Education News & Comment:
The next DAC meeting is Tuesday, September 13, 2011
at the Serna Center, Community Room, from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. Free dinner and daycare is provided for your convenience.
SAC City DAC News and Update
By Lourdes Jimenez-Price, DAC President
This page was last modified on Saturday, September 10, 2011 08:18:09 AM
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." ~~ Benjamin Franklin
School districts and teachers should welcome greater parental activism. These moms and dads can be the best allies - they want more funding for schools and they want to keep good teachers in the classroom, and they're willing to march on Sacramento to make it happen. LA Daily News
Dear DAC member and interested parties,
Welcome back to the 2011-2012 school year!
Please join us for our next DAC general meeting, on September 13, 2011, held at the Serna Center, community rooms from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. This is planned as a meet and greet event. Feel free to share out your goals for the year, meet the DAC Board, and DAC representatives.
This summer the DAC has engaged in planning sessions to prepare for the 2011 – 2012 school year. We identified that parent engagement remains a strong factor in the success of our students. As such, our goal is to assist parents to be effective at their school sites through education, training, and identifying barriers to their participation. Therefore, we have planned trainings on the Superintendent’s Strategic Plan 2010 - 2014, School Development Improvement Plan, reading SACS Reports, Parent Engagement, and the grievance process. We hope to build on the successful partnership with the Office of Family and Community Engagement and other community groups.
A recent event, is the SCUSD's creation of a School Site Council report at Board meetings. School Site Council representatives will be afforded 2 minutes to report on the function of their SSCs. This is an additional parent forum and we are encouraged by its creation. Having School Site Councils individually report will enable the Board to understand practices that are working or those that can be improved upon at the site level. From this past year attendance rolls in the DAC, we noted that several School Site Councils were not represented. For this upcoming school year, the DAC report will include identification of those schools sites that are absent from DAC meetings. Additionally, we are considering moving four (4) DAC meetings to school sites - one in each quadrant of SCUSD.
We look forward to seeing you on September 13, 2011, at the Serna Center. Families are encouraged to attend as both child care and dinner are provided.
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Lourdes Jimenez-Price
President
