Facilities: Implementation Plays
- We work with the school to identify facilities-related priorities and improvements and ensure they are built into the school’s strategic plan.
- We encourage and support school leaders to build and strengthen relationships with the District’s facilities team to facilitate open communication and collaboration and set clear expectations. We leverage opportunities to bring District staff onto school sites so they can see needs in person and address lingering issues.
- We build the capacity of school site staff to follow District policies by promoting a facilities protocol to closely track lingering items not being addressed at the site, and to more quickly and effectively identify, document, and escalate lingering issues and ongoing delays in service.
- We support the school leader to coach on-site facilities staff to oversee day-to-day issues and to elevate issues as appropriate.
- We develop processes to coordinate meetings, communications, and follow-up across multiple District departments on projects and repairs happening at a school site.
- We identify creative solutions to meet facilities priorities and help schools navigate District approval processes. For example, if a school has a goal to build out green space on the playground, how can they partner with community organizations or corporate giving programs that want to support schools?