The Westfield Chamber of Commerce played host to the State of the Schools for Thursday’s September luncheon. Dr. Sherry Grate, Superintendent of Westfield Washington Schools, discussed what all they have done in the past year and where the district is headed now.
Westfield Washington School Superintendent Dr. Sherry Grate (left) and District 32 Indiana State Representative Tony Cook at Thursday’s Westfield Chamber of Commerce meeting, which highlighted Dr. Grate presenting the State of Westfield Washington Schools address. (Photo provided)
She started by talking about the Operation referendum and how they began to have focus groups in order to capture data to update the strategic plan and to manage growth in the Westfield community. In addition to the focus groups, the school district held a comprehensive facility study and a demographic study to see where the district will be five to 10 years from now.
An important aspect Dr. Grate brought up was that they want to focus on creating an internship program and having the businesses in Westfield get involved by offering internships these upcoming trimesters.
During the presentation, Dr. Grate had two students – brothers, actually – involved in a project at the intermediate school talk about how they will also shoot drone videos during the construction of the intermediate, middle and high school.
The presentation concluded with some social media, including who had the best tweet about Westfield schools and a live video on Twitter with the people attending the luncheon.