Are you sick and tired of low turnouts at the family and community events your school hosts? Are you frustrated by constant pushback from parents, students, and community members on your major initiatives? Well, it’s time to disrupt business-as-usual approaches to involvement and try a more sustainable and powerful approach: engagement. By drawing on lessons learned from Great Schools Partnership’s multi-year community engagement initiative, participants will explore the integral relationship between equity and engagement and a point-by-point rationale for centering engagement in school. Participants will also reflect on and calibrate their engagement-related beliefs and practices to ensure equity for all.
