Technical Assistance

M. Fletcher and Associates provides technical assistance and support in building sustainable community schools and active partnerships.  Clients have partnered with M. Fletcher and Associates to

• Develop an Operating Framework for APS Community Schools Scaled Up System

• Convene Innovators to Compile the Rationale for Scale Up

• Landscape Analysis of Community Engagement and Collaborative Leadership

• Develop data collection instruments

• Landscape analysis of existing policies and practices that support the Community School Framework and improved student performance

• Literature review that explores strong community school models, factors related readiness of community engagement and collaborative leadership, key functions, and results

• Community School Policy Landscape Analysis

  
  
  

Complex System Design

Developing complex systems in often work best done in partnership. M. Fletcher and Associates take pride in the healing centered engagement client partners will receive in developing systems that may include utilization across diverse communities and climates. We have worked with Districts and communities to develop these critical components in support of designing equity driven systems.

• District Community School Roll out Strategy

• Results Based Logic Model with a Monitoring, Professional Development and Evaluation Plan

• District Practice Alignment, Budget Forecast and Sustainability Plan for Community Schools

• Districtwide Framework for Community Schools

• Develop Community School Leadership Structures and Key Functions

  
  
  

Equity Driven Practices

M. Fletcher and Associates approaches all projects with a desire to listen and learn across diverse layers and systems to develop a better understanding of the landscape, infrastructures, systems, and practices. Pursuing Equity requires a systemic response at all levels, individual, interpersonal, institutional, and structural. 

• Individual- person’s individual experiences, beliefs and actions that support community schools

• Interpersonal- interactions between people, both within and across difference and their visions and realities of community schools

• Institutional- policies and practices at the school level that support and potential barriers

• Structural- interact and accumulate across schools and institutions to propel community school success

In pursuit of equity all projects will include listening and learning from all levels when developing plans to address needs, engagement of people and systems in the development of practices that excel the scaling of results. 

Capacity Building

Building capacity is the opportunity to create change and influence practices. M. Fletcher and Associates works closely with client partners to design an adult learning experience that is thoughtful, responsive and engages the full person. Establishing a trusting relationship is the key to learning and we prioritize developing capacity building sessions where all are welcomed to learn and grow. Here are some of the capacity building sessions we have developed for our client partners.

• Trauma-Informed and Healing-Centered Engagement

• Developing Trust: Creating Spaces of Belonging

• Equity in Action

• Cultivating Transformative School-Community Partnerships

• Community School Ready!

• Needs and Asset Assessment: Listening to Learn

• The Art of Facilitation

• Improvement Science – Plan-Do-Study-Act with Ease

• Strategic Plan Development       

• The Art of Coalition Building

• Community Voice and Wisdom: Collecting and Analyzing Data

• Actualizing Your Leadership Style to Foster a Learning Environment

• Creating a Culture Where Restorative Practices Are Successful

• Implementing 2 Generation Practices in Community Schools