Improving Parental Involvement in Children’s Education is the title of a series of online presentations and discussions among Jamaican educators and parents. It seems pretty interesting, and you can see a list of the topics they’ve been covering on the right of the page (along with links).
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The ongoing parent protest demanding a school library, which I’ve posted about several times previously, has resulted in a meeting with the new Chicago Superintendent. You can read a Chicago Tribune story about what happened here.
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A few days ago I posted about the new Chicago Superintendent’s unwise plans which, among other things, would require teachers to make home visits. Today, The Chicago Sun-Times weighed on in on the issue with some common sense: Editorial: Teacher home visits should be voluntary.
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Native American Student Achievement Linked to Parental Involvement is the headline of an article about a new report on the challenges facing Native American students. Here’s an excerpt: The report analyzed 33 Montana schools and found the factor most correlated with student success was the “school’s effort to engage parents, families and communities in the [...]
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I’ve previously posted about a sit-in organized by Chicago parents to get a library in their school. The School District had agreed to their demands, but seems to be backtracking, according to media reports.
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Within days of the Chicago School Board retracting its promise to increase the salaries of teachers while increasing the salaries of its Central Office staff, its new Superintendent proposed to eliminate teacher professional development days and pay increases due to seniority or teachers obtaining additional credentials. He also wants to have teachers make two home [...]
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Parents push for laws allowing communities to vote on charter schools is a New Jersey newspaper column describing how some parents are fighting against attacks on public education in their state. You might want to take a look…
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Power of home visits and caring stressed to teachers is an article about the Parent Teacher Home Visit Project and a training they are doing in Montana right now. In fact, the parent engagement coordinator at our school, Elisa Gonzalez, is helping to lead the training and is quoted in the article.
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Communicating With Parents is a nice column by teacher by teacher Gail Tillery. It has just been published in Ed Week Teacher. Its advice is worth heeding…
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Terry Freedman has written a review of my book, “Building Parent Engagement In Schools.” You might find it interesting…
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The headline of this post is from a parent quoted in NPR’s story today, Fight Ensues Over Facebook Money for N.J. Schools. I’ve written extensively in the past about Newark’s fiasco with parent engagement and the Facebook money.
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I’ve written in the past about “community schools,” which are schools that make a particular effort to connect with the surrounding community. Many, though not all, work with local parents and community members as partners in developing effective strategies (some of these schools, though well-intentioned, just decide to do programs on their own). Three schools [...]
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L.A. Unified to spend $20 million on parent centers is the headline of an article in today’s Los Angeles Times. I generally don’t tend to be a big fan of these kinds of parent centers because they are often well-intentioned efforts to “do to” parents (involvement) instead of “doing with” (engagement). It can have a [...]
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The headline of this post is how Soo Hong, author of A Cord of Three Strands: A New Approach to Parent Engagement in Schools, ends a recent interview about her book. Check-out How a neighborhood organization is bringing parents and schools together so the whole community benefits.
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As regular readers know, I’m definitely not a fan of the so-called “parent trigger” law (you might want to read The Best Resources For Learning Why The Parent Trigger Isn’t Good For Parents, Kids Or Schools). Today, there were lots of news articles about the status of the parent trigger in various areas. Here is [...]
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En Camino: Educational Toolkit For Families is a series of free online “modules,” available in both English and Spanish, designed to help answer parent and student questions about college. It was just unveiled a few minutes ago by the National Center For Family Literacy. I’m adding this resource to two “The Best…” lists: The Best [...]
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“Engagement must not stop at the gate” is the title of an op-ed published in the Sydney Morning Herald. Its author is the president of the “Australian Council of State School Organisations.” I’m not sure if that’s the Australian equivalent of the PTA or the national association of School Boards. Perhaps a reader can enlighten [...]
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CNN has just published a good interview with the new National PTA President. Check it out at New National PTA president Betsy Landers: ‘We cannot balance the budget on the backs of families and children.’
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Immigration law makes school officials uneasy is the headline of a local Alabama newspaper story giving more details about the impact an upcoming terrible state law will have on schools and parent engagement. I’ve previously written about it in Southern States Targeting Immigrant Children.
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Reformers, please listen to what parents want for schools is a nice column at CNN’s website. It’s written by Helen Gym from Parents United For Public Education.
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