Synerga Community School

Promoting student success is the founding principle of each of the Educational Leadership Constituencies Council Standards for Educational Leaders (2002). Influential educators combine their knowledge of leadership styles with personal experience in order to meet individual needs and encourage all students to achieve their potential.

Many schools want to incorporate a powerful and positive parent involvement community, yet face a challenge in how to implement effective strategies to involve parents in helping students reach academic achievement. I believe parents want the very best for their child, even if they do not know how to go about helping their child reach success. Students come to school with countless attributes that I may or may not acknowledge, yet parents know the many accolades about their child that I must embrace. As I build a partnership with families, we become a partnership in their child’s education. We begin to collaborate to ensure the student maximizes

As a result of the location of the school in a suburban community, the parents are very actively involved in the school. As a result of the active of the supportive parents in the community, the students arrived every day with a smile on their faces and generally prepared for learning. However, as with

As a new charter school located in a vibrant neighborhood in Wilmington, our school has worked directly with neighbors, community groups, local nonprofit organizations and local elected and government leaders to establish a good relationship and prepare the way for our students and families to benefit from our neighborhood and location. The Brandywine neighborhood where our school is located is in the center of downtown Wilmington, easily accessible to many local businesses and government agencies, and area neighborhoods, by foot and by public transportation. We have worked extensively with local community groups, agencies and organizations to ensure that the relationship between our school and the community is mutually beneficial. When

Let’s imagine a school with small group classroom sizes, preparing students for college and careers after high school. Also with diverse AP and honor classes by creating a program to help aid students to learn about these classes and the benefits. Since they haven’t created a program to prevent students falling into the government system. In my eyes this is an ideal school that can help and benefit students and the future way of learning. Although Denver South High School is doing well in the areas of diversity and culture, south could improve on preparing students for future careers, enlightening students on the benefits of AP and honor courses provided at the school and also creating

Westside Consolidated School District should have a more robust school community relations plan that targets specific stakeholder groups and tabulates the penetration of the results from the targeted groups. The need of the School District is financial based and the plan must raise the issues of not enough classroom space and the need for a new high school building. The plan should also target providing information to parents about the need for testing is to go give the district information to build lessons for the students in the

I feel that a school in many ways is like a clock: it has several gears and mechanisms that when separate do not do much, but when working together, they can even sometimes sing you the time! Most recent example I have witnessed second handedly, aside from the teacher shadowing at Mapleton Jr. High, was the reading in Educational Foundations. I actually had to read the first chapter twice because the first time I did not read it through a personal perspective—I did not see how an alternative school district and its performance would apply to me since I do not want to teach at an alternative school. However, after reading it a second time, I saw many key points that made the alternative school a good school. They built their school and designed it for the students and their exact needs. They periodically collaborated as a staff and discussed their students’ progression and successes. They took the time to know their students and provide them with the instruction that would directly affect each individual’s life. Within the schools’ walls, there was a sense of respect, not simply for one another, but furthermore, a deeper respect for one another’s education. I especially enjoyed the quote in chapter thirteen that states, “Successful teaching requires recognition of the social and cultural context of school and a deep understanding of how these factors influence, shape, and most importantly, can nurture […] schools” (157). When we are aware of our surroundings, we

Children who adjust socially and emotionally to school are more academically successful (McWayne, Fantuzzo, & McDermott, 2004), while those children whose emotional, behavioral, or social needs are not addressed have more difficulty in school (Rones & Hoagwood, 2000). (HUMPHRIES, M. L., STRICKLAND, J., & KEENAN, K. 2014). Students need to feel a sense of community to perform well academically. ( Beland, K. (2007).

Learning communities share collective responsibility for the learning of all students within the school or school system by bringing together the entire education community, including members of the education workforce -- teachers, support staff, school system staff, and administrators -- as well as families, policy makers, and other stakeholders, to increase effective teaching in every classroom. Within learning communities, peer accountability rather than formal or administrative

School improvement is transformation. It is one of the most important actions of a school. It is a process that schools must use with fidelity to ensure that at all students are given the opportunity to perform and achieve at exemplary levels. School improvement is vital to schools and it is a process that cannot be done in isolation. It requires team work, collaboration, and constant analysis of data and setting of goals. School improvement goals focus on how to meet the needs of students. Addressing the educational needs, funding, and achievement gaps between subgroups is collaborative effort involves everyone that has a vested interest in the schools. These basic measures set the foundation for improvement. And so, if it is the

A strong School-Community Plan (SCP) is essential to enhance relations because as Pawlas (2005) explains, “it has a direct link to students. Its purpose is to directly improve and enhance learning for students,” (p. 23). After reading and reflecting, I believe creating goals for the school that develop two-way communication, proactive involvement, and opportunities for the community to become actively involved would be fundamental.

The traditional African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child,” has been widely quoted for years stating the whole community takes a role in raising a child. Its clear message still holds true for today – the entire community shapes the growth and development of its young people. Aside from the vital roles of family members and teachers, community members are also responsible to assure high-quality education and student success. According to the article Parent, Family, Community Involvement in Education published by National Education Association, “when schools, parents, families, and communities work together to support learning, students tend to earn higher grades, attend school more regularly, stay in school longer, and enroll in higher level programs” (National Education Association, 2008).

What do think when you hear student success? Many people think different things. For example, student success could be a student having a good job in something they specialized on, and are living on their own without anybody's help. There are several different ways student succeed and ways to change schools in order for their students to succeed as well in this article. For instance, Anaheim High Schools can improve student success if we have longer school days, make the student be interested in school and on what they are learning, and having more after school programs that interest kids and will keep their minds off of bad things.

GOAL: Increase parental involvement by creating opportunities for parents and members of the community to feel welcome in our school to come and volunteer, and programs for parents to help them academically, and with discipline issues, in order to help their children, in hope to increase student achievement and discipline.

School chosen & description of the community. Since I live in Los Angeles and most of the volunteer work I do takes place in Los Angeles, I have decided to construct this paper on a school in the Los Angeles area. The school and community I will be focusing on, is located in South Los Angeles near the Gilbert Lindsay Community Center Park. Since I did not receive approval to use specific names for this school and its faculty members, I will be addressing this middle school as Titan Middle School. For this assignment, I have also had the privilege of interviewing Behkie, city impact manager, from The Mission Continues, which is the non-profit organization I volunteer with, as well as a teacher who currently works for Titan Middle School.