LONG RANGE PLAN STEERING COMMITTEE
 
Deerfield High School
Function, Composition, and Systematic Structure

Functions: 

• To guide and monitor the accomplishment of the Long-Range Plan building initiatives.
• To serve as a sounding board for the subcommittees working to plan and implement the Long-Range Plan building and/or district initiatives.
• To ensure that via a diverse committee membership (staff, parents, and students), that all constituencies are involved in the Long-Range Planning process.
• To monitor the collection of data relating to the Long-Range Plan building initiatives.
• To serve as a liaison to the departments and school, thereby ensuring that others know of the process and progress of the building initiatives.
• To maintain an understanding of the “big picture” and how the various building initiatives interface with one another.
• To simultaneously serve as our NCA Steering Committee.
• To communicate progress on the building initiatives with Highland Park.

Composition:

• Departmental representation—one member per department
• Two co-chairs
• 4 parent members, one per grade level
• 4 student members, one per grade level
• A school administrator

Systematic Structure:

• The Long-Range Plan Steering Committee will meet with the building initiative subcommittees. In those meetings, the objective is to discuss the process and progress of each initiative being undertaken. The Long-Range Plan Steering Committee will listen, record data, and ask appropriate questions so that the initiative subcommittee can benefit from an insider/outsider perspective.

• The Long-Range Plan Steering Committee will expect that each subcommittee comes to the discussion having prepared responses to the following core questions:

  • What is the current status of your initiative?

  • What is your vision of the end point or the ultimate level of success for your initiative?

  • How does your work with initiative X reflect the sub-points of Guiding Principle(s) one and two?

  • How could your work with initiative X more effectively reflect Guiding Principle one and two?

  • What is your current understanding of the steps necessary to achieve the desired outcome?

  • What resources or additional support do you need?

  • What student data do you have that demonstrates that initiative X is benefiting students and enhancing their ability to learn?

• The Long-Range Plan Steering Committee will seek to meet with each active building initiative subcommittee over the course of the year. The meetings would take place approximately once per quarter and each subcommittee would meet with the Long-Range Plan Steering Committee for 3 class periods. Therefore, the Long-Range Plan Steering Committee members would plan to miss class one full day per quarter. In addition, the Long-Range Plan Steering Committee may need to meet prior to these joint meetings in order to prepare for the conversation.

• The Long-Range Plan Steering Committee representatives will also serve as the liaison for one of the subcommittee initiatives. The LRP representative need not attend the subcommittee meetings; however the representative should receive the minutes and will stay connected informally with the committee chairs.

• The initiatives which will likely come to the Long-Range Plan Steering Committee this year might include:  Technology Literacy, Attendance, Career Opportunities/Senior Experience, First Class, Dialogue Groups, Integration of Curriculum and Time in the School Day.

• The District Learning Team, the DLT, will manage and report on the progress of the District Long-Range Plan initiatives.

• The Long-Range Plan Steering Committee will expect that each subcommittee comes to the discussion having prepared responses to the following core questions:

  • What is the current status of your initiative?

  • What is your vision of the end point or the ultimate level of success for your initiative?

  • How does your work with FIRST CLASS reflect the sub-points of Guiding Principle one?

  • How could your work with FIRST CLASS more effectively reflect Guiding Principle one?

  • What is your current understanding of the steps necessary to achieve the desired outcome?

  • What resources or additional support do you need?

  • What data do you have that demonstrates that FIRST CLASS is benefiting students and staff and enhancing their ability to develop and sustain healthy relationships and create caring communities?

Committee:

Minutes & Notes:

• Meeting Summary Notes - April 17, 2001

• Meeting Summary Notes - October 22,2001

• Meeting Summary Notes - November 12, 2001

• Meeting Summary Notes - March 14, 2002

• Meeting Summary Notes - April 18, 2002

• Meeting Summary Notes - November 7, 2002

• Meeting Notes - December 12, 2003

• Meeting Notes - April 16, 2004

page last updated 04/29/2004