How I spent my summer vacation
Hi, I’m Kelly. I wanted to share a site I built for our community, given the current state of our schools. Over the past couple of years, I’ve chatted with parents and caregivers at the playground, kids’ sports, birthday parties, and our usual parent social activities. Quite a few of us shared similar priorities which have become the pillars of Thrive65, a group we formed to provide resources to help everyone in our community be advocates for what they want to see in D65:
· Financial Responsibility
· Equitable Educational Excellence
· Valued Educators
There’s a guide to board advocacy, a quick look by the numbers, an explainer of 5 relevant parts of our District’s history around structural deficits, facilities, staffing, equity and more. We also lay out our own thoughts, but try to keep opinion separate from the facts. We don’t need to agree on everything; each of us brings our own unique lived experiences to our advocacy and our priorities may be slightly different based on our own circumstances. Even still, if we’re all moving in the same direction towards these pillars, we believe we can Thrive in D65.
Board conversations and decisions move faster than most families can track. Sign up to receive a heads-up on what's coming before board meetings, short summaries after meetings, and analysis when something warrants a closer look. As always, we’ll try to keep the facts and our own opinions stay clearly separated.