Culture of Learning

Standard 3: Leaders actively engage stakeholders to support the institution's priorities and guiding principles that promote learners' academic growth and well-being.

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Self-Rating: 3

Leaders establish and sustain conditions that regularly result in support and active participation among stakeholders. Leaders routinely collaborate with stakeholders to advance identified priorities. Chambers Public School chooses areas of focus based on analyzed data of learners’ needs and consistent with guiding principles. 

 

The faculty and staff of Chambers Public School have been implementing many tools and strategies to increase stakeholder involvement. Chambers Public School has conducted several surveys in recent years to collect input from stakeholders on the state of the district. Surveys have focused on topics including the following: classroom activities, student opinion, school building culture, parental involvement, and community involvement. The data from these surveys have been presented at regularly scheduled staff and board of education meetings. The school has used data from these surveys to develop goals to improve the climate and culture of the school. 

 

With the data and feedback from our stakeholders, the continuous improvement team developed a plan to have instructors present each month at school board meetings. In order to share positive news from classrooms with the community, one representative from the kindergarten through 6th grades and one representative from 7th through 12th grades attends the board of education meeting each month. Each member of the faculty is expected to attend one school board meeting per school year. It is this faculty member’s duty to collaborate with others and create a report to share with the stakeholders. This report contains notable lessons, milestones, accomplishments, and activities the classes have participated in each month. This attendance has provided our stakeholders with an opportunity to learn of classroom events for every grade level.

 

In recent years the school has held monthly parent meetings separate from the board of education meetings. These meetings contain much of the same information that is shared during the board of education meetings, but also provides parents with an opportunity to hear from the administration and share concerns. Many stakeholders’ schedules do not align with the board of education meetings, so parent meetings help make information more accessible. Much like the board of education meetings, instructors attend these meetings to share reports from the classrooms with parents.

            

Efforts to involve and maintain support from stakeholders have not stopped inside the classroom. A student appreciation day was held at the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year. Students and faculty participated in games and activities for an afternoon in mixed grade-level teams to earn points. Community members were invited to join the festivities and some organized activities. Stakeholders stay informed about school activities through our school app. Faculty and staff are encouraged to take photos and share what is happening in the building to provide more opportunities for stakeholders to connect with school events. The app is frequently updated, and the posts connect directly to the school’s Facebook page. Social media has been consistently active with the addition of the app.