Schools + Families + Communities = Successful Partnerships

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By the end of this session you will be able to:

• Understand effective family and community engagement

• Demonstrate how to partner with families and community partners

• Recognize challenges to effective family and community partnerships

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Question to Ponder

What is your district’s vision and core values for family and community engagement?

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Partnership School • School is

the hub of the community

• All family activates are connected to learning

• Partners help staff reach all

Open-Door School • Communit

y organizations are contacted when help is needed

• Parents events are help three or four times a

Come-if-We-Call School • Our

parents don’t have time to come and contribute

• Parents are told what students will be learning at

Fortress School • Parents

don't care about their children’s education, and they are the main reason the kids are failing.

• Curriculum

4 Types of Partnerships

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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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Dual Capacity Framework

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District Scenario

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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School Scenario

• What are some approaches that the principal might take to address the issue?

• How can the school connect parents and community using digital tolls for two-way communication?

• What does the school and district need to have in place prior to implementing digital tools?

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Questions?

Renee’ Jackson, Ed.D. rjackson@pta.org

@rlajackson

Joe Mazza, Ed.D. mazzajos@gse.upenn.edu

@Joe_Mazza

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