Shelley Behrns

CAPE 4: FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

As a future administrator and education leader, I will need to collaborate with families and other stakeholders to address the diverse student and community interests and mobilize community resources. While working on CAPE 4, the experiences I was a part of helped to give me a rich experience of growth. With my site principal, I helped prepare for and co-present at the Annual Title 1 meeting for the school. I worked with the school's leadership team on analyzing Brightbytes Survey results and helped to make suggestions and recommendations for next year in problem areas. I was also able to work with the leadership team on how to reach out to prospective TK and K families.

As a part of the CCSPP Steering Committee (California Community Schools Partnership Program) with administration and assist with the rollout at school. I was a part of the grand opening of the community center as a member, where we had an information table to inform the community schools partnership had to offer. As a part of the CCSPP Steering Committee, I also worked with the team to reach the school community for the needed 70% of survey returns for the program.

I worked with the grade level team to reach out to families in various ways (social media, etc.) about upcoming PBL and environmental science projects, trips, forthcoming PBL, science scope and sequence, and kindergarten enrollment. Additionally, I worked with my grade-level team to create a service project for our classrooms, how to implement, display, and gain community involvement. I also worked with the school’s action team on the 100th-year celebration and parent/community engagement.

CAPE 4: FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Education leaders collaborate with families and other stakeholders to address diverse student and community interests and mobilize community resources.

4A: Parent and Family Engagement New administrators engage families in education and school activities and understand the benefits of and regulations pertaining to their involvement.

4B: Community Involvement New administrators recognize the range of family and community perspectives and, where appropriate, use facilitation skills to assist individuals and groups in reaching consensus on key issues that affect student learning, safety, and well-being.

REFERENCE

California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. (2017). California Administrator Performance Expectations (CAPE). https://www.ctcexams.nesinc.com/content/docs/CAPE_Placemat.pdf

For this CAPE 4, I have included a presentation that includes agendas, flyers and invitation flyer for a grand opening event for one on the projects that the CCSPP Steering committee did. On the California Community Schools Partnership Program commitee, we worked together to open a community center to service the community at six schools within the district that the grant was writing for. This community center services medical and mental health needs. We also developed a survey for the stakeholder to take to help determine our next steps.

CAPE 4: Community Schools (1).pdf

For this CAPE, I had the opportunity to co-present the Annual Title 1 presentation for our community at our school's Back-to-School Night. It was definitely new and exciting. Having almost finished this program, I had the information and background knowledge to answer many of the community questions regarding the information presented.

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