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my heart in regards to the collaborative experience it's funny because start out we knew the power of bringing people together to have conversations but to actually see it come to life really validated what we originally thought and that is their power in there's power and people coming together and learning from each other as iron sharpens iron so one man sharpens another and that is truly what happens on the day of the collaborative conversations so I think the AHA the entire day is just really realizing the true power in conversations and people just taking time and making space to talk about what it is that they do Maya after doing this for our 30 year this year is how powerful is to intentionally crap time to get together and build a network I think that has been the realization that we have had I'm talking to her staff and seeing how excited they are every time that we mentioned the collaborative conversation my biggest aha for this process is that something so small can be so impact this is a very simple concept bringing people from various districts together to just talk and engaged to share best practices with one another to share what challenges and have that listening ear someone to empower you such a small small gesture of bringing everybody together to have that talk makes a huge impact when it comes to their mentally there's just so much more excited and empowered when they what are the campus has to engage parents and families and to know that they're not alone so I would say that was that would be the biggest IHOP for me so 7 years ago in Alief ISD we were very fortunate in the fact that our school board and our superintendent said we really want to begin to invest more and family and Community engagement they say we talked about all the time let's begin to invest in it so it started at the top having that in bed it's support from the superintendent from the school board and then to spread to our principals and the lead is on our campuses in regards to the collaborative conversation what has been really awesome is really having our supervisors and our district leaders said go for it we brought the idea to them the first year and there was no pushback they said go forward we trust you we trust your leadership and it's been non-stop in regards to their support for what we've been doing to bring together the different areas of Houston Texas are the role of my administrator and I mean his traitorous on my district leadership has been huge at three years ago kleinisd Embrace a new District of strategic plan and family engagement Westwood front and center in one of our strategic 4212 building community so our vision is that in Klein ISD every student enters with a promise and exits with a purpose and we know that we need to bring families together for that process so from the Shannon when I brought this to my leadership they were very supportive because they knew that part of bringing families together it's also build the capacity of the staff to work with families I have had full support they have embrace this as well with me and they continue to support me and to support my sister District when we get together so four scores and seven years ago one of the great things about our department and Ardis if they believe in collaborative efforts so about three years ago is when our department started we started off as called we were called parent and family engagement we change the name to collaborative community school that's what we're all about we believe that it's important to get to engage the parents to engage our business is to engage everyone so that being said when I approached them and talk to them about collaborating with other districts with other parent Educators to learn from one another it was they were automatically on board because it's all about collaborative effort that's what we do so it was a very easy set classical conversations has really influence our staff I think it really validated what they do because a lot of times it feels like you're on an island you're by yourself and you're doing the work and I Malaysian but then to come together with those who alongside you have been doing the work and being able to ask questions and hear new ideas that has been so powerful for them also the collaborative conversation has influenced how our staff do their work it has allowed them to be able to reach out to others from other school districts can say how do you do this can you give me advice do you have a tool that I could use for this do you have resources because we truly believe that Haley families client families Fort Bend family whatever School District we also from the same families at any point in time my family could soon become the family of another school district and the cool thing about it is we work together to serve those families as a whole we really try to eliminate the 1up are the competitive Spirit of family and Community engagement and we really work together to bring that collaborative mindset of how to do family and Community engagement cuz that's what family communicates what is a partner it's people coming together and what better way to model that than starting with our school districts working together to serve all of our families so one of the things that our parent Educators came and we're really excited about is one the ideas from Klein and basically that was the compact and how to make it knew how to make it very easy for our families to understand and our parent Educators were on fire about executing that and then in addition to that just learning best cactuses even with all my other sister District Alief and sharing with how they do their fearing family classes and how they have different areas of Interest we have executed that as well so we definitely continue to learn from one another and build from one another and weirdest working out well the response of a badministrator is have been very positive when we now talk about collaborative conversation they want to participate and if they ask my staff once they come back from the event about what they learn what other districts are doing and how can they improve the practice of family engagement on their campuses align with our district Vision they are acknowledging the power of having a network of people in the same city working together towards the same goal dies engaging families the response continues to be phenomenal like ice add from our superintendent to our chief of staff from our director everyone is on board with the collaborative efforts they see the difference that it makes in our parent Educators they see the enthusiasm that they feel they see the value that is bringing its building the capacity of their leaders that they can directly engage with the families so it continues to be a great thing in our our department is is just better for it so now that we're approaching our 30 year in regards to our administrative response I would say that they it's kind of given credit to the Kool-Aid so to speak so what that means is it's it's like okay we trust what year hiking we trust the ingredients you're putting in to make family and Community engagement work they believe in us from the beginning but I think it's made them believe more and it's allowed other stakeholders such as our school principal said our family's community members it's allowed them to believe more and what it is that we are all working together to do so I would say that's been the most in regards to the benefit from our leaders what I would suggest to the small districts is pick up the phone that's all you have to do pick up the phone give the person that's closest to you where the 20 miles where that's 40 miles or that's a hundred miles do your research and call a collaborative conversation is just setting the aside time for you to have meaningful conversation and engagement yes it is helpful it's more beneficial when it's face-to-face but even if you can take the time to just pick up the phone talk to a group of people do a phone conference and talk about best practices talk about challenges and learn from one another that is still truly a success my suggestions to Annie District wanting to get start a collaborative conversations as just get started and keep it simple sometimes and education with things that we have to go with big Productions in are there something to happen and just crapped in intentionally crafting the time to sit together with other districts and talk about best practices in family engagement will be enough to inspire and motivate your stop your administrators to really invest in family engagement the first thing I would say is reach out to those around you so you might say well the only people around me or my one ski it's okay through 12 school okay so then reach out to the teachers and have them start a conversation and you may say well my neighbor is 30 40 50 60 miles away we can pick up the phone and begin a call conversation it might be technology that helps make that happen it might be taking a little bit of a drive to make that happen but I think the biggest thing to do is really say what if not what if it doesn't work but what if it does think about the power in bringing people together to work together for something that's so worthwhile and that's our families in our students

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