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Are You D oing it for the Discount ? Improving the Way Your Community Views Your School

Are You D oing it for the Discount ? Improving the Way Your Community Views Your School. Martin Booysen. Isaiah 55:8-9

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Are You D oing it for the Discount ? Improving the Way Your Community Views Your School

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  1. Are You Doing it for the Discount? Improving the Way Your Community Views Your School Martin Booysen

  2. Isaiah 55:8-9 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and My thoughts higher than your thoughts.”

  3. IMPROVING THE WAY YOU VIEW YOUR COMMUNITY may result in IMPROVING THE WAY YOUR COMMUNITY VIEWS YOUR SCHOOL

  4. The Composition of Community Education Fraternal (surrounding schools’ principals & educators, DoE officials, district offices) Churches(various denominations) Cooperate World (businesses)

  5. The Composition of Community Senior Citizen (grandmas & grandpas) Parents(especially first time parents) Young People (your child’s peers in neighbouring schools) General Public (silent observers)

  6. HAVE THEIR OWN POINT OF REFERENCE • ARE EXPERTS IN THEIR OWN RIGHT – OFTEN IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION • ALL HAVE CERTAIN PERCEIVED SOCIAL STATUS

  7. Expectations of Your Community • Education Fraternal • Speak a language that we understand • Need more interaction • Churches • We need to fight the same battle (against evil forces) • Be a school not a church • Corporate World • Reform communities • Be innovative

  8. Expectations of Your Community • Senior Citizens • Prejudices of a previous generation • Parents • Extremely critical • School will take care of my child’s holistic education • Misplaced expectancy of teach competency

  9. Expectations of Your Community • Young People • A school that rocks • Cool kids • Fun stuff • General Public • No school is a real school unless it “looks real”

  10. How?

  11. How? • GODLY MANAGEMENT • Personal relationship with God • Godly character • Concerned more about sound relationship than strict rules • Read people before you lead people

  12. How? • SCHOOL POLICIES & PRACTICES • Align school policies with national & provincial legislation • SA Schools Act (Act 84 of 1996) • Latest Provincial Legislation (WCED – Government Gazette 6919 of 4 Nov. 2011 • School domestic practises • Public appearances

  13. How? • COMPETENT TEACHING AND EFFECTIVE LEARNING • Focussed on central tasks of TEACHING, LEARNING AND MANAGEMENT • Tasks carried of with COMPETENCE AND CONFIDENCE • Mindset that supports WORK ETHICS, EXPECTED ACHIEVEMENTS and ACKNOWLEDGE SUCCESS. • Strong internal ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEMS

  14. How? • EXCELLENT STUDENT OUTCOMES • Moral and • Academic High Quality

  15. TRANSFORM or simply a COPE? • COMPLEMENT or COMPLICATE efforts? • Keep on TALKING or START ACTING?

  16. Are You Doing it for the Discount? Improving the Way Your Community Views Your School Martin Booysen

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