In this task, you will create a communication plan around a hypothetical initiative of your choice based on an analysis of your current school setting. This plan should be relevant for your degree program. The communication plan should promote cultural awareness, build an inclusive school environment, and facilitate student success. As a teacher, promoting cultural awareness enables students from all backgrounds to be successful in a variety of educational settings.
Requirements:
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
A. Create an original communication plan to implement a change or initiative promoting cultural awareness, relevant to your degree program and educational setting, by doing the following:
1. Identify one subgroup of students based on demographic data from your school site who will be the intended focus for your communication plan.
Note: Subgroups can be any group of students who share similar characteristics, such as racial or ethnic identification, gender identification, socioeconomic status, physical or learning disabilities, language abilities, or school-assigned classifications (e.g., first generation, special education, gifted and talented, 504 status, English learners).
2. Describe the communication plan’s change or initiative by doing the following:
a. Describe one communication practice or policy in your plan that promotes cultural awareness and is relevant to the subgroup identified in part A1. Support your description with one academic source.
b. Describe one communication practice or policy in your plan that promotes a culturally inclusive educational environment and is relevant to the subgroup identified in part A1. Support your description with one academic source.
c. Describe one communication practice or policy in your plan that promotes student success and is relevant to the subgroup identified in part A1. Support your description with one academic source.
d. Describe one strategy to incorporate the cultural perspectives of families and community stakeholders and is relevant to the subgroup identified in part A1. Support your description with one academic source.
3. Describe three communication strategies that will be employed in the communication plan that are relevant to the subgroup identified in part A1.
a. Submit two artifacts of communication strategies as part of your plan. Both artifacts should align to the communication plan’s change or initiative and be appropriate for the subgroup described in part A1.
Note: Artifacts could be items like a parent survey conducted at a community event or a parent newsletter.
4. Summarize the purpose of your communication plan and how it will implement the change or initiative promoting cultural awareness.
B. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
C. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
Use the following resource pages (and others) to find specific information about Winchester Village Elementary School in Indianapolis, IN 46227:
https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&InstName=Winchester+Village+Elementary&SchoolType=1&SchoolType=2&SchoolType=3&SchoolType=4&SpecificSchlTypes=all&IncGrade=-1&LoGrade=-1&HiGrade=-1&ID=180882001470
https://www.greatschools.org/indiana/indianapolis/1372-Winchester-Village-Elementary-School/?searchWhatType=autosuggest&searchLocationType=undefined&searchWhatKeywordValue=Winchester%20Village%20Elem#academic_progress
https://www.in.gov/doe/it/data-center-and-reports/
https://www.greatschools.org/indiana/indianapolis/1372-Winchester-Village-Elementary-School/?searchWhatType=autosuggest&searchLocationType=undefined&searchWhatKeywordValue=Winchester#Low-income_students*Test_scores*English
