Join The Shadow Project's Community Advisory Board

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Join The Shadow Project’s Community Advisory Board

Are you a parent, guardian, teacher, or community member that is concerned with providing high quality education for children with learning challenges? ​

Have you been personally affected, or are you a young person that has experienced the challenges of receiving equitable and accessible resources to aid your educational success?

Do you have specific knowledge, skills, talents, or a motivation to be more invested in the educational achievement of children in your community?

If so, we invite you to join The Shadow Project’s Community Advisory Board.

Who We Are

It is the mission of The Shadow project to make school more accessible and engaging for children who contend with challenges that affect their ability to learn, such as dyslexia, autism, ADHD. Our programs are focused on enhancing positive learning experiences through goal setting, reading mentorship, and fulfilling sensory needs with the use of tools that help students achieve their fullest potential.

Shadow’s Community Advisory Board enables and empowers community members to participate in the planning and integration of our programs into the public school system. The focus of this board is to engage community members in the continuous improvement of our programming, through an anti-poverty and equity lens that prioritizes culturally responsive program design and implementation.

Commitment

The opportunity to contribute is multi-faceted and encourages a co-creative environment. For instance, members could get involved by facilitating advocacy, attending outreach events, making connections and being active on social media. Members are also invited to provide input on program elements giving feedback about what is or isn’t working, what’s needed or may be overlooked, and be involved with the review of written materials - centering the voices of each member’s unique perspective.

We anticipate the board will meet two to three times a year. Our work will focus on maintaining the objectivity and comprehensiveness of Shadow programming.

Benefit

Board membership provides an opportunity to connect with like-minded people, gain advocacy experience, collaborate in non-profit work, refine leadership skills, and expand the mission of helping underserved children on a broader scale. All together, we will do this work by engaging with each other in a fun, creative and social environment.

Get in Touch

At this time we are gathering information from interested community members and expect to begin meeting in early 2020. If you are interested in being a part of The Shadow Project’s Community Advisory Board, or if you would like more information about Shadow programs for your school, please complete this questionnaire: https://tinyurl.com/vxep7sd. Once we have received your information, we will be in to begin sending updates about Board organization and the coordination of meeting dates.

If you have any additional questions, or would like us to send you more information, please contact Christina Bazzaroni, Community Connections Specialist, at christina@shadow-project.org. Thank you!