Classroom Integration
Overview
Goal: Using the classroom space as a vehical to help implement the community schools initiative through empowering students to aid in the completion of the different components of the community schools journey from the needs and assets assessment to the implementation of potential solutions to help actively improve their school as well as community around them.
Purpose: Build up students' soft and hard skills to help them become active change makers in their community as well as make the classroom a meaning culturally/community responsive space to the wants and needs of the students.
Process:
Components:
a. Onboarding & Educating Campus about Community Schools
b. Needs & Assets Assessment Implementation
c. Community & Site Resource Mapping
d. Solution Identification & Implementation
e. Evaluation of Interventions & Solutions
Community Schools PBL Integration Framework
Community Schools Project Based Learning Integration: One of the main aims of Community Schools is to ensure that students and all educational partners are empowered to be active change makers in their lives as well as their community. Project Based Learning allows for the classroom space to become a space where teachers and students can actively utilize the time, skills, and resources to look to the needs of the community and work to address those needs. If you click on the "Community Schools Project Based Learning Integration" button, you will visit a page with resources to integrate Community Schools pedagogy (mentod of teaching) within your own classroom and align your classroom with meeting the needs of the community and using your classroom as an engine of change within your community.
Onboarding/Rollout:
ALL STAFF MEETING: Scheduled an optional all-staff informational meeting where the Community Schools Coordinator and the Site Coach presented:
(1) - Highlighted already existing projects, work, and successes of Community Schools throughout the year.
(2) - The final summaries of the needs and assets assessment (Listening Project) where the top issues/areas of growth are identified.
(3) - Preview the topics and expectations of the working groups.
(4) - Push out a google form for those in attendance to sign-up for the working groups for next year.
RESOURCES: Slide Deck - Survey
PBL SUMMER INSTITUTE: Aim is to intentionally recruit members from different academies, pathways, etc. to engage in project development that is reflective of the NAA.
Resource: Slide Deck - Graphic Organizer
Purpose: Aim is to have the academies intentionally integrate the NAA into their project planning for the following year.
PBL Community Schools Scaffold Menu:
Working Group PDSA
Component 1: Community Schools Sub-Committee Prework -
Recruit Members: Pre Have the Community Schools Sub-Committee complete "component one" of the working group protocol (see below in the folder) in order to intentionally recruit a diverse array of educational partners for the first meeting of the working group.
NOTE: Members should utilize the survey from the onboarding meeting as well as info from the needs and assets assessment to identify different educational partners to be a part of the working group.
Component 2: Working Group Initial Meeting - Identifying Root Cause and Measuring Baseline -
Role Selection: Each member identifies what role they want to take on in the working group ranging from solution implementation to data analysis and presentation.
Root Cause: Working group members identify the root cause of the issue they are addressing
Baseline Data: Working group members glean the baseline data from the needs and assets assessment and/or create a data gathering plan to identify the baseline data set that they want to try and change with their solution/intervention.
COMPONENT 3: Working Group Meeting - Solutions, Goal Setting, & Planning
Identify Solutions: Working group members identifying research based solution to implement as a group that clearly addresses the issue and is aimed at improving the baseline data set.
Solution Implementation Plan: Clearly idenfity who is doing what, when, and how when it comes to the implementation of the solution.
Tracking Data Collection Plan: A plan is created to collect data on the solution to see if the solution is working at improving the community and addressing the solution. This data will be used to evaluate the solution at the end of the implementation timeline.
Fidelity of Implementation/Transparency
Community Schools Sub-Committee Member Coaches: Ensure Community Schools Sub-Committee members take lead within the working groups to ensure: (1) the following of consensus decision making in the meetings, (2) completion of the steps of the working group protocol.
Maintanence of Working Group Websites: Designated member(s) within the working group will host their completed graphic organizers that host the collected data as well as soluntion implementation process. The sites will also highlight the meeting times/places so others can join in the work.
Evaluation:
COMPONENT 4: Solution Evaluation, Reflection, & Refinement
Evaluate Solution - Working group analyzed the tracking data and reflects upon the solution implementation to see if they want to continue the solution or attempt to adopt a different strategy to address the issue.
Community Schools - Public Health Advocacy Project
Overview: This project (as well as the project documents below) follows the Community Schools model of issue identification as well as highlights community education and engagement in solution formulation.
Essential Question: What should we do to make our community healthier?
Purpose: Provide an in-depth research-based analysis and solution to an issue affecting the school community.
Deliverables:
Website
Presentation of findings
Graphic Organizers for the audience
Community Conversation Regarding Public Health Issues
Evidence of Solution Implementation
Length: 1 Semester
Example of Student Final Products: