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Stakeholder Engagement

Identification and engagement of stakeholders is a crucial element of effective leadership. Resources in this category share effective strategies for engaging important decision-makers, education professionals, parents and key community members around an instructional improvement agenda.

 

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Leadership and Learning: A Hechinger Institute Primer for Journalists
This new guide by the Hechinger Institute, an independent organization based at Teachers College, Columbia University that is dedicated to enhancing the coverage of education journalism, arms reporters covering education issues with a deeper understanding of how leadership, or the lack of it, affects day-to-day events in schools and districts, provides basic questions to ask, and offers on-the-ground accounts by fellow journalists of how they are improving their own stories by asking the right questions about leadership.
Popping the Question: How Can Schools Engage Families in Education?
This interview with Karen Map, Lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education, explores how school leaders can improvement family engagement at their schools by linking it to learning. Her research found a positive relationship between home-school partnerships and positive student achievement. This interview includes two video clips; the first is about the types of family engagement programs that are most effective for improving student outcomes, the second discusses strategies to strengthen district and school engagement efforts.
Engaging Cities: How Municipal Leaders Can Mobilize Communities to Improve Public Schools
Mayors play a vital role in bringing together civic and community leaders to engage and mobilize around a common goal: ensuring educational success for all students. This report looks at five cities where mayors have engaged the public and built civic capacity around education reform. These case studies provide strategies and solutions used by mayors in the five cities, along with the resources they have created or uncovered.
When We Decide to Do Something, We Can Work Together to Get It Done: Collaborating in Chattanooga to Close the Achievement Gap
The school district, teacher’s union, and community leaders in Hamilton County, Tennessee have teamed up with several local and national Foundations.  For the past seven years, they have been working together to close the achievement gap. 
A True Bronx Tale: How Parents & Teachers Joined Forces to Improve Teacher Quality
In New York City, parents and teachers from the Bronx organized and spent three intensive years collaborating on an innovative attempt to work with the school district to improve teacher quality in some of the city’s lowest-performing schools. 
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