HI.. I wanted to
concur with both Scott and Craig's comments on training.. When site
teams started in Winona there was training but that was almost 20years
ago now. Randy
I read an
interesting article on parent participation on site teams in a weekly
education newspaper I subscribe to called Education Week.
These ideas came from Tipping Toward Parents:Producing parent leaders is vital to
school success. By Adam Kernan-Schloss and Andy Plattner in
the Nov 5th Commentary Section.
In a nutshell ,
they don't see a lot happening to involve parents nationally.
They think third parties should work to empower parents and that
significant training is needed. I'd agree with the
training part but hope a climate of trust and openness don't
necessitate the need for 3rd parties. I'm not sure
if you can access the article without being a subscriber. But if
you'd like the full article let me know . Thanks
Randy
" But we believe that most of the demand for more knowledgeable parent involvement inevitably will rest with third parties- community-based organizations like the Institute for Education and Social Policy, in New York City, the Institute for Responsive Education, in Boston, and the local education funds that belong to the Public Education Network.
We've put our resources into focusing on producing parent leaders who have the capacity to be effective partners with schools or, where necessary, to take schools on. We are working in collaboration with the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, a nonprofit that has had great success in Kentucky, a state that has grappled for 10 years with the same issues every state is now confronting. Through intensive workshops spread over six days, participants in Prichard's training get a crash course in leadership as it applies to education; the curriculum covers "soft" topics, such as learning styles and meeting facilitation, and "harder" topics, such as analyzing school data and serving on school improvement teams. ("Parent Power," Oct. 22, 2003.) "
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I just want to highlight something Scott says regarding what I believe is a
key point about site teams. Leadership, recruitment, training, staffing of
the groups and coordination among them in the District by the
Board/Administration. Of those training, up front and on-going, is most
important. If you do not follow a consistent, proven process, results will
be few and far between. Effective process can be taught. Teaching a group
how to operate as a team can be done. Teaching problem solving can be done.
And teaching how to make group decisions can be done. I just wish our
schools could do more to teach children those things as well and that our
elected bodies were also required to go through such training.
Craig Brooks
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> I'm enjoying reading about the many inclusive decision-making experiences
> with WAPS site teams, and I'm encouraged to hear from Eric Bartleson that
> improving site team policy is on the agenda for the District Policy (Meet
&
> Confer) Committee. Since that committee met last week, maybe Eric could
> update the list on how that discussion is developing.
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> During my tenure on a site team, I had the same question as Craig Brooks
> about broadening the involvement from community members. Of course, if
that
> question is answered affirmatively, it leads to a bunch of new questions:
> How would community members be chosen? If they would be elected, who gets
> to vote? If they're invited, who chooses who gets invited? Which groups of
> "stakeholders" (sorry for the annoying buzzword but it seems to fit)
should
> be represented on the site team? I'd think it would be valuable to get a
> discussion going between the various district site team participants on
how
> to become more inclusive in terms of membership, then add that to policy.
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> Another of my questions continues to be this: what individual or group is
> responsible for assuring that all site teams are being allowed to function
> effectively? And when conflict occurs (I assume it's inevitable) who can
> team members go to for help with conflict resolution?
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