2024 CSxFE - Colorado by FCE Network

Brief Agenda

thefcenetwork — 2024-05-21 18:39:06 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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Contact us!

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Katie Wilberding Cross, Sr. Director of Youth Initiatives and Education, Mile High United Way (katie.wilberding-cross@unitedwaydenver.org)

Shannon Allen, Out-of-School Time Programs Specialist, Office of Student Support, Colorado Department of Education (allen_s@cde.state.co.us)

Jes Stroope, Senior Consultant, Office of Family, School, Community Partnerships, Colorado Department of Education (stroope_j@cde.state.co.us)

Keystone Policy Center: Kate garvin

2024-05-29 21:09:45 UTC

Statewide Family Engagement Center investment from DOE to support multi-tiered family engagement across CO

Colorado Education Association

2024-05-29 21:11:30 UTC

Co-creating opportunities for labor-management-community collaboration through community schools.

2024-05-29 21:13:10 UTC

Started a building leadership team.

Colorado Dept of Education

2024-05-29 21:13:33 UTC

With CDHE and university partners, created two surveys to inform educator preparation programs on training future educators for family engagement

Crawford, APS

2024-05-29 21:14:17 UTC

Parents leading advocacy efforts to keep our Family Liaisons for Special Populations -Maggie

Community Schools in APS

2024-05-29 21:14:24 UTC

Hundreds of families, partners and staff advocating for sustaining of CS positions

B Lewis, APS

Increased staff understanding and buy in for CS.

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Mile High United Way

2024-05-29 21:14:52 UTC

Colorado Coalition of Community Schools Steering Committee creation and ongoing work.

Office of FSCP at CDE capacity increased

2024-05-29 21:14:57 UTC

Expanded reach of the Office of FSCP through the Keystone SFEC grant Kate Garvin Keystone Policy Center

CS Statewide Coalition

2024-05-29 21:15:11 UTC

Formalizing a statewide coalition for folx across the state including parents and CSCs.

B Lewis, APS

Wrap around

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Recreating a center that allows for wrap-around services within in the community. -Dani Adams 14

Outreach events in the community. Sandra Lopez ability connection Colorado

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Englewood Schools-Clarice Fortunato

2024-05-29 21:15:14 UTC

Parent-Led School and District Accountabilty Committee Kickoff
Sustain a 99% donation based Family Resource Center for 3 years and running.
Added numerous community partners to our network

Community Schools Coalition

2024-05-29 21:15:19 UTC

Colorado has a community schools coalition steering committee! Established in October 2024 and meeting monthly to explore ways to support and scale the strategy in our state.

2024-05-29 21:15:21 UTC

Expanding our Families and Educator Together teams from 18 to 28 schools since last May to strengthen community and build capacity for stronger partnerships at more sites + spreading the usage of TalkingPoints to hundreds of educators at 35 plus schools.

Collaborative Leadership Embodied

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Parent leaders at Montview Elementary are proud and bought into the Community School framework, leading to true partnership and successful advocacy for structures, programming, resources.

Ability Connection Colorado Denver

2024-05-29 21:15:44 UTC

More family engagement by meetings in-person and connecting with the families early on in the school year

Community Schools in APS

2024-05-29 21:15:49 UTC

Hosted over 12 site visits and tours for other schools, school districts and external orgs who want to learn more about CS.

B Lewis, APS

I'm hear to learn more about community schools and the impact it could have in our county.

2024-05-29 21:17:36 UTC

Adams County Feedback

2024-05-29 21:17:59 UTC

Bringing families together from Montview and Crawford Elementaries to provide feedback to Adams County which has turned into actionable next steps - Maggie, APS

CDE

2024-05-29 21:18:05 UTC

CDE facilitated an internal Professional Learning Community about the community school strategy that involved site visits to APS and Adams 14 community schools.

Aurora Public Schools

2024-05-29 21:18:30 UTC

Bringing parent leaders and partners together in a EOY session to celebrate wins and collective impact!

B Lewis, APS

2024-05-29 21:18:33 UTC

Increased parent engagement and programming.

Nationwide brightspots

2024-05-29 21:20:09 UTC

Learn what works to inspire, co-create and adapt new ideas.

Kate Garvin, keystone policy

Community Schools Framework

2024-05-29 21:20:20 UTC

Utilizing the community schools framework to disrupt the narrative that community schools are only wrap around services or an accountability mechanism.

Differences

2024-05-29 21:20:49 UTC

I am looking to learn more about what other school districts do within there community school and what efforts they took to achieve those changes.

Capacity building statewide

2024-05-29 21:22:34 UTC

Bringing in national and community based resources to CO districts.

2024-05-29 21:22:53 UTC

How to build a solid foundation with partners, community and school officials to ensure the strategy flourishes, thereby improving the lives and academic successes of the children in our county

Ability Connection Colorado Denver

2024-05-29 21:30:37 UTC

New and indicative ways to engage families in the school

2024-05-29 21:31:31 UTC

How to bridge staff and community partners to be working collaboratively toward the same goals

Learn from other states

2024-05-29 21:31:33 UTC

I am eager to learn about what’s working in other states and what best practices they are prioritizing, as well as ways they are effectively integrating and elevating family partnership practices more fully in systemic ways. - Ari, Boulder Valley

Partner Relations

2024-05-29 21:31:35 UTC

How to build sustainable partner relations without our partners burning out

Effective Community Schools Scaling Strategies

2024-05-29 21:31:48 UTC

Learning from other states with similar contexts (rural/small rural, local control, etc.) about the strategies they have used to support and scale the strategy in their states.

Capacity Building

2024-05-29 21:31:50 UTC

Examples of how to sustain and build capacity in larger scales in family engagement.

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How to get the families more involved. Sandra Lopez ability connection colorado

Ability Connection Colorado Denver

2024-05-29 21:31:54 UTC

Regular connection and outreach events

Community Schools Funding

2024-05-29 21:31:54 UTC

I hope to learn from other states how they sustainably fund their work.

Relationship building w our team

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Learn from other states about scaling up and funding to support

I would like to get connected with the state wide community schools coalition.

2024-05-29 21:33:05 UTC

Finalize a family engagement toolkit that is shared with every educator in our school district. - Ari

2024-05-29 21:33:06 UTC

Collective Bargaining, Local Policy, and Organizing

2024-05-29 21:33:14 UTC

Support local associations in developing collective bargaining language, school board resolutions, and local policy creation that advance community schools as well as additional grassroots organizing opportunities that build local support for community schools.

2024-05-29 21:33:15 UTC

I always love to hear successful strategies that other schools use in order to increase family engagement in their districts. (Special shouts outs to those districts that get families engaged who do not typically engage... for various reasons)

-I also love to hear how others measure engagement in their districts

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Unsure…we are in the very early stages but hoping to make more connections/plans to partner, fund and launch as soon as our community is comfortable and buy in has been established

Continue the community outreach and keep looking for partners. Sandra lopez ability connection Colorado

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Strategic connections with you all

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Academic / student achievement impact

2024-05-29 21:34:10 UTC

Tangible examples and data sets of how Community Schools and FE impact student outcomes. With these data sets and statewide policy, we could build more Engagement and buy-in across districts.

2024-05-29 21:34:20 UTC

Network with folx from other states and think elevate strategies to advocate for sustaining of community schools and FACE/FSCP frameworks: how do we shift mindsets from “this is nice to have” to “this is absolutely essential for school improvement and transformation”

B Lewis

Cross-learning

2024-05-29 21:35:17 UTC

Engage in more mutually beneficial learning between those more knowledgeable about community schools and those who focus more on school-family partnerships. - Ari, Boulder

2024-05-29 21:35:21 UTC

Coordinate with more partners further outside the Denver Metro area to promote and grow implementation

Family Engagement Council

2024-05-29 21:35:32 UTC

We are looking at bringing back our FSCP Council district-wide where there is representation in the form of a partner from every school.

Crawford, APS

2024-05-29 21:36:00 UTC

Work with district folks to help create a plan to scale community schools work across other schools. - Maggie

2024-05-29 21:36:02 UTC

One in person and one virtual conveniently of Colorado CS folks with the ntention to share practices and elevate the work.

FSCP @ CDE

2024-05-29 21:36:24 UTC

Continue to emphasize family engagement as a must have, not a nice to have, for school improvement.

Build out resources and support at the state level for the "C" in FSCP.

Community School Practitioners

2024-05-29 21:37:03 UTC

Consider elevating community school practitioners, perhaps even then having them form their own group, that works alongside the stateswide steering committee and perhaps even directing the work of the statewide steering committee.

Also, find ways to bring other school based employees more into the community school conversation.

FSCP @ CDE

2024-05-29 21:45:38 UTC

How other states are collecting data and measuring the impact of family engagement efforts.

Website!

2024-05-29 21:48:10 UTC

Increasing reach to rural counties

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