A Match On Dry Grass is an upcoming book and conference on community organizing and schools. You can see read descriptions of the different sites and methods discussed in the book here, as well as learning more about the conference. I’m adding the information to The Best Examples Of Parent Engagement Through Community Organizing.
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Effective Communication With Parents is a useful article at Education World. It’s a joint project between Education World and Eye On Education, the publisher of my latest book, Helping Students Motivate Themselves.
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Want to Improve Schools? Make Parent Involvement Meaningful is a New York Times article about the ongoing challenge parents face in the New York City school system.
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Parents demand stronger role at council hearing on engagement is an update on some recent actions in New York City. Things don’t seem to be getting any better there…..
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More Districts Sending Teachers Into Students’ Homes is the title of a lengthy article in Education Week giving a national overview of parent teacher home visits. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Teacher Home Visits.
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Regular readers know that I’m an enthusiastic supporter of the Parent Teacher Home Visit Project. Our school has been a big supporter, I’ve written about them in my book and in other articles, I’ve helped with some of their trainings and, of course, I’ve made plenty of home visits. I’ve also posted The Best Resources [...]
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The latest issue of The School Community Journal has just been published. It’s available free online, and has a number of useful parent involvement/engagement articles.
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Ideas to Increase Parent Communication in Schools is a very useful blog post by Eric Sheninger. I’m adding it to The Best Sources Of Parent Engagement Advice For Teachers.
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For people who are not familiar with Twitter, there are many organized opportunities for discussion called “chats.” These are scheduled times when people with interest in a particular topic can communicate and share at the same time. One of these is called Parent Teacher Chat. I’ve invited Joe Mazza, one of the chat’s organizers, to [...]
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Bridging Refugee Youth and Children’s Services has a number of resources for refugee (though useful for all immigrant) parents and people working with them. One example of their parent resources is a free book called Raising Children In A New Country: An Illustrated Handbook. Here is a complete listing of their available publications. They could [...]
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Making Parent Involvement a Two-Way Street is a nice guest article in Education Week by teacher Kevin Mixon. It’s worth a read…
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Since I have published so many “The Best…” lists, I thought it might be helpful to readers if I posted a few year-end collections. Here is A Collection Of “The Best…” Lists On Parent Engagement — 2011: The Best Ideas On How Parents Can Help Their Kids Succeed Academically “The Best Research Available On Parent [...]
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What Are Parents Thinking? is a new article in ASCD Educational Leadership by a “head of school” (I assume that’s another name for principal). He talks about some of his school’s parent involvement/engagement efforts, particularly using online surveys. I’m not a big fan of surveys — in my community organizing career, we always felt that [...]
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Just this week, two short pieces talking about community organizing and parent engagement were published. They might be worth a look: What Inspired Me to Study Parent and Community Engagement at Harvard Education Publishing. Education reform through community action at The Washington Post.
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