Karly and I and all our presenters are excited to get to spend the week with all of you talking about our purpose, philosophy, functions, history, and future. We have a lot of ground to cover and although it will be a lot of thinking, listening, reading, and discussing, we hope you will all find it very worthwhile. Below are some logistics to help you know what to expect and what the expectations are.
- We will be starting at 9:0 each day and ending at 3:00.
- There will be a half hour for lunch that will generally occur right around 12:15-12:45. We need to have a little flexibility since we have outside presenters.
- We will have breaks between topics and presentations
- We end at 3 so folks have time to do the next day’s reading assignments. There is no reading necessary for Monday
- We will meet in the 2 West conference room.
Materials
- Schedule
- Homework pageIf you would like paper copies of the homework in either print or braille, please let me know by 9:00a 9/15. Please read the latest version of our New Staff Info Sheet. If you think of any information that should be included that isn’t, please let me know. I’m always working to make this more useful.
- Articles for presentations — ignore the homework and schedule links on this page, they are out of date.
- Basic Org Chart
- Board Overview
- Overview of IDB Funding & Spending
###Presentations We will talk about this on Monday, but we’re going to ask you each to pick an article or set of articles from this selection to read and present to the group on Friday. You can choose to work alone or with one other person. You may choose to have discussion questions for the group. The only requirements are that:
- it is at least 5 minutes and no more than 15
- you share why you chose that article or set of articles.
###Questions or Feedback Below is a link to a form where you can submit anonymous questions. We have had a lot of change in the past few years and I know that when new staff start, they hear a wide variety of things. So I am going to include a “recent history” section in addition to a long range overview of agency history and if there was anything you are curious about that you want me to speak to, please feel free to use this link or just ask straight out.
Link to anonymous question form:
https://iowadeptblind.wufoo.com/forms/m23pwsy13y4kka/
We’re looking forward to seeing you all next week :)