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Survey: Norwood-Norfolk board members value preparing students for futures through education, skills

Posted 1/22/21

BY MATT LINDSEY North Country This Week NORWOOD — Data from a ThoughtExchange program survey shows that board members mostly value preparing students for future careers through education or …

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Survey: Norwood-Norfolk board members value preparing students for futures through education, skills

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BY MATT LINDSEY
North Country This Week

NORWOOD — Data from a ThoughtExchange program survey shows that board members mostly value preparing students for future careers through education or learning skills.

The program was used as a way to find commonality within the board as they tackle the budget and other issues facing the school. ThoughtExchange program allowing board members to give anonymous feedback

The district held its January board meeting Tuesday and St. Lawrence-Lewis BOCES Director of Communications and Marketing Rebekah Mott shared the results of the survey with board members.

Some of the highest rated thoughts from members included academics, quality of education, athletics and keeping the community apprised of school news.

“What we found in this ThoughtExchange is that actually you all agree with each other very much, there really wasn’t enough data on the disagreements to generate that graph,” Mott said. “So that’s a good sign to me that you’re all really on the same page. You all fundamentally agree with each other about what’s important.”

Cruikshank asked Mott her thoughts on how the survey went in comparison to others Mott has done for other schools.

“I think we definitely could have had more to work with if there was more thoughts shared,” she said.

Mott suggested opening the question up to the community to see if their values are in the line with the school board and to expand on the current data.