Updates on the Fight for Quality Public Education in Brevard County, FL
0:00 Thank you.
20:29 this year’s update.
20:32 examples
20:34 leverage existing the goal the the the objective was leverage
20:39 existing and new
20:40 communication platforms to raise the visibility to promote the
20:44 good work of
20:45 the district our people programs and process
20:51 the input based on that gallery walk was this will include a
20:56 professional
20:56 development session on social media for schools and ESF division
21:02 another
21:03 example the objective was revised deploy and analyze they an
21:07 exit survey data
21:09 quarterly the feedback given on the sticky note mentioned do
21:16 schools get
21:16 survey feedback an exit interview data be shared with principal
21:21 now I would assume
21:23 once we get to this part this upcoming year this input will be
21:27 vital as we move
21:28 forward within our strategic plan in addition to the stickers
21:33 inventory for
21:34 more organizational surveys were also considered by the district
21:38 goal team for
21:38 alignment and use with objectives and strategies
21:44 another example would be revised budgets to provide funding for
21:51 specific
21:52 certification such as such as SHRM and that stands for society
21:58 for human
21:59 resource resources management secretarial accounting and rethink
22:04 tuition
22:04 reimbursement not only to allow for coursework but also for
22:10 certification
22:12 the feedback we received from the sticky note was a hundred
22:15 percent of support
22:16 support employees will respond agree or strongly agree to survey
22:21 questions regarding knowledge of
22:23 understanding of and utilization of tuition certification
22:29 reimbursement by 2025
22:31 another example would be established baseline key performance
22:37 indicators for facility maintenance monitor progress and
22:42 established targets for improvement
22:45 that feedback was monitor for increased progress percentage on TNTP
22:52 Insight leaders survey 2022 question where 53% of the leaders
22:52 agreed and
22:52 key performance indicators excuse me for classroom condition and
22:57 campus aesthetics monitor progress
23:00 and establish targets for improvement that feedback was monitor
23:04 for increased progress
23:07 percentage on tntp insight leaders survey 2022 question where 53
23:12 of the leaders agreed
23:14 that service provided by the facilities and maintenance
23:18 departments are well managed by
23:21 school year 2024 as you can see the year-long work of progress
23:30 reports year-end assessment
23:33 community principal and staff input and retreats culminate into
23:39 the draft version of the bps strategic
23:42 plan for the following year you have been provided with copies
23:46 of the draft strategic plan school year
23:50 2022-23 year four of our five-year plan our bps vision mission
23:57 and values and beliefs have remained
24:01 constant from year one our our four goals academic excellence
24:06 exceptional workforce community connection
24:11 and operational sustainability remain the same and continue to
24:16 be measured by the benchmark
24:18 kindergarten readiness algebra one success third grade literacy
24:25 grad rate and college and career
24:29 acceleration the year four revision includes 17 objectives
24:34 measured by performance indicators and 67
24:39 we are ready to post and communicate the bps strategic plan for
24:53 school year 2022-23 year four on the bps home page at your
24:59 approval
24:59 we will continue to infuse community principal and staff input
25:04 as it is gathered we will begin planning
25:08 to do the big picture review next year to have the strategic
25:12 plan school year 2025
25:14 to 2030 ready to go on july 2025
25:23 any questions board members have questions for mr wilson
25:28 say thank you a lot of work right i know i just want to say
25:36 thank you it’s a lot of work that all the
25:39 teams and all departments do and and stretch for and i
25:43 appreciate it i think we’re our goals are
25:47 really focused on where we need to be at this point thank you
25:50 thank you i’ll just say good job on your
25:55 first we were we were nice well we’re not done yet but i’m
25:59 assuming mr susan that we’re going to be nice to
26:01 you mr wilson in your first workshop presentation um i was
26:05 actually thinking you you talked about
26:08 you know the next one because i it was blows my mind that i’m
26:12 like oh my gosh we’re almost to the end of
26:14 the one and i was here when it started so um that’s pretty
26:17 amazing you know and we we’ve said this
26:21 before in an update on the strategic plan or maybe we said it
26:24 when we did the dr mullen’s evaluation
26:26 that you know in the middle of this five-year strategic plan we
26:30 had a global pandemic
26:32 and yet you guys have continued to work through and continue we
26:36 didn’t set any of these objectives
26:38 aside and say you know what we’re doing with a global pandemic
26:40 so everybody will understand that
26:41 we’re gonna just pull back a little bit on the efforts of this
26:44 objective or that objective i know
26:45 some of the objectives you talked about roadblocks there were
26:48 big roadblocks in the way and we may
26:49 not have been able to but nobody took their foot off the
26:51 accelerator so i appreciate that i was actually
26:53 just peeking at some of the benchmark data and you know clearly
26:57 the pandemic took a took its toll but i was
27:00 looking back at the i think it’s the algebra one data is like a
27:05 huge smiley face yeah dr silva’s doing
27:09 happy dance back there a huge smiley face and that was something
27:13 you know that that is an equity issue
27:17 that is you know i mean just math taking the hits through all
27:21 the years i mean that is something to
27:23 rejoice and we took a little bit of a risk to say you know what
27:26 we’re going to push more students into
27:28 take an algebra one in middle school and but it’s clearly paid
27:32 off so um i just you know i got a
27:35 highlight where we where we have family faces in there so good
27:39 work team and good work thank you
27:41 so thank you so much this is what we had put together and um you
28:00 know what i mean thank you dr mullins and
28:02 and um everybody for executing it and everything else and um you
28:07 know some good good information in there
28:09 and one of the things i was going to mention is is that you had
28:12 said it right there that there was
28:13 a global pandemic in the middle of this and also um we’ve you
28:18 know constantly adjusted and done
28:21 different things um we have possibly well we will have two more
28:25 board members that come on here in november
28:28 um i didn’t know if there’s an opportunity for us to have
28:31 discussion wrapped around this with them to bring them not only
28:34 up to speed to see if they want to input anything into it in
28:36 november
28:36 does that make sense to you um i know this is a four-year plan i
28:42 know there needs to be continuing but
28:44 sometimes there’s an opportunity for um them to have a voice too
28:48 and one of the things that i know when i got elected
28:50 one of the things that was so difficult was hearing well that’s
28:55 already in the plan so next year you’ll be
28:57 able to come up and we’ll be able to give it to you so i would
29:00 say um i don’t know if we can put together a
29:02 strategic plan um and maybe a budget workshop with them as a
29:07 group so that we could go over this stuff
29:10 and talk about it because sometimes it meeting with staff is
29:14 great but if i’m a new board member
29:16 and i come in and i speak directly to you
29:18 you don’t know sometimes like when we’re there to tell them here’s
29:21 why this is the way it is
29:22 and what we had and the parents that we talked to in the town
29:25 halls that we went through and all that stuff so
29:28 um i don’t know uh miss belford if there’s a way to agenda a
29:32 couple of meetings up in november or
29:35 december um who i would need to talk to about that but i was
29:37 thinking that that would be appropriate for
29:39 some of the people coming in that’s all or december include a
29:45 segment of it in our retreat that we
29:47 usually have with staff with cabinet in december that’s true
29:51 either way um and maybe that’s part
29:54 of the conversation in december is is uh when they come on you
29:57 know go over these things that are top
29:59 level because it takes a while it’s like drinking through a
30:01 garden house for the first six months right
30:04 but if there are some things that they wanted to add or do or
30:07 change then have that discussion then
30:09 rather than in march and have to wait till the next year so um
30:13 if we do get together in december
30:15 maybe that’s the appropriate time and i didn’t know if there’s
30:18 an opportunity do we who do we talk
30:20 to does that need board direction you know what i mean like i
30:23 don’t know i just would rather because
30:25 i know it has to get noticed i know that it has to be there so
30:28 if we can just make a general notice
30:30 and everything’s open and the three board members that are here
30:33 um would say you know what i mean maybe
30:35 that’s the the angle i don’t know i’m just trying to throw it
30:38 out there just
30:39 just want to miss manager if i could the only thing i would say
30:43 is that this document really
30:44 while we certainly had the opportunity to have input because dr
30:49 mullins has included us so many
30:50 times in our one-on-ones here’s this and as well as presenting
30:54 it to us all together this document is
30:56 really owned by the in my mind by the superintendent and this is
30:59 the way that he implements and gets
31:03 accomplished the job that we have tasked him with and so this is
31:07 his strategic plan with his you know
31:10 the objectives and the strategies and the metrics for him to
31:14 accomplish what we have laid at his feet
31:17 and say mr superintendent get this done so he owns this more
31:21 than the board in that way so we certainly
31:25 have our input but i don’t know that it would be that even if we
31:28 have new new board members it’s a matter
31:29 of us coming out we’re going to change the strategic plan
31:32 because he owns the strategic plan more than
31:34 the board does um he gets his direction from us though you said
31:38 it a couple times so i would say
31:40 that in the event that there’s something inside the strategic
31:42 plan that they might want to talk about
31:44 i think we give them the opportunity i think one of the things
31:47 that we always talked about and i think
31:48 miss jenkins even mentioned it when she came on was that there’s
31:52 this felt like there was this difficult
31:54 hurdle to get over the top and i was just thinking that that
31:56 might be nice for that’s all so if you
31:58 don’t have any if there’s no objection to it i’d like to add
32:01 this and the budget to that retreat
32:03 would be nice that’s all so i’m just going to jump in as someone
32:07 who is one of the newest board members
32:10 here uh when i went through my orientation process the staff did
32:14 a tremendous job during that orientation
32:17 process to present the strategic plan to me as well as any
32:20 questions i may have about the budget
32:22 and when they are sworn as as board members they have the right
32:25 to talk about anything they want
32:26 to at any point um i mean i just i don’t really know if we
32:31 really need to sit down and have a formal
32:33 meaning to go over the strategic plan with those board members
32:36 when i talked about having an issue being
32:38 welcomed and oriented it wasn’t because the top level
32:43 information wasn’t presented to me or presented
32:44 correctly it was a little bit deeper than that so those are the
32:49 things that i think that new board
32:51 members need help with it’s not getting the information and
32:54 representing the information that’s at the top
32:56 it’s the little nuances that go on i think that’s where we need
32:59 to work on doing a little bit better
33:01 job of orienting them so i would appreciate that but one of the
33:04 things is is that the board collectively
33:06 puts together the direction of the strategic plan if there is a
33:09 new board members the worst thing that we
33:11 could do is individually go meet with the superintendent and
33:14 then say five different people or two more
33:16 people going against it’s better to be inside the room having
33:19 everybody have that conversation so if
33:22 say board member number one walks into dr mullins and says well
33:24 you know what i hate this thing right
33:26 here and i don’t like it this is us and our direction towards
33:29 the student towards the staff where does that
33:32 go do you have to then have a meeting to discuss it it it needs
33:37 to be together in a group so that’s my
33:40 feeling and if miss campbell if you support putting it on there
33:43 then we can do that it doesn’t sound
33:45 like miss jenkins has any want to do it well i again i just i
33:49 hear what you’re saying but i also
33:51 i’m thinking okay this is a bit a document that’s already been
33:54 in place now for several years and if in
33:57 one foul swoop in a board meeting we’re actually going to make i
34:03 just i mean yap or this this is
34:07 their this is what everybody in our organization is geared
34:10 towards these benchmarks these goals
34:13 and i think it would take more than one meeting um you know
34:18 direction yes um but i don’t know
34:23 i don’t know i’m gonna think about it but we’ve got time for december
34:26 to develop that agenda um
34:29 you know certainly willing for my suggestion was that we have in
34:34 december we have on we have usually
34:36 have multiple topics on that retreat hey can we have a segment
34:39 be about the strategic plan
34:41 absolutely that i suggested it and i would be in favor of so you
34:45 are in favor of making the strategic
34:48 plan in the budget as part of the conversation for the first um
34:52 retreat that we have in december
34:54 the budget would probably be a little early for new people to be
34:59 tackling but i mean they certainly
34:59 are tackling on their own i know dr mullins has said he’s met
35:02 with one new uh board member elect already
35:05 and uh you know i know miss jenkins said years ago i did too i
35:08 only had a couple weeks to get myself ready
35:10 but you know miss jenkins had a few months and was able to
35:14 tackle that so um but yeah i mean as a part
35:17 of it uh to like an introduction to me i just my idea an
35:20 introduction to the strategic plan i think that
35:25 would be a good and if they have anything that they would like
35:28 to amend or move and to see if there’s a
35:30 majority of that how would that go about or are you proposing
35:33 that they’re not able to do that and
35:35 that they should do that at any meeting i was asking miss campbell
35:38 i was asking so you’re saying
35:40 all due respect we’re speaking as a board so it’s appropriate
35:43 for me as a school board member to turn
35:45 around at a school board meeting and turn around and say i want
35:48 to change the strategic plan in this
35:49 meeting prior to any discussions with the board as general bring
35:53 it out you think that that’s a better
35:54 proposal rather than us discussing it in a relaxed setting and
35:57 talking about the reason that some of
35:59 this stuff is here i mean i look at both of them a little bit
36:02 differently that’s all and i think that
36:04 that would be instead of bringing it up at the school board
36:07 meeting i think it’s better in that
36:08 environment if someone has a concern that they want to address
36:10 or an opinion of something that
36:12 they want to bring up and they don’t want to bring it up at a
36:14 board meeting then they can call for a
36:15 special meeting you don’t preemptively want to discuss the
36:18 strategic plan if we don’t know that
36:20 there’s an issue with it it doesn’t make any sense as a board
36:23 member they can talk about anything
36:24 they want at any time the most important things we do as a board
36:28 is we adopt a budget and we set the
36:30 strategic direction of the district those two things are the
36:33 paramount of what our school board members
36:35 do i would say it behooves us in the first meeting that we get
36:38 together in a relaxed setting to talk
36:40 about direction but if i don’t have a majority of the board then
36:43 that’s what it is i’m making a
36:45 motion to put it in there do i have a second over there or
36:48 support from you miss campbell you can’t
36:49 make a motion i understand do i have support miss campbell to do
36:53 this so if i may interject whoever
36:56 the board chair is in november typically works with the board on
36:59 establishing the agenda for
37:01 the december meeting and mr susan what you are attempting to um
37:05 get support on is lacking
37:07 two other board members that will be a part of that conversation
37:11 in november determining what the
37:13 it’s true agenda will be for the retreat in december so i would
37:17 suggest that while i appreciate where
37:19 you’re coming from that needs to be a conversation that is had
37:23 in november when you have a new chair
37:26 and the chair is working with the peers to establish the agenda
37:31 for the retreat and i totally understand
37:32 it’s a great point miss belford to put up um paul is there do we
37:36 have to notice an agenda
37:39 for the december retreat prior to the november 22nd meeting or
37:43 can we just notice a retreat and then
37:46 we can fill in the agenda when we get there you gotta have the
37:49 agenda roughly seven days before the
37:51 retreat so as long as you have seven days you’re okay that’s
37:54 beautiful perfect that solves a great
37:56 thing good job miss belford thank you anyone else for mr wilson
38:01 uh mr wilson congratulations on your
38:05 first presentation before the board we are very happy to have
38:09 you on the team and doing the critically
38:11 important work of of leading the work of the strategic plan and
38:14 i will just say you know for for those
38:17 of you that have not done a lot of work around strategic plan
38:20 and other organizations i am so incredibly
38:24 proud of our team and and the work that has been done on this
38:27 strategic plan because um as miss campbell
38:31 mentioned you know there’s been a lot that could have taken our
38:34 focus away from the priorities that
38:36 were established um and as a team we have maintained our focus
38:40 on the strategic plan and part of that is
38:42 because of the critical steps that have been put in place to
38:45 keep this a living breathing document that
38:48 is in front of us all the time in many organizations they adopt
38:51 a strategic plan the five-year plan they
38:54 adopt it they put it on a shelf they never look at it again they
38:57 completely forget what those priorities are
38:59 um and and that’s quite common in the corporate world so just
39:04 super proud and i know dr mullins this
39:06 started with you back when you were ceo um and establishing the
39:10 framework and certainly has evolved
39:12 and and put in additional um i will say checkpoints along the
39:16 way to ensure that we’re we’re keeping it
39:19 front and center and keeping not only us at the leadership level
39:22 but really our entire team focused on
39:24 what really matters most to the district so i thank all of you
39:26 for your work on that thank you one last
39:30 comment i don’t see uh this strategic plan at bps being put on
39:34 the shelf and being forgot about
39:36 because of this young lady right here she will absolutely not
39:39 allow anyone in this facility to
39:41 forget about the importance and the work of the strategic plan
39:45 so i want to give her some kudos and say
39:47 thank you cynthia ran for helping me to prepare for this
39:50 presentation and thank you for all of your work
39:53 throughout the years on the strategic plan it is it is truly
39:56 critically important that we appreciate you
39:59 all right before we before we close up for this meeting can i
40:03 please say something
40:05 i’m going to make it really clear i’m an equal member of this
40:09 board
40:10 and i’m not going to be quiet when somebody talks over me
40:13 continuously as well
40:14 that was a discussion we were having as a board and i have every
40:18 right to have a differing opinion
40:20 thank you absolutely nobody’s okay sure all right anything else
40:28 for this meeting
40:32 there being no further business this meeting is adjourned
40:45 you
41:02 We’ll see you next time.