School, Family,

Community
Partnerships...
By Otesha Mosley

Background and
Setting

Eternity Organization
Founded in 1968
Originally a fund or community
development
Youth Development Programs- After
school setting

Overarching
Question
How can we increase partnerships between
schools, families, and communities to impact
student academic and social success utilizing
collaborative development and shared
responsibility?

Cycle One

Research Questions
If we increase our parent meeting opportunities In
what ways, if any will it affect family involvement?
If we utilize multiple medias to communicate student
progress with families, in what ways if any, will it
impact family involvement?

Themes
Identifying Resources to families and schools based on needs
collaboration
Utilizing communication as tool for collaboration

Actions

Parent Meetings- 3 family

meetings a month (2 English
only meetings and 1 Spanish
only meeting)
Communication- Mentors
communicated information to
families through more than
one media (i.e. email, certified
mail, text etc.

Findings
Collaboration with
school

Academic Success
Academic Success is hard
to measure through report
cards alone

Mentors and Teachers can

work together to help
engage families

Communication
Multiple parent touch
points work well but need
to be paired with follow up
(email, meetings, text)

Key Learnings
Collaborate
with families
rather than
control
decisions!

Communicate!
Communicate!
Communicate!

Identify and
utilize your
resources!

Thanks!
Cycle 2 Coming
Soon...