Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement

Critical Initiative 1: Family and Community Engagement: TCS will partner with families and the community to create an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect, ensure effective communication, and enhanced engagement with families.

Critical Initiative 2: Communication: TCS will provide opportunities for families to access necessary information, knowledge, and skills to support their children’s education at home and at school.

Critical Initiative 3: Student Engagement: TCS will include secondary students in the decision-making process by providing avenues of two-way communication.

Activity 1: Create a system-wide Family Engagement Plan.

Activity 2: Establish and provide training for Parent and Family Engagement Leadership Teams at all schools.

Activity 3: Develop an Opening of School Engagement Conference for Parents, Staff, and Parent Teacher Association (PTA) Leaders.

Activity 4: Establish a Parent Teacher Association in every school, aligned with the National PTA priority areas, for collaboration at the city wide areas (Family Engagement; Advocacy; Membership; Finance; Volunteer).

Activity 5: Establish Parent and Family Engagement Programs (i.e, Male Summit, Father’s of Future Freshmen, Parent Ambassador Group, Parent Professional Learning Community, PTLA, Parent Project, Bilingual Family Program).

Activity 6: Research, collaborate, develop a wrap-around services center for students and families in Tuscaloosa.

Activity 7: Engage with families and community groups in support of student achievement and/or school improvement through the use of focus groups, surveys and other opinion-gathering methods.

Activity 8: Establish plan for Facilities for participation in community

Activity 9: Enhance training program for principals (and assistant principals) to create, implement, evaluate effective school communication tools/resources.

Activity 1: Engage stakeholders through the use of focus groups, surveys, establishment of a superintendent employee advisory council, and other perspective-gathering methods.

Activity 2: Ensure timely and relevant communication for families through content creation published through digital tools (e.g. website, social media).

Activity 1: Engage students through the use of focus groups, surveys and other opinion-gathering methods in their native language whenever possible.

Activity 2: Ensure timely and relevant student communication for the benefit of secondary students through the use of digital tools (website, social media).