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P.A.R.T. Community Meeting II. Parents Achieving Results Together. P.A.R.T. Community Meeting II Agenda. Welcome and introductions Goals Committee presentations. Welcome and introductions. P.A.R.T. is a group of parents from the Playa del Rey/Westchester area.
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P.A.R.T. Community Meeting II Parents Achieving Results Together
P.A.R.T. Community Meeting II Agenda • Welcome and introductions • Goals • Committee presentations
Welcome and introductions • P.A.R.T. is a group of parents from the Playa del Rey/Westchester area. • We banded together to effectuate short and long term improvements to our local public schools. • We will achieve this by gathering our community resources and by creating an Education Foundation.
P.A.R.T. Goals An excellent education for all of our children • Great teachers • Productive classroom time • Diverse students • Choice of enrichment activities • Safe and stimulating environment • Secure path from K-12 in our neighborhood
Goal: Great Teachers • Credentialed teachers possess Bachelors degrees and have completed twenty semester units in the subject they will teach. • Experienced teachers have mastered their subjects. • Practiced teachers have classroom management skills. • Secure teachers enrich the curriculum with service learning activities. • Great teachers seek to better themselves professionally by attending workshops and professional development activities.
Goal: Great TeachersOur foundation can help by: • Improving our schools and their images: Better schools attract better teachers. • Surveying teachers’ needs and responding to them. • Providing extra materials (visual aids, manipulatives, etc.) to enrich lessons. • Providing stipends/scholarships to encourage professional development activities. • Studying the best practices of other successful teachers and schools and applying them to our own.
Goal: Productive Classroom • An aide per K-3 classroom can make student/teacher ratios 10 to 1, or better. • Parent volunteers support teachers and curriculum. • Experienced teachers create an organized environment, with clear expectations and minimized disruptions. • Student behavior has a direct relationship to parent involvement. • Exposure to various hands-on activities provide students with real life experiences.
Goal: Productive ClassroomOur foundation can help by: • Paying for full-time classroom aides. • Encouraging constructive parent involvement. • Increasing community involvement. • Creating educational partnerships with local businesses to provide special learning opportunities for students at all levels.
Goal: Diverse Students • The school should reflect the diversity of the community. • Students gain valuable human experience by being exposed to diverse ethnicities and cultures, and learn tolerance.
Goal: Diverse StudentsOur foundation can help by: • Encouraging neighborhood parents to enroll their children in public schools. • Registration Drives • Public Relations Campaign for the schools • Providing a safe environment for all our children to participate in all school and extracurricular activities.
Goal: Enrichment Activities • Art: Provides a medium for self-expression. • Music: Helps develop mathematical ability. • Foreign Languages: Exposure to languages and cultures makes children better citizens of the world. • Sports: Promotes mental and physical health. • Drama: Encourages therapeutic communication.
Goal: Enrichment ActivitiesOur foundation can help by: Offering GOOD QUALITY electives and after school programs through: • Educational partnerships, • Financial support, • Assistance locating quality staff: • Foreign Languages (by Berlitz or other) • Art Programs (by Otis or other local artists) • Music for younger students (by local musicians) • Sports (by YMCA or local athletes) • Drama (by local acting groups)
Goal: Safe & Stimulating Environment • Safety is a deciding factor for most parents in choosing the right schools for their family. • An organized and uncluttered classroom is conducive to visual learners. • Grass, trees, and flowers in the schoolyard teach an appreciation of nature. • A pleasant campus encourages students to attend school, take pride in it, and do their share to take care of their environment.
Goal: Safe & Stimulating EnvironmentOur foundation can help by: • Supporting school administration financially and with parent volunteers to monitor safety issues and resolve them quickly. • Providing storage solutions inside classrooms to minimize clutter and assist with classroom organization. • Working with teachers to create natural surroundings within the school to be used in curriculum to teach students about nature. • Sponsoring “School Beautification Days” when families and community come together to plant trees, paint fences and beautify schools so that everyone feels a sense of ownership.
Goal: Secure Path K-12 • Have excellent local public schools all the way from Kindergarten through High School Graduation. • Support for all 7 schools will leave parents with no reason to switch plans mid-stream. 5 Elementary Schools in our neighborhood: Cowan, Kentwood, Loyola Village, Paseo Del Rey, and Westport Heights 1 Junior High School: Orville Wright 1 High School: Westchester High
Goal: Secure Path K-12Our foundation can help by: • Communicate with upper level schools for immediate support where needed. • Liaison with administration of all of 7 schools, bringing them together as a more cohesive K-12 path. • Support existing groups and budget accordingly. • Promote our schools as a good path all the way through High School. • Provide service learning opportunities that minimize behavioral problems by giving students responsibilities.
Who will benefit, and how? • Students will get a great education. • Parents will feel secure sending their children to our local public schools. • Property values will increase. • Participating businesses will be recognized. • Our community will become our neighborhood. • WE WILL ALL BENEFIT ! • LET’S DO IT!
How do we plan to attain these goals? • By dividing the tasks: • By recruiting your help and support.
Public Relations Committee Director: Christine Moen
Public Relations: Our Mission • To better the images of our local public schools in an effort to encourage enrollment and dispel rumors. • To communicate the pursuit of the formation of an education foundation for Westchester/PDR to provide financial support to our local public schools. • To develop materials and communication strategies to expand relationships with the community, students, schools and their support entities to enrich and compliment work already in place.
Public Relations: Goals • Communicate and promote positive achievements/actions of our local public schools • Promote and support the P.A.R.T. committee goals and activities. • Develop/Maintain a public image for the P.A.R.T. organization through the use of a website, editorial articles, flyers, etc. • Continue to increase membership in the organization and our public schools. • Maximize P.A.R.T. efforts in the most effective and affordable manner.
Public Relations: Progress Report • Creation/distribution of Meeting Flyers. • Pro-Public School Campaign • Door hanger to be delivered 5/7 - • Sponsored by Realtor Nanci Edwards. • Press Release to local newspapers to encourage editorials.
Public Relations: Task List • Immediate Tasks: • 3rd Meeting Flyer • Acquire Website url & initial release • Promote Registration Drive • Contact local media and develop relationships • Research additional reporting avenues • Long Term: • Expand website as necessary • Communication and promotion to local businesses, public schools and families.
Public Relations: Join Us Join the Public Relations Committee to dispel the negative and communicate the positive!
Family Relations Committee Director: Katrin Cohen
Family Relations: Our Mission • Work closely with existing organizations and families within our public schools to discover needs and supplement programs already in place. • Actively recruit enthusiastic, involved parents into the P.A.R.T. to strengthen our public schools in Westchester and Playa Del Rey. • Sign up first 100 families, per school, to send (or continue to send) their children to our public schools and to fund our foundation.
Family Relations: Goals • P.A.R.T. Family Relations Values: • Effective parent involvement is crucial to strong public schools. • Parents become committed owners of, rather than passive consumers in, public schools. • Improvement of public education for every child, not just our own. • Parents benefit from being P.A.R.T. of children’s education: • Increase child’s achievement. • Provide role model for child’s social behavior. • Positive parental attitude affects school staff.
Family Relations: Progress Report • Over 120 parents, teachers and community members at our April 7th meeting. • Over 60 new members in our Yahoo group. • We numbered 5 on April 6th. Now we number in the hundreds.
Family Relations: Task List All tasks require volunteers for each of our 7 schools: • Attend & Document PTA & Booster Clubs • Survey Parents of children already in our public schools. • Survey Parents who are not yet in the public schools. • Strategize to sign up our first 100 families per school, per year.
Family Relations: Join Us “What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all its children.” - John Dewey LET’S GET TOGETHER. LET’S COMMIT TO OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. LET’S BECOME PARTNERS IN OUR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES.
Community Relations Committee Director: Marie Murphy
Community Relations: Our Mission • To build partnerships with businesses, organizations, government and individuals in our community to improve our local schools. • To strengthen school/family/community connections and to build new & lasting relationships that have a stake in our success. • To foster citizenship, civic knowledge & engaging experiences for our young people.
Community Relations:Creating Business Relationships • Attract large businesses to all 7 schools. • To donate money to our foundation • To donate time/labor to classrooms • To donate materials directly to schools • Research business grants
Community Relations:Building Educational Partnerships • Corporate sponsored educational programs: Mentoring, tutoring, mini-course lectures, field trips, job shadowing, student internships, scholarships, incentives for attendance and achievement. • Place-based education: Connecting students to their neighborhoods, communities & ecologies. • Service-learning: Students learn and develop through organized service meeting the needs of both school & community, building respect for others in the process. • Campus Beautification:Upgrading outdoor natural environments and the indoor classrooms.
Community Relations:Involving Community • Enlist the time of community members who don’t have school age children or whose children don’t attend public schools. • Secure pledges to contribute financially to our foundation.
Community Relations:Progress Report • Compiling list of businesses, community and philanthropic organizations & local government to aid in our goals. • Drafting fundraising letters. • Working with PR to promote a positive image in our community. • Brainstorming to fundraise through community events, booths, etc… • Researching & educating P.A.R.T. members.
Community Relations:Task List • Immediate: • Promote our schools, P.A.R.T. & the impending foundation. • Partner with realtors for the July 4th picnic. • Identify businesses, organizations for contributions. • Long Term: • Reach community at large to secure funds. • Develop new learning opportunities for students through community contacts. • Find new ways to involve individuals to assist in our schools.
Community Relations:Join Us • Government, civic and business support and resources • Family Support & Involvement • Volunteers & Advocates JOIN THE COMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMITTEE. MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR OUR CHILDREN AND THE FUTURE OF OUR SCHOOLS & NEIGHBORHOODS!
School Relations Committee Director: Forouzan Faridian
School Relations: Our Mission The school relations committee will work with teachers and administrators in all Playa Del Rey/Westchester public schools to help them provide a challenging and engaging curriculum, rich content connected to real-world experiences, and an orderly, safe and trusting environment for all students.
School Relations: Goals • Determine the need of the schools and teachers. • Determine what works in other schools. • Research the type and quality of enrichment programs offered at our schools. • Research the quality of teaching and core programs at out local schools.
School Relations: Progress Report • Created a survey for all teachers, staff and administrators. • Research on quality of electives and after-school programs offered at our schools and other districts. • Research on type of enrichment programs offered at our schools in progress.
School Relations: Task List • Print, distribute and collect the surveys to all schools. • Survey enrichment programs offered and possible outside sources to improve quality. • Act as the liaison with Public Relations by finding what works and achievements of each school. • Act as the liaison between P.A.R.T. and each of the school’s administrators.
School Relations: Join Us Learn firsthand about the quality of programs offered at our local schools. Help in making them even better. Join the School Relations Committee.
Foundation Committee Director: Kelly Kane
Foundation Committee: Our Mission • To create an Education Foundation as a vehicle to support and enhance our local 7 public schools. • The Foundation will actively seek funding from families, community, local businesses, and large corporations and grants. • The Foundation will be involved in the development of our schools and work with them and existing organizations to make our schools excellent.
Foundation Committee: Goals • To work with lawyers and attorneys to file the correct papers to establish our foundation as a non-profit 501c3 entity as quickly as possible. • To develop our mission statement, bylaws and governing organization to ensure healthy development of the foundation. • To support all committee efforts as a means to the end of supporting our schools. • To look within our community and families for the strongest choices for our Board and Resource Panel. • To begin receiving funds.
Foundation Committee: Progress Report • Secured one of the top Foundation Lawyers in Los Angeles and her associate, pro-bono. • Our attorney tells us that the foundation will be set up in less than 4 months. • Contacted 7 surrounding area education foundations to find out what works/doesn’t in their organizations. • Begun researching and collecting data nationwide to use in developing our bylaws.
Foundation Committee: Task List • Immediate Tasks: • Meet with Attorney, May 24th. • Solidify Mission Statement. • Draft Bylaws (best of other LEF bylaws). • Research Board Member/Resource Panel choices. • Long Term: • Strategize first fundraisers/grants. • Research and befriend additional LEF’s. • Establish ongoing meeting schedule and procedures.
Foundation Committee: Join Us Our Strength is in our Numbers • Numbers of Parents. • Numbers of Neighborhood “stakeholders.” • Numbers of dollars. • Ultimately, numbers of fulfilled, nurtured, and educated students. Won’t you please join our numbers?