It's important for schools to communicate with families so they can work together to support student learning and success.
GOAL 1:
Communications With Youth and Families
Central Falls
Good communication from schools and districts can have many positive effects on students and families. It can increase parent involvement in schools, make the relationships between students and teachers stronger, and can even have an effect on student participation and engagement in class. What information is communicated and how that communication happens are both important factors in making sure that students and families can access, understand, and engage with communications from their schools and/or district. This is particularly true in districts like Central Falls where a variety of languages, cultures, and backgrounds are found in the school community. The Central Falls school district has identified effective communications as an important area of their family and community engagement work.
Our SCORE Central Falls Community Research Team identified two goals and six measures related to Communications with Youth and Families in CFSD schools:
The district addresses cultural, language, and literacy differences in their communications
| Number | Indicator |
|---|---|
| 1 | How helpful families find communications about school programs for their child |
| 2 | Family satisfaction with translation and interpretation services |
| 3 | Student satisfaction with translation and interpretation services |
| Number | Indicator |
|---|---|
| 4 | Ways families prefer to get communications from the school |
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Currently, the active indicator links represent data that is publicly available (i.e., enrollment data and SurveyWorks climate survey). However, in many cases, our community-identified indicators differ from those that are publicly available. We are working to request data that the school district collects but is not yet made public. As new data and visualizations are ready, we will add them to the SCOREcard.
Additionally, some of what community members have asked to be measured in the SCOREcard is, to the best of our knowledge, not currently being collected In these cases, this SCOREcard represents a call to action for the school system, in partnership with community organizations, to collect data in areas that matter to the community, and to make it publicly accessible. As we get access to more data, more indicators will be populated and our SCOREcard will be stronger.
| Number | Indicator |
|---|---|
| 5 | How often families attended school events or meetings over the past year | 6 | Family satisfaction with family engagement events or meetings |