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School Implementation Plan
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This implementation plan is organized around six leadership strategies: align program and policy, create awareness, guide learning and program development, share knowledge, celebrate milestones, and document progress and evaluate outcomes.
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StrategiesAlign Program and PolicyCreate AwarenessGuide Learning and Program DevelopmentShare KnowledgeCelebrate MilestonesDocument Progress and Evaluate Outcomes
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Integrate your school's FSCP initiatives with school policies, requirements, and procedures.Actively promote your school’s FSCP initiatives to all key stakeholders, including administrators, teachers, families, and community groups.Organize and conduct professional development activities to assist staff in developing their partnership strategies.Foster ongoing communication throughout the school to build knowledge about research-based and sustainable FSCP strategies linked to student learning.Recognize school successes in partnership goals and practices, and disseminate the successes widely.Collect information to document activities and to assess progress in meeting school FSCP goals and in implementing it's Unified Improvement Plan.
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Strategy ActivitiesEnsure that the school policy on partnerships refers to leadership activities that help develop the school's partnership programs with goal-oriented action plans.Convene a one-on-one meeting with the district leadership to discuss the goals for the partnership program.Assist staff with preliminary steps to begin the partnership program (e.g., identify the members of SAC, arrange team-training workshops).Share progress on the school’s partnership program efforts with the superintendent, school board, district facilitators, and others in leadership positions.Celebrate November as Family and School Partnership in Education month.Provide school staff with a recordkeeping system to document and save records of the work of the SAC.
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Write a school Leadership Action Plan for Partnerships that includes school level actions and direct assistance to staff—use this inventory as a resource.Conduct presentations about the school’s goals for its partnership program to the school board, parent advisory council, and/or other key leadership groups.Conduct a training workshop for all staff that includes support to staff on how to link the school Leadership Action Plan for Partnerships with classroom strategies.Facilitate a mid-year meeting for staff to share promising practices and solutions to challenges.Ask your local city council or mayor’s office to formally proclaim a Family and School Partnership in Education Month.Collect schools’ Unified Improvement Plans each year and use them to check schools’ progress regularly.
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Identify a budget to implement the school partnership program (e.g., time, staff, Title I funding).Conduct awareness sessions for staff on the partnership program, including the assistance that will be provided to the school's SAC.Organize a clear process for the district facilitator (e.g., the Family Partnership Contact) to provide feedback and support for the school’s program.Disseminate a weekly or monthly newsletter that shares important information, upcoming events, and specific school highlights connected with the school’s partnership program and share with the school community.Host an end-of-year celebration for the school's SAC.Establish a quarterly or monthly recordkeeping system for the district facilitator(s) to document visits to schools and technical assistance that is provided or requested.
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Obtain approval and support from the superintendent for schools to utilize the School Accountability Committee (SAC) to incorporate FSCP goals into the school's Unified Improvement Plans (UIP).Accompany staff and/or key district level stakeholders to conferences related to program initiatives.Convene regularly scheduled meetings for the school's SAC chairs or co-chairs to share experiences and learn about specific program topics.Write a regularly featured column on family partnership initiatives for the school newsletter.Edit and distribute a collection of promising partnership practices from school staff.Evaluate the school partnership program annually on established indicators.
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Arrange a formal announcement from school leadership that the school's UIP and the Leadership Action Plan for Partnerships will be integrated.Identify staff to participate in the school’s partnership initiative.Develop and implement professional development workshops and presentations for all teachers and school staff on partnerships.Facilitate regularly scheduled meetings with other district departments working on family involvement issues (e.g., special education, English language learners, Title I).Send thank-you letters or certificates to school staff for submitting promising partnership practices to the school collection.Complete an annual school survey (e.g., CDE Partnership Survey) to assess the quality of it's family partnership initiatives.
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Develop or review school policies so that work and progress on family and community partnerships is one component of the evaluations of staff.Announce the school’s partnership program on the school's website.Conduct workshops for parents on ways to partner with the school to increase student success.Moderate a discussion board on the district website that enables schools to post information, events, and questions for others about partnerships.Send letters to teachers thanking them for their support for partnerships.
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Identify a budget to implement family partnership initiatives.Disseminate a press release announcing the launch of the school’s partnership initiative.Conduct a refresher workshop to help school staff continue developing their family partnership strategies from year to-year.Assist staff to share information about their partnership activities through the local news media throughout the school year.Write an annual progress report on the school’s partnership program to share with key stakeholders.
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Conduct presentations for the SAC, PTA, staff, and/or others to inform them of the school’s program.Award small grants to teachers as incentives to build their family partnership strategies using research-based approaches.Organize a recognition program to celebrate the school for achieving milestones such as implementing it's first partnership activity, increasing attendance at activities,etc.
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Meet individually with each teacher at the start of the school year to clarify the school's partnership initiative and how the principal will support teachers.Create a video of selected partnership activities to share with the school board, staff, community groups, district staff, and others.
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Distribute information on the school’s partnership program and, if appropriate, its affiliation with the district's partnership program and facilitators.
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