2024 CSxFE - Massachusetts by FCE Network

Brief Agenda

thefcenetwork — 2024-05-21 18:50:30 UTC

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

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State Coalitions Stages of Development

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Sign-in Form

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Complete this form so your state facilitator can follow up with you.

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The pilot sunsetting and preparing to embark on the work!

Parent cafes

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Equitable literacy event for families

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Clothing drives

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Multicultural night!

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Parent volunteers

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Hernandez: Reducing chronic absenteeism from 30% to 15%

Brandel Delgado

Partnership with GBFB

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An amazing multicultural night!

Monthly Parent Cafes

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#1 attendance in my region !

-running a holiday gift drive, getting over 200 items donated and providing gifts and winter items to 45 kids in our school community

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Haynes Early Education Center. One major win was creating an equitable literacy event to help bring awareness to the importance of literacy in early childhood education.

Food pantry

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Family Engagement Insitute for school leadership teams

Conducted an inventory to organize our partnerships

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Family dinners, family bingo night, earth day campus cleanup with families

In partnership with UMass Boston, we had a visit from Nikki Giovanni at our school. We also had two students travel to the Vatican to participate in on a youth panel in an internatial climate summit (all expenses paid).

UMass also secured funding for scholarships for about 3-4 graduates from our school each year.

Ondrea - Boston (Ruth Batson Academy)

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Union invited to the table!!!!

Increase in family volunteers at school events

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Family focus groups at affordable housing complex

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Parent education, understanding what your child needs

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Increased family involvement

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YMCA Mobile Market

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Jessica- Boston, MA

Community Attendance Coalition

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Salem, Ma

Seeing more family engagement

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Attempts at amplifying and encouraging leadership opportunities to families in the majority. Nia, BPS

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Rosanna - Boston. Family climate survey participation increased significantly from 60 families for last year’s to 110+ for the spring 24.

Success stories

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Amy Chruniak, Lynn: Expanded after school opportunities based on parent feedback provided in one on one interviews

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New position to align internal and external partners

Family Engagement

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Haverhill hosted an early learning fair that connected families to preschool and kindergarten enrollment, medical providers, vision screenings, summer camps and books!

Operationalizing welcome center

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Donuts with Dad

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Trotter: Our Donuts with Dad event was a major success with a large father/father figure turnout and multiple vendors from the city including the Office of Black Male Advancement. It made the news and was a really great event.

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I hope to learn how to get Universities more involved with community schools.

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Create at least 2 project based learning opportunities that involve a community partnership

Mobile Market

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Community resources

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Sustainability

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What grants are we eligible for to continue this work?

Achieving our 5 year target chronic absence rate in year 1!

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Our district had many Community School and Family Engagement wins/bright spots this year, including decreasing our chronic absence rate by 14% at our community schools compared to 10% throughout the district!

Dr. Rosa Segarra-Morales (she/hers/ella), District Support Specialist and Community Schools District Coordinator, Lowell Public Schools

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Anything that I can bring back and apply to my community

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Secured a partnership with Catie’s Closet.

Bright Spots

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Electing a functioning SPC

Increase number of Partnerships

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How to authentically engage families.

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I will bring more resources and funding into the school for partnerships and programs.

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Continue to engage and strengthen relationships with admin and staff in the school community

King

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55+ families & students attended Equitable Literacy Night

30 students & staff participated in our Strawberry DNA extraction workshop

Grants and funds.

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How to incorporate community school strategies into the classroom and increase teacher buy in.

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Have a meeting with all the coordinators and school leaders about the direction of community schools in Boston.

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school leader buy in and understanding of community schools

Increase family engagement opportunities for teachers and families

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Q1

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-We had family workshops once a month.

Teachers had the expectation to invite families once every grading period.
Student parent council were able to run successfully as we built capacity with them

Bargain

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Bargain contract language to guarantee our community schools service!

Mattahunt

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Food pantry foot traffic has picked up and the Mattahunt after school program on the fly

King

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Strategies to improve attendance

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Hiking trip with over 20 families

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Meeting and collaborating more consistently with my Principal

Creating deeper relationships with partners

Building new Partnerships

Beginning a new after school

King

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Try to create more family events

State funding

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Need community school grants

King

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Help to increase awareness and by-in from families

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How to navigate community connections better with all the facilities around our school

Blanca Burgos BPS LYNDON K-8

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How community schools effectively engage families in the educational process and fostering a sense of partnership and empowerment within the community.

Mattahunt

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Build a relationship with the health center

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Focus more on evidence based practices and family engagement.

Strategies to bring more underserve families to get engage

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More professional development

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Gage parents more to do a school tour which may help with school participation and school parent council

Information Sessions to Interested School Leaders

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We stirred up interest and were able to expand awareness of the strategy and the work that has been happening over the last 2.5 years

Successful Literacy Event Parent attendance and participation was high

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gave out over 200 books and gifts

Absenteeism down 7%

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Flexibility

Progress on the work

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Making significant progress in the work that needs to be done as we come out of the pilot has been a big bright spot. We are more thoughtful than ever as a collaborative and remain consistent in ensuring new members to the collaborative are well informed of the work that preceeds their entry point.

More leadership workshops

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I will create a small scale food Pantry to serve Mather families

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Expand our partnership with Champion Taekwondo to offer to more families

Learning

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Looking into hearing about all the greatness Community Schools bring to Massachusetts and how we can begin the process in Haverhill.

Team Haverhill

Strategies to support community school managers in implementing programming, assessing effectiveness of strategies and strategies to support and expand community schools programming from within our district.

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Rosa Segarra-Morales, Lowell Public Schools

Integrate and streamline data systems for ease of access across stakeholders, in consideration of grant and district needs, in order to foster continuance improvement and program sustainability across community schools within my district.

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Rosa Segarra-Morales, Lowell Public Schools

Advocate for DESE to invest and ensure districts invest in community school programming in every school/every district in Massachusetts!

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Rosa Segarra-Morales, Lowell Public Schools

Develop a food pantry

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Keep Advocating!

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I will begin to recruit school based staff to be a part of the community schools advisory board

Provide more educational programs for families

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Increase family engagement, especially with newer families!

How other schools are doing implementing the strategy

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More Visuals of Hub Schools in our school building.

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How do get more engagement from our families, especially those new to the country and/or speak various languages?

Ondrea - Boston (Ruth Batson Academy)

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I would like to work with other parents to start a parent council in my district

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Seek new funding opportunities

Towards next year

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I want to develop our afterschool programming to be accessible to more students.

Listen to the voice of families,students and teachers in order to continue moving forward.

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Work with educators for to enhance the community school movement into curriculum.

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Much stronger intention around making sure leaders, schools and families know what Community Schools are and how everyone can participate etc - not placing that responsibility solely on the coordinator.

Align partnership to academic goals.

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Continuing to push for an increase in Family engagement by creating a needs assessment form that accessible prior to the start of the school year.

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Work on finding funding for sustainability

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We will work with UMass Boston to develop what our partnership as a university-assisted community school looks like. We will forma steering committee of staff, families, students, the Harbor Point community, and university staff and students to design projects and research that we want to see in place at our school.

Provide more training opportunities, raise awareness and build more connections with providers.

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Ellison/Parks

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Encourage & Create more opportunities for families to partner with classroom educators. In addition to coaching families to be proactive in reaching out to classrooms l, to know where there student is at, in their academic & social emotional development

Increasing teacher buy-in around community schools and helping them understand their role in this work.

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Kilmer School, BPS

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Looking for ways to bring in more families to the work. I want them to understand the value in their partnership and the need for their support.

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I would like to do a constellation night partnering with high rock constellation in Lynn.

Build on the programs already in place that celebrate identity

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Connect Community Based Learning

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As we develop work-based learning experiences in our high schools, simultaneously create some volunteer opportunities for high schoolers at community schools or with CBO’s to benefit community schools.

Support the hiring of key leaders

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Boston is hiring a district- and school-level Hub School staff. Bring intentional and thoughtful through hiring processes has yielded high quality staff on our team of Coordinators. I am committed to supporting high quality processes to fill existing vacancies.

More Strategies to measure family engagement, & teacher/parent partnerships

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Launch a multidisciplinary children’s cabinet for our city to share resources, ideas and have space for collaboration in order to support children and families

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Continue training educators to understand that yes family engagement is events but it starts from the children enter the programs

Find way to work with chronic absenteeism

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