Community Support for Change

Community Support for Change

There are many ways to involve the community in your district's process of change and development. They include:

Keeping the community informed

At Los Alamitos Elementary School, parents use electronic means to look up what is being served for lunch, check on child’s attendance record, monitor nightly homework assignments. They have electronic mail conversations with teachers. Eventually they will use the technology to check on their children’s grades. (reported in New York Times, 3/30/94);

Inviting business partners to join the district technology committee;

Seeking advice from businesses in the community that are "heavy users" of technology;

Promoting the change and technology in your district in all publications;

Making the technology available to the community;

For example, by opening the computer labs to public, the district can:

Help students who don’t have computers;

Hold classes for parents and community members;

Offer access for a fee and raise money.

Engaging in these practices and offering these services leads to gain in community support for technology and draws on local expertise in developing your plans for technology and change.

This section will offer tips and tools for securing community involvement:

In this Module:

Community Support for Change

Community Support for Tech

Community Involvement Resources

In the Toolkit:

Toolkit Home Page	Why Change?	Why Technology?
Planning	Policy	Curriculum and Assessment
Community Involvement	Facility Planning	Funding
Prof'l and Ldrship Development