Action Team for Partnerships Network Meeting

1. Division of Educational Services Parent Engagement Leadership Initiative Action Team for PartnershipsNetwork Meeting November 5, 2013

2. Welcome! We’re glad you joined us!

3. We are here to… Communicate . Collaborate . Celebrate

4. GOAL • To develop family, school, and community partnerships that move from conversations and awareness activities to working synergistically with all partners to raise achievement levels for all students. Synergy… • catalyzes, • unifies, and • unleashes the greatest power within people. ~Stephen Covey

5. Agenda • Create awareness • Align Program and Policy • Guide Learning and Program Development • Share Knowledge • Celebrate Milestones • Document Progress and Evaluate Outcomes

6. Communicate • How do YOU do it?

7. Create Awareness Actively promote and support partnership programs Role of the Action Team for Partnerships County District School National Network of Partnership Schools (NNPS)

8. A county leader for parent engagement leads county-level partnership programs, models appropriate partnership behaviors, and assists school districts to help them strengthen their district-based programs and practices of parent and family engagement. County Leaders for Parent Engagement… Adapted from Leadership Development Institute, NNPS Research shows that: When county leaders provide training and facilitation to school districts’ Action Teams for Partnerships, the districts • have higher quality partnership programs, and • address more challenges to involve all families, including those who are typically “hard to reach”.

9. Parent Engagement Leadership Initiative Contacts: Ellen Larson and Mimi Badura Educational Services Contacts: Melissa Bazanos(RSIU); Regional School Improvement Unit Project/EL Directors Categorical Programs (Title I & III) Regional System of District and School Support Support ATPs in Districts PELI Trainings Action Team for Partnerships (ATP) PTA partnership Family Involvement Network Career Technical Education Head Start & Early Head Start Parent Leadership Training Annual Leadership Conference State & National HS Conference Parent workshops/trainings Special Education Infant CIRCLE Parent Support Fiesta Educativa Translation Services State Preschool Parent Advisory Council Parent workshops/trainings Alternative Education School Site Council English Leaner Advisory Parent workshops/trainings Student Recognition Events Migrant Education Parent workshops/trainings Migrant Head Start Children Services Division of Children and Family Services Early Childhood Education – Esmirna Valencia • Head Start and Early Head Start • State Preschool Migrant Education • Migrant Head Start – Jose Martinez • Migrant Education – Maria DeHaro Children Services Unit – Sharon Baskett Student Programs & Services Alternative Education – Debra Sacks Special Education – Jan Powell Translation Services – Maria Jimenez Action Team for Partnerships Inter Divisional Leadership Team Head Start Policy Council Riverside County Office of Education Coordination of Parent and Family Involvement Activities, Events, Committees, and Councils

10. District Leaders for Parent Engagement • Review or guide the writing of district policy on family involvement. • Conduct staff development on partnerships. • Conduct workshops for parents. • Make other presentations on partnerships. • Coordinate a District Advisory Council on family and community involvement. • Collect best practices from schools to share throughout the district. • Conduct other district-level leadership activities on partnerships. Epstein, 2011

11. School Leaders for Parent Engagement • Help members communicate with each other. • Plan goal-oriented partnerships. • Conduct useful meetings. • Make decisions collegially and share leadership. • Continue to improve partnerships.

12. National Network of Partnership Schools (NNPS) • Benefits of membership • How to join • Award application http://www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/

13. Align Program and PolicyIntegrate partnership plans and practices with policies and procedures Riverside County Action Plan Family Engagement Framework 2013 Single Plan for Student Achievement Part III: Resource Index Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) and Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP)

14. Riverside County Action Planfor Partnerships

15. Family Engagement Framework http://www.wested.org/online_pubs/cpei/family-engagement-framework.pdf

16. 2013 Single Plan for Student Achievement Part III: Resource Index http://www.cde.ca.gov/nclb/sr/le/documents/spsaguidepart3.doc

17. Local Control Funding Formula Local Control Accountability Planand PELI …They Work Together An Overview of the Local Control Funding Formula

18. Guide Learning and Program Development • Conduct one-day team training workshops for ATPs and on-going professional development activities. Parent Engagement Leadership Initiative (PELI) Training Series Supplemental PELI Modules

19. PELI Training Series

20. Supplemental PELI Modules

21. Collaborate “Collaboration is a mindset that says, of course I’m going to need the help of others to do my job well!” ~Sidney L. Gardner

22. Share Knowledge • Communicate on a regular schedule, collect best practices, network with others locally and nationally Your turn to share!

23. Celebrate Milestones • Recognize progress and excellence Exemplary Practices in Parent Engagement (EPPE) Award Riverside County Office of Education and 23rd District PTA Presented at Parent and Family Engagement Summit Promising Partnership Practice National Network of Partnership Schools (NNPS) Compilation published annually by NNPS

24. Celebrate Alvord Unified School District (Promising Partnership Practice, NNPS) Beaumont High School, Beaumont Unified School District (EPPE Award, RCOE) Early Childhood and Family Education, Riverside Unified School District (EPPE Award, RCOE) Moreno Valley District English Learner Advisory Committee (EPPE Award, RCOE and Promising Partnership Practice, NNPS ) Murrieta Valley Unified School District (EPPE Honorable Mention, RCOE) Parent Engagement Leadership Initiative, Riverside County Office of Education (Promising Partnership Practice, NNPS) Thomas Jefferson Middle School, Desert Sands Unified School District (EPPE Honorable Mention, RCOE)

25. Document Progress and Evaluate Outcomes Evaluate teamwork, family and community involvement activities, quality of district and school programs Action Team for Partnerships List What can PELI do for you?

26. ATP Network Next meeting?? When? Who? What? THANKS!!