DISTRICT ACTION TEAM FOR PARTNERSHIPS --HIGHLIGHTED ON THE NATIONAL NETWORK OF PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS WEBSITE 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.
DISTRICT ACTION TEAM FOR PARTNERSHIPS --HIGHLIGHTED ON THE NATIONAL NETWORK OF PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS WEBSITE
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.
CHINO VALLEY'S - Partnerships for Learning WINS 2008 DISTRICT AWARD
We are pleased to announce that our district has won a 2008 award from The National Network of Partnership Schools this summer for our OUTSTANDING home-school-community partnership work!! The award comes with a grant of $500 dollars for our partnership work and national recognition in education publications.
The Partnerships for Learning work is based on Joyce Epstein's Framework of Six Types of Involvement (The National Network of Partnership Schools (NNPS), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD). This work emphasizes family-school-community partnerships for student academic success.
NNPS invites schools, districts, states, and organizations to join together and use research-based approaches to organize and sustain excellent programs of family and community involvement that will increase student success in school. NNPS also guides district leaders to help their schools develop goal-oriented programs of family involvement and community connections, and to meet NCLB requirements for parent involvement.
The underlying foundation of the program is that schools look at their school improvement plan and develop types of involvement for parents and community members that will help the students improve academically. They take a look each year at the needs of the students and align their partnerships accordingly.
Partnerships are built around these six types of involvement:
Parenting: Assisting families with parenting and child-rearing skills, and assisting schools in understanding their families.
Communicating: Developing effective communication from home-to-school and school-to-home.
Volunteering: Creating ways that families can be involved in the school or school programs and effective methods of recruitment.
Learning at Home: Linking families with their children's curriculum through learning activities that can be done at home, as well as homework.
Decision Making: Including families as decision makers, advocates, members of school councils, and committees.
Collaborating with the Community: Coordinating services in the community with family needs, and providing services to the community.
Every year, each Title I school creates with parent input, a one year action plan which serves as their SCHOOL-PARENT COMPACT, which fulfills the NCLB, section 1118 law. They also develop with their parents a Title I Parent Involvement Policy. The action plan outlines the activities for the year, what type of involvement they are, and the who, what, when, where type of details.
ELD TRAINING RESOURCES
On this webpage look under ELD RESOURCES and find the ELD TRAINING 2008-09 link. There you will find templates and resources from our ELD TRAINING.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT TRAINING 2008-09
WHAT THE TRAINING CONSISTS OF:
English Language Development (ELD) Training (formerly known as HELP-SEI/ Transitional Training)
The purpose of this training is to equip teachers of English learner (EL) students on how to develop English language proficiency through systematic and explicit English Language Development (ELD) instruction. This new training incorporates both SEI and Transitional trainings together. Teachers trained through this new ELD Training will have the tools necessary to teach English Language Development (ELD) to both the SEI and Transition classes. Each training session is followed up with on-site coaching support. This training is a pre- prequisite to GLAD. ELD training is most effective when taken the first year working with EL students. Principals should request teachers to register for this training through Go Sign Me Up.
TOA Support: The TOA's will help....
• Teachers to develop five guiding principles for English Language Development instruction.
• Teachers to develop greater understanding of standards-aligned and data driven ELD instruction and assessment.
• Teachers to develop common understanding and language for the second language and literacy development of English Learners (Language Star).
• Teachers to identify a compendium of effective practices and instructional resources.
• Teachers to identify key strategies for each level and span.
• Teachers to evaluate instructional material and resources that support language learning.
• Teachers on Assignment will provide co-plan/co-teach coaching for professional development.
ELD TRAINING: NEW SEI and Transition Teachers
ELD TRAINING: Instructional Aides
ELD TRAINING: ELD for the Administrators
Trainers for 2008-09:
Carol Garman, Title I/ EL Programs Specialist
Diana Saavedra, Literacy/ELD Specialist
CHECK OUT THE DATES FOR THESE TRAININGS UNDER THE HEADING ON THIS WEBPAGE ------ PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2008-09.
ENGLISH LEARNERS
