Posted on September 30, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
Hispanic students vanish from Alabama schools is the headline of today’s USA Today article on a judge letting stand a law that requires schools to determine if students are undocumented. I’ve previously written several posts on this Alabama insanity. It’ll certainly do wonders for parent engagement among Latino families — if any are left.
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Posted on September 27, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
Trigger Laws: Does Signing a Petition Give Parents a Voice? is an excellent article in the most recent issue of Rethinking Schools. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning Why The Parent Trigger Isn’t Good For Parents, Kids Or Schools.
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Posted on September 27, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
I’ve written several posts about parent involvement/engagement efforts in Milwaukee — both because the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel there has provided some good coverage and because I have a particular interest in the city because I went to high school there. Parental participation in MPS appears weak is a new article that has some useful information [...]
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Posted on September 25, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
October is recognized in a number of states as Parent Involvement Month, thought others recognize it in November or March. States that I’ve seen announce it for March include Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Do you know of others?
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Posted on September 24, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
The Obama administration said awhile ago that it was going to eliminate funding of the Parent Information and Resource Centers, and I’ve previously posted several times about it being a mistake. It’s going to happen at the end of this month, and you can read about it at this Washington Post piece, “Parent involvement centers [...]
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Posted on September 23, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
Today, The New York Times published an article detailing the failure of the parent trigger law. In fact, it even quotes the law’s creator giving an analysis of the causes behind its failure that pretty much echo the critiques that opponents of the law (see The Best Resources For Learning Why The Parent Trigger Isn’t [...]
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Posted on September 23, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative is offering great resources on parent engagement throughout the month of September — podcasts, examples of successful schools, post, and much more. Read all about it in their September newsletter. It’s not to be missed!
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Posted on September 21, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
What Parents Really Want to Tell Teachers is an interesting and useful sort of response to Ron Clark’s recent commentary (see Jeez, What Was Ron Clark Thinking?). It’s short and will only take a minute or two to read….
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Posted on September 20, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
Los Angeles Times writer Jim Newton really “lost it” earlier this week in his column, “The Impact of the Parent Trigger.” In it, he wrote: …..the quiet stir of their revolution is as inspiring as the civil rights battles of modern times — the demand for racial equality in the South, the recognition of farmworkers’ [...]
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Posted on September 19, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
What Can Community Organizing Teach Us about Parent Engagement? Five Simple Ways to Rethink the Bake Sale is a long title for a useful short article from the Annenberg Institute For School Reform. It’s worth a quick read….
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Posted on September 18, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
Putting our minds to helping immigrants learn English is Los Angeles column by Steve Lopez where he makes good points about parent engagement, and about the importance of parents learning English. At the same time, he rightfully backtracks from some harsh comments he made in an earlier column about the same topic where he was [...]
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Posted on September 17, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
Putting Parents in Charge is a condescending NY Times column on parent engagement that was written by Peg Tyre. Among other things, she talks about how parents aren’t “sophisticated” enough to truly know what a good school is because often times they will pick ones with “low academic achievement” — and that’s usually a code [...]
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Posted on September 17, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
Too Plugged In is an article in this month’s issue of ASCD’s Educational Leadership. In it, Thomas R. Hoerr, who is a “head of school” in New York (I assume that’s the same as a principal?), talks about how he’s training to emphasize face-to-face conversations with parents instead of emails.
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Posted on September 16, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
Conversations that happen in the middle is the title of a post at the Daily Riff, which has a video, along with a text summary, of Lorna Constantini talking about parent engagement. I’ve linked often to Lorna’s posts, and I’d encourage you to take a look at her video….
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Posted on September 15, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
Parents Get Stuck In is the headline of a recent article in the Irish Times about parent involvement in that country. I don’t really understand what the headline means, but it’s an interesting article.
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Posted on September 15, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
Parents Aren’t to Blame for the Achievement Gap: A History of Injustice Is! is the titled of a piece in the Huffington Post written by a teacher. It shares a good perspective on look at the assets of parents, and the importance of not “blaming” them.
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Posted on September 14, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
All schools that receive Title 1 funds must meet certain parent involvement requirements, though it seems pretty easy for them to meet the “letter” of the law as opposed to its “spirit.” An Illinois school, though, was just found to be in violation of that law. It must have been pretty bad. It’s the first [...]
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Posted on September 13, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
Parent Teacher Conference Dos and Don’ts offers some very helpful advice to teachers. It’s from New York State United Teachers. Thanks to Lorna Constantini for the tip.
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Posted on September 12, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
Empowering parents — to sign petitions or become engines for change? is a post at the Thoughts on Public Education blog which gives an example of genuine parent organizing and engagement. It’s definitely worth reading….
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Posted on September 10, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
Most of you are familiar with the nearly 800 “The Best…” lists I’ve posted at my main blog. Here, at this blog, I haven’t gotten around to “curating” my hundreds of posts into many useful “The Best…” lists, other than every six months I publish two types of lists: My choices for the Best Posts [...]
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