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Module Activity Week 3 Principles of Community Engagement

This document discusses principles of community engagement applied by colleges. It provides examples of community activities implemented by colleges, such as student government, academic teams, volunteer work, athletics, and part-time jobs. The principles of community engagement emphasized include involvement in decision making, public influence on decisions, recognition of all participant needs, facilitation of public involvement, input in participation design, and communication of input impact. Current college community engagement is described as engaged research, community organizing, and community education through programs like TREC and ESL classes. Students are asked to consider how they can help their college provide better community engagement.

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Module Activity Week 3 Principles of Community Engagement

This document discusses principles of community engagement applied by colleges. It provides examples of community activities implemented by colleges, such as student government, academic teams, volunteer work, athletics, and part-time jobs. The principles of community engagement emphasized include involvement in decision making, public influence on decisions, recognition of all participant needs, facilitation of public involvement, input in participation design, and communication of input impact. Current college community engagement is described as engaged research, community organizing, and community education through programs like TREC and ESL classes. Students are asked to consider how they can help their college provide better community engagement.

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MODULE ACTIVITY WEEK 3 PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

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MODULE ACTIVITY
Evaluate the community activities of your college.

1. Enumerate specific activities that have been implemented by your college.


Student Government – example is NICAG
Academic Teams and Clubs
Volunteer Work and Community Service
A Part-time Job
Athletics

2. What is/are the principles of community engagement applied by your college?

 Community engagement is based on the belief that those who are affected by a decision have a
right to be involved in the decision-making process.
 Community engagement includes the promise that the public's contribution will influence the
decision.
 Community engagement promotes sustainable decisions by recognizing and communicating the
needs and interests of all participants, including decision makers.
 Community engagement seeks out and facilitates the involvement of those potentially affected by
or interested in a decision.
 Community engagement seeks input from participants in designing how they participate.
 Community engagement provides participants with the information they need to participate in a
meaningful way.
 Community engagement communicates to participants how their input affected the decision.

3. In what modality of community engagement are your college community activities at the
moment? Give examples.

Engaged Research

Research that directly benefits the community by clarifying the causes of a community challenge,
mapping a community's assets, or contributing to solutions to current challenges and also fits a faculty
member's research agenda. In the best case scenario, faculty with research expertise work alongside
community members and students on such projects. An example would be the MIEI community needing
assessment.

Community Organizing

Projects that bring people together with the goal of solving a community issue. Please note that OCE
cannot work on partisan issues, but can contribute to creating solutions for non-partisan, local issues. An
example is assistance in establishing the Latino Parent Advisory Board for the local school.

Community Education
Projects that provide instructional services or curricula, or serve to educate the public about a social issue
(in a non-partisan way). Examples include the TREC program, Community ESL classes, and Gather in
the Park.
 
Closure
 
Journal Writing
 
What can you do to help your college provide better community engagement?
Key 1: Know Where You’re Going
Start by creating a vision – in partnership with school staff, families, partners and community residents
(and I’d add students) – of what the school could look like and develop a plan for how to get there.
Ensure that diverse viewpoints are included in this process.

Key 2: Share Leadership


Actively involve staff, parents and community partners in sharing leadership functions, and work closely
with them in working towards your shared vision.

Key 3: Reach Out


Be proactive in learning about the community surround the school and become actively outside the
school. Don’t just expect the community to help meet the school’s priorities; also think about how the
school can contribute to what the local community wants. Identify community resources that could help
the school AND school resources that could be useful to the community.

Key 4: Don’t Ignore the Elephant in the Room


Recognise, and embrace, diversity within the school and the broader community. Instead of pretending
that there are no differences in culture, lifestyle choices, income, skin colour etc., promote open and
honest discussion of the diversity you find around you.

Key 5: Tell Your School’s Story


Make your schools story come alive. “We have to learn to communicate and to tell our story well. Once
parents and the community pick up on this, they will do a lot” (p. 12). Using stories, and the strategic use
of facts and figures, can inspire people to become involved. There is a great example of telling the story
of a school at A year at Mission Hill.
Key 6: Stay on Course
Ensure that the vision and plan for the school remains at the heart of partnerships and in community
engagement initiatives. Think about long-term sustainability and how partnerships can thrive over the
long haul.

The report uses the six keys to consider ways of responding to some of the challenges in engaging
families, staff, partners and the public. For example it suggests that some of the barriers to engaging
families include:

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