SPPS GoalSettingWksht.doc

Goal-setting for Family Engagement

Activity: Example: Family Math Night ______

  1. Identify theschool goal (ideally a S.M.A.R.T goal)that you want to impact with this family engagement activity. If you don’t have your SMART goal, provide your best guess at your school’s SCIP goal in academics or equity.
  2. Example: The percentage of all students scoring proficient or higher in math will increase from 54.6% to 64.6% by May 2013 as measured by the MCA III administered in April 2013.

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  1. Be as specific as possible connecting your activity to your school’s goals. What prioritized need or key strategy are you supporting with this family engagement activity?
  2. Example: Teachers are implementing Math Review from Five Easy Steps to help students move to proficiency in math, and this activity will help families understand and support the process.

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  1. Identify the students the school is working to support in the area listed above. About how many students and families do you hope to impact? Even if this is a school-wide goal, is there a particular grade level or student group that will receive targeted support?
  2. Example: Hispanic/Latino students make up 27% of our student population, and disproportionately score below proficiency in math, and seem to struggle most in 5th grade.

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  1. Provide details about your family engagement activity. Consider topics like: outreach and invitations, materials, communication, and event agendas, keeping in mind the following questions: What about your activity is connected to the goal you’d like to impact? What is your recruitment strategy? What do you hope participants will learn, know, or do as a result?
  2. Example: Math night will be open for all families, and the program will focus on Math Review in Spanish and English. Latino families will receive personal calls inviting them, and 5th grade teachers will offer incentives to students and invitations to families at conferences. Families will know how to reinforce practice at home following a Math Review.

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  1. Sketch out your evaluationplan. How will you know when you’re successful? What specific information will you gather, and how will you do so?How will the changes you see impact your goal?
  2. Example: We will use a survey question following Family Math Night to evaluate what families learned – this will be posted on a bulletin board for families’ responses and asked on individual paper surveys. Our target is that 85% of families who attend will respond that Math Review will help them monitor their child’s progress in math. We are expecting that families will monitor their child’s progress over the course of the year, and that with this extra support at home students will practice more. This extra practice, along with our school’s other efforts will improve all students’ proficiency in math as our SMART goal indicates.

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  1. What additional efforts will support and sustain the results you hope to achieve with this activity?
  2. Example: Teachers are receiving training and coaching in Math Review, and using the strategy in all classrooms. Materials from Family Math Night will be prepared and available for families who can’t attend. In order to continue to support families’ understanding of this new initiative, our school will align home-school communication. We will display a looping presentation at conferences, teachers will provide Math Review information at fall conferences, reminders of Math Review will be included in the school newsletter twice this year, and Math Review will be added as the school-parent compact is revised this spring.

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Heather Kilgore |Family Engagement Coordinator | | o 651.744.4223| m 651.503.2940