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Community Engagement Tools

Engaging Your Community

Blue button Boards and Community Engagement 
Tips to help boards establish two-way communication between the organization and the community it serves.
Blue button Community Relations Checklist for the Board 
Is your board doing what it takes to foster effective community relations.
Blue button Tangible Triumphs: Increase Community Support Through Communication 
Oregonians aren't getting enough of the right information about their local schools to create a very big fan club for education. Maybe it's time to change your message.
Blue button Key Communicator Network (Building Support for Your Schools) 
Personal face-to-face contact is the most effective communication method to build support for schools.
Blue button Building Meaningful Partnerships 
Basic steps for building partnerships between businesses and schools.
Blue button Building Collaborative Relationships 
It is the responsibility of the board to build collaborative relationships with political and business leaders in order to develop a consensus for student success.
Blue button Being a Spokesperson for Education 
Tips to help you assure people in your community that your schools are delivering what is expected.
Blue button Communicating with Diverse Populations 
How do we communicate with, and involve, the changing face of Oregon?
Blue button Communicating During the Board Meeting  
Your meetings can be a gold mine of information about your organization for staff and the community but you’ve got to get people to the meetings and make it easy for them to get the information.
Blue button Welcome to a Meeting of Your School Board 
OSBA has created a brochure you can use to "Welcome" the public to your school board meeting.
Blue button Peaceful, Productive Public Meetings (67k This document is in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Click here for help.)
The living nightmare of almost every superintendent and school board member is the public meeting that turns into a confrontation.
Blue button Budget Communication Tools
Inform and involve your community in the process of setting spending priorities.
Blue button How to Organize a Successful Community Legislative Forum 
When legislators arrived at Forest Grove's 2003 legislative forum, their surprise was obvious. Well over 300 people awaited them, filling every chair and standing several deep around the room.
Blue button Conduct Paperless Board Meetings with BoardBook® Increase community support while saving time and money by streamlining assembly and distribution of meeting notices, packets and minutes.
Blue button Back to School Week Archive 
While Back to School Week officially ended in 2004 the ideas offered here on how to invite the community to your schools are still valuable today.

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