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:
- 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
Organizations
Achieve developed a Communications Tool Kit (2015)
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
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
- One Conversation at a Time: Getting the Message Out (video)
- FAQ: parents' roles
- Resources on community engagement
- Case studies raise many of the issues that will be encountered
Frameworks Institute
CW Blogs
- How Many Conversations? - Gary Chapin
- How To Utilize Your Greatest Assets - Morgan Walker
- Where Things Can Go Wrong - Chris Sturgis
- Teachers: The Engine of Change - Chris Sturgis
- Where Are the Bullets? - Bill Zima
- Competency Education: Frequently Asked Parent Questions - Brian Stack