What's New: Meet our Strategic Equity Enrollment Coordinator
What is your role at PPS-SF?
I was recently promoted to the Strategic Equity Enrollment Coordinator! Strategic Equity Enrollment is a system of strategies, practices, and approaches that serve as the foundation to the design of responsive, equitable and effective enrollment coherence. There are four components to the approach: System Design, School Choice, Outreach and Engagement and Enrollment Management. I am in charge of implementing this at a coordination level.
How did this role transition from your previous role?
This role provides me with a broader scope to develop outreach, engagement and school choice strategies to bolster access to the work that the organization does around instituting effective strategies that will lead to equity enrollment experiences. I am charged with a greater focus on leveraging The Workshop Place, which is a portfolio of learning sessions in a variety of policy areas to demystify the policy and help our families understand ways to navigate, access and approach school choice. We are focused on this approach in order to execute enrollment equity opportunities that are aligned with the mission and vision of our organization.
Can you explain what the workshops provide to the community?
At Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco family engagement is critical to informing what is needed and what is great about public schools. We use the enrollment workshops as an opportunity to provide more than just information to parents. Every workshop lets families know they have a reliable resource to seek out for help and support throughout their entire journey in SFUSD. We also work to engage parents into affecting changes they want to see by teaching about the channels that exist for them to make change in SFUSD.
How do you plan a workshop session? What goes into that process?
Working with both parents, parents' groups, and organizations of all kinds to coordinate the workshop itself to reach as many as possible. Also reaching out to organizations so they can share with their own stakeholders the value of our learning sessions. Behind the scenes, there is a continuous conversation on content curation with our leaders for all generated collateral and session plans to implement the organizations focus on strategic equitable enrollment.
Where do you see the immediate need for workshop sessions in the community?
The greatest need is in our prospective SFUSD families as they have, they least amount of understanding and knowledge about the learning institutions of San Francisco in general.
How does PPS-SF work with other organizations in bettering the community?
The organization works to formalize partnerships with organizations whose stakeholders overlap with ours. Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco also supports partner organizations in the work they do in as many ways as possible including but not limited to work that is tied to directly being in community. PPS-SF also recognizes the needs of other organizations and provides many other channels to uplift the shared work being done for our community and aims to build the capacity of organizations to better serve their stakeholders with the work PPS-SF does.
What can you tell us about the enrollment process in SFUSD and why it is important to have these workshop sessions?
The enrollment process into SFUSD schools has a focus which has been set forth by planning and development in for the school district and we are leveraging a HOW approach so that we help the community understand options to make the best choices for their student and their family. PPS-SF’s enrollment workshops provide a critical and continuous support to families of San Francisco Unified to ensure our public schools grow stronger and our students are better served.
What has been the most rewarding part of your job so far?
As I transition to the role of Coordinator, I am excited for the new scope of work available to me. However, the most rewarding piece of work will always be directly serving families by providing support through their journey in SFUSD.
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