Sessions
Creating a Positive School Culture
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Wed
Family Engagement
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM Thu
Morning Plenary
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Fri
Community Schools Messaging
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM Fri
Consultation
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Fri
Monique R. Fletcher is a Project Director at Children’s Aid where she led an Investing in Innovation (i3) grant from the US Department of Education with a focus on increasing family engagement and leadership across four campuses, which consists of nine schools, in the South Bronx. She currently is working with the National Center for Community Schools to provide training and technical assistance around a variety of topics in the cultivation and strengthening of systems to support effective and responsive community schools.
Previously the Community Executive Director at Say Yes to Education in Syracuse, NY, Ms. Fletcher has held leadership positions in not for profit management, program design, implementation and partnership development at Westside Community School Strategy, P.E.A.C.E., Inc. and Syracuse Housing Authority. As an Adjunct Professor at Syracuse University Falk College School of Social Work, she taught graduate courses in both Social Welfare Policy and Human Diversity.
Ms. Fletcher served on the Board of Directors or Trustee at the Gifford Foundation, Downtown YMCA, Contact Community Services and Child Care Solutions in Syracuse, NY. A graduate of Syracuse University and the University of Missouri, Ms. Fletcher has a MSW from the School of Social Work at Falk College in Syracuse. NY. She is originally from a small town in the Midwest, Quincy, Illinois. She loves to be active, listen to music, and being a part of the solution.