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Message from Dr. Terry Bergeson

Navigation 101: How a Focus on Planning Skills Leads to Higher Student Performance
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Friends:

I take great pleasure in providing you this description of Navigation 101, the innovative student planning initiative of the Franklin Pierce School District. There are many folks who deserve credit for the initiative’s success, including the educators, parents and students who have worked so hard to implement it. No change as substantial as this succeeds in a district without the commitment of the school board and superintendent. Franklin Pierce is fortunate to have the leadership of Dr. Steve Rasmussen and its strong, united Board of Directors. Equally crucial for such an innovation is the vision and dedication of the curriculum director, Patti Anderson.

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Still, the heart of this project was the creativity and determination of the dynamic team of Tim Stensager and Dan Barrett. Tim brought a thorough understanding of institutional change and remarkable powers of persuasion. Dan added experience with guidance innovations and the kind of remarkable good cheer that sustains a multi-year change process. I hope you will be as impressed as I am with the wonderful changes they have made for students. For that is the proof of this work: that students, parents and teachers have responded so strongly. Navigation 101 changes lives. What greater praise can I give?

Tim, Dan, and their colleagues have been sharing their success with other districts. I hope this brochure helps make Navigation 101 a statewide initiative. Our children need and deserve a program like this.

Sincerely,

Dr. Terry Bergeson
State Superintendent of Public Instruction