Reviewing community school evaluations helps those interested in or planning community school initiatives understand the successes, challenges and limitations of the community school strategy. This content area explores the methods and models used by community schools to conduct their evaluations, as well as each initiative’s outcomes and alignment with its vision. The information highlighted in this section includes the methodology, indicators of success, findings, trends, challenges and promising practices revealed in community school evaluations.
Assessment tools measure outcomes linked to the effectiveness of community school programs, services, and structure. This content area includes assessment tools used to measure outcomes, and explores the purpose of each tool and how they can be applied to the community school strategy.
Data collection and analysis is integral to planning, refining and sustaining the work of community schools in impacting a variety of student outcomes. It serves a multifunctional purpose by informing the selection and coordination of programs, services and operational elements at community schools while creating visibility and fostering positive public relations through demonstrated outcomes. This content area addresses community school outcomes, data collection methods, indicators and data analysis frameworks.
In a community school, all stakeholders share opportunities for leadership roles and are meaningfully engaged, active participants in many aspects of decision-making. Collaborative leadership brings together partners and stakeholders to coordinate a range of services and opportunities for youth, families and the community. This section explores how collaborative leadership works on a site, district, and state level to carry out the community school strategy. The highlighted content in this area includes collaborative leadership infrastructure, operational elements, and strategies for creating, strengthening and expanding collaborative leadership.
This section explores budget tools that aid the process of identifying resources, funding gaps, projected costs and fiscal mapping for community schools and related initiatives. The information underscored in this content area includes the purpose, use, and promising practices for budgeting.
Funding community school initiatives is one of the most difficult components of the planning, implementation and scaling up process. This content area highlights how community schools identify revenue streams, allocate resources, and leverage revenue streams to sustain successful community school initiatives. It also explores sources of federal, state and local funding that align with various community school components and have the potential to be leveraged for specific programs and services.
Equity is a concept implicit in community schools; however, most community schools do not explicitly use an equity framework to undergird the strategy. This section examines equity frameworks and tools that have been applied to or can be adapted to the community school strategy. The information in this section discusses applying an equity framework to community schools to document and address disparities and identify underserved populations.
Sustaining and scaling up community school initiatives ensures that the community school strategy will leave a lasting impact on the youth, families and communities that it aims to serve and empower. This section explores community school sustainability plans, partnership development, and the strategic leveraging of resources for the future.
Assessment tools measure outcomes linked to the effectiveness of community school programs, services, and structure. This content area includes assessment tools used to measure outcomes, and explores the purpose of each tool and how they can be applied to the community school strategy.
Data collection and analysis is integral to planning, refining and sustaining the work of community schools in impacting a variety of student outcomes. It serves a multifunctional purpose by informing the selection and coordination of programs, services and operational elements at community schools while creating visibility and fostering positive public relations through demonstrated outcomes. This content area addresses community school outcomes, data collection methods, indicators and data analysis frameworks.
In a community school, all stakeholders share opportunities for leadership roles and are meaningfully engaged, active participants in many aspects of decision-making. Collaborative leadership brings together partners and stakeholders to coordinate a range of services and opportunities for youth, families and the community. This section explores how collaborative leadership works on a site, district, and state level to carry out the community school strategy. The highlighted content in this area includes collaborative leadership infrastructure, operational elements, and strategies for creating, strengthening and expanding collaborative leadership.
This section explores budget tools that aid the process of identifying resources, funding gaps, projected costs and fiscal mapping for community schools and related initiatives. The information underscored in this content area includes the purpose, use, and promising practices for budgeting.
Funding community school initiatives is one of the most difficult components of the planning, implementation and scaling up process. This content area highlights how community schools identify revenue streams, allocate resources, and leverage revenue streams to sustain successful community school initiatives. It also explores sources of federal, state and local funding that align with various community school components and have the potential to be leveraged for specific programs and services.
Equity is a concept implicit in community schools; however, most community schools do not explicitly use an equity framework to undergird the strategy. This section examines equity frameworks and tools that have been applied to or can be adapted to the community school strategy. The information in this section discusses applying an equity framework to community schools to document and address disparities and identify underserved populations.
Sustaining and scaling up community school initiatives ensures that the community school strategy will leave a lasting impact on the youth, families and communities that it aims to serve and empower. This section explores community school sustainability plans, partnership development, and the strategic leveraging of resources for the future.
Maria Pitrie-Martin Redesign of DPI District SupportEducationNC
Maria Pitrie-Martin, deputy state superintendent, shares how DPI is redesigning its support to school districts based on need to the Governor's Commission on Access to Sound Basic Education.
Pat Ashley, cohort director of N.C. State's Educational Leadership Academy, shared an overview of efforts in North Carolina over the last couple of decades to turn around low-performing schools to the Governor's Commission on Access to Sound Basic Education.
Scott Marion- Balanced Assessment SystemsEducationNC
Scott Marion, executive director of the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, shared this presentation at the Governor's Commission on Access to Sound Basic Education in North Carolina.
The community school strategy is a set of partnerships that organizes community resources and builds community-school partnerships to support thriving students while building stronger families and healthier communities. This section provides an introduction to the unique characteristics of community schools and how these components address the underlying factors affecting academic outcomes and other crucial measures of student success. The section addresses questions around the structure, programs, services and core elements of a community school and community school district.
Family and community engagement consists of reciprocal interactions between schools, families, and the community, working together to create networks of shared responsibility for student success. At community schools, community and family engagement creates shared accountability and a more participatory decision-making process. This content area explores how families and communities are mobilized around community schools, how family and community engagement operates at school sites, and challenges and promising practices for family and community engagement.
There are numerous components of the community school planning and design process, some of which include a collaborative leadership structure, community engagement, and a community needs assessment. This section explores the general planning and design structures for community schools, the initial steps and core components of the planning and design process, as well as strategies for scaling up community schools. It lays out a blueprint for successful community school initiatives and helps map out the strategy, framework and process to sustain them.
Paul McArthur, Jerry Koh, Vani Jain and Mali Bain
System Insights from ‘WellAhead’: A Social Innovation Lab Approach to Advance the Prioritization and Sustained Integration of Student Social and Emotional Wellbeing in K-12 Schools:
School-based management is the decentralization of instructive dynamic authority from the Government or the Central Office to the principals, teachers, students, parents or guardians and networks or communities to guarantee a more successful school organization and a superior responsibility of staffs.
Maria Pitrie-Martin Redesign of DPI District SupportEducationNC
Maria Pitrie-Martin, deputy state superintendent, shares how DPI is redesigning its support to school districts based on need to the Governor's Commission on Access to Sound Basic Education.
Pat Ashley, cohort director of N.C. State's Educational Leadership Academy, shared an overview of efforts in North Carolina over the last couple of decades to turn around low-performing schools to the Governor's Commission on Access to Sound Basic Education.
Scott Marion- Balanced Assessment SystemsEducationNC
Scott Marion, executive director of the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, shared this presentation at the Governor's Commission on Access to Sound Basic Education in North Carolina.
The community school strategy is a set of partnerships that organizes community resources and builds community-school partnerships to support thriving students while building stronger families and healthier communities. This section provides an introduction to the unique characteristics of community schools and how these components address the underlying factors affecting academic outcomes and other crucial measures of student success. The section addresses questions around the structure, programs, services and core elements of a community school and community school district.
Family and community engagement consists of reciprocal interactions between schools, families, and the community, working together to create networks of shared responsibility for student success. At community schools, community and family engagement creates shared accountability and a more participatory decision-making process. This content area explores how families and communities are mobilized around community schools, how family and community engagement operates at school sites, and challenges and promising practices for family and community engagement.
There are numerous components of the community school planning and design process, some of which include a collaborative leadership structure, community engagement, and a community needs assessment. This section explores the general planning and design structures for community schools, the initial steps and core components of the planning and design process, as well as strategies for scaling up community schools. It lays out a blueprint for successful community school initiatives and helps map out the strategy, framework and process to sustain them.
Paul McArthur, Jerry Koh, Vani Jain and Mali Bain
System Insights from ‘WellAhead’: A Social Innovation Lab Approach to Advance the Prioritization and Sustained Integration of Student Social and Emotional Wellbeing in K-12 Schools:
School-based management is the decentralization of instructive dynamic authority from the Government or the Central Office to the principals, teachers, students, parents or guardians and networks or communities to guarantee a more successful school organization and a superior responsibility of staffs.
Making Quality Education Accessible in Pakistan: A Social Accountability Appr...Muhammad Sohaib
The project titled “Making Quality Education Accessible in Pakistan -- A Social Accountability Perspective” was designed to promote the idea of participatory school governance. The project, in its targeted areas, advocated for people’s right to free
education, and the importance of education, especially the girls’ education. It also trained communities, revived School Management Committees (SMCs), and formed accountability committees. The idea behind these interventions was to bring communities closer to co-own, co-design, and co-create a learning-friendly environment in the schools.
Under the project, public schoolteachers and district education officials were trained on ‘intraadministrative accountability’. This was done to make teachers realize their rights & responsibilities, and how to deal with intra-administrative conflicts. The project encouraged the community and local leaders to play their role in improving enrolments and lowering dropouts. The project also sought the community members to serve as accountability committee members so as to monitor the working of schools and teachers’ absenteeism.
Strategies for Community Engagement in School Turnaround.docxjohniemcm5zt
Strategies for
Community Engagement
in School Turnaround
March 2014
The Reform Support Network, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, supports the Race to
the Top grantees as they implement reforms in education policy and practice, learn from each other,
and build their capacity to sustain these reforms, while sharing these promising practices and lessons
learned with other States attempting to implement similarly bold education reform initiatives.
Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Takeaway 1: Make Engagement a Priority and Establish an Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Takeaway 2: Communicate Proactively in the Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Takeaway 3: Listen to the Community and Respond to its Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Takeaway 4: Offer Meaningful Opportunities to Participate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Takeaway 5: Turn Community Supporters into Advocates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Appendix : 11 Turnaround Initiatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
3
Introduction
Across the United States, school districts and State
education agencies (SEAs) have turned their attention
to the chronically lowest performing schools and drop
out factories, investing resources and implementing
a wide range of strategies in an effort to dramatically
improve student achievement . In many States, the
focus on “turnaround schools” has been spurred by
investments from the Federal School Improvement
Grant (SIG) program, changes to State accountability
systems and State initiatives to turn around low-
performing schools through Race to the Top and other
Federal programs . Many school districts also have
undertaken turnaround as a core reform strategy .1
This report examines one key strategy for making
school turnaround more effective: community
engagement . The purpose of community engagement
is to ensure that school improvement is done with
the community, not to the community . It recognizes
how integral schools are to their communities, and
how much parents a.
The Oakland Achieves Partnership brings together community organizations with a deep commitment to public education to share expertise and resources to remove barriers to school success, expand educational opportunities, and help all learners to excel from their earliest years through adulthood.
In this second annual report on student progress in Oakland, we examine how well public education outcomes match the great potential of our children. Click here to download the report.
The report reviews a full range of data on Oakland student outcomes from cradle to career. Wherever possible, it includes data from district-operated schools and charter schools. We have added several new indicators since last year, including kindergarten readiness and Financial Aid Form completion.
The Youth Reentry Planning Process (YRPP) was a collaborative effort between the Alameda County Health Care Services Agency (HCSA), The alameda County probation Department, the Associated Community Action Program (ACAP), and several community agencies and stakeholders in 2009-2010. The work was undertaken pursuant to a grant agreement with the Department of Labor under the terms of the Employment and Training Administration Youth Offender Planning Grant received by Alameda County in 2009.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
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Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
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Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
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Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
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In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.