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Preparing your budgets to use ESSER/CARES/Title I funds? – NOW is the time for schools and districts to invest in Family-School-Community Engagement

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April 28, 2021

Preparing your budgets to use ESSER/CARES/Title I funds? – NOW is the time for schools and districts to invest in Family-School-Community Engagement – What else can you invest in that will have such a long-term impact for your students, families and community?

One thing that everyone has learned through the COVID pandemic is the importance of the relationships between families, schools and communities.  We were forced to lean on each other in order to keep our kids learning and help all of us deal with isolation.

But how??? How do you connect, build relationships, support and strengthen each other with the ultimate goal of collaboration and collective efficacy?   That is where the transformational ParentCamp Family-School-Community Engagement Model comes in to play.  We flip traditional family engagement on its head!

We walk you to and thru your first ParentCamp where your school, district or state will experience these benefits:

  1. Your students, families, school staff and community receive the gift of each other.

  2. Authentic, joyful and meaningful family-school-community engagement | Hear Principal and Community Perspectives from ParentCamp Walla Walla Public Schools

  3. The needs of your family-school-community to connect and feel seen, heard & valued are MET

  4. Connection, strengthening and collaboration

  5. Resilience, health and well-being | Resilience is a team sport (Harvard Business Review article)

  6. A connected ecosystem through which love, opportunities, resources, kindness and hope flow to kids

  7. Trusting relationships with parents and families (inclusive), community and businesses

  8. Parents as collaborative advocates

  9. Gains in student achievement

    1. Earn higher grades and test scores

    1. Be promoted, pass their classes and earn credits

    1. Attend school regularly

    1. Graduate from high school and attend post-secondary education

    1. Have better social skills and classroom behavior (Henderson & Mapp, 2002)

      1. The Family Engagement Partnership Student Outcome Evaluation

      1. A New Wave of Evidence

  1. Positive community narrative of school/district

  2. Family-school-community engagement moves from silos, fortress schools to partnership schools

  3. Bring the gifts and resources from the people your community TOGETHER to benefit kids

Still not convinced?  Check out what participants at the most recent Walla Walla Public Schools Virtual ParentCamp had to share about their experience: 

Ready to get started on a new trajectory in family-school-community-engagement journey?  Visit our service page to learn more and complete the contact form so we can connect and help you to start making an impact in your school ecosystem.

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