Connecting with Stakeholders

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This strand of videos discusses the communication and relational factors essential to the success of any initiative. Each video includes relevant resources to guide further exploration of these topics.

• Leading Change
  By articulating a clear vision for change, instructional leaders foster a culture focused on alignment between curriculum, instruction, assessment, and standards.

• Engaging Stakeholders
  Engaging families and communities and ensuring the equitable provision of services are both essential for students to learn and thrive.
  
  
• Building Teams
  Guidelines for building teams with a clear, specific focus on student learning and accomplishing intended outcomes.
  
  

Leading Change

• Fostering a climate in which the school community works collaboratively
• Communicating frequently with stakeholders and providing multiple opportunities for feedback
• Balancing needed change and organizational stability

Running Time: 4:55 minutes

Video Resources

• Transcript: Leading Change
• Discussion Guide: Leading Change (PDF)

Topics

• Effective Communication
• Organization Stability

Related QSF Elements

• Leaders
• Video: Engaging Stakeholders

Related Resources

• Effective Meeting Facilitation: the Sine Qua Non of Planning (PDF)
  This resource provides step-by-step guidance for facilitators of meetings: preparation for a meeting, preparing an agenda, planning specific activities to support the planning process, orchestrating the meeting, facilitation techniques and handling conflict.
• Leadership Planning Guide
  This resource describes ten key components to implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in a school district and provides guidance for districts in each phase of the transition to new standards: awareness, transition, implementation and continuous improvement.

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Engaging Stakeholders

• Clear, welcoming communication
• All stakeholders to work and learn as a team
• Parent and community engagement is an ongoing process that pays off

Running Time: 7:17 minutes

Video Resources

• Transcript: Engaging Stakeholders
• Spanish Video and Transcript for Engaging Stakeholders
• Discussion Guide: Engaging Stakeholders (PDF)

Topics

• Strategies to Engage Stakeholders
• Benefits of Engaging the School Community

Related QSF Elements

• Family & Community
• Video: Leading Change
• Video: Developing Effective School and District Plans

Related Resources

• Gather: The Art and Science of Effective Convening
  This guidebook documents the skills, training, and competencies that go into a successful convening designed for convening planners and change agents interested in harnessing the potential of collective intelligence through in-person convening. Determine whether or not to host a convening; Clarify a purpose for the convening that shapes all other decisions; Build an effective team; Curate an experience; Ensure follow through for impact. A related video and companion materials to this document are available.
• The Power of Parents: Research Underscores the Impact of Parent Involvement in Schools (PDF)
  This report presents a review of the vast research on the value and impact of parent engagement on their child’s academic performance, especially as it relates to the California experience. The report offers highlights of research findings, information on the Local Control Funding Formula's (LCFF’s) priority for parent involvement, and numerous resources to support schools with implementing best practices to increase parent engagement.
• Effective Teaching Brochure
  Parent-friendly tool that educates families about the importance of effective teaching and quality learning environments. The guide also helps families understand how to engage in advocacy efforts related to effective teaching. The guide is available in Spanish and English.
• A Parent’s Guide to School Funding
  A parent-friendly overview of the LCFF priority areas and the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) process focusing on key information parents need to know and recommended questions parents can ask the school district.
• The ABCs of Parent Involvement
  15-minute video that discusses ways—and shows examples—to empower parents to become involved in and work alongside school administration to improve education for all students.
• Parent Roadmaps to the Common Core Standards- English Language Arts
  The Council of Great City Schools has developed parent roadmaps for understanding the English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics CCSS in kindergarten through high school. For each grade and subject, the roadmaps explain to parents what children will be learning and how parents can support learning outside of the classroom.
  

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Building Teams

• Strong leadership teams are crucial to support the implementation of new plans and initiatives.
• Follow a member selection process with clear criteria.
• Maintain interest and encourage member participation during meetings.
• Facilitators play a crucial role in the success of the team’s work.

Running Time: 6:24 minutes

Video Resources

• Transcript: Building Teams
• Discussion Guide: Building Teams (PDF)

Topics

• Selecting team members.
• Conducting effective meetings.

Related QSF Elements

• Resource Alignment
• Leaders
• Video: Developing Effective School and District Plans

Related Resources

• Leading by Convening: A Blueprint for Authentic Engagement (PDF)
  This blueprint for authentic stakeholder engagement captures the input and refinement from numerous special education organizational leaders, administrators, and school psychologists. The result is a set of guidelines structured around habits of interaction, elements of interaction, and depth of interaction. Also included in this document are informative lessons learned, as well as tools and learning activities specifically developed to clarify meaning and generate ideas.
• How to Lead Effective Meetings
  These focused sets of guidelines are intended for academic leaders to design and lead more effective meetings. The provided tools and approaches can help make the meetings for which you are responsible both productive and meaningful. Not only are there recommendations for practices to put in place before, during, and after a meeting, there are also suggestions to address common meeting problems and a convenient set of best practices.
• Transform Your Group into a Team (PDF)
  “Professional learning communities don’t just happen,” states the author. Included in this straightforward, accessible document are National Staff Development Council-developed tools to develop a set of operating norms, and identify the stage that your team is presently operating in; based on Bruce Tuckman’s model of Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing.
• Gather: The Art and Science of Effective Convening
  This guidebook documents the skills, training, and competencies that go into a successful convening designed for convening planners and change agents interested in harnessing the potential of collective intelligence through in-person convening. Determine whether or not to host a convening; Clarify a purpose for the convening that shapes all other decisions; Build an effective team; Curate an experience; Ensure follow through for impact. A related video and companion materials to this document are available.

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