I read with great interest the article on the ASCD blog - "Reform at the Expense of Relationships" (http://ascd.typepad.com/blog/2009/05/reform-at-the-expense-of-relationships.html). This was very timely due to the fact that the MS faculty has been busy meeting in various committees to propose some changes to procedures within the MS for next year. We have been working on our Academic Integrity procedures, Co-curricular Eligibility procedures, Language Use procedures, Discipline procedures, and Tech procedures as well. These procedures all directly affect the students and their daily lives at GSIS, but how much input have the students (and parents) had in the development and review of these procedures. The disappointing answer at this stage is 'none'.
One of goals must be to move from a scenario of administrators and teachers adminstering policy and procedure 'to' students, to one where we collectively create a culture of administrators, teachers, students, and parents working together to uphold the school policies. We can take a giant forward leap in this direction by including ideas and suggestions from all stakeholders; a process that we hope to begin in the early part of the 09/10 academic year.
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