Energizing the Engagement of the Community in Governance By Chuck Namit & Bob Hughes

Energizing the Engagement of the Community in

Governance

By

Chuck Namit & Bob Hughes

Why We Govern:

Educating Kids • Comparison of school districts In Achievement

Levels Based on Data

• The next 5 slides show the slops of school districts with:

-- X Axis of Performance (MSP-EOC Scores) & -- Y Axis of Poverty (Free & Reduced Lunch) • Kids grow through the experiences that they have both in and out of schools

Washington State Schools Gap

Lack of Experience Lowers Achievement

Seattle Slop

Pasco Slop

Neutral SlopWhat We Are All After

Various Gaps In A Student’s Education

Experience Gap =

Achievement Gap =

Graduation (Opportunity) Gap

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Bed RoomKitchenYear 1

Birth

A Student Life Experience Chart

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Year 2 Add Back & Front Yard…

Birth

A Student Life Experience Chart (continued)

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Year 2Add Back & Front Yard…

Trike, bike, swing…

Year 3-4 Add Neighbors, Grandma, Daycare, Stores,…scooter, toy trucks, American Girl….

Year 5-8 Add School, Friends, Sports, Family Trips, fishing, Disneyland, Camping, Computers, X Box…

Birth

A Student Life Experience Chart (continued)

Add Back & Front Yard…Trike, bike, swing…

Add Neighbors, Grandma, Daycare, Stores,…scooter, toy trucks, American Girl….

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Year 2

Year 3-4


Birth

Experience Vector

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Trike, bike, swing…

Year 3-4 Add Neighbors, Grandma, Daycare, Stores,…scooter, toy trucks, American Girl…


Birth

Experience Vector

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Travel, Baseball, soccer, Bicycle, Math, Constructing set, Swimming, Summer camp, Yellowstone Park, Soap Box, American Girl, pet, scooter, summer job, ride a horse,

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Year 3-4 Add Neighbors, Grandma, Daycare, Stores,….


Year 9-12

Year 13-16

Year 17-20

Year 60- On

Birth

Experience Vector

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Travel, Baseball, soccer, Bicycle, Math, Constructing set, Swimming, Summer camp, Yellowstone Park, Soap Box, American Girl, pet, scooter, summer job, ride a horse,

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Year 9-12

Year 13-16

Year 17-20

Year 60- On

Birth

Poverty Gap&

Opportunity Gap

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Add School, Friends, Sports, Family Trips, fishing, Disneyland, Camping, Computers, X Box…

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Year 5-8

Year 9-12

Year 13-16

Year 17-20

Year 60- On

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ExperienceGap

(Poverty Gap)(Opportunity Gap)

Birth

ExperienceGap




Add school, friends, Sports, Family Trips, fishing, Disneyland, Camping, Computers, X Box…

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Year 5-8

Year 9-12

Year 13-16

Year 17-20

Year 60- On

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ExperienceGap


Birth

ExperienceGap


It Gets Worse!

Add Back & Front Yard…

Add Neighbors, Grandma, Daycare, Stores,….

Add school, friends, Sports, Family Trips, fishing, Disneyland, Camping, Computers, X Box…



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Year 2

Year 3-4

Year 5-8

Year 9-12

Year 13-16

Year 17-20

Year 60- OnExperienceGap

(Poverty Gap)

ExperienceGap

(Poverty Gap)

Birth

Classroom (25 kidos):

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How We Govern:

The Green Line Clock Model

The Roles of the Board & Superintendent

Who PG

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How We Govern:The Governance Clock

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Board HalfBoard Half

CEO HalfCEO Half

Collaboration – Shared ResponsibilityCollaboration – Shared Responsibility

GovernanceGovernance

AdministrationAdministration

1212

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CEO HalfCEO Half




Set Goals & Objectives(Intended ENDs / Results)


(Evaluate)(Evaluate)

1212

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CEO HalfCEO Half







Select Programs-Planning(Intended Means/Operational

Expectations)


Expectations)

(Monitor-Report)

(Monitor-Report)

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CEO HalfCEO Half








Expectations)


Expectations)

(Monitor-Report)

(Monitor-Report)

(Monitor-Report)

(Monitor-Report)

Operate Programs-Planning(Actual Means/Operational

Expectations)


Expectations)

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CEO HalfCEO Half








Expectations)


Expectations)

(Monitor-Report)

(Monitor-Report)

(Monitor-Report)

(Monitor-Report)


Expectations)


Expectations)


Judge or Measure Goals Did It work

(Actual ENDs / Results)

Judge or Measure Goals Did It work

(Actual ENDs / Results)

New Board Governance Roles

• Linking With the Community

• Energizing the Community & Business

Governing With the Community

Linking & Listening With The Community

Linking & Listening the Community (continued)

Board listens and funnels information from the public

Provides direction to the school district regarding the education of their children

Energizing the Community

Energizing the Community (continued)

Missing Role in Board Governing: Energizing the Community Process

Compelling Community and Business Leader Engagement

Board– With Supt/CEO– needs to challenge Community/Business leaders to become engaged

Ways to Energize the Community (continued)

Board Must identify special audiences:• Elected Leaders (legislators, city mayor, etc.)• Appointed Leaders (city manager, police chief etc.)• Recognized Leaders (Chamber, clergy, etc.)• Ethnic Groups (Black, Hispanic, Asian, etc.)

Energizing the Community (continued)

Help Models/ Community Engagement Processes:

• Girls and Boys Programs • Hope Link Foundation (Focuses on families) • Develop A School District Educational

Foundation

New Steps In Energizing Community & Business Leaders Schools Should OPEN UP To Community and

Business Leaders:1. Develop A Public Enterprise (The Cedar River Academy Middle School

process): • Experience of long range project to

use student ideas/suggestions• City of Enumclaw: Mahler Public

Park Experience

New Steps In Energizing Community & Business Leaders (continued)

2. Develop a GRAVITY School:• GED, Re-engagement,

Alternative, Vocational, Individual, Training for Youth

• ESD 113 supported program (e.g. Tires bundled together,

sunk, creates diver’s park suggestion)

New Steps In Energizing Community & Business Leaders (continued)

3. Modifying the School Curriculum To Raise Student Awareness of Businesses and Civic Organizations:

• School district curriculum could also emphasize to students that

they will be a future employee of a business or community agency (e.g. DECA Class study)

Schools Are A Source of Community Health

School district has data about their students:• Number of children speaking foreign languages . . . Is it growing or

decreasing, • Number of parents signing up for free and reduced lunch ... Is it growing or decreasing, • Provide state and district test scores,• Where do these families of poverty live ... ZIP codes or voter precincts? • Which parts of the district are growing or shrinking? How fast?

Two-Way Linkage Process Provides Full Governance

Community/business/work place leaders ask:

• Input on what needs to happen• How they should work with the schools to help students• How to correct the problems

School district needs to understand the 30/70 paradox of community population

Two-Way Linkage Process Provides Full Governance

(continued) Two-Way Linkage Process works

equally well with the traditional governance structures, the Policy Governance and Coherent Governance models.

The full governance that is needed to have effective schools.

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Energizing the Engagement of the Community in Governance By Chuck Namit & Bob Hughes