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August 13, 2024

Inspiring Connections Between Community Partners, Families and Educators in Support of MSCS Learning

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TUESDAYS!

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Welcome welcome!

So excited you are here!

I'm Shari Staub, MD Coordinator for CAL-MSCS at SJCOE, and really thrilled to be here today with each of you and with today's larger planning team. I'm going to quickly pass the mic to the team to introduce themselves before we launch into the learning and collaboration we have planned for today!

- Sharisa (Name, role, organization, CALMSCS affiliation)

- Paula (Name, role, organization, CALMSCS affiliation)

- Tasha (Name, role, organization, CALMSCS affiliation)

- Jessica (Name, role, organization, CALMSCS affiliation)

Shari also wants to to publicly thank Paula Nazario who can’t be with us today but was an essential member of our planning team (Assistant Director, CS Equity Project member of CALMSCS CS Steering Team and Multidisciplinary FACEin MSCS working group

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Objectives & Agenda

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Welcome, Context, Connection

Panel

Breakout and Full Group Discussions

Plans, Opportunities, and Resources

PROVIDE * INSPIRE * INCLUDE

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Welcome

The CAL-MSCS vision is to ensure that each and every California educator experiences the professional learning and support they need to provide a high-quality mathematics, science, and computer science education for all California students.

The California Mathematics, Science, and Computer Science Partnership (CAL-MSCS) is a comprehensive, multi-agency system designed to provide a sustainable, impactful professional learning infrastructure for mathematics, science, and computer science educators from across the state.

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Support coordination among other educator professional development initiatives

Support local efforts to improve family and community engagement

Generate and disseminate professional learning opportunities

Expand existing statewide infrastructure and capacity

CAL-MSCS Goals

As written in the RFA by CDE

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We are working on multiple goals to achieve our vision, and are truly excited that one of our main goals aims to strengthen connections between educators, administrators, families and care-givers, and community partners IN ORDER to improve MSCS learning.

We've mentioned this before to those of you who were able to join us for Tuesday sessions last spring, but we are pretty sure this is really the first time that a statewide investment in content area professional learning also uplifts efforts to improve FACE as a major goal.

Just curious, how many of you were familiar with this focus of CAL-MSCS before coming today? (thumbs up/thumbs or "Knew/didn't know!" in chat!)

Well, we are glad ALL of you are here now! If you want to read more about how we are organizing these and other components of CAL-MSCS, please check out our website

(LINK in chat: https://www.calmscs.org/) and/or send us an email (ADDRESS in chat) because we'd LOVE to hear from you!

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Involving parents and caregivers in the education and learning experiences of

the young people they care for

Partnerships between students, parents and caregivers, educators, education

systems (districts + COEs), and

community based organizations

Applying an asset-based, relationship driven, trust-centered, and economically culturally, socially, racially and linguistically responsive mindset

“Family, school, and community engagement encompasses all the ways that adults interact to support children’s development, academic achievement, and long-term success.”

Sources::

National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement
CA Community Engagement Initiative
CA Standards for Teaching Profession

Unpacking F*A*C*E

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- We know from decades of research that families play a crucial role in supporting and enhancing children’s academic and social-emotional development.

- -- Research reveals numerous positive associations between family engagement and children’s learning, including students in urban areas, rural children, and across gender.

- And, the newly adopted CA standards for the teaching profession now

emphasize the need for teachers to meaningfully engage and form partnerships with families, guardians, and caregivers to address student learning

But FACE has many components. This quote from the national association really says it all - it encompasses ALL the ways that adults interact to support childrens' development and success: “Family, school, and community engagement encompasses all the ways that adults interact to support children’s development, academic achievement, and long-term success.”

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Develop collective knowledge and ability

to use MSCS to build connections

between educators, families/caregivers,

and community partners in service to authentic partnerships, improved learning,

and long term student success

F*A*C*E in CAL-MSCS

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HOW DO EDUCATORS AND PARTNERS IN YOUR CONTEXT CONNECT?

PADLET LINK:

https://bit.ly/TTCALMSCSFACE

Who are you connecting with and how?

What do you notice? What new approaches or ideas resonate?

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Inspiring Connections: Three Approaches to #FACEinMSCS

Alvaro Brito

STEAM Administrator

Compton Unified School District

Rudy Escobar

STEM & Computer Science Coordinator

Stanislaus County Office of Education

Avelina Peraza

Parent

Stanislaus County

Allison Rouse

Parent

Greene Scholars

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- One of the many goals of Family and Community Engagement is to leverage the expertise of caregivers and external community organizations. We have four panelists representing who work with different cross-sections of California students in different roles.

We invite everyone on the call to add their experiences with Family and Community Partnerships into the chat. We also invite you to share what resonates from what our panelists share, and any questions you have for them.

My panlists, could you each introduce yourself and give us a quick overview of your organization and the environment in which it operates (for example, Rudy/Alvaro - where is Stanislaus County? Where is Compton? How big is the COE or district? What student populations do you serve? Parents: Where do you live? Where is Greene Scholars located?)

We are going to facilitate the panel by having 1-on-1 discussions with each panelist in turn, asking a series of questions for each, then have a few minutes for Q&A at the end before we go into breakouts. You’ll have the opportunity to go into a breakout with a panelist to learn more.

QUESTIONS

Alvaro

What are some of the STEAM initiatives at Compton Unified?

eSports? Could you tell us what that is and how the initiative is impacting students and families?

STEAMFest - how many attended and what kind of partners? How did you establish connections with these partners?

Allison

What is the Greene Scholars Program and what does it do?

What does your child get through participating in Greene Scholars that they do not get elsewhere?

As a parent, what do you get through Greene Scholars that you do not get elsewhere?

Rudy + Avelina

Rudy, could you please describe the Stanislaus County Parent Advocate Leaders community of practice?

Avelina, what did you learn in this experience? / Avelina, ¿qué aprendio de esta experiencia?

Avelina, what did this program provide that your normal interaction with the school didn’t? (What was different in this program than your interaction with the school)/ Avelina, ¿qué te proporcionó este programa que su interacción normal con la escuela no le proporcionó? (¿Qué fue diferente en este programa a su interacción con la escuela?)

All - What advice do you have for how to build connections between parents/caregivers, community organizations, and educators for the benefit of students in MSCS?(Call to action)

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How might something you learned or discussed be applied to your work, no matter your role?

What more do you want to know?

What inspired you?

Panel

Reflection:

Chat Your Reflections

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Resources for Further Exploration

Compton Unified

Greene Scholars

Stanislaus COE

Other

SCOE Parent COP Fliers

Engaging Parents in CS Advocacy

SCRATCH Collaborative in Stanislaus

STEAM Fest Video

E-Sports@Compton Unified

E-Sports Podcast Series

Leveling up Learning with E-Sports

Robotics@Compton Unified

Website

Brochure

Parent Engagement Article

Overview Video

Greene Scholars Grad Interviews

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Social Media

Instagram

@calmscs

Facebook

California Mathematics, Science, Computer Science Partnership