CPSEL 4: Family and Community Engagement

CPSEL Standard 4

Overarching Goal: Collaborating with families and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and mobilizing community resources.

Goal:

LUSD Increase positive relations with community via multiple Volunteer Training, Community Nights and Messaging of PBIS strategies. Decrease chronic absenteeism by working with County Office of Education (LCOE) and Dashboard team.

OUSD increase compliance for Special Education families and students knowing past data at Elmhurst Community Prep:

• IEPs out of compliance (90% of goals need accurate baselines
• 100% of inherited 504s out of compliance
• No systems for 504
• No Special Education team or communication with families

Referral Data Presented and Explained to Board (sample slide from PBIS Presentation at Board Meeting)

LUSD: Worked with families and volunteers on having safer practices with Volunteers including working on Parent Handbook and Volunteer Orientation Presentations and Video. Decision came out of working with Admin., LCOE and PBIS District Coach.

• Currently our Dashboard is 20% Chronic Absenteeism but our site is decreasing that by 5% to 15%.
• Parent Volunteers facilitating recreational activities on the yard with students.
• Over 80 Volunteers in 3 Volunteer Orientations by 9/18
• Implemented PBIS approach to Attendance strategies, targeting data for Tier 3,2,1 students including SART meetings, Staff Education, Chronic Absenteeism Dashboard Facilitation and Behavior Systems with input from team (instituted Tiger Bucks and Monthly Tiger Store)

OUSD Goals as stated to District

By May 31, 2017 I will purposefully engage constituents in productive dialogue to develop and create co-ownership of a shared mission and vision that addresses equitable student academic, civic and social and emotional outcomes. I will also collaboratively develop systems and build the capacity of others to create and maintain relational trust between and among staff, fostering a healthy professional culture where members work in service of the school vision.

Dimensions of Goals: II & III

• Leadership for Visionary Change
• Leadership for Healthy Relationships and Culture

Elements of Dimensions II & III

• VC 1.2 Shared Vision, Collaborative Dialogue and Development
• RC 3.2 Staff Relational Trust and Professional Culture

Step 2 is my Goal.

My goals supports movement toward my Site Plan focus goals and equitable outcomes for the community I serve because I believe our Theory of Action: “We build authentic engagement to eliminate intellectual apartheid and ensure students master cognitive skills.”; intertwined with our Mission needs leadership that has a visionary aspect and intentionality behind it. Our community suffers from deep divides in learning achievement and in order to achieve closing this gap productive collaboration and is mandatory to produce results.

I will use my current strengths of being sensitive and efficient with deadlines to not only balance the emotional needs of staff but the need to have leadership with integrity. I am authentic when I engage coaching or facilitation of teams and I continually put trust at the forefront of learning conversations.

Some challenges I foresee are the workstream demands of being the an Asst. Principal including 60-70% of my time being consumed by discipline versus teacher observations, preparing for meetings and/or diving deeper into data to inform decisions.

Qualitative Data: Mindset Journals, Student Culture including referral data tracker of 7th Grade, Team Surveys, Teacher/Team Member Attendance at Team Meetings

Quantitative Data:

Teacher’s I coach/admin. SMARTE Goal data

7th Grade Team Referral Decrease from last year to end of this year and decrease in academic intervention at the end of the year or decrease in failing students for 7th grade

Number of SST’s held and tracked with follow through

Sped. Meetings held and Dept Theory of actions list reviewed and results followed up

• IEP Facilitation/SEIS (lead on over 100 IEPs)
• 504 Coordinator and Advocacy (lead on over 15 504s)
• Part of Admin Team building capacity for Teacher Commitment
• Goals created with Sped. Teachers and clear baselines
• Hired 2 new Sped Teachers that have put students at the center

A reflective essay summarizing strengths