The Camp Verde Unified School District is working on a comprehensive plan that Superintendent Dennis Goodwin hopes will help guide the district into the future.
“We’re just getting started,” Goodwin said.
The process was described as an “environmental scan” of the district.
The goal is to maintain a strategy of continuous school district improvement.
This will involve looking at absolutely everything, Goodwin said, from buildings to classroom instruction.
“We’re looking at everything from the bottom up,” Goodwin said. “The first thing we have to do is figure out where we’re at right now.”
The district’s governing board held a first meeting on the subject last week.
It involved board members, employees and others in a larger committee to start analyzing and brainstorming.
Goodwin said one of the goals is to see what is currently working when it comes to how the district operates and what could possibly work better.
Part of that process involves breaking out into smaller groups to come up with different ideas and strategies to then share with the committee as a whole.
The initial focus was on “district culture and organization,” according to a report from the district office.
The participants in the Aug. 25 meeting talked about what new ideas in education they had seen, how things being practiced in the district are going, and practices that now seem less relevant and useful.
To read the full story, see the Wednesday, Sept. 2, edition of The Camp Verde Journal.
