How is the challenge of making stakeholders feel welcome to your school connected to your school mission?
One of our school missions is our dedication “to prepare students to be the global leaders for tomorrow” One of the biggest challenges has been to align the stakeholder partnership activities to meet our goal. The school has offered several workshops to inform parents about our vision of turning students into leaders. Another challenge could be communicating effectively with stakeholders. Sharing information between staff and stakeholders could become an issue due to the high demands of our program.
What did you do to assess which stakeholder group could be more effectively welcomed? And what did you find?
Through informal interviews and observations done on different stakeholder groups I could conclude that our program could welcome the business community more effectively. Although our school tries to include the community and the community events into our school, this has been really challenging. At least sixty percent of our students come from different districts and near by communities and I do not see our students and parents fully connecting to the Lakeside community.
Future Sphere of Influence: What would you do to improve welcoming this group if you were the school leader?
· Addressing the importance of being part of the community.
· Offer more opportunities for students to link their school projects to real work through the community.
· Offer more opportunities for stakeholders to be part of the school.
· Invite local business to create school-community partnerships.
Current Sphere of Influence: What can you do in your present position to enhance welcoming these stakeholders?
· Include community-based home-projects to promote the interaction between members for the community and students’ families.
· Facilitate opportunities to interact with the community and collaborate with business and public organization to make improvements in the community.
· Assessing the positive and negative impact that our school may cause to the community and help to increase and/or minimize it.
Current Sphere of Influence: Commit to 5 things you are willing to do this semester that will make your school a more welcoming place:
· Greeting all staff members in the hallways.
· Ask visitors if they need help.
· Greeting teachers in their own language.
· To make extra efforts to make sure that visitors will have positive things to say about our school.
· Being visible and approachable for all parents.
One of our school missions is our dedication “to prepare students to be the global leaders for tomorrow” One of the biggest challenges has been to align the stakeholder partnership activities to meet our goal. The school has offered several workshops to inform parents about our vision of turning students into leaders. Another challenge could be communicating effectively with stakeholders. Sharing information between staff and stakeholders could become an issue due to the high demands of our program.
What did you do to assess which stakeholder group could be more effectively welcomed? And what did you find?
Through informal interviews and observations done on different stakeholder groups I could conclude that our program could welcome the business community more effectively. Although our school tries to include the community and the community events into our school, this has been really challenging. At least sixty percent of our students come from different districts and near by communities and I do not see our students and parents fully connecting to the Lakeside community.
Future Sphere of Influence: What would you do to improve welcoming this group if you were the school leader?
· Addressing the importance of being part of the community.
· Offer more opportunities for students to link their school projects to real work through the community.
· Offer more opportunities for stakeholders to be part of the school.
· Invite local business to create school-community partnerships.
Current Sphere of Influence: What can you do in your present position to enhance welcoming these stakeholders?
· Include community-based home-projects to promote the interaction between members for the community and students’ families.
· Facilitate opportunities to interact with the community and collaborate with business and public organization to make improvements in the community.
· Assessing the positive and negative impact that our school may cause to the community and help to increase and/or minimize it.
Current Sphere of Influence: Commit to 5 things you are willing to do this semester that will make your school a more welcoming place:
· Greeting all staff members in the hallways.
· Ask visitors if they need help.
· Greeting teachers in their own language.
· To make extra efforts to make sure that visitors will have positive things to say about our school.
· Being visible and approachable for all parents.