How can you engage your community?
'There is no one way to engage the community in the life of a school. The uniqueness of location, size and dynamics determines the strategies schools use to encourage community support and interaction.' Lee Anderson, Principal, Te Kopuru School
This section provides tools and resources you can select from to support community engagement initiatives.
Tools and discussion starters
Increasing Māori participation in schools: a self-review framework
This self-review framework focuses on how schools can assess their efforts to engage Māori parents and whānau in a range of school activities.
School partnerships self audit tool
This self-audit tool looks at current practices for working with students' families and at aspects of the school organisation and school culture that affects home-school relationships.
This process could be used to act on the information collected about your school's needs for your home-school partnership.