RPS: January 2022 Monthly District Family Engagement Meeting
| When |
Jan 11, 2022
from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM |
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| Contact Name | BRANDT, MELISSA |
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Quick Topic Links: Meeting Notes; YouTube Recording; Covid Info; Community Grant Status; TalkingPoints Messaging App; School Board Listening Session; What is Family Engagement
Presentation Deck
Meeting Notes
Video Recording on YouTube
Covid Info Sharing
Jen Irhke
Community Schools and Grants
Community Schools Key Points
- Gage
- Riverside
- John Marshall
- Alternative Learning Center
- Phoenix Academy (new site)
3 Sites got awarded from the 5M Statewide Grant 1.06 M
- Phoenix, Ben Franklin, and Phoenix
How to be sustainable community schools is a challenge
- Site facilitator funded at site level, balance from grants, United Way; sustainability problem
Talking Points for Parents App Message from Teachers to Parents (Language Sensitive)
https://youtu.be/Du_UUYHrGg4?t=2122
Key Point
Online Platform
work with Skyward
wifi Texting on the phone; downloads app; no charge vs SMS charge
3 thousand non-native students/parents RPS
Benefits:
- Increase academic success
- Teachers send msg phone or online; parents respond in native language
- Correct current phone msg not received bc only land line;
- So kids not have to be the go-between
- New languages can be added
- Impacts: 98% teachers; 100% family more engaged with kids;
- CMRC could play a role in tech equity, spreading the message of the tool https://youtu.be/Du_UUYHrGg4?t=2647
- There is tech assessement https://youtu.be/Du_UUYHrGg4?t=2961
RPS Updates
School Board Listening
School Board Listening Session (google.com) Registration
Science Fairs
Family Engagement within RPS
