Operational Expectations
While the Mission and Student Achievement Goals are the major drivers of what happens in the school system, the Board also has concerns about how the system operates. These operational expectations express those concerns to the Superintendent and staff. Continuous monitoring by the Board will provide the means for judging whether compliance with the operational expectations has been achieved.
The Superintendent will encourage and maintain effective communication, appropriate involvement, and active support of parents and our diverse community members in advocating for and achieving the FCPS mission and goals for student achievement. The Superintendent will:
1. Involve parents and families as partners in the education of their children, providing an open, responsive, and welcoming environment that treats all people with respect, dignity, and courtesy.
2. Establish meaningful, regular, two-way communication between the school and home.
3. Provide opportunities for community involvement with FCPS, including, as needed, the formation of committees that offer community advice and expertise.
4. Establish mutually beneficial partnerships with the business, industry, and nonprofit organizations in the community.
5. Establish honest, effective relationships with the news media.
6. Establish effective working relationships with educational leaders in other local school systems, the Virginia Department of Education, postsecondary institutions, and national groups and officials.
7. Pursue effective and cooperative work with the County Board of Supervisors and county staff; local, state, and federal officials; legislative staffs; and agency officials in all levels of government.
8. Participate in diverse community activities and events as advocates for all students.
9. Implement a strategic communications plan to enable effective communications between the school system and the community it serves.
Reasonable Interpretations and Indicators
The Board expects the Superintendent to apply reasonable interpretations to its statements of Student Achievement goals and Operational Expectations, and to present those interpretations to the Board as part of the monitoring process. The Board recognizes that strategic choices will be based upon those interpretations, and therefore the interpretations of the Superintendent must be reasonable. The Board further recognizes that there may be serveral potential interpretations to the Student Achievement Goals and the Operational Expectations, all falling within the relam of "reasonable." The Board will accept any interpretation made by the Superintendent, as long as the Board considers it to be reasonable.
May 11, 2009 - Revised Indicators
April 14, 2008 - Revised Indicator
September 27, 2007 - Community Relations Reasonable Interpretations and Indicators
The Board has established an annual calendar and work plan for its work, which includes scheduled monitoring throughout the year of each stated student goal, and scheduled monitoring of each operational expectation. The Superintendent will provide thorough and detailed monitoring reports as prescribed in the annual calendar. The Board will respond to each monitoring report indicating one of the following: 1.) acceptance of the report as evidence of satisfactory performance; or 2.) expectation for improvement based on the conclusion of a majority of the Board.
April 20, 2009 - Community Relations Monitoring Report | Executive Summary
April 14, 2008 - Community Relations Monitoring Report | Executive Summary