CMAE Shares Opportunity Checklist to CMS Title I Parent and Community Advisory Council

President Lawrence Brinson presented NEA’s Opportunity Checklist and Audit to the CMS Title I Parent and Community Engagement Advisory Council.

Dr. Fahnie Shaw, Director of Title I Family Engagement and Community Outreach, thanked President Brinson for “providing us with next-step tools to collect and utilize valuable data to better inform our advocacy and decision making!”

The intended outcomes of this work are:

• Creating family education and engagement opportunities and ideas that can be implemented within all Title I Schools beyond curriculum nights and student performances that meet the school improvement goals of the school that addresses the needs of MCV, EL, EC, and students in need of interventions and additional socio-emotional or academic supports.
• Become contributing authors for the funding opportunities of innovative grants for a Parental Information and Resource Center where funding has been allocated by the State of North Carolina.
• Evaluating and contributing possible action steps for family and community education and engagement plans for support for CSI-designated schools eligible for supplemental, competitive grant for school improvement and transformation.
• Identify systems of support that can be provided to Title I Schools to improve student achievement and school processes and culture that can be supported and investigated further by the Title I Department.
• Review and provide revised suggestions for the Title I Board Policy in accordance to ESSA requirements.
• Review and provide feedback to district capacity building outputs and outcomes (i.e.; Family and Community Learning Academy, Connected Community Education Alliance, and Family Academic Visual Engagement (FAVE).
• Be informed advocates to support and assist in making decisions concerning local, state, and federal funding (e.g. applications, requests and plans) that has a direct impact on schools with high concentrations of students/families experiencing economic hardship or in poverty.

Participants included:
Dr. Stacey Clark, Principal of Renaissance West STEAM Academy

Ms. Ruby Houston and Ms. Jamese Pinkston, Community Engagement Managers

Mr. Kelly Price, Executive Director of Federal Programs

Dr. Fahnie Shaw, Director of Title I Family Engagement and Community Outreach

Get the checklist here: Your School Checklist

Interested in learning more? Learn more by visiting our My School, My Voice website at www.myschoolsmyvoice.nea.org.

We are excited to be working together to support our students’ public schools and communities!