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Strategic Planning Meeting Pittsburgh, PA 11/15-16/01 Sue Martin Facilitator

This document provides the facilitator's notes from a strategic planning meeting held in Pittsburgh on November 15. It includes a summary of accomplishments, current program activities to be addressed, issues to be resolved, and next steps for the organization.

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Strategic Planning Meeting Pittsburgh, PA 11/15-16/01 Sue Martin Facilitator

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  1. Strategic Planning Meeting Pittsburgh, PA 11/15-16/01 Sue Martin Facilitator Notes from November 15

  2. Accomplishments • National collaboration – a first • People receiving recognition for their work • Trying and learning new methods/technologies • National communication mechanism in place • Presence on the Web • Goals met: • Overcome the isolation of faculty and teachers of the deaf/hh • Bridging the gap (participant evaluation; product assessment; surveys)

  3. Current program activities to be addressed • Cybermentors • Tracking system • Student product evaluations • Faculty choice submissions

  4. What’s already being done, and what would require additional resources/staff Downsize the scope of the program to allow success; tiered approach Intensify the focus on successful projects Provide enticements so that participation and continuation are highly desirable Need sense of closure on current phase Issues

  5. Buy-in Issues – top down • Behaviors: people are too busy; burnout • Changing the way teachers work; substitute rather than add on • Change our expectations? (e.g. reduction of scope; slower pace) • Misjudging: • levels of interest • technical capability • Work at various levels: • Visionary • Cutting edge • Pentium III • 5-years-old technology at best

  6. Buy-in issues – bottom up • “One more thing to do” • Rewards • Monetary • Sense of accomplishment • Professional recognition (informal) • CEUs (future possibility) • Top down vs bottom up • Need for additional public relations: get the stories out

  7. Evaluation issues • Need to prioritize activities • Data base control/update • Student rubric – ‘glitches’

  8. Communication issues • Publicity • Possible ‘missed’ communication among primary actors • Some administrators don’t inform their faculty • Are assumptions commonly held? • Perception of the nature of the organization

  9. Administrative issues • Location of program (ACE/DHH; elsewhere; independent?) • Span of program (K-12; preservice; other) • What is the future role of ACE/DHH? • Who is the market? • Deafed.net – role, status, future • Insufficient staff to support program as currently defined

  10. Structure, organization, process, marketing • Online submission of proposals (operating) • Streamline administrative process • Develop marketing strategies • Arrange presentations by faculty (Feb. mtg?) • Focus on responsive faculty • Is there an inability to work together? • Expand audience to K-12, other

  11. Next steps How do we organize ourselves to address and resolve these issues? Which issues should be addressed? Deferred? What is the time frame for setting and achieving goals? Who will be responsible? Involved?

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