Falls Church City School Board
The 2010-2011 FCCPS School Board
(l to r) Dr. Lois Berlin, Superintendent, Charlotte Hyland, Susan Kearney, Joan Wodiska, chairman, Patrick Riccards, vice-chairman, Kieran Sharpe, Rosaura Aguerrebere and Greg Rasnake
The Falls Church City School Board is comprised of seven members who serve four-year terms.
The board's primary responsibilities are:
Code of Civility
On July 1, 2010, the Falls Church City Public School Board unanimously adopted and signed a Code of Civility as a standard to guide the school board members in interactions with each
other and with the community.
The 2010 - 2011 Work Plan
Provide every student with a rigorous, world-class education
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Evaluate 2010 student goals; set new goals for 2011 to ensure that every student has at least a year’s worth of growth for a year of school; hold district accountable for results; and where necessary develop improvement plans (insert specific data here on student achievement)
- Finalize and use a data system to track individual student’s academic progress by January 2011 (and ensure transparency and access of information for parents)
- Use data driven decision making to empower School Board, Superintendent, principals and staff to provide proactive and timely focused evidence based remediation to support student learning
- Complete application process, frequently monitor, including quarterly reports to the SB, and make the necessary adjustments to finalize implementation of PYP by Fall 2011.
- Assess value of MYP program for our overall educational objectives, and the options the IBO will allow FCCPS to engage in to have a successful implementation of the program.
- Develop e-learning and dual enrollment opportunities for high school students to promote rigor and relevance by Spring 2011 budget process; first offerings to be widely available to all students in Summer 2011.
- Research and evaluate use of existing school time and develop School Board statement to reflect consensus of the board to extend learning time.
- Receive and review report from Director of Special Education and Student Services
Develop a responsible budget to ensure the independence and ongoing excellence in our schools
- Sustain our community’s commitment to educational excellence and continue practice to keep budget cuts away from the classroom and ensure that all classes of employees are treated fairly, while looking for greater efficiencies and savings with the City
- Conduct work in a transparent manner that engages all stakeholders
- Continue to foster solid working relationship with City Council and City Staff
- Create a unified City/School Board budget calendar
- Review, evaluate, and refocus investments to support high expectations for staff, students, and ensure that struggling students are provided with more time to improve learning
- Develop a multi-year funding formula to stabilize funding for operations and capital needs and obtain commitment from City Council for formula
- Devise legislative plan to support budget needs and lessen financial pressures on district
Ensure high-quality school buildings capable for supporting educational goals and meeting growing student population
- Finalize a long-term facilities plan by January 2011
- Continue to work with City Council and the Planning Commission to explore cost effective options to meet growing long-term school facility needs and significantly reform and improve the CIP process
- Evaluate the feasibility, funding instruments, and sites to address school facility needs, in collaboration with City Council
- All policies related to facilities are reviewed and revised as necessary
Promote Effective School Board Governance
- Create, sign, and embody a Civility Code of Conduct
- Ensure that every school board member obtains professional development to build board capacity and support continuous learning and innovation
- Consider applying for the NSBA Magna School Board Award and VSBA Board of Excellence Awards
- Agree upon process to evaluate school board’s performance on work plan and develop loop for continuous improvement and learning
- Develop, in consultation with community and staff, plan to write a new district wide strategic plan
- Clean up, organize, and memorialize School Board practice in policy and bylaws
Improve Board’s communication with community
- Develop and implement communications plan to foster community engagement and awareness at the “grassroots” and “water cooler” level on all matters in this work plan by September 2010
- Promote awareness about the district’s successes through district’s new website, including but not limited to IB, students acceptance to college, sport’s titles, school meal program, and high school graduation rate
- All vacancies on advisory boards and committees are filled
- All policies related to communications are reviewed and revised as necessary
Modernize human capital policies to link teacher and administrator evaluations to student performance
- Keep apprised of VDOE Panel to develop new teacher and administrator evaluation linked to student performance.
- Receive report on the effectiveness of the current teacher/administrator evaluation instrument to link teacher and administrator evaluations to student performance, how evaluations reflect “teamwork” to support student goals, and how evaluations are used as a tool to support teacher/administrator and student learning.
- As necessary in light of reports, revise policies to support student learning.
*All deadlines are December 31, 2011 unless otherwise noted. |
Contact Us
Falls Church City School Board
Ms. Marty Gadell, Deputy Clerk
800 West Broad Street
Suite 203
Falls Church, VA 22046
(703) 248-5601
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