Tracy Unified and Boys and Girls Club of Tracy

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Tracy Unified and Boys and Girls Club of Tracy

• Forming a Partnership

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SCHOOL/CLUB HISTORY

• Ten years and two schools later
• Challenges and successes
• A brief timeout

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Mending Fences

• Communication
• Clear understanding of needs and expectations
• Strong club leadership

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Do as I say not as I did

• Get school staff on board
• Build a culture of our kids
• Define goals for both the school and the club
• Memorandum of understandingfacility use
  agreement
• Communication
• On-going Articulation meeting
• School staffprincipal, teachers and support
  staff
• Parent clubs
• Articles in the school newsletter by both the
  principal of the school and the club

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Looking at the near future

• New challengehighly qualified staff
• Collaborate with the site principal to recruit
  highly qualified paraprofessionals
• Strategy for ensuring kids get the right help
• Communication system between teachers and the
  club, e.g. Boys and Girls Club box in the office
• Teachers provide workshops for Boys and Girls
  Club staff on tutoring/hw strategies