21st Century Work is Underway

Fremont’s Board of Education has a vision for our children: to help them become “World-Ready.” Just two words, but they set the table for a dramatic, new focus on how we will prepare our children for the 21st Century world of learning and work.

Since the Board developed this thinking last summer, we have been hard at work with many of you in our community in the next task at-hand: discussions on how we can – indeed must - come together to bring this vision to reality.

Based on what we learned last fall from staff and community members at several work sessions, we now have formed planning teams around four targets: facilities, or learning environments; community engagement and connections; world-ready; and technology.

The planning teams are working with the end in mind. What education resources do we want to have available for our children in five years, and what do we need to do, step by step, to get there?

While each of the planning teams have now each met at least once, we have room, and still would welcome, participation from everyone in our service area. We need your best judgment. Please consider joining us, and contact me by email or by phone to begin.

The planning teams are a direct link back to the Board of Education. Their recommendations this spring will guide the Board’s thinking, in the near- and long-term, on the best ways to achieve these goals.

Won’t you join us? Contact me today. Your efforts can have far-reaching rewards for the children of our community.

John D. Kingsnorth
Superintendent
Fremont Public Schools
(231) 924-2350
jkingsnorth@fremont.net