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As a school board, we will increase communication for accountability to all stakeholders, including families and the larger community.

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We will improve communication with stake holders in the following categories:

Budget

Instruction and Learning

Crisis Management

Parents Rights

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Implement formal communication channels and care for them properly.  Develop and maintain correct contact information for families, including emails, phone numbers and addresses.  Use these contacts to communicate important information on a regular basis.

Principals will communicate with families particular news of individual schools via email, phone, student folders in the form of a weekly news letter.

Each school in the district will maintain a Google Classroom, and will encourage and monitor reciprocal participation in the Google Classroom between families and schools.

Encourage family participation in school board meetings through calendars, emails and robocalls.  Provide notification via established communication channels of the location and times of meetings. Provide a fact sheet about why attendance to board meetings matter and that all stake holders have important contributions to offer.

Communication will be open and welcoming. Communication on the phone will be professional and courteous and without long waiting times. Communication via email will be grammatically correct, professional, accessible and without educational jargon. Communication in person will present families with a warm physical atmosphere and presentable professionals. When entering our buildings, families will be greeted and given the chance to express their needs or concerns or have their questions answered in a professional and respectful way.

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Families and the community will have the opportunity to review budget proposals. Employee salary scales will be public.  Notification will be provided via established formal communication channels as to when and how to access budget materials.

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The school board will provide transparency in both teaching and learning in the following ways:

Interim reports will be mailed/sent home in the middle of each quarter term so that educators, students and families will be able to make adjustments prior to the official report cards are finalized.

Teachers will be encouraged to update their grade book daily so that families may assess their students' performance on a daily basis so that adjustments may be made in small increments, thus will be more manageable for families and students. Additionally, families will be provided with login information for each student's online grade book provided by the school district website.

Teachers will be encouraged to create a Google Classroom for each class and post assignments, updates, enrichment opportunities, reminders, newsletters etc.  Parents will be given these logins as well.

Teachers' qualifications will be made available to families and this availability will be communicated through the established formal communication channels.

All standardized test scores will be made available to families. Schools will participate in the dissemination of this informational and supporting families in understanding their meaning and how to interpret results. Families will also have access to general scores of their particular schools and the district and the national comparison.

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The school board will develop a plan for crisis management. This plan will be communicated to parents. All employees will be given iservices so that they understand this plan and their role in it.

The district will provide full and expedient transparency to families (and the community when deemed absolutely necessary) when a crisis occurs.

The crisis management plan will be provided to families.

Following a crisis, the district will communicate the status of the issue and provide follow up information to families as soon as possible. Students' privacy will be honored in all communications about crisis'.

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Parents and guardians will understand their rights because the district and school board will make valiant efforts to communicate these rights in honest and fidelity. As in other categories, information will be provided  through the established communication channels.

General rights will be communicated to all parents and guardians regarding FAPE.

Additional rights, as they become more relevant due to individual circumstances will also be communicated. Examples include rights regarding students with IEPs, English language learners, and students with long-term illnesses or mental health issues.

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Thank you for attending this meeting about how we can provide more communication to families and the community that we serve. These strategies and objectives and help us become partners with families and the community. It truly does take a village to raise a child.  Stake holders have entrusted their children to our hands, and the least we can do is clearly communicate to them how we are educating them and caring for them.