I’ve written several posts about the unhelpful idea being pushed in Florida to have teachers grade parents. Happily, it doesn’t look like its making any kind of substantial progress. Here’s a news report giving an update and a Florida newspaper’s editorial against it.
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Lorna Constantini from the great blog and webcast Parents As Partners as developed a great collection of Parent Engagement Resources. It’s definitely worth a visit.
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I’ve just written a post at my other blog about today’s Univision Town Hall Meeting on Education with President Obama. Here’s is an excerpt from his comments: What we’re trying to do as the government is to make sure that we’re providing more incentives for schools to improve their parental involvement programs. We’re trying to [...]
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Our school has an International Baccalaureate program, and I teach a Theory Of Knowledge class as part of it. The IB magazine, IB World, had a “Parents Issue” late last year. There’s some stuff that might be useful.
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“Teachers at an East Harlem elementary school are bizarrely forbidden from communicating with parents without first getting a supervisor’s permission and from calling parents outside of normal school hours, the teachers handbook says.” Read more about the bizarre rules discouraging parent engagement in this article at The New York Post.
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The “PTA Great Idea Bank” comes from…the National PTA, and has a huge quantity of parent involvement ideas. The quality is a decidedly uneven, but it could be a useful resource.
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I was a community organizer for nineteen years prior to becoming a teacher, and one of the lessons we learned from the work of Saul Alinsky (the father of modern-day community organizing) was that “the price of criticism is a constructive alternative.” I think I’ve provided plenty of examples of effective parent engagement/involvement — both [...]
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The National Center For Homeless Education has a good parent involvement resource page that includes some materials I hadn’t know about. It’s worth a look.
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Earlier this month, I wrote about how Newark Continues To Show The World How NOT To Do Parent Involvement/Engagement. It now looks like the school district in my native town, New York City, is giving Newark a run for its money. The New York Times reports this about the Office of Family Engagement: In January, [...]
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Renowned parent involvement researcher Joyce Epstein will be the guest at the next Parents As Partners webcast on Monday, April 4th. You can get all the details at Lorna Constantini’s blog.
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“Title I and Parent Involvement: Lessons from the Past, Recommendations for the Future” is a new report written by Karen Mapp, one of the authors of the influential parent involvement book, Beyond The Bake Sale. It has a lot of useful information.
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Parent trigger misfires by disrupting and dismantling local schools is a post by Caroline Grannan and Sharon Higgins at the Thoughts On Public Education blog. It’s worth a visit.
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The Detroit Public Schools has begun giving $25 gift cards if parents come to their parent centers. What in the world are they thinking? I hope someone there reads my Washington Post piece, Why paying parents to attend school events is wrong.
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Bringing Parents to School is an article at The National School Boards Association. It describes some parent involvement programs different school districts are sponsoring.
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An Indianapolis newspapers has just run an article about an understandably frustrated teacher who want the state to mandate parent involvement in schools using the “stick” approach (I’ve previously posted about the dangers of that approach in Teachers Have Got To Stop Blaming Parents). Thankfully, the reporter also contacted renowned parent involvement researcher Anne Henderson. [...]
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“John Muir Elementary SF gets parents more involved” is an article in today’s San Francisco Chronicle about one school’s efforts to connect with parents. It’s worth a read.
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Moms fight for schools is the headline of a Los Angeles Daily News article about a new parent group called Educate Our State. They’re fighting for increased education funding in our state. I’ve previously posted about them at California Parents Organize.
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Lorna Constantini from Parents as Partners and Dorothy Gossling have created a Parent Tool Kit and accompanying Planning Parent Engagement Guidebook that is being distributed to all school boards and schools in Ontario. It’s a great piece of work and useful to anybody, anywhere. You can get free copies — in English or in French [...]
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The California State Board of Education met yesterday and made some decisions about the parent trigger law. John Fensterwald at Thoughts On Public Education has a very informative post explaining what happened. Check it out.
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Preparing Teachers for Family Engagement is the headline of the newest free email newsletter from the Family Involvement Network of Educators from Harvard. Here’s a short excerpt of their description of what’s included: Elise Trumbull, EdD, co-creator of the Bridging Cultures Project, discusses the challenges of communicating with families from different cultural backgrounds. She presents [...]
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