Our Teams
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Family Engagement Team
Family Engagement Team works collaboratively with families and families with student’s that have special needs, community agencies and èßäÊÓÆµ leaders to ensure that every student has the tools and support to be successful. The Family Engagement Team:
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Help families engage district programs, departments and resources.
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Collaboratively share strategies for parents/èßäÊÓÆµ communities to improve communication between the èßäÊÓÆµ and home.
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Provide parents, èßäÊÓÆµ and community members an opportunity to share concerns and complaints in a confidential manner.
- Help to resolve disagreements between parents and èßäÊÓÆµs.
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Family Engagement Team Staff
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Student Engagement Coach
The Student Engagement Coaches are a student and family-centered team focused on èßäÊÓÆµ’ collective mission to (re)build trust and maintain productive dialogue with èßäÊÓÆµ, families, and communities within the district. Coaches collaborate with èßäÊÓÆµ staff and community agents to develop partnerships and strengthen wrap-around services. Coaches assist in building the district’s and the community’s ability to unite around the idea that a sustained, collective effort is needed to close the opportunity and achievement gap for our most underserved èßäÊÓÆµ. The Student Engagement Coaches:
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Analyze data from systematic monitoring to design personalized interventions and document progress.
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Work as a liaison to facilitate communication and promote problem-solving.
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Provide èßäÊÓÆµ and families with resources and information to create a link to agencies.
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Attend varied èßäÊÓÆµ and district meetings to define and outline roles to improve participation, performance, and success for individual èßäÊÓÆµ.
- Support a èßäÊÓÆµ-wide attendance improvement initiative.
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Engagement Team Staff
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Multilingual Community Agents Team
Multilingual Community Agents Team are bridgers of communication and builders of relationships. They aim to facilitate communication between èßäÊÓÆµ staff and multilingual families, encourage collaboration between educators and parents/guardians, and to support engagement efforts through brokering an authentic, cultural exchange. Their goal is to inspire the Graduate Portrait in every student, and help educators and parents/guardians be effective partners in their student’s education. Multilingual Community Agents
Parent Teacher Home Visit (PTHV) is a nationally recognized, USDOE-supported strategy that brings together families and teachers in relational-based home visits that elevate the cultural expertise of families and create a foundation for ongoing partnership.
To that end, Parent Teacher Home Visits (PTHV):
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Intentionally employs anti-racist and restorative practices aligned with RESJ framework;
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Requires a collaborative organizational mindset supporting System Shifts;
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Aims to create system-wide change to strengthen teacher-family partnership in alignment with our district vision to move Forward Together; and
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Builds teacher capacity, knowledge, and connection for ensuring Professional Excellence.
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Multilingual Community Agents Team Staff
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The Student Attendance Team
The Student Attendance Team promotes and enhances the academic mission of the district by providing services that utilize home/èßäÊÓÆµ/community partnerships to meet student needs:
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Create a sustainable tracking and monitoring system to gauge and improve student attendance and engagement.
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Provide professional learning for staff at all levels including education for èßäÊÓÆµ, families and the community
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Support sites in reducing overall chronic absence rates and increasing attendance rates
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Increase student participation and engagement through an emphasis on building trusting relationships with all of our community members
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Participate in creating an anti-racist culture that promotes and supports our black and brown èßäÊÓÆµ to achieve proportionately when compared to their white and asian counterparts.
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