Goofus School Looks Ahead

The Person in Charge of Curriculum (PICOC) at Goofus School* is very important, very well-paid, and very... well, "slow."

Here's a quick look back at how Goofus School has been looking ahead.

2005 - PICOC: I'm going to take some time to look at the entire curriculum at Goofus to assess our offerings and how we can best serve our students.

2006 - PICOC: We're a year into the process of evaluating our curriculum, and we're about to begin the initial phases of a faculty survey to start to assess where we stand with the curriculum and where we want to go. We'll begin the process of creating the outline for a plan to start phasing in our early efforts in assessing the survey results to initiate the overview of the curriculum.

2007 - PICOC: We're making significant progress in our efforts to asses our curriculum as a whole and determine how best to serve our students. We've analyzed all the data and come to several conclusions I can now share with you. It seems our students a.) come to our educational institution to be educated; b.) dislike the classes that they dislike; and c.) enjoy things they enjoy. We're about to begin the first phases of planning the outline to draft the beginning of the start of a path toward an introduction to this project.

2008 - PICOC: We're on our way! I'll be looking at the curriculum as a whole to assess our offerings and how we can best serve our students, keeping in mind the result of the survey analysis of last year. We're going to develop this further this year, preparing to roll out the structure to begin the preparation for the first phase of an introductory outline to initiate the formative process we'll use to lay the groundwork for embarking upon assessment of our offerings and how we can best serve our students. But not until Spring at the earliest.

2009 - The PICOC is "let go." Finally!

2010 - Big Boss: This is a critical position! We're working to hire the best person possible. I'm not going to rush this.

2011 - New PICOC: I'm going to take some time to look at the entire curriculum at Goofus to assess our offerings and how we can best serve our students....

::sigh::

*As you know, Goofus School is fictitious, of course...