The Community Engagement Initiative (CEI) is designed to build the capacity of communities,school districts, and County Offices of Education (COEs) statewide to engage each other more meaningfully in the local control and accountability plan development process, to engage in difficult conversations with each other, to build trusting relationships, and to identify effective models of community engagement and metrics to evaluate those models with a focus on improving outcomes for pupil.

Peer Leading and Learning Network (PLLN)

CEI will convene a network of schools and school districts in a Peer Leading

and Learning Network (PLLN). The goals of the PLLN are to:

• Deepen the Community Engagement of the school districts and participating

communities

• Define common characteristics and best practices where engagement among

communities, pupils, schools and school districts are strong

• Identify and test metrics for measuring increases in Community Engagement

• Develop a protocol for facilitating future PLLNs to help other communities and school

districts improve and deepen their relationships and interactions

• Develop criteria for selecting other teams that would benefit from and be successful in

improving Community Engagement

• Create capacity within each team to cofacilitate a future Community Engagement

Initiative PLLNs