Family & Community Engagement (FACE) – Kansas City Public Schools

Philosophy

The KCPS Workplace of Engagement strives to impression the connection between college students, households, group and civic organizations and KCPS by rising the variety of alternatives for service provision, encouraging household and group involvement within the training course of and making certain a concentrate on equitable entry to training for the Kansas Metropolis group.

Imaginative and prescient:

The division will creatively and successfully interact with our numerous group in a well timed method to help the tutorial, social and emotional growth of our college students. We are going to advocate for systemic fairness all through KCPS.

Mission:

• Radiate risk whereas actively selling our strengths
• Join households with helpful sources
• Construct bridges that foster clear two-way communication with households and KC group
• Promote and provoke critical-thinking that ensures equitable options

Engagement and Advocacy – The deliberate technique of constructing constant, everlasting and optimistic relationships for the aim of growing a shared imaginative and prescient, mobilizing collective effort and constructing capability inside Kansas Metropolis for the success of KCPS college students and households. These relationships are constructed by working N.E.A.R.

Notify: Make the most of quite a lot of strategic strategies to proactively guarantee full, truthful, clear and honest communication inside KCPS and all through the Kansas Metropolis group.

Embrace: Create significant alternatives for the Kansas Metropolis group to take part, help, community and study with KCPS as energetic companions within the creation of profitable insurance policies, practices and applications.

Ask: Search alternatives to hear intently, reply appropriately and act genuinely each formally and informally all through Kansas Metropolis by actively soliciting the views of households and group members.

Revive: Set up viable pathways to arrange group help into management and advocacy alternatives dedicated to KCPS enchancment and a considerable position in creating group change.

What We Do

• Present a community-wide community of helps for college students and households
  • Enhance capability of households to be advocates for his or her little one’s training, and supply focused companies by increasing promising applications
  • Educate college students and fogeys (and faculties) on how you can entry college and group sources to help educational, behavioral and life success
• Invite the views and embrace numerous voices of fogeys/caregivers
  • Enhance outreach to oldsters/caregivers to make clear educational and social emotional expectations that might guarantee profitable transitions
  • Be sure that workers meet with college students and households not less than twice every year to have interaction in two-way dialogue concerning the pupil’s educational and social-emotional progress, utilizing district-wide developmentally acceptable protocol to make sure consistency and coherence
  • Present frequent two-way communication with college students and households in an rising variety of languages relating to every pupil’s educational progress towards mastery of all college students
  • Implement a sequence of Household Nights for folks to discover ways to help their youngsters in attaining educational success through the use of important considering abilities and know-how
• Leverage group sources for pupil progress and college/district enchancment
  • Collaborate with enterprise and group mentors to help college students in fixing real-world issues, exploring new alternatives and utilizing know-how to strengthen utilized studying abilities
  • Accomplice with governmental businesses, community-based organizations, youth growth businesses to inspire and reward optimistic pupil conduct
  • Constantly meet with and collect group companions and suppliers on precedence focus areas to align sources for optimum effectivity and impression