Because the COVID-19 pandemic has posed significant challenges for large in-person gatherings, we are moving our annual Carmel Café to an online platform. For this year’s Café, we are using a new tool called Thoughtexchange to gather your input on topics that include student learning, safety, equity, and social-emotional well-being. All of our voices matter, so your participation is crucial and valued.
Over the next two weeks you will be asked to respond to four open-ended questions, then consider and assign stars to some of the ideas shared by others (20 to 30 is ideal), and learn what's important to the group. You can rate as many thoughts as you would like before moving on to Discover where you can see all the thoughts sorted by the average star rating.
Your thoughts and stars are confidential. You can come back as often as you would like to participate. In fact, we ask that you do come back to star some of the new ideas shared since you first participated. The ratings will help us understand the most important areas to focus on as we begin to plan for the next school year.
Questions will be opened one at a time over the next two weeks as follows:
- Question 1 on October 26 (Student Learning)
- Question 2 on October 29 (Equity)
- Question 3 on November 2 (Safety & Security)
- Question 4 on November 5 (Social-Emotional well-being)
We will notify our community each time a question becomes available. Once opened, you may review, comment, and rate ideas for any of the questions until November 12, 2020. Then on November 17, 2020 we will host a Community Town Hall on Zoom where we will share results and continue the conversation.
Our first question is on Student Learning and you can participate by following this link: https://my.thoughtexchange.com/539830939
For more information on how Thoughtexchange works watch this short video: https://youtu.be/a1Z-CAONdGo
If you need technical help, please call Thoughtexchange at 1-800-361-9027 ext. 4 or email help@thoughtexchange.com
As always, we look forward to hearing from you. Thank you in advance for your help and input.
Sincerely,
Eric M. Stark
Interim Superintendent of Schools
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