Engaging Communities in Building a Shared Vision

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Engaging communities is an essential step in the conversion from a traditional, time-based system to a personalized, competency-based one. The following are resources that may be helpful to developing a community engagement strategy and communications capacity.

How Districts Are Communicating with Their Communities

Colorado:

Information for parents

California

FAQ
Parent brochure
Article by Tom Rooney Supt of Lindsay Unified (April 2015)
Innovate Public Schools offers a Parent Guide for competency education.

New Hampshire

Pittsfield School District brochure
Rochester Schools Guide for Parents

Maine

Scarborough School Department uses a Community Dialogue structure

Organizations

Achieve developed a Communications Tool Kit (2015)

Student scenario infographic

American Youth Policy Forum has developed a video that integrates the concepts of personalization into competency-based learning. It's a simple but effective video that might inspire others about how to create videos to engage your communities.

Reinventing Schools Coalition Infographic

Great Schools Partnership

Learning Accelerator's Communication Tools -- focused on blended but can be applied to CBE. Given that CBE requires developing new set of values and beliefs to replace those that drive the traditional system creating room for dialogue is very important.

Maine’s Center for Best Practices