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Goal Four

 
 

Goal IV: Community Engagement

 

We will foster and solidify positive relationships among students and families, school staff, and the community at large in order to energize and support our students to be successful, contributing members of society, which will result in greater success now and in the future.

 

 

Objectives

Strategies

IV-A

By 2024, we will increase family engagement in the district/schools, as shown by annually doubling membership in each school's PTA/PTO/PTSA, Booster organizations, family nights, Open Houses, etc. (families). Each school will develop an Action Plan to create and implement family events to bring more families into the school and doubling attendance in events after reflecting upon the success of the events and determining the next steps needed to increase family accessibility and participation. 
  1. Research models and best practices for engaging families into the life of the district and school. (Access Authoritative Sources on Parent involvement) Schools need to be aware of working families and create and hold events at convenient times for all families.
  2. Survey all parents in a multi-linguistic format to receive suggestions, guidance and feedback related to improving the district's/school's effectiveness at broadening the interest and participation of ALL parents in Milford schools. (Involve Key Stakeholders)
  3. Implement initial ideas for expanding parent engagement, reflect, and feed-forward (Bias toward Action). Each event will allow for feedback of the event to determine what worked and what didn't work. Feedback will come from parents, students and staff and be reviewed by administration or the group sponsoring the event.

IV-B

By 2024, we will increase student community engagement, as shown by doubling the number of developmentally appropriate community-based extended learning and service opportunities annually at each school.  
  1. Research models and best practices for engaging students in the life of the district and school. Provide students the opportunity to give suggestions and feedback to future community service events. (Access Authoritative Sources on student engagement)
  2. Reach out and solicit feedback from all students for guidance and feedback related to improving the district's/school's effectiveness at broadening student engagement. We need to ask our students what is important to them and how do we make learning relevant to them. (Involve Key Stakeholders)
  3. Implement initial ideas for expanding student engagement, reflect on implementation experience, feed-forward (Bias toward Action).

IV-C

By 2023, we will expand social and business organization relationships with the district, as evidenced by doubling organizations in town that work with the school district in a collaborative manner. an inventory of such organizations available for student extended learning opportunities. 
  1. Research models and best practices for engaging business, social, and other local organization into the life of the district and school. Work with existing partnerships and strive to develop more partnerships with community groups and activities. (Access Authoritative Sources on social and business organization involvement).

 

 

  1. Convene a District-wide advisory committee of social and business organization leaders to inform district strategies for deepening and broadening mutually beneficial relationships. We should strive to build coalitions with groups within town (Wadleigh Library, Boys & Girls Club, Amato Center, Hitchner, local restaurants, etc.) to foster work study relationships at all levels.
  2. Convene a facilities committee to review the adequacy, upkeep/maintenance, and functional life of district facilities and infrastructure to enable and support student achievement, fiscal efficiency and a cost effective delivery of programs and services.

IV-D

By 2024, we will strive to become an example to other school districts for developing strong community engagement to support and educational opportunities for students. Service and community-based learning opportunities and events will become common-place and of high quality involving all stakeholders in the community.
  1. Highlight and reflect upon existing community engagement efforts to learn what is currently working and what may not be. Receive feedback from all stakeholders to improve events and activities to continuously improve and grow community engagement over the course of this plan and into the future.
  2. Inquire as to what research/professional journals suggest are promising practices for increasing community engagement in general for improving student educational experiences, however it is important to put into place practices that are unique to the culture of Milford as well.
  3. Identify other exemplar schools/districts for sharing ideas, visits, and challenges/successes. These ideas can be brought back to the district and schools to be incorporated into the needs of the community and schools to increase community engagement as it relates to Milford.

IV-E

A concerted effort will be made to actively engage Milford School District alumni in the community, at their lives after high school and in their places of work to provide feedback on how well prepared they felt they were. Alumni will also be garnered as a valuable resource to provide contacts top local businesses, community organizations and colleges for future graduates.
  1. An Alumni Association will be developed to create a list of alumni names and contact information that could be used by the schools as a resource
  2. We will examine the capabilities of the Naviance Career program being used by MHS Student Services and Career Guidance to determine the usefulness of the alumni tracking and feedback modules.
  3. Alumni will be contacted and asked to participate in college and career ready programs as presenters.