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Coordination via ESUs to make school improvement, MTSS, and Community Schools Engagement intertwined

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Collaboration of MTSS, LMHP, and school nurse to support students in and out of school

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Identifying needs and wants with our partnership SBHC. How we need to continue to grow the partnership to support whole family.

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Provide insight/foundation to principals so next steps and contacts can begin

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Provide direction for increasing engagement at each level. A lot is elementary-focused, but engagement in high school is extremely low.

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More PD around the notion of involvement vs engagement

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Need to increase certain behaviors/action, I.e. more intentionality, to increase our positive interactions with families and students

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Actively collaborate with other schools and districts to create a model of success for our student/family needs.

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How to overcome the barriers and challenges to CSFE: Specific and innovative examples of successful strategies.

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Facilitate and build stronger relationships with other community organizations and schools to bring additional resources to participants.

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How family engagement looks different in different communities 

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How family engagement looks different in different communities 

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strengthen partnerships with our schools in our area

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Form a coalition to bring the initiatives together.

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Specific list of engagement activities.

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Participate more in my school’s family night activities with my own children.

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Get all available resources to work  together on the model 

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Get all available resources to work  together on the model 

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How have schools found success with parent/ community engagement with increasing student need?

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Hoping to find ways to build a stronger family engagement group who feels comfortable advocating for themselves at Benson.

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Have a voice at Nebraska Legislature

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What is a good starting structure for a CS? Where do you start?  Who employs the coordinator to be most successful?

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What is a good starting structure for a CS? Where do you start?  Who employs the coordinator to be most successful?

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How to promote Family ENGAGEMENT with what seems to be limited funds and transportation.  I know the answer is out there- 

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How to promote Family ENGAGEMENT with what seems to be limited funds and transportation.  I know the answer is out there- 

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Cindy Johnson

Boyd County Schools

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How to be strategic in aligning community based prevention and local schools.

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How to be strategic in aligning community based prevention and local schools.

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-Omaha

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Learn about different configurations of full service community schools that have been successful in preparing children for college and career

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How much tailoring can be done, all while ensuring we are still following the pillars of Community Schools?

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Looking for additional insight into possible interventions or strategies surrounding chronic absenteeism.

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So much info at the elementary level. Interested to see how this is implemented in the secondary setting.

Cathie Bell, Benson High

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What are sites doing in each pillar that have been successful or need improvement

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How to be more intentional and strategic in our implementation

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Other organizations/schools to collaborate with.

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Collaborate within our district - district effort - everyone working towards same goals

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What family engagement models are successfully implemented in immigrant communities?

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What family engagement models are successfully implemented in immigrant communities?

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How do you gain buy-in from resistant families or families who have not had positive school experiences in the past?

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Additional ways to collaborate with families and provide connections that better outline the importance of school/engagement/attendance

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Try to gain funds to use towards engaging families.

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Beginning and now wrapping up rural schools initiative evaluation, there is so much learned we can’t wait to share back with communities to grow community schools across the state.

Corie, NCFF

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We held three events throughout the year to encourage families to come to the building. We focused on building a sense of community and literacy giveaways. Our turnout increased from last year.

Mary Reece @ Benson High School

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Our elementary school has really jumped in with a family literacy program. We have also put together an online parent resource library and have many family engagements nights throughout the year.

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Share what I have learned at this conference with the leaders in my district.

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Collaborative is bringing awareness and support to meet the needs of school, family and students.  

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Collaborative is bringing awareness and support to meet the needs of school, family and students.  

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Create hub of resources for families! Creating medical support for needed communities.

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Parent-teacher conferences had higher turnouts in fall and spring this year than last year.

Shauntae’-OPS

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Title I Events

Family Nights

Back to School Bash

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I would love to get an entire list of parent engagement strategies.

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Offered parents support for off track students

Took students to Job Corps to explore post secondary options

Family engagement nights multiple times throughout the year

Cathie Bell, Benson High

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Parent meeting held prior to family night to discuss aba (academics, behavior, and attendance)

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Peer mentoring between higher level and lower level EL students has helped improve engagement of students

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Stakeholder surveys and action meetings 

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Stakeholder surveys and action meetings 

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Coordinated activities to get students out in the community, such as caroling and service projects.

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Learn more about the initiatives.

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Student Leadership Groups doing projects to involve families!

BC

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Community School efforts across the State

Multiple schools in NE with central navigation

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After school programs have increased participation compared to last year. Omaha NE

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We dedicated additional staff to analyzing and working with attendance data for our outreach regarding chronic absenteeism.

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What school districts are participating in the community school initiative?

What programs or services are they providing?

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Creating a two county Holt/Boyd Collaborative to help share resources, identify gaps. 

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Creating a two county Holt/Boyd Collaborative to help share resources, identify gaps. 

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Central navigators are connected to multiple middle schools throughout the Omaha metro area.

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Increased engagement in programming. Serving many different populations of participants that include 10 different languages. Increased enrollment by over 50%.

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We have an amazing attendance dashboard with specific attendance teams in every one of our schools.

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Informative conversations with students and families

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O’Neill Elementary School has done an excellent job with their Family Literacy Program!

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100% compliance with kdg physicals and vaccinations

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100% compliance with kdg physicals and vaccinations

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In collaboration with our school based health center we were able to be 100% in compliance with kindergarten physicals and vaccinations with over 100 kindergarten students Katy Cattlett - Spring Lake, Omaha

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Family Nights

Parent Meetings

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This year’s conference theme is Leveling Up for Success.

4:45 PM | Begin

4:45 - 4:55 PM | Overview

5:00 - 5:10 PM | Community Builder and Networking

5:10 - 5:30 PM | Bright Spots

5:30 - 5:50 PM | I and the We

5:50 - 6:00 PM | Next Steps

6:00 PM | End