Transcript Community Engagement: The Key to Your Success

Community Engagement:
The Key to Student Achievement
Presented by Norm Wooten,
Immediate Past President
National School Boards Association
Alaska – The
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State
Facts:
• 100,000 glaciers
• 33,000 miles of shoreline
• Larger than the next four
largest states combined
• 5,000 earthquakes annually
• 70 potentially active volcanoes
• Eastern, western, & northern
most points in the U.S.
Modern Day Village Living
Modern Day Urban Living
Alaska Initiative for Community
Engagement (Alaska ICE)
A statewide initiative to create a positive web of
support for all kids in every community
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Shared responsibility
Strength-based: helping kids succeed
Development Assets Framework
Adult-youth relationships
Intentionality
Partnerships and collaborations
Not a program
Developmental Assets Framework
External Assets
Support
Empowerment
Boundaries and Expectations
Constructive Use of Time
Internal Assets
Commitment to Learning
Positive Values
Social Competencies
Positive Identity
Developmental Assets FrameworkTM, Search InstituteSM, www.search-institute.org
Helping Kids Succeed – Alaska Style
Helping Little Kids Succeed – Alaska Style
The Power of Assets to Protect Against
Risk-Taking Behaviors
Average Number of RiskTaking Behaviors
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0-10 assets 11-20 assets 21-30 assets 31-40 assets
Asset Level
The 24 risk-taking behaviors are: alcohol use, tobacco use, inhalants, illicit drugs, drinking and driving, riding
with a driver who has been drinking, sexual intercourse, shoplifting, vandalism, trouble with police, assault,
use of weapon, group fighting, carrying weapon, threatening harm, skipping school, gambling, eating
disorders, depression and attempted suicide.
Community Engagement Kodiak Style
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Facts…
• 9 school communities
• 14 schools
• 2800 students
• 5 member board plus a
student and US Coast Guard
advisory representative
• Largest USCG Base
Kodiak Plan – An Ongoing Process
and Growth Model in Action
Aim: High Student Achievement
Goal: Implement and support educational programs and processes that ensure all
students are proficient or beyond in reading, writing, math and science.
Aim: Ensure a High Performing Workforce and a High Performing Work Environment
Goal: Develop and implement a comprehensive staff development plan based on best
practices to ensure accountability and high performance for all staff and students.
Aim: Ensure Efficient and Effective Communication
Goal: Improve communication with parents, staff, students and community for the
purpose of increasing successes and decreasing failures in instruction, personnel,
finance and operations, and community support.
Kodiak Aim 2 -- Workforce
AIM: Ensure a High Performing Workforce and Work Environment
Goal: Develop and implement a comprehensive staff development plan based on best
practices to ensure accountability and high performance for all staff a students.
•Comprehensive Staff Development Plan •Parents/volunteers as reading tutors project
•Safety Hall Monitor (KMS and KHS)
•TOPS Training
•After school tutoring
•Attitude and Behavior Survey
•Assets Festival
•Train staff and community to use and analyze data
improving the learning environments
•Student/Adult Asset Club
•Increase popular “drug free” activities. (6:30 a.m. club)
Kodiak Aim 3 – Communication
AIM:
Ensure Efficient and Effective Communication
Goal:
Improve Communication with parents, staff, students and community
for the purpose of increasing successes and decreasing failures in
instruction, personnel, finance and operations.
•Powerschool
•Community Budget Meetings
•Two-way video/audio
•School Advisory Boards
•School Newsletters
•QS2 plans/process
•Surveys
•Parent Facilitators
•Results-based budgeting
•Increased student participation
on committees
Kodiak Math Weekly: Student Totals
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Total Math
total possible
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wk2
wk3
wk4
wk5
wk6
wk7
wk8
wk9
wk10
Students have two questions from each math content standard. Questions are randomly chosen from specific
end of year grade-level expectations. The teacher and the students are measuring and analyzing the growth or
lack of growth that has taken place from week to week.
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KIBSD Grade
Oral Reading Fluency
Benchmark goal for all students: 40 correct words per minute at the end of First Grade.
Students scoring 20 or more in the middle of First Grade are likely to achieve the benchmark goal
with effective instruction.
KIBSD Exit Exam Results:
% Proficient
50%
63%
66%
89%
58%
65%
60%
69%
70%
72%
80%
84%
84%
90%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
10th reading
10th writing
10th math
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To Sustain It, It Must Be an
Integral Part of WHO You Are
- Mission Statement
- Goals
- Long Range Plan
- Programs - QS2 and Alaska ICE
- Staffing
- Funding
- Evaluation