FCCPS pilot program using School Status Connect that allows parents to receive and respond to school communications in their native language.

Elementary principals and administrative assistants were trained in School Status Connect for the 2022-23 school year.

As of January 2023, Mount Daniel and Oak Street Elementary weekly Principal's Newsletters are being distributed via School Status Connect.

As of January 2023, most teacher-to-parent written communication at Mount Daniel and Oak Street Elementary Schools are conducted through School Status Connect .

Supervisors are able to communicate with non-English-speaking employees via School Status Connect. Resources are available for employee communication, as needed.

During October 2023 Parent Teacher Conferences, Secondary ESOL teachers began to connect with parents via School Status Connect.

At secondary level, teachers and family Resource Center are using School Status Connect to communicate with multi-lingual families.

At secondary level, coaches are using School Status Connect to communicate with athletes and families.

MEHMS is piloting School Status Connect..

JTP families are using School Status Connect

All FCCPS buildings have access to Language Line interpretation services and usage is promoted and tracked throughout the division.

Interpretation headsets are available for meetings and classrooms.

Staff are trained on protocols for use of interpretation tools.

Divisionwide communications are sent in both English and Spanish

Interpretation headsets are available for community and employee communication, as needed.

Language Line is used across the division by supervisors, office staff, teachers to communicate with families who speak a language other than English.

In-person interpreters used to communicate with families who speak a language other than English.

Interpretation headsets used:

• by 30 staff members in 3 languages during all-staff Convocation and professional development sessions to ensure that all employees had access to content.

• during parent Driver's Ed Information Session.

• for Athletics Parent Information Night.

• PYP Exhibition Parent Information Session.

• at MHS IB Information Night.

Family Resource Center offering Spanish-language Information Sessions on a variety of topics to parents at the Secondary FRC.

Family Resource Center partnering with technology team to design a series of workshops to build parent fluency with computer skills.

Family Resource Center partnering with Northern Virginia Family Services to provide a series of parent workshops for parents of young children and parents of teenagers.

Family Resource Centers fully staffed in located in areas in buildings near access doors for ease of connecting with families.

Family Resource Center collaboration with Inova GoHealth Clinic on TB screenings and sports physicals

FCCPS Communications Department configured the division’s YouTube page to provide closed captions in multiple languages, starting with videos posted in December 2022.

As of December 2022, Zoom meetings will have closed captioning available in the preferred language of the participants.

Principal's Coffees videos are close captioned in Spanish and Russian.

By June 2023 FCCPS will complete a communications survey to gather community feedback on divisionwide and school communications.

Communications Survey completed.

Survey findings presented to the School Board and community March 2023. Presentation Slides

Communications Department convening committee to coordinate school websites.

Webmasters hired at each school with an EPED stipend .

All 3rd through 12th grade families will have the ability to access the FCCPS parent portal to view student Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) scores.

In Fall 2022, families with students in grades 3-8 received access to the Virginia Department of Education Assessment Portal through PowerSchool accounts.

Beginning in March 2023, families with students in grades 9-12 will receive access to the portal, and instruction on how to set up an account.

FCCPS Virginia Assessment Parent Portal Resource Page provides up-to-date instructions for families to ensure that it is understandable and accessible.