Family Communication
Newport
It's important for schools to communicate with families so they can work together to support student learning and success.
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.
Our SCORE Newport Community Research Team identified 5 measures related to Communication with Families in Newport schools:
| Number | Indicator |
|---|---|
| 1 | Percentage of family members that feel like they are informed about student academic opportunities and progress, broken down by school, and student race, gender, grade level, and disability. | 2 | Percentage of family members that feel like they are informed early enough when there is a problem with student behavior or academic progress, broken down by school, and student race, gender, grade level, and disability. |
| 3 | Percentage of family members who feel like they are being treated as valuable partners in their child’s education by teachers and administrators, broken down by school and student race, gender, grade level, and disability. |
| 4 | How helpful families find communications about school programs for their child |
| 5 | 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.