The Wausau School District Joint Advisory Team provides an opportunity for leaders from all segments of the school community to come together and focus on the priorities of our District. Guided by the District’s Eight Shared Key Interests, the group meets regularly to provide leadership in problem solving, transparency in communication, and to create venues for deliberation and action.

In spring 2011, the Joint Leadership Team hosted:

A Summit on the Future of Education in Wausau
Honoring Tradition  ·  Imagining Possibilities  ·  Engineering Change

Exciting Things Are Coming!

This event brought over 180 community and District stakeholders together over three days to identify shared interests. At the end of the Summit, Eight Shared Key Interests had been developed. Throughout the summer months, the Joint Advisory Team continued to refine the Key Interests. On September 12, 2011, the WSD Board of Education approved the Eight Shared Key Interests as the foundation for District deliberation and action in the future. Those Key Interests are:

OUR SHARED KEY INTERESTS

· Advance student learning, achievement, and success by keeping it at the heart and as the filter for our decision making.

· Utilize research-based curricula that reflects 21st Century themes and applications and are responsive to the needs and potential of all students, preparing them for a global society.

· Provide real-life, diverse learning opportunities with practical applications in the classroom and beyond.

· Inform and engage the community in shaping educational strategy and formulating responses to change.

· Attract, retain, and develop a high quality, diverse, creative, and innovative workforce of leaders.

· Provide safe, secure, flexible, inviting, and well-maintained environments that nurture student well-being and enhance teaching and learning.

· Identify, integrate, and expand technology to foster adaptability and maximize learning for all.

· Foster mutually beneficial partnerships and collaborations that expand learning opportunities and resources.