The Project: Current Status

Met with Susan to talk about where we are at with the AGQTP project.
After giving her the run down of where we are at:

Aim is to survey the decision making process at the school and offer suggestions for decision making protocols.
We are doing this by making observations at meetings, evaluating them as we go, searching for decision making models and surveying staff on decision making.

Susan made a few suggestions:

• Aim to create a decision making policy
• Do a survey of what decisions are made at the school
• Rating the decision beforehand ie Level A Decisions are critical and need to be discussed and decided upon broadly; Level C decisions probably just need some feedback and then an individual can make the decision. This would be determined by examining the impact of the decision.
• How are we involving students and parents in the decision making process?
• There is an urgent need for a shared vision
• Critical - giving feedback about why a certain decision was made.

She seemed to have a few good ideas and her business is aimed at training leaders so we could use her as a sounding board for ideas. She seemed very supportive.
We hope to complete the survey and analyse it when we next meet. We asked about any accreditation we might be getting but she is none the wiser.
Our presentation needs to be 10 minutes long.