The remaining stakeholders are being identified through an application process that is widely advertised throughout the district and community. The application requires the applicants to describe their potential contributions to the process, the concerns and issues they believe need to be addressed, and their ideas on potential changes. The applications will be analyzed by the Superintendent and the Board, and group members will be selected on the basis of group representation, expertise and experience in both functional areas and planning processes, network connections in the community, diversity of gender and ethnicity, and diversity of viewpoints and thinking about education and schools. The application process is complete. The first meeting of the key stakeholder group was September 24th, and the initial training in systems thinking was October 8th - 10th, 1998.
Negotiations are under way with other potential experts.