Week 4 School/Family/Community Stakeholder Partnership Development Reflection (W4L01, W4L02, W4LO3, CLO4)
In week 1 you had a simulated meeting with your Campus Mentor to establish the School/Family/Community (SFC) Partnership Evaluation process. In week 2 you simulated the organization and facilitation of the initial meeting of the SFC evaluation stakeholders and in week 3, you analyzed the survey results and reviewed district community partnership policy. This week you will facilitate the simulation of the second meeting with SFC stakeholders fostering a collegial and supportive climate within the stakeholder group.
You will simulate your SFC stakeholder committee meeting welcoming stakeholders and providing the meeting agenda. You are asked to meet face to face with your stakeholders. If this is not possible, consider meeting through Zoom or Google Hangout. Consider asking a committee member to take minutes of the meeting to document the discussion and actions taken in the meeting. Provide stakeholders with 1) the data-analysis documents and 2) the overview of the analysis process you employed as well as 3) a document explaining district policies for community partnerships.
Divide committee stakeholders into work groups balanced in representation of school, family and community stakeholders. Work group members will collaborate to identify and prioritize areas of strength as well as areas in need of improvement. Have chart paper available for each work group to list their identified strengths and areas in need of improvement. At this point in your meeting you will focus on the areas in need of improvement. Committee members collaborate to identify the top three areas of need.
In their work group, based on the three identified areas of need, have stakeholders brainstorm potential plans for school/family/community partnership projects or programs. Have a representative from each work group list their suggestions for projects or programs on a single chart to collect all work group suggestions. Provide stakeholders three label dots. Each stakeholder will place their dots on what they believe would be the best three partnership projects listed on the chart. Stakeholders will then review which partnership projects received the highest number of dots. Using a collaborative decision-making process, identify the project that is a priority to implement to benefit student learning.
Once the school/family/community project is identified, have stakeholders identify and plan access as well as possible uses of campus and diverse community resources to improve school programs, student learning, and stakeholder communication and participation. Continue to advocate for school and community needs as stakeholders address concerns identified through the data analysis. Have stakeholders incorporate information from the district policy on community partnerships in their considerations. Also, begin planning targeted communication for the SFC project through oral, written, and digital distribution. (5.3)
At your next stakeholder meeting, consider identifying a framework for organizing and planning the actions steps needed to initiate the project, who will be involved, a timeframe for each action step and evaluation of progress of the action step. Additionally, as you continue working on your SFC project, plan how you will evaluate the impact of this project.
After this meeting, write a reflection (a minimum of three well-developed paragraphs) that discusses and addresses the following information:
• Discuss the stakeholder work groups’ process for identifying the SFC project and the impact of collaborative communication in this process
• Discuss stakeholders’ planning for the SFC project including discussion on
o Planning for use of resources
o Advocating for school and community needs in the project
o Potential impact of district policy on community partnerships
o Stakeholder suggestions for targeted communication to staff, families and community members
• Discuss how simulating the organization and leadership of this school, family, community stakeholder committee in the identification of a SFC project impacted your view of leadership and your skills as a leader.
