Communicating with parents and the wider community

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Communicating with parents and the wider community

• Facilitated by
• Caroline Karayiannis RTU
• Caroline Bloomfield HAZ

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Video of Extended School, England

• What forms of communication have been used?
• Which of these are unusual or different to those
  that you would use?
• How has it affected their Extended School
  provision?

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Presentation

• What does the community consider to be good
  communication?
• Caroline Bloomfield Health Action Zone

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A culture of dialogue a vehicle through which
school can interact with the community to build
bridges

• 8 signposts
• Practising power with not power over
• Caring as much about questions as answers
• Growing comfortable with ambiguity and
  uncertainty
• Striving to be as much as do
• Caring as much about the learning of others as
  our own learning

• Devoting as much energy to listening as speaking
• Valuing the processes of witnessing the thoughts
  and feelings of others as much as we appreciate
  individual reflections
• Leaving ourselves open to being changed by the
  conversation
• John West-Burnham Leading together to build
  social capital p6

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3 types of conversation
Type Attribute Venue
Instructional Acquiring skills, knowledge, guidance classroom
Learning Equal partners Looking for mutual growth Staffroom Training room
community Express and share diverse views Negotiate Reaffirm direction and vision anywhere
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Activity

• Consider the statements you have been given and
  decide which type of conversation they belong
  to.
• Examine the language used and decide on the
  changes that would need to be made to make it
  community conversation (pronouns/language/innuen
  do/acronyms
• Make the necessary changes to one of the
  statements and construct at least 5 more
  interactions, ensuring that you adhere to the
  signposts.

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Other forms of communication

• List the different ways a school can communicate
• Categorise these into visual/auditory/sensory
• Activity
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of each
  type?

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Visual
Type of communication Criteria
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Auditory
Type of communication Criteria
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Sensory
Type of communication Criteria
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Conclusion and evaluation