CPS hosts first in-person World Cafe meeting since 2020
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
Columbia Public Schools hosted its first in-person World-Cafe meeting since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic Thursday night at Stoney Creek Inn.
CPS World Cafe - The Future of CPS: Growth, Innovation & Achievement discussion focused on how it can help it's scholars first, and how it can measure success.
Superintendent Brian Yearwood said the event was designed to allow people from different backgrounds to discuss the future of CPS.
The discussion began with a message from Brian Yearwood, followed by table discussion between participants.
Participants were divided into groups of six people. Attendees discussed a question, comment or concern amongst the group for 20-30 minutes before moving to another group.
Each attendee will received four papers with questions to provide feedback on. The questions included:
- How does CPS put scholars first in areas of Growth, Innovation and Achievement?
- What are indicators of success in areas of Growth, Innovation, and Achievement?
- What does CPS do well?
- Where can CPS improve?
"Because, as we develop our strategic plan -- which is called a Continuous School Improvement Plan -- we must have input," Yearwood said. "We must know what our community is thinking."
Feedback from the discussion will be used to help CPS develop it's Continuous School Improvement Plan, and it's five-year strategic plan.
"We will collect all the information that we have today, and we will look for the common strands, common themes that bubbled up to the top, and then we will move to action with those," Yearwood said.
Yearwood said CPS will hold different kinds of meetings in the future to continue to gather feed back from community members, parents, staff and administration.
