Question Focus Topics for a School Board

 

Originating in the classroom, the QFT has been extended for use in parent engagement, health care, voter engagement and microdemocracy advocacy. Participants explore a specific topic using varied ways of thinking in order to open up the possibility for previously unthought of action or solutions.

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As a facilitator you would be able to create a workshop-type environment (probably at a sub-committee meeting) and set a question focus (QF) for the Board.  A single prompt (question focus) could be a photograph of a school event, or an issue, like home time congestion at the school gates . It could be a thermometer graphic used to show donations or school fair income.

 

Or it could be similar to one of the following word prompts:

• Teacher recruitment

• Carparking at school

• Bullying

• Sports achievement

• Uniform

• Te Tiriti o Waitangi - The Treaty of Waitangi

• Tuck Shop food

• Te Reo

• Professional development

• Suspensions

• Academic results

• Analysis of Variance

• Governance

• Leaky roofs

• Gifted and talented programme

• Intenational student revenue

• Health and Safety positives

• Facility hire

• New curriculum areas

• Lockdown learnings