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FNQ Connecting parents & caregivers to their children’s
learning
Growing relational leadership development
in an organisational culture
Presention to the ‘Healthy Kids Smart Kids’
Conference, Charles Darwin University
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Development of the connecting
parents priority in Far North Qld
• Far North Region
Cradle to Adulthood
Service Stream & Crayons to Careers
(State Crayons to Careers)
• Multitude of experts,
research papers, peak
parent bodies
• State & Federal frameworks
and initiatives
• Local good practice
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• Late 2011 connecting parents priority
was born as an intent to redefine
community engagement
• Mid 2012 concerted focus around
capability development with P&C and
PaCE and finding out what parents want
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Where it began
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Q. Why is it important for your child to
attend school?
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July 2012 - NAIDOC
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Q. Do you have any suggestions or
comments about school attendance?
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July 2012 - NAIDOC
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• Met Dr George Otero through P&C
relationship
• Identified opportunity to help FNQ align
focus around community engagement
needs:
– Principal & school support to connect with
community
– Activating a wider parent voice and input
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November 2012
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• First regional meeting purpose:
– Connecting parents & caregivers with their
children’s learning: Working Better
Together in 2013
• First conceptual model discussed
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3 December 2012
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• Regional planning redefining community
engagement for FNQ
– Research (Creating Powerful Learning Relationships Otero,
Csoti, Rothstadt 2012)
– Defining underpinning principles
– Investigating core practices
– Rigorous dialogue to define best fit dimensions & elements
for FNQ
– Concept of Better Together Parent Principal Conference
2013 initially devised
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23 January 2013 – redefining FNQ
regional purpose
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Presenting The Fourth Priority…
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Connecting parents in FNQ
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2013: Better Together
• 15 May 2013 – Meeting with RD clarify expectations, provide
guidance and ratify the intended scope of the work
within the region, into schools and their
communities
– Community drivers defined
– Relational ambassadors role/purpose discussed
• 30 May 2013
- P&C State Wide conference (Cairns)
• May & April 2013 – Intensive cluster delivery, regional feedback, parent engagement
– Intent to define elements of focus areas
• 17 June 2013
- Parent & community engagement workshop (Townsville)
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Paradigm shift: the language
CONNECTION ENGAGEMENT
Linking Appointment
Joining Meeting
Involving Visit
Concerning Date
Relating Commitment
Attaching Employment
Tying Position
Uniting Battle/fight
Bonding Encounter
Association Conflict
Relationship Action
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Reflecting on current connections
One sheet per school | List one activity for each focus area | 10-15 minutes
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Far North Qld focus areas
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Leadership in connecting
The key to understanding and practicing
leadership in the 21st Century is in
negotiating human systems as well as
organizational systems.
RELATIONAL LEADERSHIP: Dr George Otero, 2011
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The nexxus of relational & systems
leadership
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• 120 participants from across the region
• Conference focussed on supporting understanding
and development of school partnerships
• Principal + 2 parents participating
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2013 Better Together Parent Principal
Conference
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• Focus on supporting remote principals and their
communities
• Initial focus around network & capacity of community
to participate
• P&C support with governance
• MAINTAIN INCREASE EXPLORE model
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2014: Stronger Together
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• February 2015 urban school focus providing support to develop
an outward looking school
• May 2015 consolidating partnership focus and remote school
principal/community connections
– Qualities of a relational leader
– Sharing community engagement practices
2015: Connecting school to community &
community to school
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2015: Relational leadership development