1. Family Engagement Felipe: My goal at LACOE: serve at-risk students.
LACOE students everyone’s students= ELs, Title I, Special Needs, Newcomers, Trafficked, Foster, Delinquent.
Our students: Learn within the confines of juvenile halls, detention camps, and county community schools.
Audacious goal, prior job Vs LACOE
4,000 sq miles in the County of Los Angeles.
Students come from some of most underserved and violent neighborhoods in Los Angeles
High poverty rates
Declining funding for schools
Chronically underperforming schools
Low parental involvement
Gangs that recruit our youth.
Minors who have made really really bad decisions like luring a best friend into the Asuza mountains, to see her get killed by the local gang; or the student who couldn’t remember how she made it from Los Angeles to an Arizona police station when her dad questioned her after paying bail.
Your role = Make sure that our students are achieving at national standards.
XXX% of our students have special needs
XXX% are below grade level in English and in math;
100% percent ere living below the poverty level;
100% are living without their parents.
Average stay with LACOE in ### days;
Distractions: Court date
Rami, was your experience when you joined LACOE?
Rami:
Job security
Prior job Vs. LACOE
Title I Director role
Supplemental funds
And one of those budgets is Title I Part A, for parent and family engagement.
Jael, thoughts on family engagement funds
Jael:
Build families’ knowledge to support students’ academic achievement.
Priorities – Traditional ed families Vs. Alternative Ed families
Similarities: parents who did everything right, but whose child made a bad decision.
Business owners, some are immigrants, some are families of children who have been trafficked, some have kept on the tradition of gang affiliation.
Diversity
You will learn our journey to engage the families
Dreams
Our visions
Principles
Research applications

2. Felipe
October 10, 2018
PECP

3. 2015-16 $450,000 471 71 Participants Workshops 5 Schools Rami Vendors
Curriculum
Relationships
Workshops
5 Schools

4. Creating Opportunities
140 workshops
2,200 participants
All schools
2016–17
120 workshops
1,600 participants
All schools
Felipe
The growth
71 Workshops
471 Participants
5 Schools
$450,000
$125,000

5. Vision
Rami
Geographical disparities in access for families and students I
Chicago study
(A study that followed families’ mobility from low poverty neighborhoods to similar areas and to more affluent suburban areas showed that the just by moving to a nicer area, 54% of the students attended college, compared to only 21% in the group of families who moved to similar neighborhoods. (
A Director of Title I determination:
Best possible use of those resources (spirit of the Title I law)
Whole system assumption: Every student will be going to college, all parents treated as equal partners and as resources and assets; all teachers desperately wants student to succeed.
We envisioned a program that:
Not dependent on external resources:
James Comer: No significant learning can occur without a significant relationship;\
Every child needs a champion, every family needs a champion.
Empower families to become their children’s champions,
LACOEs Parent Champions.
Builds capacity for family engagement:
“Build capacity” = more training.
Behavior does not automatically change with knowledge
Processes and structures that naturally lead to do things differently.
Not about knowledge, but behavior
Multiple capacity building
Partnerships
Families (parents as assets Vs. parents as empty vessels)
Communities
Relevant and responsive
Asset based vs deficit base
Not presuming
Non prescriptive
VISION WITHOUT A PLAN IS A NIGHTMARE 2

6. Why ? Jael: Why (Reading) Research, positive effects, data
Teachers and schools can overcome barriers to parent involvement by reaching out and building trusting relationships

7. How? Instruction Relationships Partnerships Environment Jael
Strategies
Handouts
Gallery walk

8. Professional Development
Instruction
Professional Development
Epstein's Typology
Socio-emotional
Academic
Jael
Strategies
Handouts
Gallery walk

9. Personal Positive Academic
Relationships
Personal
Positive
Academic
Jael
Strategies
Handouts
Gallery walk

10. Local Academic Expertise Structural
Partnerships
Local
Academic
Expertise
Structural
Rami Felipe
Strategies
Handouts
Gallery walk

11. Logistical Relevant Building Capacity
Welcoming
Logistical
Relevant
Building Capacity
Jael
Strategies
Handouts
Gallery walk

12. OUR TEAM Supporting families and students one at a time. Felipe
Vasquez
Rami Christophi
Jael
Ovalle
Director, Data and Assessment
Project Director, Title I
Program Manager, Parent Education
Felipe
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