Future Ready District Pledge
1. Fostering and Leading a Culture of
Digital Learning Within Our Schools.
2. Helping Schools and Families
Transition to High-speed Connectivity.
3. Empowering Educators through
Professional Learning Opportunities.
4. Accelerating Progress Toward
Universal Access for All Students to
Quality Devices.
6. Offering Digital Tools to Help
Students And Families #ReachHigher.
5. Providing Access to Quality Digital
Content.
7. Mentoring Other Districts and Helping
Them Transition to Digital Learning.
Future Ready District Pledge
Community Partnerships
1. Fostering and Leading a Culture of Digital Learning within our Schools
2. Helping Schools and Families Transition to High Speed Connectivity
3. Empowering educators through professional learning opportunities
4. Accelerating Progress Toward Access for All Students to Quality Devices
5. Providing Access to Quality Digital Content
6. Offering Digital Tools to Help Students and Families #ReachHigher
7. Mentoring Other Districts and Helping Them Transition to Digital Learning
Breakout Session Goals
By the end of this session you will be able to:
• Understand effective family and community
engagement strategies
• Demonstrate how to partner with families and
community partners for future ready schools
• Recognize challenges to effective family and
community partnerships
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Questions to Ponder
• How are you as a district offering digital tools to help students and families reach higher?
• How are you engaging your community in the digital learning conversation more broadly?
• What are some examples of policies or activities in your district that can prepare parents on the transition to digital learning?
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Core Values
• All parents have dreams for their children and want the best for them.
• All parents have the capacity to support their children’s learning.
• Parents and school staff should be equal partners.
• The responsibility for building partnerships between school and home rest primarily within the school staff, especially school leaders.
(Henderson & Mapp, 2008)
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Effective Family & Community Engagement
A Shared Responsibility in which:
Schools and other community agencies and
organizations are committed to engaging
families in meaningful and culturally respectful
ways, and
Families are committed to actively supporting
their children’s learning and development.
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Cradle to Career:
Continuous across a child’s life, spanning from
Early Head Start programs to college and
career.
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Across Contexts:
Carried out everywhere that children learn –
Home
Pre-kindergarten programs
School
After-school programs
Faith-based organizations
Community programs and activities
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Recognizing the need to build capacity for
family and community partners, where
should the district start to engage families
and community partners early in the first
year of the Future Ready Initiative?
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• What are some approaches that the
principal might take to address the issue?
• How can the school connect parents and
community using digital tools for two-way
communication?
• What does the school and district need to
have in place prior to implementing digital
tools?
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Closing Reflection: PIE
P: Priceless piece of informationWhat has been the most important piece of information
for you today?
I: Item to Implement What is something you intend to implement from our time
today?
E: Encouragement I receivedWhat is something that you are already doing that you
were encouraged to keep doing?
Questions?
Renee’ Jackson, Ed.D.
@reneelajackson
Joe Mazza, Ed.D.
@Joe_Mazza
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