Presentation Slides from the #FutureReady Summit in Raleigh, NC. Dr. Renee Jackson (@NationalPTA) and Dr. Joe Mazza (@MCDPEL) walk participants through district and school-based scenarios on engaging families and community in student learning. Research on FCE strategies and the Dept of Ed's Nat'l FCE Framework included.

2. Schools + Families + Communities =
Successful Partnerships
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3. 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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4. Question to Ponder
What is your district’s vision
and core values for family and
community engagement?
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5. Partnership
School
• School is
the hub of
the
community
• All family
activates
are
connected
to learning
• Partners
help staff
Open-Door
School
• Communit
y
organizatio
ns are
contacted
when help
is needed
• Parents
events are
help three
or four
Come-if-We-
Call School
• Our
parents
don’t have
time to
come and
contribute
• Parents
are told
what
students
will be
Fortress
School
• Parents
don't care
about their
children’s
education,
and they
are the
main
reason the
kids are
failing.
4 Types of Partnerships
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6. 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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7. 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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8. Cradle to Career:
➢Continuous across a child’s life, spanning from
Early Head Start programs to college and career.
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9. 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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11. Dual Capacity Framework
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12. District
Scenario

13. 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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14. School
Scenario

15. • 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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16. Rally Robin
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18. Questions?
Renee’ Jackson, Ed.D.
rjackson@pta.org
@rlajackson
Joe Mazza, Ed.D.
mazzajos@gse.upenn.edu
@Joe_Mazza
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