talented  staff   • Help  kids  be  more  socially  appropriate  
• Teachers     • Stronger  connection  with  judicial  system  -­‐  
• Training  teachers     attendance  issues  
• Having  more  teachers  more  involved   • Schools  are  the  hub  -­‐  Need  task  force  that  
• Creates  burn-­‐out     helps  direct;  Communicate  needs;  Cardinal  
• Teachers  that  care  -­‐  high  school  teachers  that   center;  YMCA;  Companies;  Can  develop  
show  they  care  -­‐  students  learn  more  -­‐   programs  to  support    
teachers  need  to  learn  to  connect  -­‐  result   • Social  workers    
student  will  learn  more   • Greater  opportunities  to  mix  group  and  the  
• Liability   high  school  –  cliques  diverse  game  day  that  
mixes  up  the  norm    
• Promoting  our  schools  
• Support  through  the  school  life  cycle    
• Challenge  -­‐  Resistance    
• Partnering  with  local  churches,  colleges  could  
• Risk  Avoidance    
also  provide  the  manpower  necessary  to  
• Finding  ways  to  support  and  encourage   engage  these  students  and  help  them  learn.  
teachers,  so  that  we  can  keep  the  good  ones!   • There  should  be  a  daily  "Work  Study  Table"  
• Handling  the  training  of  teachers  who  have   after  school  4  nights  a  week  for  30  minutes  to  
increasingly  less  time  and  with  no  money   assign  students  this  opportunity  to  catch  up  
• First  Friday   and  keep  up...it  is  destructive  and  negligent  
• All  good  things  get  stopped  at  one  door!   to  accept  failure.  We  can  do  better!    
• Risk  management  not     • Teen  pregnancy  –  education    
• Changes  in  sports  as  we  allow  cross  district   • Dare  program    
acceptance   • Training  teachers  
• Positive  support  groups  to  help  against  drugs   • Students  need  more  counselors  to  be  
(social  workers)   available  -­‐  train  staff  to  step  in  
• A  place  to  “put”  the  kids  who  are  heading   • Student  to  teacher  ratio  needs  to  be  
down  the  wrong  path   beneficial  to  student  success  
• More  education  about  drugs   • More  help  at  elementary  school  level  
• The  drug  deals  -­‐  better,  longer  drug   • Training  sessions  need  to  be  better/more  
awareness  programs   involved/longer/not  optional  
• How  can  we  decrease  the  number  of  drop-­‐
• Professional  learning  communities  are  needed  
outs?  We  need  early  intervention  (a  student  
who  I  know  is  dropping  out  because  he  feels   • Recruit/retain  people  to  work  and  live  here  
as  a  mechanic  he  doesn’t  need  more  technical   • Overcome  by  having  reading  workshops  for  
classes)   teachers,  keeping  teachers  
• Need  more  opportunities  for  kids  to  be  in   updated/workshop  training  
clubs,  sports  (AAU  leagues)  closer  to  home  to   • Respect  for  seasoned  teachers  
keep  them  busy,  productive  but  have  some   • Staff  development:  technology,  ideas  
relax  time   • Inservice/PD  -­‐  by  school  in  August?  Midyear?  
• Information:  mandatory  study  hall,  peer   Must  value  it  enough  to  pay  for  it  
tutors  in  specified  classes,  after  school   • $$$  value  teachers  for  the  jobs  they  do  for  the  
tutoring,  more  1  on  1  with  teachers,  parent   growth  of  our  children/society/community  -­‐  

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 why  value  professional  athletes?   • We  have  to  continue  to  respect  others  with  
• Teacher  evaluation  not  by  grades  by  students     different  languages  and  abilities  and  
disabilities  
• Live  teachers  online  education    
• Volunteer  community  service  with  goal  of  
• Keep  individuality  as  a  professional  (teacher)  
creating  a  bond  between  school  and  
and  appreciating  individuality  in  classroom  
community  
• More  training  (Wednesday  morning)  
• Grants  for  parenting  classes  
• Providing  support  for  our  teachers  and  
community  will  be  important.   • Communication  
• Many  more  specialists  may  be  needed,   • Incorporate  life  skills  -­‐  character/social  skills  
increasing  funding,  than  ever  before  to   • Better  working  relationship  with  judicial  
address  these  three  challenges.  In  addition,   system  -­‐  hold  parents  accountable  
increasing  the  volunteer  base  for  most   • Keeping  abreast  of  our  kids  -­‐  tech,  media  -­‐  
schools  may  address  this  need.  If  qualified   determining  when  and  how  it’s  appropriate  
individuals  would  be  recruited  to  teach   • Parent  partnership/participation  
English,  tutor,  counsel,  etc.  the  need  may  be   • Build  structure  for  collaboration  and  
met.     communication  
• Try  more  to  build  relationships  with  the   • Parental  involvement  -­‐  parents  signed  
community  to  help  strengthen  the  schools   contract  that  you  would  have  to  do  certain  
• Community  revitalization  projects   things  or  you’d  be  kicked  out  of  school  
• More  adult  involvement   • It  should  be  the  parents’  
responsibility/accountability  for  the  children  
• Family  oriented  places  so  they  can  be  closer  
• Overcome:  promoting  awareness,  through  
• Homemade  values  such  as  not  allowing  
open  forums,  marketing  ideas  in  the  
vulgar  language  at  school,  stricter  
community,  parent  workshops  led  by  parents  
punishment  -­‐  allowing  treats  made  at  home  
and  educators,  through  research,  appropriate  
in  the  school  
planning,  parent/community  meetings  
• Filling  jobs  and  keeping  attractive  community:  
(should  provide  babysitting)  
better  prepare  students  for  real  world,  quality  
• Making  our  large  school  a  small  school  
schools  lead  the  way,  better  appeal  
(teacher  and  administration  involvement  in  
community,  recreational  activities  
the  community  and  in  extra-­‐curricular  
• Consistent  monitoring  of  dress  code  and  
activities  of  school)  
language  
• Provide  lots  of  opportunities  and  times  for  
• Keeping  our  local  culture  in  a  changing  world   parents  -­‐  our  high  school  does  not  welcome  or  
• Home  Life     make  parents  feel  welcome  
• Family-­‐Oriented  places  (not  movies  or   • Embrace  diversity  and  experience  other  
bowling  alleys  that  allow  smoking)     cultures  
• Bring  things  like  battle  of  the  bands  to  other   • Relationships  economy    
schools  and  bring  the  winners  together  as  a   • Every  kid  and  adult  should  have  
community  wide  competition   responsibilities  and  also  kids  should  show  
• Diversity  Programs  in  schools  &  community   their  work  and  adults  should  go  to  work  on  
• Create  community  wide  events  for  the  family   time  or  they  will  get  in  trouble.  
• Relationship-­‐building  with  students/staff  –   • Keeping  our  local  culture  in  a  changing  world    
take  interest  in  students,  adults  take   • Email  announcements  daily    
responsibility  with  students  
• Community  building  skills  class  
• Integration  of  Hispanic  culture   • Community  involvement  -­‐  Preserve  and  
• Give  the  community,  staff,  students  “A   expand  
Reason  to  Care”   • Home  visits  by  all  teachers  to  their  students  
• Embracing  culture  -­‐  integration  of  cultures   homes  
into  general  population   • Continue  to  keep  class  size  small.  Don’t  
• Encourage  parent  involvement  -­‐  it  gets  less   increase  class  size  
and  less  as  your  get  into  high  school   • Parents’  responsibility  for  their  students.  
• Parents  must  take  responsibility  for  their   Maybe  requiring  parents  to  sign  a  “contract”  
students   of  responsibility  for  their  involvement  in  their  
• More  accountability  and  better  criteria  to  run   child’s  education  
for  school  board  members  
• Bus  Hub    
• Cultural  training  (parent,  student,  teacher)   • Place  where  kids  could  stay  at  home  school  
• Continue  to  respect  others   ever  if  they  move  –  look  at  how  other  districts  

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 transport.   • Support  students  ideas  to  improve  learning    
• More  mentors  for  students   • Step  one  -­‐  More  programs  like  this-­‐  Better  
• Using  the  talents  and  skills  of  the  larger   supported    
community  to  develop  new  ideas   • Clubs  for  different  skills    
• Bringing  in  great  speakers     • Have  students  teaching  students    
• Guest  speakers  and  experts  in  subjects     • Team  projects    
• Bring  in  guest  speakers  –  experts  in  topic     • More  clubs  for  certain  skills    
• More  opportunity  to  meet  people  and   • Have  students  teach  students    
experience  things   • Team  projects    
• Force  kids  to  work  at  younger  age   • Teach  brain  storming  and  creative  problem  
• Getting  a  good,  healthy  education  that  would   solving    
let  you  get  better  jobs   • Personal  finance    
• Do  what  you  like  and  need   • Teach  Brainstorming    
• Bigger  career  opportunities,  paths  and  
• Teach  creative  problem  solving  skills    
facilities  
• More  hands-­‐on  opportunities  -­‐  balance  -­‐  let   • Have  students  teaching  students    
kids  be  kids   • More  club  activities    
• Active  student  engagement   • Outreach  from  our  community  to  the  rest  of  
• Different  languages  coming  -­‐  maybe  a  school   the  world    
that  teaches  different  languages   • Technology  
• Teach  a  world  view  -­‐  acceptance  of  other   • More  activities  instead  of  technology    
countries,  respect  for  other  religions   • Maintain  FAA    
• Encourage  arbitration  skills,  interpersonal   • 4-­‐H  –  in  school  as  programs  vets    
skills  -­‐  how  to  continue  communication  when  
• H.S>  has  a  good  career  prep/  class  offerings    
others  impose  liability  -­‐  they  want  someone  
to  be  responsible  for  their  problems;  instead   • Let  our  kids  be  kids  
of  collectively  solving  problems  together,  they   • Building  character  is  infinitely  more  important  
sue   that  most  other  things    
• Better  prepare  students  for  work  force  here  in   • Arbitration  skills  –  team  building    
community   • Students  should  be  able  to  help  decide  the  
• Let  our  kids  be  kids   future,  especially  those  who  want  to  make  a  
• Funding:  offer  wide  variety  of  classes,  extend   difference  
“life  &  careers”     • More  well  rounded  programs  like  step  one  
programs    
• Do  not  pressure  students  into  college  
• Classes  /  program  that  focus  more  on  
• Divide  counselors   individual  to  develop  good  and  independence  
• Have  graduates  come  back  and  help   skills    
• Pep  session  for  academics   • Vocational  programs    
• After  school  transportation  for  extra   • We  cannot  change  what  happens  when  
curricular   students  leave  our  building  so  we  must  
• Students  must  be  responsible  for  their   change  what  happens  when  they  are  here  -­‐  
learning   hold  them  accountable  to  make  up  work  and  
• Changing  teaching  style  -­‐  get  away  from   to  earn  credit.    
paper/pencil   • Need  broad  exposure  to  opportunities  
• Provide  opportunities   • Change  view  of  complacency  -­‐  everyone  
• Instilling  in  kids  a  desire  for  excellence  and   involved  
attention  to  detail  and  pride  in  the  work  you   • Tolerance  
do  
• Involvement  
• More  alternative  ed  opportunities  needed  
• Forward-­‐thinking  leaders  
• Overcoming  liability  mentality  with  
arbitration  skills,  conflict  resolution,  teaching   • World  community  
the  strong  value  of  community  living   • For  any  change,  there  has  to  be  a  person  who  
• Teach  ownership  responsibility  instead  of   will  be  dedicated  to  working  the  ideas  
blameshifting  to  divert  -­‐  teaching  liability  101   through  the  rough  patches  to  achieve  
awareness   something  
• Financial  economy  -­‐    opportunities  for  low  
• Teach  pride  in  what  they’re  accomplishing  
income  individuals,  book  prices,  scholarships  
• Support  ideas  that  are  “outside  the  box”  

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 for  many  grades,  shuttle  for  after-­‐school   • Embrace  technology  
activities,  more  cab  services  to  extend  hours,   • 1:1  technology  -­‐  the  time  has  come  
public  transit,  carpools  for  school  or  clubs,  
• Tech    
reward  with  maybe  gas  cards  by  week  or  
• Technology  reaching  into  lines:  need  more  
month  for  attendance  or  grades  
time  out  without  it.  Programs  to  involve  kids    
• World  view  
• Technology    
• Implementing  Strategic  Changes  –  talk  about  
• Licensed  teachers  teaching  technology  class  
it  
at  the  elementary  level  
• Making  sure  our  schools  are  competitive  to  
the  outside   • Rosetta  stone  vs.  real  time  teacher  
• Identifying  where  the  world  is  going   • Orthopedics  
• Slow  down  and  finish  important  changes   • Keeping  the  orthopedics  (not  letting  them  
before  starting  new  changes   leave  Warsaw)  
• We  have  to  change  the  way  we  do  things   • Balance  school  budget  -­‐  have  open  jobs  
• Deal  with  issues  not  jumping  back  and  forth   • Gas  prices/car  pooling  
• Orthopedic  companies  go  down,  diversify  the  
• Demonstrate  quality  -­‐  the  rest  will  come  
industry  business  
• Focus  on  a  couple  key  issues     • Jobs  for  parents  so  that  they  can  focus  on  
• Need  to  be  open  to  change  to  be  successful     their  kids  
• Great  ideas     • We  need  to  maintain  orthopedic  centers  for  
• Passion     jobs  &  taxes  
• Focus     • Orthopedic  Solution  –  open  community  to  
• Suggested  reading  for  admin:  the  life  and   more  diversity  (Asian  –  Indian)  
death  of  the  great  American  school  system   • Alternatives  to  using  gas  –  riding  a  bike,  
(or  something  like  that…  I  can’t  remember  the   walking,  carpool  
exact  life  )   • Unemployment  –  decrease  the  amount  of  $  in  
• Solutions:  keep  technology  updated,  keep   paycheck  instead  of  un-­‐employing  
motivated  to  want  to  go  to  Warsaw,   • Notebooks,  leasing  from  companies,  reducing  
graduation   text  book  rental  fees  
• Partnering  with  businesses  creating  “trusts”  
• Keeping  up  with  technology  
to  future  fund  
• Technology  to  help  with  school  at  home  
• Making  choices  as  to  what  is  most  important  
through  online  class  
to  fund  
• Technology  -­‐  embrace  it   • The  stability  of  orthopedics  -­‐  school  
• Keeping  up  with  technology  -­‐  big  changes  -­‐   corporation  attractive  to  new  companies,  
have  to  keep  the  high  “touch”  with  high  tech   vote  for  legislation  that  will  support  the  ortho  
• Technology  allows  us  to  communicate  in   friendly  taxes,  make  the  community  attractive  
different  ways  spoken  language  -­‐  email   so  people  return  
language  -­‐  texting  language   • Revenue  -­‐  keep  communicating  -­‐  open  doors  -­‐  
• Technology  and  keeping  up:  wireless  town,   get  creative  
technology  classes,  advance  technology,  
• Grow  productivity  -­‐  city  planner,  schools  
keeping  some  of  the  original  things,  one-­‐to-­‐
• Jobs  for  parents  so  that  they  can  focus  on  
one  initiative  
their  kids    
• Keep  up  w/technology  &  Info  
• Jobs  for  grads  who  live  in  Warsaw    
• Technology  Solution  –  make  a  personal  choice  
• Need  to  collaborate  more  with  the  “big”  
to  limit  computer  activity  
companies  
• Use  technology  to  get  the  message  out   • There  are  no  black/white  answers  -­‐  our  
• Better  web  site   students  in  the  gray  area  need  to  be  
• You  tube   accommodating  -­‐  give  the  students  options  -­‐  
• Project  lead  in  computer  programming   different  learning  methods,  textbooks,  rote  
• Infrastructure  that  connects  us  to  the  outside   memory,  kinesthetic  learning,  one-­‐on-­‐one  
world   teacher/tutor  to  student,  online  
• Web  site  update   learning/remediation  -­‐  let’s  give  them  options  
• Give  teachers  more  training  in  technology  -­‐   • Increase  rigor  for  kids  in  the  middle  skill  level  
more  than  an  hour  here  and  there   • Prepare  kids  for  the  upper  levels  of  school  
• Open  computer  labs  to  meet  needs  of  these   • ESL  -­‐  more  Spanish  speaking  classes,  real  
students  who  don’t  have  computer  access   world  English  courses  for  parents  and  
students,  computers  &  technology  to  teach  

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 parents  more  English  to  help  students  and  our   • Embrace  change  -­‐  change  calendar  year-­‐
community   around  school  
• All  Day  Kindergarten  –  space,  economically   • Think  outside  the  box  -­‐  dare  to  be  different  
• Language  of  cultural  differences   (school  hours/schedule)  community  
awareness  of  current  schedule  
• Love  &  learning  program  
• Balanced  calendar  vs.  family  impact  and  
• Step  One  program   challenge  community  change  
• Language  –  music   • Later  start  time  for  high  school  
• Variety  of  curriculum   • Year  round  school    
• Rosetta  Stone  great  tool  for  assisting  
• 5  block    -­‐  last  block  used  for  exam  –  curricular  
language  
• The  value  of  the  segregation  of  church  and  
• Meet  needs  of  all  students  by  non-­‐traditional  
state  
methods  
• Tracking  -­‐  specialized  so  that  we  lead   • Technology  
students  toward  their  passions   • Greenway  gets  finished  
• Utilizing  the  information  learned  from  the    
incessant  testing  
• More  online  instruction  guides  for  different  
languages  
• Keep  the  ag,  fine  arts  and  specialized  classes  -­‐  
balance  
• Career  choices  
• Transportation  -­‐  allow  for  extra  time  (after  
school  remediation)  
• Resources  to  back  up  and  support  initiatives  
• Volleyball  
• Music    
• Art    
• Teach  to  all  learning  types  auditory,  sensory,  
kinesthetic  
• More  science  in  the  elementary  grades  
• Teach  kid  how  to  speak  Spanish    
• Teach  kid  how  to  speak  Chinese  and  French    
• Life  education    
• Increase  education  and  programs    
• Great  Ag.  Classes    
• Writing  skills    
• Agriculture    
• Increase  the  rigor  and  tell  the  story    
• Education    
• More  attractive  classes  
• Foreign  languages  earlier  
• We  need  to  offer  more  science  in  younger  
grades  and  access  the  orthopedic  companies  
for  more  help  in  our  schools  
• Early  childhood  education  should  be  provided  
for  all  to  help  our  drop-­‐out  rate,  literacy  rate  -­‐  
taxes,  grants  
• Well  balanced  calendar  
• Longer  class  time,  trimesters  vs.  semesters,  
have  a  plan  for  all  students  
• Balanced  school  day/schedule  -­‐  need  more  
time  in  classroom  but  need  to  make  sure  
kids/teachers  have  time  away  so  they  can  be  
productive  in  class  

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