Sage Community School Celebrates 'School Board Recognition Month'
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Sage Community School recognizes board members in School Board Recognition Month. Left to right, Brandon Fowler, Missy Danforth, Ruth Shaffer, Alex Piper, Leslie Cook. Not Present: Ellsworth Lang, Christina Rubidoux. Submitted photo.
Sage Community School will join the other 196 schools and school districts throughout Oregon to celebrate January as “School Board Recognition Month,” Anna Fowler, Director of Sage Community School announced today.
“Our school board members spend countless hours of unpaid time working with our staff as we strive to provide the best possible education for our students,” said Mrs. Fowler. “They also serve as the corporate board of directors for our school. Celebrating School Board Recognition Month is one way to say thanks for all they do.”
“School board members represent their fellow citizens’ views and priorities in the complex enterprise of maintaining and running Sage Community School,” Fowler said. “They also reinforce the principle of local control over public education, which is an important, highly valued aspect of education in Oregon.”
Sage Community School’s Board of Directors’ top priority is to support student achievement. To achieve that goal, the board focuses on the following needs:
Creating a vision for what parents and citizens want their charter school to become and how to make student achievement the top priority
Assessing whether the school achieves their goals, and whether students are learning
Accounting for the outcomes of decisions and by tracking progress and reporting results
Aligning the use of the school’s human and financial resources, and non-profit status.
Creating a safe and orderly climate where students can learn and teachers can teach
Collaborating to solve common problems and to support common successes
Focusing on continuous improvement by questioning, examining, revising, refining and revisiting issues related to student achievement.
Board members received special recognition during the regular board meeting on Wednesday, January 9, 2019. Each board member received a certificate of recognition for their countless hours of work and dedication to Sage Community School. Ruth Shaffer, Leslie Cook, Alex Piper, Ellsworth Lang, Christina Rubidoux, Missy Danforth, and Brandon Fowler comprise Sage Community School’s seven-member Board of Directors.
“Even though we are making a special effort during January to formally recognize our school board members, we appreciate that their contributions reflect a year-round effort. They are dedicated individuals who are committed to improving student achievement and to fighting for the best for all of our students,” Fowler said.
Press release provided from Sage Community School.
