Communication ”real time”
Sign up for twitter from Seattle schools as a parent or community member to be notified what topics are coming up in board WORK sessions LONG before the VOTING meeting. Parents could choose to serve on advisory committees on certain issues as an additional level of thought for the board’s consideration. Existing organizations, such as CPPS, could be the filter for feedback, group the top dozen responses to issues in ranking order of importance and be the agent of being sure that the concerns are heard. The point is DIRECT line of communication that is SOLICITED aggressively, not passively, to get parental feedback. The scenario we just went thru with the Math texts should not happen again.