1. Strengthening Learning
Relationships between
School, Family & Community
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2. Community Engagement Team
Connecting parents and caregivers to
their children's learning
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5. “Everyone has a stake in creating and
implementing educational experiences that
meet the interests and needs first for
children and young people and then for all
citizens”.
(Anthony Satrick)
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6. “If you have come to help me you are
wasting your time. But if you have
come because your liberation is
bound up with mine, then let us work
together”
(Lily Watson, Aboriginal Activist
Sister).
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Empower our parents and
caregivers

7. Theme Questions
1.) How do you
engage with
your parents and
community?
2.) How do you
engage with
your school?
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Link

8. If you want to build a ship,
don’t drum up the people to
gather wood, divide the work
and give orders. Instead teach
them to yearn for the vast and
endless sea. (Antoine de Saint
Exupery, (The Wisdom of the
Sands)
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9. 1. Who are we?
2. What’s worth learning?
3. How do we best learn together?
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Community Conversations
Questionnaire

10. TRUST
Is the key word in
changing schools
Four Vital Signs for identifying and assessing trust in schools
Respect: Do you acknowledge one another’s dignity and ideas? Do we interact in a
courteous way?
Competence: Do we believe in each other’s ability and willingness to fullfil our
responsibilities effectively?
Personal Regard: Do we care about each other both professionally and personally?
Are we willing to go beyond our formal roles and responsibilities to go the extra
mile?
Integrity: Can we trust each other to put the interests of students first, especially
when tough decisions have to be made?
Do we keep our word?
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11. • HOW WE ENTER
• HOW WE CONDUCT
• HOW WE CONCLUDE
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Building conversational
capacity

12. What Makes the Difference?
• How we were not what we did
• Involve the community right from the
beginning
• Initiate action based on real need rather than
perceived need
• Use word of moth as communication
• Develop the leadership of local community
champions
• Take time to build ownership and
relationships
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13. Signposts – Is anyone better off?
 What are we doing? – number
 How well are we doing it? – satisfaction
 And is anyone better off? –
Impact/Success
 What are you trying to achieve and why?
 What will success look like and for whom?
 What are you doing to achieve this?
What’s working and what isn’t?
 What success have you had so far and
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