Welcome/Lightening Round
This type of data includes attendance rates, test scores, and discipline incidents.
What is Quantitative Data?
When school data shows the same pattern increasing or decreasing over several years, it is called this.
What is a trend?
Ensuring that families from different languages, grade levels, and backgrounds are included in feedback is known as this.
What is Representation?
This category includes strengths and resources that already exist within the school community.
What are School Assets?
The purpose of a Community Needs Assessment is to identify school strengths, community challenges, and opportunities to do this.
What is align resources and partnerships to support students and families?
This type of data includes interviews, focus groups, and stakeholder conversations.
What is Qualitative Data?
When staff or student observations match what the numbers show, the data is said to do this.
What is Align?
When multiple stakeholders consistently mention the same issue during interviews and surveys, it is called this.
What is a Theme?
This category identifies areas where the school can improve or expand services to better support students and families.
What are Opportunities for Action?
If a needs assessment identifies chronic absenteeism caused by transportation barriers and housing instability, solving the problem will likely require collaboration between the school, community organizations, and local government. This reflects which core principle of Community Schools?
What is collaborative leadership and shared responsibility?
This tool identifies organizations, services, and institutions located around a school.
What is an Asset Map?
Looking at performance differences between groups such as grade levels or special education students is called this.
What is Data Disaggregation?
These are organizations located in the community that could support the school but are not currently partners.
What are Untapped Community Assets?
These organizations or community groups can collaborate with the school to help address identified needs.
What are Potential Partners?
If survey responses indicate families feel welcomed at school but attendance at family events remains low, the needs assessment should explore this possible issue.
What is a barrier to participation?
These organizations, businesses, or groups can collaborate with the school to support identified needs.
What are Potential Partners?
In a needs assessment, identifying housing instability, transportation barriers, or family workforce challenges as contributors to academic gaps helps schools uncover these deeper explanations behind student outcomes.
What are Root Causes?
If surveys primarily include responses from English-speaking families but few responses from multilingual families, the feedback may lack this.
What is representative stakeholder voice?
These are areas where the school can improve or expand services to better support students and families.
What are Opportunities for Action?
If interviews with staff highlight behavior challenges while family focus groups emphasize housing instability and food insecurity, the needs assessment must consider how these factors may influence this student outcome.
What is student learning or academic performance?
If a needs assessment identifies strong community organizations, family trust, and active partners already supporting students, the school should use these strengths as the starting point for planning. This approach is known as what?
What is an asset-based approach?
A school’s average daily attendance is 93%, but 25% of students have missed 18 or more days of school. This example shows why relying only on averages can hide this important attendance indicator.
What is chronic absenteeism?
If staff report that family engagement is strong, but family survey responses show low participation in school events, the feedback and data are said to do this.
What is contradict (or be misaligned)?
A needs assessment identifies transportation barriers affecting attendance, family interest in academic workshops, and strong neighborhood organizations willing to help. The role of the Community School Coordinator is to align these assets and needs into this type of coordinated approach.
What is a Community School strategy?
When feedback from families, staff, and community partners consistently points to the same barrier—such as transportation or childcare—the needs assessment should treat this issue as this type of priority finding.
What is a major theme or priority need?