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| DISTRICT ACTION TEAM FOR PARTNERSHIPS --HIGHLIGHTED ON THE NATIONAL NETWORK OF PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS WEBSITE | |
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District-Level Leadership for Partnerships
Chino Valley Unified School District is a rising star in NNPS. The district leader for partnership started to work with NNPS on family and community involvement during the 2005- 06 school year. One district-level leadership activity in 2007 -2008 was Passport to Your Future, which brought families from many schools and local businesses together to participate in a day of hands-on math and science activities. The activity was designed to introduce students in Title I schools to adults who are following careers in math and science, provide hands-on experiences in math and science, and illustrate possibilities for students to consider math and science in their futures. The event featured more than 20 local businesses, including a forensic science booth staffed by members of the local police department, a construction math booth staffed by Home Depot employees, and a cow eye dissection display staffed by a local optometrist. Over 500 students and parents and more than 100 educators and community members attended this exciting career awareness event.
Facilitation of Schools’ ATPs
The Partnerships for Learning website (http://pfl.chino.groupfusion.net/ supports fifteen Action Teams for Partnerships. With this technology, educators and parents have easy access to information about professional development opportunities, and district-level and school activities for family and community involvement. Visitors can read news about partnership program development, download documents and PowerPoint presentations relating to schools’ Action Plans for Partnerships, and review No Child Left Behind requirements. The website also features “best practices” for parental involvement from schools across the district.
Visit the district at http://www.chino.k12.ca.us.
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| EL RANCHO POSTED ON THE NATIONAL NETWORK OF PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS WBSITE | |
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Meet the Challenge to Involve More Families
El Rancho Elementary School serves roughly 450 students in an economically-stressed small city. With 85% Hispanic families, mainly from Mexico, the school has a high English Language Learner (ELL) population (41%). The ATP is working hard to engage Hispanic families and the community in the school and in students’ education. After noting the difference in parents’ participation when district-level meetings added good translation services, the district’s Program Improvement Department mandated that translators and translation systems should be used for all major school meetings.
El Rancho’s ATP secured a grant to replace their broken translation equipment, and obtained new technology to use in major school meetings. They also encouraged bilingual parents to serve as translators, as needed. The equipment and person-to-person contacts helped many more parents feel welcome at school workshops and meetings and participate actively. The improvement built greater trust among parents and teachers and helped more parents gain information to support their children’s learning at home.
Reach Results for Student Success in School
In 2008, the school hosted Celebrate Our Differences, anassembly designed to increase understanding and trust among the school staff and parents. During the event, about 75 parents and 15 educators gathered in small groups to discuss their ideas for increasing student achievement at El Rancho. Facilitators guided the groups in discussions of what children should be learning in school, how parents can show their children that they care about their education, and how parents and teachers can communicate effectively with each other. Each group presented their ideas to the entire assembly at the end of the night.
The “twist” to this event was that all presentations were made in Spanish. An English translator interpreted the comments to non-Spanish speakers through communication headsets. Parents and teachers were encouraged to keep the spirit of collaboration alive, and all signed a poster “Pledge of Respect” to confirm their good intentions to support all children’s success in school.
See one of El Rancho Elementary School’s activities in the collection of Promising Partnership Practices 2008.
You can access this article along with the picture of the El Rancho Action Team for Partnerships (ATP) at this link:
http://www.csos.jhu.edu/P2000/Awards/2008/school/elrancho.htm
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| CHINO SCHOOLS ARE PUBLISHED!!! | |
Congratulations to DICKSON ELEMENTARY and EL RANCHO ELEMENTARY for their published PROMISING PRACTICE in the 2008 Promising Partnership Practices Handbook from The National Network of Partnership Schools.
This is a HUGE honor to be published and schools around the country read this book, looking for GREAT ideas! Now they are looking at Chino Valley schools as well.
Carol Sullivan submitted Dickson's promising practice entitled, "Dickson Learning Community."
Kelly Blacher submitted El Rancho's promising practice entitled, "Celebrate Our Differences."
(you can download these articles in the folder marked, Partnerships for Learning Resources in the RESOURCE section of this webpage)
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| TITLE I SCHOOLS - PARTNERS - 2008-09 | |
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All Title I schools are members of The National Network of Partnership Schools, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Each school has a partner or two that leads their family-school-community partnerships for students' academic success.
Listed below are the 2007-08 partners for the program:
MIDDLE SCHOOLS
- Magnolia - Stacey Heston
- Ramona - Shand Garrett
- Woodcrest - Paula Miller
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
- Anna Borba - Cynthia Hidalgo-Moran, Annelia Hernandez, Valerie Botta
- Chaparral - Tom Mackessy
- Cortez - Andrea Baker, Tricia Herrera
- Dickey - Kathy Nash, Sherry Alvarez
- Dickson - Carol Sullivan, Jody Biloon
- El Rancho - Mike Martinez
- Gird - Patty Quiroz
- Liberty - Liz Myers
- Los Serranos - Brandon Davis
- Newman - Alan Cummins, Lily Peters
- Marshall - Janet Goodwin
- Walnut - Dan Galindo
Partnerships for Learning Facilitator
Carol Garman is a Title I /EL Programs Specialist for Chino Valley public schools and district facilitator for school, family, and community partnerships. She guides Title I schools to use the NNPS model to develop more goal-linked programs of family and community involvement. Chino Valley serves diverse students and families, with about 50% Hispanic, 29% Caucasian, 10% Asian, and others. Families speak 49 languages.
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