Community Collaboration
Building community relations with new school, Chandler Park Academy
An education leader promotes the success of every student by collaborating with faculty and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and mobilizing community resources.
I believe in using appropriate strategies to collect, analyze, and interpret data and information pertinent to our school environment. I believe in effective communication about the school to the community. I believe in understanding, appreciating, and using the community’s diverse cultural, social, and intellectual resources in order to better serve our students' needs. I believe in developing positive relationships with our families and caregivers.
How have I demonstrated Community Collaboration?
I worked to improve relationships between alumni from Notre Dame High School (NDHS), which closed in 2005, and Notre Dame Preparatory School. (see photo above, right)
In the fall of 2010, we organized a formal visit to the NDHS building which was now occupied by Chandler Park Academy. I joined in discussion with the administration, the Archdiocese of Detroit, and we toured the school and helped to secure some memorabilia from NDHS. Today the letters (not pictured) are on Notre Dame's building in Pontiac. >>read story
I have initiated school-alumni business partnerships within the community.
I have asked alumni to share their careers with the alumni office. I've teamed with our school's counseling office to organize career speakers throughout the school year.
I have instituted an Alumni Business Directory.
I feel it is important for our community members to support each other, which is why I instituted an Alumni Business Directory on our school's website.
I have worked to support and promote an alumni-recognition program in our school.
Our school publishes a periodical called The Blarney Stone, which is published five times a year. For each publication I scouted, interviewed and wrote an article featuring a successful alumnus. View Alumni Profiles>>
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