2006-07 CCIU Organizational Goals
Each July the CCIU Board of Directors sets goals for the organization for the upcoming year. The purpose of establishing goals is to move the intermediate unit forward and to provide staff with focus as we work together to provide a unified, seamless system of education in Chester County. Listed below are the goals approved on for the 2006-07 school year:
- Implement year 2 of and expand the 1:1 laptop project to involve a minimum of 300 students.
Initiate planning for the renovation or replacement of CAT Brandywine and the Center for Alternative Secondary Education.
- Initiate a virtual high school service that provides online supplemental coursework for high school students.
- Pilot the “Plan for Student Learning” (P4SL) for a minimum of 150 non-IEP students in CCIU schools.
- Design and develop an internet-based television station (slivercasting) that includes both live and on-demand programming.
- Perform a cost:benefit analysis of IU services and determine savings to districts and other customers.
- Develop a continuum of services to support schools in NCLB school improvement.
- Create a consulting service niche for CCIU.
- Finish and disseminate the use of the “executive dashboard.”
- Continue to develop and fine tune our plan to ensure that we are prepared for a possible avian flu pandemic.
- Implement the ADP e-time system at CCDC.
- Finalize planning and begin construction of the Chester County Technical College High School - Pennocks Bridge Campus.
- Investigate, analyze, and select an information management system that will allow CCIU supervisors to read up-to-date, integrated financial and human resources data without the necessity of special, labor intensive make-ready.
- Increase recruitment efforts for the CATs in order to achieve at least 900 student FTE by October 1, 2007.
- Complete negotiations with the CCIU support staff bargaining unit in a way that provides a fair and cost-effective agreement that recognizes staff performance and initiative.
- Complete, by September 1, the renovation of leased space in the Mill Town Center to house the PAAL and Drug and Alcohol Partial Hospitalization programs and the CCRES offices.