Overview and key findings: Schoolwide toolkit/parent connector network

Note to documenters

Please think about OneVille's project-wide questions as you document your own project:

Who needs to communicate what info to whom, through which media, in order to support young people?

Which barriers are in the way of such communication, and how might these barriers be overcome?

How might basic tech help increase community cooperation in young people’s success, by supporting diverse students, teachers, parents, administrators, service providers, and other community members to share ideas, resources, and information and to build relationships?

Summary

(This is a bird’s eye view for the quick reader; we’ll flesh out each issue later. Briefly answer these questions with a few sentences each:)

a. Communication we hoped to improve. (What aspect of communicating about or with young people did the project address, or hope to improve?)

(Where did people want to go with the project? When did the project take place? Who was involved in the project and how was time together spent?)

b. Concrete communication improvement(s). What did the project accomplish? How did communication improve? What new support for young people may have been accomplished?

c. Main communication realizations and implementation realizations. (At this point, what's your main realization about improving communications in public education? (Say a few overall words in response to OneVille's research questions, above!)

Now, let's document each aspect of the project. Here we go!

Communication we hoped to improve

Say more. What aspect of existing communication did we hope to improve, so that more people in Somerville could collaborate in young people's success?

Process: How did the project change and grow over time?

How we realized and redirected things. Two sections, one short and the second long:

Basic History

The groundwork needed to support the current work.

Communication ahas, implementation ahas, and turning points!

Over the course of the project, we had the following communication and implementation ahas, and project turning points. An “aha” refers to the moments when we said “Aha! we’ve figured out something really helpful!” Or, “Aha! Now we understand!” “Turning points” refer to moments when we used these ahas to make changes to our work. To read the full accounting (our main documentation of this project!), see main article: Parent connector network/ahas

Findings/Endpoints

Please describe final outcomes and share examples of final products, with discussion! Three sections below:

Concrete communication improvements

What is the main communication improvement we made? What new support for young people may have resulted?

Main communication realizations and implementation realizations

At this point, what's your main realization about improving communications in public education? (Give us your main thoughts on OneVille’s research questions. What big changes would you recommend re. improving the “communication infrastructure” of public education, so that more people can collaborate in student success?)

What’s the main thing you’d recommend to other communities or schools implementing similar innovations? (What would you expand or do differently were you to do this again?)

What do you plan to do next?

Technological how-tos

Describe "how to" use every tool you used, so that others could do the same. Describe "how to" make every tool you made!