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November 10-12, 2011
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__**Employee Formation**__

//Ideas and Suggestions//

"Mission on Tap" - stories of peronal education (faculty and staff) 1. What brought you here? 2. What keeps you here? 3. What nourishes you?

New employees attend Roots within the first few years. Some require it after just one year.

Speakers for Faculty and Staff - shine the light on what we're already doing -- using the language to point out how we are already acting out the mission

New Employee Meetings: first Thursday of each month; discussion and questions - monthly plan fpr discussion: Phillipine one month, etc.

First-Year Employees: learning routines and traditions under the guide of a mentor Second-Year Employees: still maintain mentor; assigned readings from Journey of the Heart

Faculty Professional Development Day: every faculty member is expected to attend

Formation Development: included in prep days, about 2 or 3 days dedicated to formation development, which includes everyone from groundkeepers to administration members - Every adult on campus interacts with students at some point in the day. - All-inclusive formation development has been well-received by all staff members. - There is a sort of "buy-in" for every member of the school.

"Everyone is a Keeper of the Flame."

"Think" by Lisa Bloom, "Drive" by Daniel Pink, "The Leader in Me", "An Ethic of Excellence": recommended literature for faculty and staff

The objective is for faculty to self-identify as a "keeper of the flame."

Identify our actions and use different language to identify that behavior. We can analyze actions through a different lense.

We can create an awareness that in everything we do there is a formation to mission.

To include all staff members, have some parts of celebrations translated in Spanish (not only that, but it is cross-curricular). Making all members part of the community.

What is the profile of a Sacred Heart educator? - part of the "job description" - a piece of the hiring process, asking candidates if they prepared to become a keeper of the flame, a part of the formation to mission - meaningful faculty evaluation discussions: two goals - professional goal (how will this help students academically), personal goal (how can we grow as Sacred Heart educators)

We need to talk the time to discuss with faculty members how they, without realizing it, could be acting the formation to mission.

Connecting with Students on Many Levels "In order to reach their minds, you must first touch their hearts." - Some of our students are in the classroom more than they are with their family. - We teach life lesson first and subject matter second.