Minneapolis Public Schools Office of Student, Family, and Community Engagement Staff, March 2018 >>>>> Due for Elimination in the K-12 Revolution

The Minneapolis Public Schools Office of Student, Family, and Community Engagement has staff members who are avowedly committed to the mission and vision given on the pertinent portion of the MPS website, as follows:

 

The Office of Student, Family, and Community Engagement is proud to partner with students, families and the greater community to ensure the best possible education for all our children. The face of our office includes our network of family liaisons, who facilitate communication between schools and families, and staff at MPS family resource centers, where information on services and programs supporting parenting and family assistance is provided.

Our Mission:              

The Office of Student, Family, and Community Engagement builds the capacity of MPS, school, staff, families, students and the community to establish partnerships that strengthen student learning and improve schools.

Our Vision:

MPS will welcome every family and every student, actively engaging them as partners in student learning and school improvement.

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Staff members at the Office of Student, Family, and Community Engagement are given by position, as follows:

 

Minneapolis Public Schools Office of

Student, Family, and Community Engagement

 

(March 2018)  >>>>>

 

Staff Member                                   Position

 

1)            Celina Matina                               Executive Director,

          Engagement and External Relations

2)           Charisma Smith                             Family & School Advocate;

           Engagement, Education,

                and Outreach Specialist

3)            Ahmed Keynan                             Engagement, Education,

                 and Outreach Specialist      

4)            Antonio Carmona-Elias               Parent Academy Facilitator                                        

5)            Desean Smedley                           Parent Academy Facilitator
6)            Jenny Yang                                     Engagement, Education,

                  and Outreach Specialist      

7)            Mitch Roldan                                 Engagement, Education,           

                  and Outreach Specialist      

8)           Yee Yang                                          Engagement, Education,

                  and Outreach Specialist      

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Staff members of the MPS Office of Student, Family, and Community Engagement serve useful functions as liaisons to students, families, and certain communities of Minneapolis.

 

But members of this office should be more assertively involved in the direct provision of services to struggling families and in referral to other sources of services needed to provide family economic and functional stability.   

 

As the K-12 Revolution sweeps the halls of the Davis Center (MPS central offices, 1250 West Broadway), the Department of Office of Student, Family, and Community engagement will be eliminated;  its staff members will be incorporated into the new Department of Resource Provision and Referral, a large department serving a function second in importance only to that served by newly trained teachers.

 

In the thorough reorganization entailed in the K-12 Revolution slated to remake the Minneapolis Public Schools in the months to come, the newly energized academic and family outreach programs will be at the core of the transformation that will bring knowledge-intensive, skill-replete education to MPS students of all demographic descriptors.