Implementation Benchmarks Strategy 4-A: By winter 2017, each principal will complete a family and Welcoming All Stakeholders community engagement audit about the use of family Creating a respectful volunteers, programs available to parents, approaches atmosphere for stakeholders taken to communicate with parents, and current level of Developing personal parent participation in school events and conferences. relationships Based on the results of these audits as well as parent Providing opportunities for surveys, principals will be responsible for working with volunteering their school councils to develop strategies and SMART Ensuring accessible goals by May 2017 to drive improvement in this important programming by removing arena for the school year 2017-2018. economic obstacles to participation Strategy 4-B: By spring 2017, the district will survey parents to solicit Communicating Effectively input about their perspectives as parents of students Using multiple communication attending district schools. The results of this survey will paths help identify issues and concerns. Surveying families, students, and community members to identify issues and concerns Providing access to school administration Facilitating connections among families and students and community Strategy 4-C: By spring 2017, the district will form a planning committee Supporting the Success of Children for parent academies and will survey families and and community partners to identify interest in activities to Linking student work to promote wellness, adult education, and home-to-school learning standards which lead connections. to college and career readiness for all students Using standardized test results and other data to inform decision-making about increasing student achievement Helping families support learning at home and at school Promoting out-of-school-time learning
Implementation Benchmarks Strategy 4-A: Welcoming All Stakeholders Creating a respectful atmosphere for stakeholders Developing personal relationships Providing opportunities for volunteering Ensuring accessible programming by removing economic obstacles to participation By winter 2017, each principal will complete a family and community engagement audit about the use of family volunteers, programs available to parents, approaches taken to communicate with parents, and current level of parent participation in school events and conferences. Based on the results of these audits as well as parent surveys, principals will be responsible for working with their school councils to develop strategies and SMART goals by May 2017 to drive improvement in this important arena for the school year 2017-2018. Strategy 4-B: Communicating Effectively Using multiple communication paths Surveying families, students, and community members to identify issues and concerns Providing access to school administration Facilitating connections among families and students and community By spring 2017, the district will survey parents to solicit input about their perspectives as parents of students attending district schools. The results of this survey will help identify issues and concerns. Strategy 4-C: Supporting the Success of Children and Linking student work to learning standards which lead to college and career readiness for all students Using standardized test results and other data to inform decision-making about increasing student achievement Helping families support learning at home and at school Promoting out-of-school-time learning By spring 2017, the district will form a planning committee for parent academies and will survey families and community partners to identify interest in activities to promote wellness, adult education, and home-to-school connections.
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