Collaboration, awareness keep out-of-the-way FRC buzzing
The Lowell Elementary Family Resource Center may not be right through the front doors, but if you follow the signs and arrows around some corners and up some stairs, you’ll eventually find Kirstin Hill.
The FRC isn’t a large room, though the school’s Flagship program has an impressive amount of material stacked on shelves all the way up one side of the office.
A couch and a desk fill up the rest of the space where Hill, the school’s FRC specialist, works to increase parent involvement and collaboration.
Despite the tucked-away location, Hill has no trouble coming up with examples of activities parents get involved with at the school. Just at the beginning of December the FRC hosted a Families First program: “Helping Kids Manage Their Emotions”. More program topics, like “Introduction to Positive Discipline”, keep parents interested.
Aside from planning family and parent events, the Lowell FRC stays busy with daily duties as well. While Hill discusses the relationship with Families First, two students walk into the office, one in need of socks and the other looking for a winter coat to replace her autumn jacket. School staff and the students knew the items would be available through the FRC, and it’s awareness and collaboration Hill says is are important to the Center.
A relationship with the PTA, the teachers and staff and individual parents keeps even a tucked-away office busy.
“I feel like it’s important to work with the existing organizations — like the PTA. We kind of work toward the same things,” said Hill.
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