East Community Center
Purpose of the Work:
Goal: Promote a culture of collaboration and community engagement in which school families and the community feel valued and included in the repurposing of the East Elementary building.
Outcome: A community space in the East community that is reflective of, and driven by, the community through a lens of equity and inclusion.
Community Meetings
All meetings will be held at East Elementary School
Dinner will be served from 5:00pm - 5:30pm and meetings will be held from 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Meeting #1: September 21
Meeting #2: October 5
Meeting #3: October 26
Meeting #4: November 9
What to expect:
- Process: Collaborative and community driven
- Activities to generate ideas and needs
- Consensus building
- Feedback loop with the LPS Board of Education
- Childcare provided
- Language interpretation and material translation
- Dinner provided
History
- Decision to consolidate East and Ralph Moody elementary schools on the Ralph Moody campus.
- Commitment from the LPS Board of Education and administration to pursue the development of a community center on the East campus that is designed to support the needs of the community.
- LPS sought grant funding in order to collaborate with a facilitator to support and lead the community engagement efforts.
- Hired outside group to facilitate community process
- Conducting research; meeting with stakeholders; hosting community meetings; developing plan for building
- Goal: Promote a culture of collaboration and community engagement in which school families and the community feel valued and included in the repurposing of the East Elementary building.
- Outcome: A community space in the East community that is reflective of, and driven by, the community through a lens of equity and inclusion.