Steve Wilkins has noted that one of the great gifts he can give Proctor as he completes his tenure as Head of School is a faculty that feels great unity. Anticipating the transition to new leadership in the months ahead, we dedicated the annual professional development day (Tuesday) to identifying likely opportunities, visions, challenges and action steps. Working with two facilitators from Boardworks, we repeatedly broke into small groups.
One of the questions: how can we best welcome a new Head to Proctor? Responses included events to acculturate him/her to the community's values: Willderness Orientation, trips to off-campus programs, Proctor Environmental Action, Native American sweat ceremony, dorm meetings, teaching in different departments. But what if s/he arrives driving a Hummer?
Yesterday's work was both fun and exhausting. The group struggles to reconvene after a break:
To study our own strategies and roles as team players, we competed in four teams assembling puzzles.
Students returned to campus Tuesday evening and classes started today. We need snow!
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