Teresa Fewel

The Parent Ambassador Model (PAM) is a family and community engagement program developed by the Office for Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of Seattle and St. Vincent de Paul of Seattle|King County. It aims to help Catholic schools welcome, train, and mentor parents, particularly from Hispanic/Latino families, to serve as ambassadors for Catholic education. The program focuses on five key categories: Outreach, Engagement, Implementation, Celebrating the Good News, and Living in Relationship, to enhance cultural diversity, increase student enrollment, and strengthen community relationships within the Archdiocese's schools.

This document outlines a Professional Learning Community (PLC) Action Plan for a school year, centered on root beliefs, mission, key values, and norms. It focuses on achieving accreditation goals through four critical questions, utilizing the 5D Framework for professional growth, analyzing MAP data, coordinating school operations, and fostering Catholic identity and spiritual development. The plan details activities with an emphasis on academic excellence to achieve desired student learning outcomes.

This document outlines the Professional Learning Community (PLC) Action Plan for the 2019-2020 school year. The plan focuses on enhancing academic excellence through collaborative activities, data analysis (ACRE and MAP), and professional growth using the 5D framework. It also addresses meeting accreditation goals, fostering Catholic Identity and spiritual development, and coordinating various school operations and events throughout the academic year.

This document provides best practice guidelines for school network architecture and design, driven by the "From Strength to Strength" plan for 21st-century Catholic schools. It focuses on a technical strategy to segment IT network infrastructure into distinct user communities (teachers/staff, students, visitors) to enhance information access control, improve IT security, and manage student internet content access. The plan emphasizes formalizing current practices, establishing operational efficiencies through common designs and processes, and providing direction for school technology planning and support staff, utilizing mature technologies such as virtual local area networks (VLANs) and wireless SSIDs.

This document outlines the essential components of a comprehensive school technology plan. It focuses on conducting a current education and information assessment with a 4- to 5-year outlook, aligning technology with curriculum goals, and developing a budget forecast for maintenance, operations, replacements, and upgrades, considering a 4-year useful life for computers. Key areas include managing technology infrastructure and inventory, integrating educational technology based on the learning model for digital learning, and establishing refresh cycles for student computers. Furthermore, the plan details professional development goals for staff technology proficiency, a robust information security policy to safeguard data against threats like ransomware, and a disaster recovery strategy identifying mission-critical information and infrastructure with defined recovery objectives.