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FAMILY ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIC PLAN 2017 – 2020 Created with our community for our children! Student Services Family Engagement Office Making Hope Happen ABOUT FAMILY ENGAGEMENT VISION STATEMENT: Create welcoming, inclusive, supportive and collaborative environments for students, families, staff and community partners at every facility in SBCUSD to ensure that each student is college and/or career ready. BELIEF STATEMENT: We believe that collaborating and creating bonds with one another makes us healthy and prosperous as a community. Embracing and engaging our rich diverse community everyday brings us closer together. Leadership from all stakeholders and ethnicities vitally contributes to the positive outcomes experienced by students, families and the greater SBCUSD community, which makes San Bernardino Strong. MISSION STATEMENT: The mission of the SBCUSD Family Engagement Strategic Plan is to research, recommend, and help implement the best strategies for promoting Family Engagement that develops high levels of multicultural leadership practices across our system to ensure success in health and education for families in the San Bernardino community. FAMILY ENGAGEMENT OFFICE: Aldo Ramirez Sandra Valdez Director Bilingual Community Relations Worker II Family Engagement Office Mitzi Brazfield Delores White Bilingual Community Relations Worker II Senior Secretary Tracy Hernandez Mariam Alvarez Clerk II Bilingual Community Relations Worker II Travon Martin Community Relations Worker II Olivia Nunez African American Parent Involvement Bilingual Community Relations Worker II Emily Valdez Bilingual Community Relations Worker II Martha Lopez de Salcedo Parent Involvement Bilingual Community Relations Worker II 1525 West Highland Avenue San Bernardino, CA 92411 (909) 880-6587 Family Engagement Office SBCUSD FAMILY ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIC PLAN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The SBCUSD Family Engagement Strategic Plan (FESP) was developed to provide an authentic, stakeholder led set of strategies designed to maximize family engagement in Committee (FESC) developed the plan in a collaborative, strategic planning process that includedthe San Bernardino parents and City other Unified family School members, District. students, The SBCUSD teachers, Family administrators, Engagement and Steering local partners. The plan touches on two major areas of work, with nine corresponding strategies. they work collaboratively with stakeholders to design and implement highly effective familyThe first engagement four strategies programs. focus on providing support to schools and departments to ensure Strategy 1 Family Engagement Support to Schools and Departments Strategy 2 Culturally Relevant Strategies Development for Staff, Community and Families Strategy 3 Culturally-Responsive Communication Strategy Strategy 4 Family Engagement Evaluation System systems that will help support schools and departments by developing, piloting, and providingStrategies innovativefive through family nine engagementfocus on developing programs key and centralized tools. These family strategies engagement also aim to establish supports that families can easily access at central locations through the District. Strategy 5 Family Engagement Centers Strategy 6 SBCUSD Family University Expansion Strategy 7 Augmentation of the Leadership Component of the SBCUSD Family University Strategy 8 Creation of a Centralized Hub for Services and Enrollment Strategy 9 Strategic Contracting Evaluation Process division, will work closely with the Family Engagement Steering Committee and DistrictThe Family departments Engagement to provide Office, with updates oversight and gather from theinput SBCUSD about Studentcritical decisions Services and achievements. of the Family Engagement Steering Committee who have contributed to the creation of thisThe plan.San Bernardino Their contributions, City Unified both School small District and large, would have like helped to thank to craft all of a therobust participants program for improved family engagement in our community. STRATEGY 1: FAMILY ENGAGEMENT SUPPORT TO SCHOOLS AND DEPARTMENTS Intentions: • Create a system for schools and departments to develop individualized plans and support structures that will ensure that families, staff, students, and community partners work hand in hand to help students become college and career ready. • Create a web of support to ensure that students develop the skills, knowledge, and behaviors that will help them become college and career ready. STRATEGY 2: CULTURALLY RELEVANT STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT FOR STAFF, COMMUNITY, AND FAMILIES Intentions: • In collaboration with SBCUSD central provide staff development that will equip stakeholdersoffice departments with the and tools key andstakeholders, strategies needed to identify their strengths and bridge cultural gaps STRATEGY 3: CULTURALLY-RESPONSIVE COMMUNICATION STRATEGY Intentions: • Ensure that the communication strategies the District uses have the best possibility of engaging all stakeholders in order to increase participation and collaboration. STRATEGY 4: FAMILY ENGAGEMENT EVALUATION SYSTEM Intentions: • provide feedback to SBCUSD schools and departmentsCreate a system on thattheir will progress efficiently toward implementing key family engagement strategies. STRATEGY 5: FAMILY ENGAGEMENT CENTERS Intentions: • Ensure a welcoming environment and the participation of all community groups. • Offer four well-attended Family University classes a week at each of the centers (two in the morning and two in the evening). • Offer two sessions of tutoring, four days a week, at each of the centers. • Offer ESL classes at each of the centers. • Set a goal of 100 walk-ins a week at each of the centers to support families with technology and with school and community programs. • Establish a core group of parent and community leaders who adopt each of the centers and offer support in a variety of ways. • Spread the centers’ programs to the cluster schools and to other locations in the community. Family Engagement Center Locations ARROYO VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL 1881 W. Baseline Street, San Bernardino, CA 92411 Classroom H-018 (909) 383-2669 CAJON HIGH SCHOOL 1200 W. Hill Drive, San Bernardino, CA Classroom C-24 (909) 881-8121 INDIAN SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL 650 Del Rosa Drive, San Bernardino, CA C-1/C-2 (909) 383-1716 SAN BERNARDINO HIGH SCHOOL 1850 N. E Street, San Bernardino, CA Classroom Z-3 (909) 886-7997 PACIFIC HIGH SCHOOL 1020 Pacific Street, San Bernardino, CA Classroom X-3 (909) 388-6431 SAN GORGONIO HIGH SCHOOL 2299 Pacific Street, San Bernardino, CA Classroom H-1 (909) 388-6525 STRATEGY 6: SBCUSD FAMILY UNIVERSITY EXPANSION Intentions: • Increase the number of families taking advantage of the classes and resources offered through the SBCUSD Family University. • Encourage our community partners to help us expand the SBCUSD Family University classes into the community for additional impact. • Make it simple for families and community partners to use the SBCUSD Family University program materials. STRATEGY 7: AUGMENTATION OF THE LEADERSHIP COMPONENT OF THE SBCUSD FAMILY UNIVERSITY Intentions: • Establish a group of parents who are dedicated to being parent leaders and facilitators. • Increase family involvement • students’ education. Increase the involvement of fathers and father figures in • Increase family resilience by helping families to seek out resources, solve problems, deal with the stress of working and having their students in school, and develop ways to keep their children off of drugs and away from violence and domestic abuse. • Engender more positive communication and a disposition to work together among schools, principals, and families. • Offer more convenient meeting times, especially for working parents and guardians. • Offer fun learning programs for families, especially to get the community to come together and to learn from each other • Provide more overt recognition of the multiple languages used in our community. • Offer mentoring programs to support families with the transitions from elementary to middle school and middle school to high school. STRATEGY 8: CENTRALIZED HUB FOR SERVICES AND ENROLLMENT OPTION Intentions: • Provide a one-stop location as an option for families to enroll their children. • Make screening for sports and volunteering easier for families. • Get questions quickly answered by the different departments that regularly work with children and families. CENTRALIZED HUB FOR SERVICES LOCATION: 781 West 2nd Street San Bernardino, CA 92411 STRATEGY 9: STRATEGIC CONTRACTING EVALUATION PROCESS Intentions: • Develop a systematic way to request and evaluate proposals to hire outside vendors and presenters • Accelerate the implementation of the key SBCUSD Family Engagement Strategic Plan strategies by contracting with partners. • Ensure that contracts produce accelerated implementation in the targeted areas. SBCUSD FAMILY ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS The SBCUSD Family Engagement Strategic Plan (FESP) was developed in a collaborative process through the SBCUSD Family Engagement Steering Committee (FESC). The FESC is comprised of parents, family members, students, teachers, administrators, and local partners. The steering committee outlined the major areas of focus for the FESP by way of two initial planning meetings. The focus areas were then taken by subcommittees, and developed into draft action plans. After the subcommittees completed the draft actions plans, the work of the subcommittees went back to the FESC for additional feedback and insights.