Listening Project

The Community Schools Coordinator:

1. Learns Community Schools best practices

2. Learns the history of Community Schools in the US

3. Shares Community Schools best practices with school and community stakeholders and leaders

4. Maps their school and community

5. Identifies members for the Needs & Assets Assessment team

6. Executes a plan with the Needs & Assets Assessment team to achieve 75-100% engagement among families, school staff, students, and community members

7. Produces a report with their Needs & Assets Assessment findings

8. Determines priorities in collaboration with others

Working/Focus Groups:

1. Form based on priorities derived from Needs & Assets Assessment

2. Develop a problem statement and describe its current state

3. Investigate the problem using improvement science tools

4. Revise problem statements based on learning from the investigation

5. Create an aim and outcome measure for the project

6. Prioritize 1-3 ideas and run Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles

7. Attend to team functionality

8. Compile data measures, consolidate learning, and determine progress towards their aim

9. Prepare to tell their team's improvement story using the Storytelling Toolkit

10. Tell their story to wider audiences

Goal: Hear from all community members (stakeholders) to better understand the needs, wants, and assets of the community as a whole. 

Purpose: Identify the most important areas of growth/need in the community in order to form working groups of interested stakeholders who can engage in direct action as well as the allocation of resources to address the prioritized need. 

Process: Engage in a series of focus groups as well as surveys and one-on-one conversations to ensure multiple data-points are garnered from all stakeholders (students, parents, staff/teachers, and community partners) regarding their chief concerns for the community as well as highlight actions that they may be willing to take within the community schools work.

• See each stakeholder page for a more detailed outline of the process for each group.