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Leveraging Community Engagement to Solve Complex Problems
Community engagement is a critical component to solving problems at the local, state, and/or federal level. This resource helps leaders understand what steps to take to effectively engage and leverage their community connections and respond to real...
Spotlights & Case Studies
Storytelling Built to Engage Community Stakeholders
Most schools and districts have a specific communications strategy built-in to their yearly calendar; however, many of these schools and districts need to work on the storytelling they use in order to leverage communication strategies more...
Strategies
Advice: Community Collaboration for School Innovation
Developed by the Colorado Department of Education, The Colorado Education Initiative, and The Learning Accelerator, the guide includes real-world case studies from Colorado school districts, video trainings, and templates.
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Trailblazer "Seeing Is Believing" Tour Agenda
This agenda walks through Trailblazer's tour to engage stakeholders and be transparent.
Teaching Practices
Knowing the Community: How do leaders ensure new teachers understand and engage with the communities they serve?
When designing onboarding for new teachers (new to the school or to teaching in that school), it’s important to ensure they not only understand the school from an instructional standpoint but also get to know and understand the community they will...
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Listening Circle Community Forum Protocol
Listening Circle Community Forum protocol from Epoch Education.
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Real-Time Redesign - Empathy interview planner
A simple spreadsheet to support school and system leaders as they plan to conduct empathy interviews. See the Real-Time Redesign toolkit for more information.
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Activity: Conduct Empathy Interviews with Stakeholders
PDF version of Activity: Conduct Empathy Interviews with Stakeholders
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Activity: Making Sense of Empathy Interviews
PDF version of Activity: Making Sense of Empathy Interviews
Strategies
Ongoing District and Union Partnership Meetings
Every month, the central office team at Meriden Public Schools invites its local union president and teacher and leader union representatives to share ideas and give and receive feedback on happenings within the district.
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