Authentic Stakeholder Engagement:
Partnering for Successful
School Turnaround
Angela M. Denning
State Special Education Director
[email protected]
Nancy Konitzer
State Title I Director
[email protected]
Session
Purpose
• Explore a framework
for authentic
engagement
• Share how AZ has use
Leading by Convening
and Communities of
Practice to engage
stakeholders
• Investigate the use of
leading by convening
The Problem
The Problem: How the LEAs saw our Support
One division, section or program would leave and another would arrive.
The Problem: Random Acts of Improvement
Previous practice did not yield expected results
LEA and Schools gain limited traction with improvement
Especially in persistently low performing schools
What the SEA needed to design
Aligned cohesive comprehensive system of support
https://www.nasdse.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=uyIi21KRYB4%3D
&tabid=36
http://www.ideapartnership.org/
A Framework
for Stakeholder Involvement
Leading
by
Convening
Ensuring Relevant
Participation
Community of Practice Levels of Participation
Dissemination Web
Extended Partners
Key Participants
Core Team
Key Advisors
Convene the group.
Take responsibility for structuring each convening
and follow up.
Plan and monitor interaction.
Create engagement strategies.
Organize activities.
Communicate with decision makers.
Oversee review and evaluation.
Act as regular contacts for information on the issue.
Give advice and help the core team sense issues and
adapt activities in a variety of contexts.
Make opportunities for the work to be reviewed
within their personal networks.
Bring their personal network information back into
the work of the Core group.
Promote the cross-stakeholder approach to problem
identification and problem solving.
Join the core team periodically when their expertise
is needed
Volunteer to become involved and represent the
perspective of their organization and/or network.
Bring the perspective of their role and/or
organization into the work.
Bring important learnings back to their networks.
Identify opportunities within their networks to
showcase the learning.
Hold both their organizational identity and the group
identity while interacting with the group.
Identify other practitioners and family members who
may become active
Feedback Network
Communications Links
Receive information.
Redistribute information through newsletters, news
blasts, meetings, etc.
Submit information from newsletters, news blasts,
meetings, etc.
Customize messages for their particular audience.
Who cares about this issue and why?
What work is already underway separately?
What shared work could unite us?
How can we deepen our connections?
Arizona Department of Education
Aligning Efforts & Integrated Support
Mission:
To serve Arizona’s education community, ensuring every child
has access to an excellent education.
Strategic Intent:
Through collaboration the Arizona Department of
Education will ensure the conditions necessary to
maximize student success in college, career and
citizenship within an evolving competitive environment.
If…
Then…
ADE will Deepen CrossDivisional Expertise
ADE Deepens CrossDivisional Expertise
ADE will Deliver Integrated
and Well-Coordinated
Support Services
ADE Delivers Integrated
and Well-Coordinated
Support Services
LEA Systems and Capacity will
Improve
LEA Systems and Capacity
Improves
Educator Effectiveness will
Improve
Educator Effectiveness
Improves
Student Performance will Improve.
SUCCESS
ADE Develops a
Collaborative
Infrastructure
Right
People
At the
Right
Time
Right
Services
The Aligning Efforts & Integrated Support project is aimed at leveraging and
coordinating the expertise of the Arizona Department of Education to support and
empower districts and schools as they work to dramatically improve student
achievement.
Aligning Efforts COP
• Decision makers, authority to make
commitments
• Align and cross-walk the efforts,
responsibilities and requirements of units/sections/divisions
• Focus on “BIG ROCKS”
– Streamline reporting duplication
– Leverage grants
– Develop a “common language”
• Provide support and oversight to Integrated Support
initiative
Aligning Efforts
• Meets on a monthly basis
COP
• Communiques are circulated to Integrated Support
COP and Teams, other units, and leadership
Integrated Support COP
• Comprised of decision makers and area
specialists
• Identify appropriate personnel for Integrated
Support Teams
• Develop and implement roll out of Integrated Support
initiative with pilot districts
• Develop the Integrated Support Teams’ structure: action
plans, protocols, etc.
• Meet on an ad hoc basis, but at least once a
Integrated Support
month
COP
• Provide communiques to Aligning Efforts COP
Integrated Support
Teams
• Comprised of area specialist within the
department to partner with LEAs/schools
to leverage expertise to provide more cohesive support
• Collect & analyze relevant data (e.g., student achievement,
demographics, systems analysis, monitoring compliance,
funding, perceptual data)
• Identify unique needs, challenges and strengths
• Create and implement action plans in collaboration with
LEAs/schools to meet identified needs
• Meet on an ad hoc basis, but at least once a month
Integrated
Support Team
• Communiques circulated to Integrated Support COP,
Aligning Efforts COP, and LEAs/schools
Questions
State Time
Consider This . . .
Four Simple Questions
• Who cares about this
issue and why?
• What work is already
underway separately?
• What shared work
could unite us?
• How can we deepen
our connections?