Area 4 - Flexible and Robust Communication for Stakeholder Engagement 🍎

Engaging parents and the community in the success of our students

  • Increase teacher and leadership capacity

  • Improve practices that improve student outcomes

  • College & career counseling

  • Implementing innovative, individualized, and inquiry-based programming designed to address our students’ academic needs and needs for resiliency inside and outside the classroom

  • Promoting equal access and inclusion strategies and structures to address gaps and ensure all stakeholders are seen, heard, and valued

Building trust by providing timely, accurate, transparent, and engaging communication with our stakeholders and community

  • The most powerful learning results from meaningful, active engagement

  • To support a diverse learning community

  • Growth and expansion

  • Governance and board/superintendent collaboration

  • Fiscal accountability

  • Private-public partnerships

Improve communication

  • Staff support and engagement

  • Improve the climate

Community Engagement

  • Recruiting, retaining, and developing an exceptional staff dedicated to and representative of our diverse community

 Student Wellbeing

  • Safe and inclusive school communities

  • Active collaboration with law enforcement, city, and county commissions

  • Success for ALL students

  • To provide students with the knowledge, skills, and support

  • To help each child live an emotionally balanced life by teaching skills and strategies to be resilient, identify the causes of stress, and reduce stress

 SUMMARY:

  • Trust is important between all stakeholders. People don’t trust what they don’t know.

  • Leon County Schools (LCS) must foster safe and inclusive school communities. This means that we are taking care of the whole child.

  • Communication is broken in the LCS school system. Global communication, transparent communication, and school-level communication are paramount. Highlighting the greatest need for communication between teacher and parent, with communication being a constant between parties.

  • There is a need for robust training for all stakeholders to understand the system and, more importantly, to trust it. It will allow the stakeholders to provide continuous and honest feedback that allows for active listening and modifications of our way of work within the entire school district.

  • Institute “Community Conversations” so stakeholders have more opportunities other than the board meetings to speak to district leadership for safe and supportive feedback.

  • Demand collaboration with city and county commissions at their board meetings and their presence at our meetings for open collaboration between our agencies.

  • Active discussions between LCS and government agencies to benefit district operations and the support of safe schools and sites throughout the district.