Existing Services / New Solutions

World Café Ideas

November 4, 2010

What Do Our Students Need: At School

Existing Services / New Solutions

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New way of teaching
Opportunities before and after school
Cares, the student has to know the teacher cares
Parent education
Reading is fun
Parent support
Parent mentors
Communication of the importance
CARE City Program

Senior mentor program works
Global Café – experience breaking down barriers

Parents as Teachers
Help parents set high expectations
MAC Scholars
Global Village @ RBHS
Community – donations for supplies
Buddy Packs Program

Food programs
High teacher expectations
Teachers truly care
Positive school relationship

Get teachers that inspire students making it fun to learn
Convincing teachers that can tell you the truth

Leadership that experience (principal & trickle down)
What about demanding “zero tolerance”?

Parents as teachers necessary

PAT – CPS should provide it for all. Need early intervention

PTAs
University of Missouri
Partners in Education

Excellent Teachers!
Healthy Snacks
MAC Scholars

Rules in place and they are enforced
Communication
New solution = model Socratic 6-35 kids
PLC’s

Partners in Ed

Great teachers
Free breakfast / snack programs

Free snacks
Peter Drucker: No matter what the job, the only expert is the person doing it.
What are the students doing to address this?

More team teaching
Is there something to measure success besides grades?
Match someone doing good
Indic. responses to student versus just the grade
Get MACC Scholars to Boys and Girls Club

Interactive learning
Facilitator, Socratic methodology

Human resources are critical – invest here
Review policies that limit opportunities
Expense of clubs; sports
Transportation
Entry into National Junior Honor Society
Lower class size
Senior mentors at RBHS partner with elementary schools

After school enrichment program of interest to the students

“Achievement Through Adversity” Recognition Breakfast Ceremony (Mary Rodriquez 573-529-2171)
Good –
Diversity to train students about real world
Can send to quality public school
Good teachers
High level of parent involvement
Uniforms – self dignity
Focus on learning
Parents helping to write curriculum
Rewards for good attendance or grade achievement – i.e., seniors can wear own clothes
Less testing!
Accountability is great, but it’s taking our eye off the ball  let’s use teachers observations  they know how the kid is doing
Media literacy
Partner with organization that can offer case management to the families of kids that are struggling

Increase teacher salaries
Smaller classrooms
Paraprofessionals
Use volunteers
Need to revise policies, change learning strategies
On-School advocates
Home School Communicators
Have kids/teens participate in school discussions

Increase teacher pay / tie to performance?
Teachers should do home visits
Get more grandparents, family members in to schools – high schools
Mixed age groups
Year round school – the achievement gap happens in the summer
Competency based advancement instead of just grade level advancement

Home visits

Assest-based framework
PBS / DECA student peer
Do home visits
1 church
Kid – involvement in expectations/welcome group
1 school
Columbia, MO student alumni to come back and edu.
Engage outside groups to participate in classrooms
Diversity class at high school level

Better salary
Smaller classes
Jobs for students after school and summer
Let parents know curriculum

Good attitude and parental involvement
What People Need to Succeed (Jan Swaney)
Value to community
Choree
Confidence to that that on

Encouraging parent involvement
Angel
Home Access

Websites
Communication
Idea “Volunteer Bank”

Need mathematical literacy at younger ages

Website information
Good communication from schools

“A” for Effort
Foster innovation
Parent involvement
Website, Home access, Angel
PBS

Website Info
Good communication
Library provides computers
Need more city transportation options
More minority role models  connect to role models in local organizations
Volunteer opportunities need to be “advertised”
Home / school communication

Mentoring
Before and after school programs
Partners in Education
Walking School Bus
Guidance counselors
Big Brothers and Big Sisters
Library

Bank Buddies
Partners in Education
Mentoring
Guidance counselors
MU Service Learning

Diversity Training

Title one preschool
Fun City
High Steppers
Mentoring
PIE
Guidance Counselors
Service Learning
Media Centers

Mentoring – PIE, Moving Ahead
Guidance counselors – good!

Evaluations at the end of the class, so they can share their thinking

Activity bus

Activity bus

Address this issue of how teachers view children
Professional development (Dr. Muhammad)
Also, teachers should have willingness to make change
Students able to do teacher evaluations and believe it
In after school activities – either school or community (school = positive / safe environment)
CPS
Outreach
List / search

Effort
Open to ideas/ innovative
Parental involvement
Home access – communications
Website
Home School Communicator
Role Models

Open door policy with interested parents
Websites/Angel/Home Access/CPS Alerts/Open Houses/Conferences

Extra curricular
Volunteer Bank – 211
Make it easier for team to help

Partner with Parents! It’s not you versus them
Ask kids what their barriers are
Offer lots of options for communication – not just school office hours – parents are working just like teachers are
Look at your own statistics – your science score are low, but you got rid of science coaches – kids are in crisis but crisis counselors were cut

Shoes that fit
Buddy Packs
Solutions – offer courses where strengths are
Show benefits of education
Career Paths
Leadership Roles
Friendship groups
Extra Curricular activities – clubs

Facilities
Technology
Teachers!
Parents
Stable economic support from community

Special interest: drama – athletics

Resources (counselors, programs, grants)
Existing school programs
Counselors, etc.

PAT!!! Need more
Early intervention – identify all students with needs
Educators need to find and express specifically to the students
Recognition
Relationships
Extracurricular – a reason to go to school

Strengths
Teachers
Adequate resources
Parents
Good teachers that are respected willing to provide genuine positive feedback
Surveys without multiple choice

Facilities
Teachers
Parents
Stable econ base
In-service/peer support for teachers
Positive feedback
Co-teaching: student teaching student, teacher and teacher, both teach most of the time. One doesn’t watch white the other teaches very often.

Technology
Facilities
Teachers that want to teach
Parents
Stable economic base in the community
Small community help succeed

Start by framing issue as who; instead focus on the why of all low performers
Lack of cultural competency
Social distance issue creates conflict and misperceptions of inappropriate behaviors instead of recognizing there is a difference – it is not right and wrong

Home access

Communication between teachers, students, parents
Smithton
Technology
PTA

Return respect, personal responsibility accountability and discipline to the classroom

JA
Outdoor classroom
VAC
Professional Learning Communities
University students
MAC Scholars

Junior Achievement
Strengths
MU volunteers
Parent volunteers
St. teaching program

Junior achievement volunteer program
Outdoor classroom program
Community support in classroom

Extra people
University folks
AWWN
Mentors
Jumpstart
Title I Preschools
Headstart
PAT
Boys and Girls Club
Transportation
Career Center
MAC Scholars
“Where are the boys?”

School Uniforms

WalMart – Assoc. Critical Need Fund to cover emergency cost
VAC
Family counselors to tell about resources – crisis counselors in school setting
Support system with in school
Community support:
Junior achievement
Linked to state standards
Resources
Outdoor, classroom bring additional adults to school to help in outdoor classroom
Professional Learning Communities

Change working to positive

Change foreign language reg to allow for more core study hall homework needs
Positive reinforcement CD
School Uniform

What resources are available to make awareness
A hub for parents to go for support or help

High school has opportunities for “social expression”
Need a dress code!
Uniforms
Addresses equity issues
Need multicultural and diversity training!
Must improve the Parent-Teacher relationship
Improve the teacher-student relationship

Honors teaching other classes across grades (?!?)
Teacher assistance!!

MAC Scholars
Identify – support system – Middle / HS
Adventure Club
Summer School bus limited

Junior Achievement
K – 12 programs
Professional Learning Communities
Volunteers, mentors

“Guided Reading” at Blue Ridge

MAC Scholars
School Board – panels to discuss a more resources and streamlined agenda
Peer tutors

Home School Communicators
A+ Program / mentors
More diverse teacher population
New way to assess students

Achievement Gap
Cultural Gap
Training

“All the Way” teachers

Home School Communicators at most schools
“Sterling Elementary School” was mentioned as a good model

Stop looking at students that do well as “exceptions”
Consistency is key despite ethnicity
Understand people as individuals
Mixing student levels (even across grades) so that students can help pull each other up.

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