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Meeting Date:
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12/21/2017 - 6:30 PM
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Category:
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Report of the Committee on Parent and Community Engagement
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Action
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Subject:
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2. Report with Possible Action on Community Schools in MPS
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Strategic Plan Compatibility Statement:
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Goal 1 Academic Achievement Goal 2 Student, Family and Community Engagement
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Attachments
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File Attachment:
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Background:
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The Milwaukee Community Schools Partnership (MCSP) is a collective strategy to transform schools into a place where students, families, staff, and the surrounding community can work together to ensure every student is successful.
MPS works collaboratively with the United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County and the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association in the implementation of this locally-developed model in eight MPS schools:
• Auer Avenue Elementary
• Bradley Tech High School
• Browning Elementary
• Hopkins-Lloyd Elementary
• James Madison Academic Campus
• Lincoln Avenue Elementary
• Longfellow Elementary
• South Division High School
Community Schools is a proven model to increase a school’s capacity to better engage and align partnerships centered on the self-identified, real-time priorities of schools and communities. The MCSP model places the focus on the whole child by providing academic supports, social and emotional learning, health and wellness, family and community engagement, and a safe and supportive climate.
Work this year continues to focus on the four critical action steps – engage, aspire, prioritize, and align. An external evaluator has been secured to help ensure fidelity to the model for all schools, measure impact, and provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
Additionally, a Community Leadership Council has been meeting quarterly to support this work at a citywide level. The MCSP Community Leadership Council is a diverse group of individuals representing various community and faith-based organizations, philanthropies, businesses, institutions of higher education, and family and youth leaders. The Council helps to guide the vision of the Milwaukee Community Schools Partnership, identify the long-term results, engage in relevant policy advocacy, and provide organizational and financial sustainability.
This Council has identified a scale-up plan over the next five years, that includes adding new community schools each year as well as building capacity for those new schools via a readiness cohort.
A short video depicting community schools in action will be shared and can be found under Milwaukee Community Schools Partnership, here: https://www.unitedwaygmwc.org/Videos
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Fiscal Impact Statement:
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n/a
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Implementation and Assessment Plan
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Recommendation:
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Your Committee reports having received the foregoing report from the Administration. Although this item has been noticed for possible action, no action is required.
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Approvals:
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Recommended By:
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Signed By:
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Jacqueline M. Mann, Ph.D. - Board Clerk/Chief Officer
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