Craig Hockenberry: Parent Advisory to the Superintendent
Craig Hockenberry: Parent Advisory to the Superintendent
When you want to hear the truth about decision being
made at the District level create
a Parent Advisory to the Superintendent. Allow me to explain…
I was sick and tired of constantly hearing about
Facebook posts regarding decisions we made at Three Rivers. I had
one board member who every time a post was made by one person she would screen shot it and send it to all the other
board members and that became discuss.
This behavior constantly took the conversation away from student
achievement which is place we did not want to be.
One person, one post, no likes, and in some cases the
person was even a convicted felon, but I took the high road and led through
issues such as these by creating the Parent Advisory to the
Superintendent.
We had each principal, key staff member, and community
leaders give me the names of the most outspoken both positive and those that
challenged us people. I took those names
and personally reached out to all of them and ask them to serve on an advisory
group where they would be advising me and other top administrators on several
key decisions for the district. The
first meeting was held on January of 2018 and the committee was packed with
over 30 parents. I created an agenda for
the first one, but after that the agendas were created by the parents.
We got authentic feedback from every topic you could
image including snow days, open houses, parent teacher conferences, and
instructional topics. The advisory group
also became strong supporters and we used them to drive many decisions and help
us advocate for our district. Every time
Mr. Conflicted felon or our special board member would screen shot or post
something we would hand it over to our parent advisory and in many cases they
provided us the much needed support so we could to the important work of the
district.
By Craig Hockenberry
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