In accordance with the board-adopted goals and the superintendent’s educational agenda for 2000, district staff will implement the following action plan.

1. Educate Every Child Every Day
Educate Every Child Every Day
Educate Every Child Every Day
Educate Every Child Every Day
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ACTION PLAN FOR PARENT AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Goal IV: AISD will collaborate and communicate with parents and the greater community.
In accordance with the board-adopted goals and the superintendent’s educational agenda for 2000, district staff will implement the
following action plan.
Key Strategies:
• In collaboration with community and business partners, initiate signature programs that support career awareness, enhance the
curriculum, and increase parent involvement.
• Expand the ability and variety of channels to communicate information in a timely manner and connect schools,
parents/families/businesses/and the community more effective ways.
• Increase opportunities to engage parents/families/communities/businesses as partners in schools to promote academic success for all
students.
Expected Outcome(s):
• Increased understanding, communication, trust, and levels of involvement among AISD, its parents/families/business and
communities.
• A more refined model for promoting parent/family/businesses/community partnerships.
• Enhancement of AISD’s curriculum, instruction, and academic performance outcomes through learning efforts that involve schools,
homes and communities as partners.
• Increased student awareness of career choices and higher expectations through business/community partnership activities.
Summative Evaluation measures:
• Increased levels of parent/family/business and community resources that support educational programs both within and outside the
schools.

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• Increased partnership training efforts for staffs, parents/families; businesses and community members.
• Wider levels of parent/family/business/community involvement as partners in district/school activities and programs.
• Higher expectations, student engagement, and student performance resulting from boarder partnership efforts.
• Increased positive responses to annual AISD partnership surveys.
• More positive hits on the AISD website in response to AISD’s enhanced parent/family/community/business efforts.
Key Strategy 1: In collaboration with community and business partners, initiate signature programs that support and enhance
curriculum and instruction as well as parent involvement
Expected Outcome(s): Increased student awareness of career choices and higher expectations through business/community partnership
activities.
Resource
Allocation
Action Steps
Persons
Responsible
Needed Source
Timeline Formative Evaluation
Methods and Measures
1) Partner with Junior Achievement and
the AISD Department of Guidance &
Counseling to implement the IACP
Bridge Program for Grade 7 (3,500
students)
! Participate in planning meeting with
JA staff
! Attend training
! Assist in the recruiting of 1890
businesses for job shadowing
component
! Assist in the training of volunteers.
Pat Dabbert
Junior
Achievement
Staff
Partners in
Education,
AISD
September –
November, 2000
December 2000
December, 2000-
April 2001
December, 2000 –
April 2001
Expanded student expectations and awareness of
career choices
Volunteer response and number of classes served
Business participation in Job Shadowing
Student evaluation
2) Expand Family Learning Nights
Program from two schools to ten.
! Coordinate program revisions with
P. Dabbert
Partners in
$10,000
$5,000
3M
Wells Fargo September 2000
Increased parent involvement as evidenced by
parent participation in Family Learning Nights

3. Action Plan for Parent/Community Involvement
AISD District Improvement Plan, 2000-2001 65
Resource
Allocation
Action Steps
Persons
Responsible
Needed Source
Timeline Formative Evaluation
Methods and Measures
Dana Center
! Develop proposal for expanding
program.
! Implement program in 10 schools
! Develop new module for 2001-02.
Education;
AISD and
Chamber staff
needed
September 2000
Feb. – April, 2001
May – August, 2001
3) Continue Extra Mile Reading
Program to provide guided reading
tutorials for two elementary schools.
! Implement Program Year II at
Rodriguez and Winn.
! Publicize program to other schools to
gauge interest.
! Recruit new partners for this project.
P. Dabbert
Partners in
Education
AISD &
Chamber
staff
Books &
materials --
$600
Existing
partners at
schools
September 2000 –
May 2001
Sept. – April, 2001
October – April,
2001
Increased interaction between students and
business volunteers
Increased reading proficiency for students in
these schools
4) Schedule annual “Take Five”
activities (school/district) during
AISD Parent Involvement Week
Fred Estrello,
Gloria
Williams
NA September, 2000
November, 2000
Campus sign-in logs, indicating level of
participation; positive responses on parent/staff
survey; interview data
5) Offer training programs,
ESL/parenting/GED, for staff and
parents in partnership with
ADVANCE, Parents Anonymous,
Connection Resources, Region XIII,
Johns Hopkins University, and UT
Austin.
F. Estrello, G.
Williams
$5,600 Dropout
Fund
Budget
August, 2000 –
June, 2001
Positive results of training evaluations, survey
items, interview data, and information gathered
from Focus Groups
Key Strategy 2: Expand the ability and variety of channels to communicate information in a timely manner and connect schools,
parents/families/businesses/and the community more effective ways.
Expected Outcome(s): Increased understanding, communication, trust, and levels of involvement among AISD, its parents, families,
businesses, and communities.

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Resource Allocation
Action Steps Persons Responsible
Needed Source
Timeline Formative Evaluation
Methods and Measures
1. Develop and distribute
monthly “Just for Parents
Newsletter”
district-wide.
Fred Estrello $ 2,000 Family
Resource
Center
budget
Aug. – 2000
June – 2001
Staff/parent surveys
Focus groups
2. Establish an internal
Communication program
for AISD which does not
currently exist.
Andy Welch 2 Employees
$85,000
Local Budget January – 2001 –
June 2001
Newsletters
E-Mail
Staff Survey
3. Post all pertinent
information on the
District’s website.
Andy Welch
Jackie Ginsberg
Orlando Castillo
NA Local Budget Summer 2001 Number of hits/number of
visitors to site.
Survey responses.
4. Continue producing and
distributing press releases
to the Austin news media
to inform the community
of important decisions
that have made or to
promote innovative
programs throughout the
district.
Any Welch
Kathy Anthony
Nicole Wright
NA Local Budget January – December, 2001 Observations
Survey
5. Use colorful and creative
banners, brochures, and
posters to communicate
with parents and
community.
Andy Welch
Kathy Anthony
NA Local Budget January 2001 – December,
2001
Surveys
6. Utilize Cable Channels
18/22 to promote district
activities & inform
the public.
Oscar Palomo
Andy Welch
Catenya McHenry Ashfrod
NA Local budget January 2001 – December
2001
Interview and Surveys
7. Air all Board of Trustee
Meetings and replay in
English and Spanish.
Oscar Palomo
Andy Welch
Catenya McHenry Ashford
NA Local Budget January 2001 – December
2001
Interviews and Surveys

5. Action Plan for Parent/Community Involvement
AISD District Improvement Plan, 2000-2001 67
Key Strategy 3 Increase opportunities to engage parents/families/communities/businesses as partners in schools to promote academic
success for all students.
Expected Outcome(s): Increased understanding, communication, trust, and levels of involvement among AISD, its
parents/families/business and communities
Resource Allocation
Action Steps Persons Responsible
Needed Source
Timeline Formative Evaluation
Methods and Measures
1. Continue Time Warner
Cable Channels 18 and
22, AISD’s source for
airing educational and
instructional program-
ming as teaching and
learning tools.
Oscar Palomo
Mario Guajardo
Andy Welch
$20,000 to
$25,000
Local
Budget
January-December 2001 Interviews and Surveys
2. Work in partnership with
campus staffs to improve
relations with all levels
of involvement among
families, school staffs,
businesses and
community
representatives.
Fred Estrello
Family Resource Center
Visiting Teachers
NA Local
Budget
August 2000 – June 2001 Focus Groups
Survey Items
Observations
3. Develop and disseminate a
“user-friendly” tool kit for
all campus teams.
Fred Estrello
Parent Involvement
Advisory Council
$ 3,000 Local
Dropout
Budget
August 2000 – June 2001 Survey Items
Observations
Usage logs
1. Create up-to-Date
Information for district’s
on-hold telephone
service.
Andy Welch
Jackie Ginsberg
Kathy Anthony
$ 1,600 yr. Local
Budget
January 2000 – December
2001
Interviews and Surveys
2. Develop a district
wide
Parent involvement
policy and regulation.
Gloria Williams
Fred Estrello
Parent Involvement Task
Force
None None October 2000 Survey Items
Campus Logs
Interview Data
3. Develop an AISD
Parent Involvement
Gloria Williams
Fred Estrello
None None September 2000

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Resource Allocation
Action Steps Persons Responsible
Needed Source
Timeline Formative Evaluation
Methods and Measures
framework utilizing
The Six Types of
Parent Involvement
as a district wide
parent/
family and community
involvement model..
Parent Involvement Task
Force
4. Organize a district
wide Parent/Family
Involvement
Advisory
council to act as a
Resource for
Implementing the AISD
Parent/Family and
Community Involvement
Model.
Gloria Williams
Fred Estrello
Parent Involvement Task
Force
None None August 2000 – June 2001
Increased parent/community
understanding and
participation in district
activities.