Chapter 1
Strategic Leadership
Course: School Leaders Licensure Assessment 6990
Subject: School Leaders Licensure Assessment 6990
Chapter: Community Engagement Leadership
A school leader
1. Knows how to access and use resources from the school, family members, and community to support student and adult learning, with a focus on removing barriers to learning
a. Collaborates with faculty, staff, students, parents, and community members to use resources and ensure barriers to learning are removed
- Establishes a “Family & Community Resource Team” (AP/counselor/social worker/parent rep/student rep) meeting monthly to review needs (attendance, food insecurity, housing, health, technology, transportation).
- Creates an intake form (paper + online, multiple languages) for families to request help; routes cases within 48 hours; tracks status in a confidential log.
- Maps local partners (health clinics, mental-health, legal aid, housing agencies, libraries, after-school providers, workforce programs) and signs MOUs that specify referral process, data sharing, and program outcomes.
- Removes access barriers: translation/interpretation at all events; child care; transportation vouchers; virtual attendance option; flexible hours (evenings/weekends).
- Builds school-based parent learning (digital literacy, navigating the SIS/LMS, special education rights, college/FAFSA nights) and adult ESL/GED in partnership with community colleges.
- Metrics: % of families using resource hub; resolution time per request; reduction in chronic absenteeism for supported students; family satisfaction survey.
- Pitfalls: ad-hoc referrals with no follow-up; partners on campus without background checks or MOUs; one-time events with no measure of impact.