Wayne. We decided to go with small steps at first. We already have advisory groups that only meet once or twice a year. We’d like to get reconnected with those kids. We’d like to start meeting monthly. We need a committee to get together to come up with topics. We’d like to bring people in from the community.
We also chose innovative assessment. We want to get the staff resources so they could do this. We want to target getting it to them by November and then in the next semester try something new. We’ll have the results given to our principal and see where to go next.

Pender. We decided on the PEP also. This affects so many other areas. We’re counting on our ESU to help us.
We would like to have help in communicating with our staff.
We’d like to have the staff set priorities. We could set up our mentor program in January. We’d like to have parent teacher conference and have something in place then the staff can meet with those parents. In April or May, we want to see what it could like in the coming year.


Logan View. We want to implement an advisory period with our learning communities. We listed our brainstorming for these topics, such as teambuilding, social issues and current events. We’d like to present this to the staff and get their input. We want to find out what other schools are doing.
Next spring we’d work on the staff development. We’d like to implement this by next year and evaluate on a quarterly basis to make sure we’re on the right track. We want to involve the students, parents and the community.

Lakeview.
We’re going to take something back to talk to our staff. We have a home room right now which is not structured. We’d like to take advantage of some of that time and take advantage of the student-advisor relationship.
We’d like to set up coffees for the parents. We also want to have all of our teachers do some classroom innovations, such as having them be facilitators instead of lecturers. I’ve already gotten good support from our administrator. We will also celebrate our teachers for just trying, regardless of whether the experiment is successful or not.
West Boyd. We want to have a personal learning plan. In a small school we have the luxury of every teacher knowing every student in the school. We want to make sure the members of the community are involved and the relationships with that are improved.
With the facilitated learning we have an exciting opportunity for teaching of being not just lecturers but facilitators. With staff development we hope to get everyone to buy in to the idea.
We want to focus on the PEPs and we need to integrate it with our entire staff. We want to get the staff comfortable with the programs. 
District Plans (in order of report out): Seward | Valentine | Norfolk | Madison | Elkhorn Valley | West Boyd | Leigh | Howells | Boone Central | Lakeview | Logan View | Fremont | South Sioux City | Wayne | Pender | Emerson Hubbard | Wakefield | Columbus | Wahoo | ESUs, Higher Learning, and State |
Norfolk.
We picked 3 of the 9. We want all our teachers to interview the students.
We can do some of the kinds of process we did here and we want to talk about all kids.
We have an advisor program that we have once a week. We used to have the every day home room so we will consider that but also we want to have mentors and consider having the students choose them.
