TEACHERS | ADMINISTRATORS | STUDENTS | PARENTS | COMMUNITY
"When I think of a classroom, one of the most crucial elements is building community to have a really healthy learning environment. To me, understanding, trust, continuity, focus happens within a community that is healthy and trusts each other and have good communication. I would love to see all of the stakeholders of our schools being asked 'what are you doing?', instead of saying the Greece community is not supporting us with a budget, or central office is not supporting the teachers, or teachers or GTA being critical of the PPR. I would love to see a question about what are each of those stakeholders willing to do to build a positive learning community for our children in this district, for the teachers, for the administrators, for everybody. I think we need to repair that community in a huge way and I think it's going to be incumbent on every single stakeholder to do it - our union, the new administration, our community, the parents, because after all it's for the kids. It's not a healthy environment right now for our kids with some of the divisions and strife that has gone on. I think every single stakeholder has to be accountable and stop the blame game."
"I think all of the stakeholders of our schools have to start looking at the Greece schools from a strength-based perspective. We need to focus on what's good about our schools and then build on that because some of our stakeholders at this point are only finding fault, and no one's going anywhere with that. We're good at a lot, so everybody needs to start looking at many of our positive things and start talking that way. That is what is going to perpetuate an atmosphere of confidence, and from that things will build and become stronger. ... We need to bring people to the table and discuss what we can look at positively to start spinning ideas off. Let's get the wheels turning,' because all the negativism is wasting so much wonderful energy. That's how I think we're going to be in a better place for everybody, and especially for our students."
"Class representatives having the chance to express their opinions and to meet with teachers and administrators to figure out what are the problems and how we can fix them."
"Unity in the district, seeing communication open up, working together toward a common goal, and having a trust system so that we as parents can feel like we can actively support the schools and the budget. .. .If you can end the adversarial relationships and have them all working on the same team, I think we could do great things in this district."
"What I would suggest to the school district, not just the Board, not just the teachers, and not just the administrators, but for everyone is to recognize that the students pick up on our attitudes. They are developing and growing. We, as adults, have a responsibility to impart a positive attitude in classrooms, in hallways, on the athletic field, in the school board meetings and in our day-to-day living to help role model what we hope they will carry. I don't think we're doing the job in a mindful way around attitude. I think we're doing it in a defensive, reactive way that's not proactive, but dangerous."