HomeMy WebLinkAboutComing Soon - Parents Reaching Out Grant School Council Virtual Speaker Nights - 01_27_2022Coming Soon - Parents Reaching Out Grant School Council Virtual Speaker
Nights
Posted on 01/27/2022
This year the district will again be launching the second annual School
Council Virtual Speaker Nights.
How Does it Work?
The district develops a list of topics and speakers for School Councils to
choose from. All School Councils will be able to review the list of topics and
available dates and identify their preferred session. School Councils will have
the opportunity to register for one Virtual Speaker Night only. School councils
will be able to partner with other schools.
Why Are We Doing This?
Parent Involvement is important. This initiative helps School Councils to get
parents engaged with the school community. Funding has been provided from
the Ministry of Education - Parents Reaching Out (PRO) funding which is
intended to support the identification of barriers to parent engagement in their
school communities and find solutions to help more parents get involved in
their children’s education. Working with the OCDSB Parent Involvement
Committee, we worked to develop an allocation model of PRO grants that
provides parents more control over PRO funds while transferring the
administrative work associated with reporting to the Ministry of Education to
central staff.
Application Process
School Councils will receive an email with the registration links for the
sessions in March 2022. As sessions are selected by a school council, dates
will be eliminated from the application form. The successful applicants will be
notified shortly after registration is complete.
The successful applicants will be responsible for:
●Promotion and advertising of their Speaker Nights within their local
communities.
●Managing the registration of families for the Speaker Night.
●Liaising with the speaker to sort out the logistics of the Night.
●Moderation of the Speaker Night should they wish to engage a speaker
of their own choice.
●Distribution and completion of post-event feedback from the Speaker
Night Participants. A google form will be provided to facilitate the
collection.
The District will provide the following support to the successful school
councils:
●A toolkit to help school councils prepare for and promote and moderate
their Virtual Speaker Night.
●School councils will receive a google form to be completed in order to
fulfil the reporting requirements to the Ministry.
You can read more about our plans in this PIC Report.More information about
school councils’ access to these funds will be available in February.