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Family & Community Success

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Strategic Priority:  Family & Community Partnerships

Improve communications and collaboration with school & community stakeholders; with special emphasis on building authentic connections with our diverse communities.

Garfield Re-2 School District's three-year smart goal is:

Garfield Re-2 will develop community relationships to foster positive perceptions and support for school and district initiatives.

Initiative 1: School Accountability Committee

District-Level Actions:

  • Provide templates for buildings to support School Accountability presentations based upon the SAC calendar

School/Department-Level Actions:

  • Allocate 15-20 minutes in at least three PTA/Booster/SAC meetings for a School Accountability presentation and Q&A

Initiative 2: High impact family partnership practices

District-Level Actions:

  • Facilitate leadership conversations and professional development around High Impact Strategies and development a Family Engagement plan
  • Develop template to support development of practices

School/Department-Level Actions:

  • Identify the appropriate Leadership team(s) to participate in a facilitated conversation about
  • the development and implementation of your Family Engagement Plan
  • Select one new High Impact Strategy to begin investigating
    • - Elementary Schools focus on Eureka! Math
    • - Middle Schools focus on i-Ready Pro
    • - High Schools focus on Individual Career   and Academic Plans (ICAP)

Initiative 3: Data Collection

District-Level Actions:

  • Provide template to collect expanded data collection  including parent and community involvement/partnership including donations, volunteers, and parent participation

School/Department-Level Actions:

  • Collect data about community support events
  • Collect data on volunteers in the building
  • Collect data on attendance at Parent/Teacher conferences
  • Collect data on attendance at PTA/Booster Club Meeting

Initiative 4: Two-way communication platform

District-Level Actions:

  • Facilitate the adoption of a two-way communication platform for district-wide implementation

School/Department-Level Actions:

  • Participate in task force meetings to recommend a district-wide two-way communication platform for initial implementation in 2025