Meeting 54
February 19 - 20, 2025
Garden Grove, California
Our recurring attention to whole child well-being in previous Collaborative meetings has highlighted the importance of creating a safe and welcoming school environment that enables students to enter classrooms ready to learn. Family and student engagement are critical for cultivating the kinds of strong and supportive relationships that enable students to thrive. This meeting will therefore explore district strategies and structures designed to strengthen family-school partnerships in service of student well-being and academic success. In Garden Grove Unified School District (USD), one such strategy has been the implementation of a community schools approach, which has introduced both resources and tools to support effective engagement. With its large immigrant population, Garden Grove also provides an opportunity to examine the challenges and strategies specific to immigrant students and their families, particularly in this period of threatened mass deportations.
Briefing Book