From CWS Visioning

Contents 1 The COMMUNITY LIFE Category Team 1.1 A word of caution: 1.2 The Goal 1.3 The Strategies 1.4 The Team

The COMMUNITY LIFE Category Team

Here's how this category got from the raw community feedback (in September of last year) to the current state as goals for the next Long Range Plan:

A word of caution:

As you read the goals and strategies in these categories, please keep a few things in mind:

1. This is a work in progress. These are not finished documents, and should not be taken to represent the completed Long Range Plan. These goals simply represent where we currently are in the process. If an element crucial to you seems to be missing, please email the visioning team with your concerns. We're human, and we may well have missed something.
2. These goals represent the distillation of months of work, and an incredible amount of information. The lists contained here are not meant to be complete, but are simply representative of greater content with which the teams are currently working. As before, if something is missing, please let us know, but please don't think we've intentionally left out something important to you. It's a work in progress, and we look forward to sharing the whole thing with you when it's complete. If you're concerned about the direction in which we're headed... Get involved!

Now, with that said...

The Goal

Have a courageous and vibrant community which is both supportive of and well supported by parents, and enriches the experience of the whole-students, faculty, parents, and entire families.

The Strategies

• Create Parent Education Program
  • Clarify & Educate on Waldorf Ways & Whys
  • Provide education on Steiner, Anthroposophy, and its applications
  • Create a family resource center
• Strengthen Parent Body
  • Establish Parent Association as a vital leadership body with a well-defined, energized role
  • Enhance and monitor Parent engagement and satisfaction
    • Be more inclusive to new parents
    • Provide offtime opportunities to help
    • Make information more readily available
• Attain an Optimal Internal Communication Strategy/System
  • An optimized interactive website
  • Multiple channels for disseminating information
• Realize a clear, strong Anthroposophical Impulse
  • Create a clear plan for educating our community on the factors and pieces from Anthroposophy and its offshoots, pulling from in and out of our community
  • Provide education on Steiner, Anthroposophy and its applications
  • Create a long term plan for building a threefold community
  • Strengthen the anthroposophical impulse in Cincinnati
• Establish an active Alumni Program
  • (See fund and Resource Development, as this may go there)
• Foster a Strong Connection to Nature
  • Further develop our environmental initiative
  • Define and foster stewardship

The Team

• Tammi Hofford - Team Lead
• Karla Knochelmann
• Bari Mairose
• Christine Masur
• Beth Molinario
• Libby Rupp
• Leah Terhune
• Brandon Dawson - Visioning Team Liaison