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Unearthing Our Potential: Building Stronger Schools Through Community Asset Mapping
October 8 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm PDT
Presented by: Manuel Colon, Inflexion’s Chief Program Officer, and Elise Kuykendall, Inflexion’s Director of Partnership
Schools don’t exist in isolation. They thrive when they leverage the strengths of the entire community. This interactive workshop introduces the powerful tool of community asset mapping.
This isn’t just about staff and classrooms, but about families, local businesses, and organizations–all working together to propel student success. Community asset mapping helps you uncover invaluable strengths–people, programs, and resources–that already exist in your community.
In this workshop we will explore:
- Strategies for building relationships and fostering collaboration with community partners.
- The process of developing a visual asset map that showcases the strengths of your school community.
By participating, you’ll be ready to:
- Identify valuable resources, including people, organizations, and programs that can support student achievement.
- Create a community asset map for your school or district.
Resources
Highlighted Toolkit
Before you begin building an approach to well-being in your own school, it’s important to understand well-being in a school context. This resource details a well-known model that maps influencers of student well-being at the micro, meso, and macro levels.
Learn more about community asset mapping…
This resource breaks down how to use a community asset map to identify the institutions, individuals, and citizen associations existing within communities that serve as positive resources. Which can help leadership teams to approach individuals and communities from an asset-based mentality empowers them to recognize their own strengths and capacities.
Source: The Center for Court Innovation, NYC Department of Probation
A community-building strategy you can use now…
This protocol demonstrates each participant’s unique and vital contribution to the success of the group, initiative, or project.
Source: California Community Engagement Inititiave
About the Presenters
Manuel Colon served as the Chief Academic Officer for the Anaheim Union High School District in Anaheim, CA. Manuel held key roles with a distinguished career in education, including Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services and Principal at Savanna High School and Sycamore Junior High School within the same district. He was also an ACSA Certified Coach and was an AVID Regional Coordinator for the Los Angeles County Office of Education.
Elise serves the Inflexion team as Director of Sales and Marketing. A strategic connector with over a decade of experience teaching, leading, and designing within the K-12 education system, she develops intentional partnerships to serve as both advocate and co-conspirator for administrators who want to transform their systems from the inside out so more students succeed. Before joining Inflexion, Elise spent 7 years as a high school English teacher in Orange County, California after earning her MA in Education from Pepperdine University.
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