Making a Difference

Back in December 2014, a friend in Pennsylvania sent me a message that read, "This is great.  Maybe you can use it somehow!"  It's a wonderful TEDTalk that emphasizes how small things that an individual does has lasting effects.  It's title Everyday Leadership and you will find it at http://t.ted.com/h62xCDb    Well, here I am after the May 2015 Administrative Board Meeting going over my notes wondering if we are really making a difference.

You see, we added a day to the Administrative Board Agenda to do some Blue Sky Thinking about where the Society stands right now and how we are going to evolve it to the next generation of support for women educators.  We talked about how our founders shaped an organization to meet the needs of the women educators in the 1930s, and discussed what organization we need now.  This is all part of reframing DKG to what the culture and the society in which women educators work now calls forth.

We decided that we, as board members, can certainly model behaviors when we are out to your state organizations as representatives of the Society, and make personal contacts to answer questions about how the international tier of the Society operates.  We agreed that we need to make everyone aware of the data that the Dropped Member Survey has given us.  You will soon hear about efforts on this behalf, because therein lies answers to the retention problem that we have throughout the Society.

On that Blue Sky Thinking day, we also settled on 10 things that we will be working on until we meet again next fall.  That doesn't mean that we will stand still until then.  So keep looking for these new ideas that will be unfolding.