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School-Community
Leadership Best Practices
in Building Alliances to
Stakeholders:
A Lived Experience
FR A N C IS RYA N D . AÑ O
M A E D E N G L I S H S T U D E N T, W E S T E R N C O L L E G E S I N C . G R A D U AT E S C H O O L , N A I C , C AV I T E
SUMMER 2023-2024
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Pre-assessment
Introduction
What is school-community leadership?
Why build school as a community?
What are the tasks of school-community leaders?
What are the roles of the principal in building alliances to stakeholders?
How should parents be engaged as key players in school-community activities?
What are the best practices in building alliances to stakeholders?
Project TEACH as Best Practice for Principalship
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Post-assessment
References
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Introduction
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Introduction
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• School-community relations leadership is a moral imperative for 21st century learning
leaders. Becoming proactive leader by articulating commitment to establish connections or
networks with the community to promote students’ academic achievement and as well as
sustainable support in the school programs, projects and activities. Developing strategic
plan in coordinated, centralized or decentralized approach has been effective and efficient
way to draw support and engage stakeholders in the community.
• Along with the opportunities to uphold commitment to partnerships and adoption of
strategic plan involving teachers, students, parents, private individuals and community
organizations, the school principal, as a lead-advocate, should build a strong and
sustainable school-community relations that impact continuous improvement or
development of the education institution.
• Henceforth, PAPs along with school improvement plan (SIP) should not only adhere to the
education agency vision, mission, objectives, mandates and core values but on the needs
of the community and its expected obligatory services from the academic institution.
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What is school-
community leadership?
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School-Community
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…is a integrated assembly of united
leaders and members of the school and
community organizations with mutual
commitment and special relationship,
shared goals, ideas and values for quality
education and purpose-driven socialization
and networks towards continuous
improvement/development of education
institution.
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Why build school as a
community?
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According to Starratt & Howells (1998), schools
as communities have two purposes:
• To promote quality academic learning
for all students or learners
• To build socialization of the group into
the experience and practice of the
community itself
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What are the tasks of
school-community
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School-Community
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• envisions the school building as nested within the larger
community structure;
• considers ways the school may meet community needs
and vice versa;
• realizes that external community factors may influence
student learning even more than what goes in school;
• spends much time forging and sustaining relations with
parents, certainly with local business people, religious
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• thinks creatively about different ways of involving others in
school;
• shares information with community partners;
• listens to community partners about ways of improving the
school or suggestions for further collaborations;
• encourages innovative ideas and thinking by all members of the
community;
• forms committees of internal and external constituents to plan
strategically about ways to improve the school, in general, and
more specifically, ways of better promoting student achievement.
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What are the roles of
the principal in building
alliances to
stakeholders?
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• Leadership
• Coordination
• People management
• Collaborative decision-making
• Engaging community, parents and families
• Communication and transparency
• Integration of resources
• Public relations
• Doing research
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How should parents be
engaged as key players
in school-community
activities?
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Engagement
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Community Activities (Glanz, 2006)
• Learn together as a team
• Empower parents in school
• Provide trainings
• Establish parent coordinator
• Foster parental success
• Publicize student presentations
• Solicit parent & community involvement
• Develop parental involvement activities
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What are the best
practices in building
alliances to
stakeholders?
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1.Consider Six Types of Involvement
Parenting
Communicating
Volunteering
Learning at home
Decision making
Collaborating
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2. Form a community advisory committee
Advisor to the principal
Serves in their capacity as policy or decision maker
Works on common problems or issues
Formalizes on-going collaborations and community-based activities
Help navigate community politics
Serves as buffer to thwart external influences from pressure group
Interacts with formal structure like LSB,DepED SDO, etc.
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3. Undertake community building
Create events mutually beneficial to both school and community
Events/Affairs:
SGC & PTA Nights
Community Food Pantry
Community Betterment Project
Dance/Sing Dance Challenge
Oath-Taking Ceremony and Community Affairs
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4. Plan together
Gretz (2003) advocates:
Establish goals
Assess needs
Develop vision
Decide management issues
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5. Develop an after-school program
Process:
Conduct needs assessment
Solicit approval for helping to coordinate the after-
school program
Form a curriculum committee
Train teachers and parents as learning facilitators
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6. Involve parents and community
Strategies:
Engage the community
Be the cheerleader for your school
Maintain current website or fb account
Listen
Personally invite them
Be proactive – approach them
Invite speaker experts on topics of interests
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7. Avoid barriers to implementation
Strategies:
Take affirmative steps to build and sustain community alliances along
with PAPs
Take proactive actions on the barriers for successful collaborations such
as fear of public scrutiny, staff burnout & negative attitude
Do careful planning to link community activities to school goals and
mission
Engage all community organizations, GOs and NGOs in decision-making
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8. Become media savvy
Strategies:
Establish a plan in advance for dealing with the media
Consult district office personnel who might have experience with the
media
Don’t provide information that might be misinterpreted
Provide media with prepared statements and relevant photographs if
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8. Become media savvy
Strategies:
Realize that the media will, in the end, decide what to report
Avoid provoking reporters with “no comment” statement. Rather, help
reporters write accurate stories by giving them complete information and
background
Don’t expect that the reporter will know much about how school operate
Avoid jargons in written documents
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9. Become part of a professional
development school (PDS) initiative
Strategies:
Collaborate with local college or university
Involve deep commitments to bridge the gap between college/university
and school in an effort to promote better learning achievement
Establish share goals of linking theory and practice and promote
student and teacher learning
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My Best Practice
for Principalship
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Project
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Transparent
Ethical
Accountable
Committed &
Humanistic
BASIC EDUCATION GOVERNANCE
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In a nutshell
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As a leader, you should…
publish your commitment to school-community leadership. Let everyone know
your mission statement.;
ensure that school-community involvement is part of your evaluation plan;
collaborate with colleagues from a neighboring schools or district to provide
opportunities for mutual discussions and projects;
influence others to join you in school-community discussions and
collaborations;
continue to read about successful school-community collaboration in other
schools and districts across the country (benchmarking activity); and,
make sure you TEACH in leading school-community relations.
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References
• Glanz, J.(2006). What every principal should know
about school-community leadership. Thousand Oak,
California: Corwin Press.
• Starratt, R.J. & Howells, M.I. (1998). Supervision as a
moral agency. In G.R. Flirth & E.E. Pajak (Eds.).
Handbook of research on school supervision (pp.
987-1005). New York: Macmillan.
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Post-Assessment
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