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Episode #27 Erika Broaden-Family Engagement Liaison · The Recess-An Inside Look at the Auburn School District

• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: Hello and welcome to the Recess Podcast.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Dr.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_00: Alan Spicciotti, the proud superintendent of the Auburn School District.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: The Recess is a place where we tell the stories of the people and the programs that make Auburn School District a wonderful place to be a student, to work, to raise your kids, uh, and we really uh feel connected with our community in Auburn.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: I've been really reflecting on that connection and want to emphasize that and uh call it out because uh this is just a great town to be a part of, uh the Auburn Algona Pacific area, our unincorporated areas.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: We go into Pierce County a little bit.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um just such a rich district, uh, so many things that we enjoy about Auburn and and we're proud of.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: Uh today you're going to get to hear about one of our roles that um for some of you may sound like a new role.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_00: And we've actually had this for a good bit of time now, um, but it's not something that they had when I was in school, so we want to take time and explain what the family engagement liaison role is.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: And to do that, my guest today is Erica Broaden.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: She is the family engagement liaison, or we may use the term FEL or FEL, but she's the family engagement liaison at Arthur Jacobson Elementary and Willcrest Elementary.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: So let's welcome her now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Erica, welcome to the podcast.
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  SPEAKER_02: Hi, how are you?
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_00: I'm good.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: I'm good.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_00: It's great to have you with us.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um we we're gonna get to the work of the family engagement liaisons and and how you connect with families and what you do for for our students, but we're gonna actually jump jump in with a question that I ask all of my guests, which is who is your favorite teacher and why?
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_02: I would have to say my mom.
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  SPEAKER_02: She's been my biggest inspiration.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um growing up with uh with her and my three sisters, like she's a single mother household.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_02: So seeing her go to work every day and bringing like basically bringing home the bacon and you know being a strong, powerful black mother, that's that's what I eliminate as today.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: So Yeah, what a what a what a great memory and and uh uh I think all of us could relate to that on some level and and uh good for you for shouting out mom.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, of course.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's really good.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where did you grow up?
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_02: In California, actually born and raised.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, very good.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, we're glad you're here in Auburn and uh appreciate hearing about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And actually, you know, I always kind of chuckle and reflect a little bit that uh oftentimes people name a teacher who taught the subject that they teach now.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_00: And so for you to uh resonate with your mom and then be a family engagement liaison, actually that's a great connection and and uh let's get right into what your role is.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_00: So what does a FAL do in a school in Auburn?
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_02: Well, we support families with their um with our basic needs and we host family events and bring in the families into the schools so they can see what the school is like as a student.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_02: And you just make sure that families are well supported and well around it.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_02: You know, I support two schools and it's it's it's a lot, but I I make sure that uh families feel welcomed and make sure that they're they're heard and you know there's there's a lot going on within the community and within the world.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_02: The economy doesn't help as well, but I you know, but I'm here and we are we as a FEL are here to support families the best way that we can.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_00: Great.
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  SPEAKER_00: So before we get into what a day in the life uh looks like as as an FEL, uh let's give a little bit more context for the audience.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_00: So uh do you recall how many FELs we have?
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_00: I have a number in my mind, but I don't want to guess and be wrong.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_02: It's in the low 20s, I think, right?
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_02: I want to say like maybe 12 or 15, somewhere around there.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, there's there, there's more than that.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe I got to get a holiday card from the department and twenty right now.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_00: I think it was about twenty.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um just for reference, so I started in 2015 and we had five.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um and and this is one of those positions that gets little to no funding from the state of Washington.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so we were always filling in the gaps with either federal grants or with our local levy money, but we have really prioritized family engagement liaisons.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: So like the schools you work at when I started would not have had that resource.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_00: And um we started with with five that tended to be in very highly linguistically diverse schools, um, and the FELs tended to be bilingual and it fulfilled a need that we had.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes, and then we just saw this incredible value of somebody who you know everybody else serves parents and should be connected to parents a hundred percent, but it may not be their first responsibility, and they may have other responsibilities that are also very important and and uh certainly their primary uh priority is kids, right?
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_00: So um to have somebody who is a specialist, has training and experience and support to do that work, it has really paid off for us as a district.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, um my life experience plays a lot in my role.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_02: You know, um I came up here from California with three children by myself.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_02: So and with having no family up here, little to no family up here, and having to navigate systems that I was not familiar with at all.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um uh it took it it took a toll.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_02: It took a lot.
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  SPEAKER_02: But you know, like me and my kids, we we made it, you know.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and so and that's great.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we all should bring our life experience uh to the work that we do.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_00: And um I think another benefit of our FELs is it's a different it's a different pathway or track than a classroom teacher, and you know, our teachers are amazing.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um and most most had a a fairly similar kind of uh life story and experience.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_00: They graduated high school, they went to college to be a teacher, they came out, maybe they started subbing, maybe they got a job right away.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um some of our teachers do have a career outside of education, and that's been really helpful.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_00: But most are frankly like me, you know, I was 18 when I went to college, and I was 22 when I got out and got my first teaching job.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: And uh our FELs have this really rich tapestry of of life experiences and backgrounds and cultures, and uh I think help us relate to a to a much broader um cross-section of families.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_00: Uh that's the reality that we that we have, you know, most of our in any school district, most families you serve are not gonna have a traditional educator kind of career path.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_00: Uh there's gonna be a lot of variety and and um our FEL staff has just been amazing in in helping all of us grow as a district and especially just being a really great go-to for for our families, our our parents.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um so you let's let's kind of follow up on this.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_00: You came uh from California, you had your kids professionally, uh what did your path look like?
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_00: Because this is another exciting part of of FELs.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_00: I think I could bring 20 of you in, and you might all have a a different pathway and different experiences.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I know you did some really rich work before you got to Auburn School District, so why don't you uh share with the audience what your path was?
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_02: Um so I came up here with my children, and like I said, I had to navigate systems that I've never had to navigate before.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_02: Um so when I first came up here, of course, I went into a shelter and um and you know was on food stamps and cash assistance, looking for a job.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_02: Um found one.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_02: It was at Burlington Co Factory.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_02: The one in Auburn?
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, actually the one in Auburn.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_02: And um and then I started to go to school.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_02: Now, with um being on food stamps, I was able to go to school for free.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_02: So they they paid for me to go to school.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_02: And uh I picked educate education because I didn't want to go into nursing for some reason.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_02: I just just didn't.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_02: So I picked education and I figured like I can do this, you know, my kids are going to school.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_02: If I can get a get a job with the with the kids going to school, I think that'd be great, right?
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_02: So picked education, was going to class, going to night classes, going to work, um, taking the bus at the time as well, too.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I did not have a car.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_02: So walking, taking a bus, uh, with three children, going to school, picking them up from daycare, dropping them off in early mornings, trust me, a crack of dawn, four o'clock in the morning.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I met this woman, and she was telling me about her job and how they're always hiring, which uh is an organization called Childhaven.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_02: So we worked at Childhaven together, and I started out as a sub, and then I worked my way up to an um assistant teacher, and then Childhaven was moving into a different direction where they wanted to improvise the WISE program.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_02: They trained teachers to be a uh a counselor.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_02: So when I did finish that training, I went on and did that job for two years, and that was through the pandemic.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_02: So um, so back so yeah, so back in 2019, I started that job and I've uh finished that training, and then we hit the pandemic back in 2020, so that's when we first started, and we had to buckle down and really figure out how to find these resources for these families, because you know, everybody was scared of what was going on, because nobody knew what was going on at that time, right?
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_02: So um, so I did that job for two years and then came into the district as a para.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then I saw there was an opportunity for the FAL position, and then I leaked two and two together, and then here I am right now, today.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_00: That's great.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_00: Uh you know, I I think all of that comes together to be really, really helpful.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as I said, our 20 plus FELs uh uh have a real variety of of backgrounds and how they come to this work.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_00: I should also mention uh we have a person who uh you know helps to support our FELs, who's uh Guadalupe.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, Guadalupe.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_00: She's great, yeah.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_00: She's amazing.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_00: And and she's great, and they work with Isaiah Johnson.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_00: And um we're really proud of our team, and I know our our principals appreciate that support, and and and absolutely our our families do.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: So uh okay, let's talk about what this role is.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um just many of our FELs uh uh are able to be in one school, you're in two, so I don't know how you divide your time there, but if you could just kind of piece together a normal day for us and just take us through what do you do?
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_02: Um so I when I'm at the schools, I find resources for families I call five families a day.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_02: And you know, I basically just do a check-in.
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  SPEAKER_02: Explain my roles, play explain what I'm here, what I'm here for you, and and what I'm doing.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_02: And you know, some families are like, oh, okay, we're good or we're fine or whatever.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_02: And then some families, like, you never know what's going on at home.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_02: You never know that they're about to lose their apartments.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_02: You never know, um, well, my lights are about to be cut off.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_02: I need help with this.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I have no food right now, I need help with that.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_02: We have no beds, I need help with that.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_02: You know, so you never know what's going on at home.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_02: You know, the kids carry the brute of the rate when they come to school, and you know, they're they're just children.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_02: They don't know what mommy and daddy's going home, what they're going on at home.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_02: So that's that's basically my role.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_02: Like I call them, um, check in and see how they're doing, and then like I start that conversation.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_02: I open up that bridge to where like, okay, so you need some food at home.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_02: Let me see what I can do.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_02: Let me see if I can give you this resource for these food banks, or can I sign you up for our uh food to go program?
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_02: Can I um possibly give you a gift card if we have them?
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_02: You know, so are you know, or okay, so you're about to lose your housing.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so let me see what I can do.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_02: Let me see if I can find you uh some rental resistance.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_02: Let me see if I can um reach out to a couple churches to see if they can help donate or something.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_02: Or like that's basic that's basically what I do.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_02: Like I walk through I walk with the parents through their barriers.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_02: That's that's what I do.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_02: So So like I say, because this job is more than a job to me, it's it's my heart, you know, because I've 'cause I've been there before.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_02: I've been homeless before.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_02: I've been I had to figure out the barriers, I have to jump through hoops.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_02: So I d I just feel that any parent or anybody shouldn't walk through this earth alone.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_02: And that's what I feel.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_02: You know.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_00: So do you so that's I mean, first of all, that's a beautiful answer, and I'm I'm grateful that we have, you know, a a real team now across the district of people who do what you just described.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um I wanna dig a little bit more.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um do you think about how what you're describing, the work you're describing translates to student success?
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_02: Oh yes, of course.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, if the home is good, the parent the the the kid is good.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_02: You know, 'cause all it starts at home.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_02: You know, because uh basic needs is yeah, you need you need right, basic needs are you need food, you need water, you need your bed, you need shoes, you need clothes.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_02: If you don't have that at home or you don't have that necessity like on hand, then it's uh it falls in to behaviors at school sometimes, right?
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_02: Like I said, it starts out at home.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_02: As long as the parents could, the kids happy.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_02: And I know that as a mom, like I know that, like for sure, like when I'm good, the kids are good.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_02: Like when I'm sad, the kids notice that I'm sad.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_02: The kids notice that that uh that I'm not happy, that that we're struggling, that we may not have food in the refrigerator, and then and they notice that, especially having older kids.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_02: They notice that once everything is good, everything's good, everything is uh copacetic in the house.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: Part of the work that we're doing, like I I really appreciate how you just described that.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, we're we are an educational organization.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_00: We're uh we we do support families, we're not like a social service organization, like education's our main mission, but um I just want to explain because sometimes people I think think, well, why does a school district have to do that?
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_00: And it's because we're invested in kids being successful and we want them to have you know all the all of the support to be able to learn.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um and and some of that you provide uh directly, probably a lot of it you provide by connecting people with resources and opportunities.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so we're not literally, you know, finding pe people a place to live or that kind of thing, but but you can connect them with people who can help.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_02: Right, right.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, that's what I do.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_02: Like I say, like I find the resources out there that's available for them, and I do sit there and do the uh and build connections with outside organizations as well.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_02: And um, you know, at one of the schools is a big Afghan community, so I do sit there with them in that in my office and go through the steps with them because English isn't their first language.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_02: So of course everything is in in English online, so I gotta read it to 'em.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_02: Go but first I gotta find a translator, go through the translator, make sure they understand what I'm saying, then go and they translate to them in their language, and then you know, it's a back and forth thing.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so we do connect families to a lot of outside organizations.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: It it's interesting you mentioned our Afghan families.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_00: Uh most have been with us two or three years.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um and we've learned so much about culture and you know, assumptions we make about, you know, well, people understand what school is.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_00: And if your background is different, if your frame of reference is different, you might not automatically know what an American school does and how it works and and some of the differences between our schools and and your home country.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I wonder if you could just say a word.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I I was told an example of this was um resulted in a in something called Afghan Ladies' Tea.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_00: Can you explain what that is?
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_02: So the Afghan Tea Night is hosted by our ML department at WillowCrest, um, by Miss Paringer and Miss Smith.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_02: They both came up with the idea and they saw the need that was needed because we, like I said, we have a big Afghan community at Willow Crest.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_02: They they bridged that gap and they they invited moms to come in to have tea and to learn about school systems and to learn about events, and I'm able to go in and speak about my role so they know that that uh that I am here for help to find resources for them.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's great.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: And that's I mean, that's a a great example of a support for students by supporting families, moms in this case, that uh to be honest, we wouldn't have thought of or even known about that need uh if not for our family engagement liaisons and our staff at the Welcome Center.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so I I really enjoy that.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: I think it just kind of illustrates the kind of things that somebody who has their eye on the ball of really truly meeting families' needs and and doing things a little differently so that it connects uh would pick up on.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_00: So thanks for explaining that, Erica.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: Uh let's talk about um some of the positives of the job.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna start with what do you personally feel uh is rewarding about being an FEL?
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_02: Hmm, there's so many.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_02: I would say knowing and having the in fact knowing the fact that I am able to help somebody through the barriers that they're going through.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_02: Knowing the fact that somebody knows that they have somebody on their side, that somebody's gonna work with them, that somebody's gonna sit with them, that somebody's not gonna sit there and burst them off.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_02: Where we're gonna figure if one obstacle if one thing didn't work, then we're gonna figure out another one.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_02: And we're gonna keep going until we figure it out.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_02: That's what I feel like is special to me.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_02: It's plus make plus making connections with teachers and and working with the ML um team, then that's that's helpful too as well.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_02: So like we bounce ideas off each other, that's another rewarding thing.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm not so I'm not alone in this process.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_02: Like I we bounced ideas off our FEL team as well, as well as Guadalupe.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_02: And um, so I don't feel alone in my I don't feel alone in my position and the parents won't feel alone because we're working together as a team to help them.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_02: Like if I don't know something and if I need help with something, I know I can go to my FEL team, or I know I can go to Guadalupe, or I know I can go to my email ML team to ask some questions to help me figure it out.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_02: So that's rewarding.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_02: That's great.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_00: Perfect, good.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, uh, and then thinking about those you serve, what is your favorite success story?
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_02: Ah, my favorite success story.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_02: I would have to say me working with this dad, and he's new to our country, um, a lot of barriers in the family.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but he needed help with uh finding transportation to get his kids some vaccines.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_02: So I said, okay, well let me see what I can do.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not you know, that's that's a new area for me.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_02: So let me see what I can do.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, I did what I did.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_02: I went through many resources to try to figure out, and it turns out that help link helps with transportation with uh as long as you have uh state insurance, which they did.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_02: So I was able to link them up with Help Link and get some transportation so they can.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_02: um get their shots for for school so they can be able to be successful in school and not be getting slowed up.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: And do you see the kids around school now?
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_02: I do.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_02: I do see the kids around school.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, well Erica, I appreciate uh you sharing with the audience what our family engagement liaisons do and why why we have you and really a critical need that uh you're able to meet and your colleagues and uh on behalf of you know our whole district I want to thank you and all of our family engagement liaisons for the incredible work you do.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: And it's just made us uh a little bit closer to our goal of being a great sch school district for all students and families, not just some uh but really providing that support and making it happen.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_00: So thank you.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah it's it's a it's a team effort.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah good all right well um before we go I have a question I love to end with and it is a play on the title of this podcast what was your favorite thing to do at recess?
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_02: My favorite thing to do at recess was to play tetherball.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_02: I was very tall as a kid so so I towered over most kids so that one round the world move that I did it was it was over so tetherball was my favorite.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_00: Now now you work at elementary schools do you ever have an opportunity to get out on the playground and I don't I wish I used to I used to but I don't anymore.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_00: Well this is part of the mission of the podcast is to encourage people to go out and play uh as long as you're not gonna hurt yourself uh we're all older now but tether ball I think you're safe uh and and maybe take it easy on the kids with you around the world but uh yeah you should get out on the playground and and give that a shot again because uh you know it life's short and it's it's good to play.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: Well my guest has been Erica Broaden.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_00: She again is a family engagement liaison at Arthur Jacobson and Willowcrest up uh both of those schools are near Auburn Mountain View High School on Lee Hill.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Erica thank you so much for being on the podcast.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah thank you so much for having me this was a great opportunity well uh thank you and uh hopefully everybody thought this was a great episode I know I did if you know somebody who would like to hear about this job might resonate uh with with you know any part of Erica's story uh thinking about employment in the district or all those great things that we covered uh pass this on because we're really trying to spread the word we want to get the word out you might know part of Auburn School District your school or program that that you're familiar with but uh really wanting to broaden everybody's knowledge so that they see the great things that are happening in the in the ways that we try to live our commitment to our students and families.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_00: So uh get the word out and help us serve our community.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_00: This has been the Recess Podcast it's a production at Auburn School District.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks to Vicky Alonzo for producing and making us sound great.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_00: And until next time I'll see you on the Recess Podcast.