Education Fairs Reach Out to Parents in Spanish is the title of a blog post at Latin Ed Beat. It describes an organization that helps School Districts around the country organize events geared towards Spanish-speaking parents. The post also contains several good links to other articles.
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An Interview with Carol Vincent: Parental Involvement in Education recently appeared in a United Kingdom newspaper — Carol Vincent is a professor at the University of London. It’s not interesting enough for me to add to The Best Resources On Parent Engagement In Countries Other Than The U.S., but it might be worth a quick [...]
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Parent trigger not on the top of parent-involvement expert’s list of best practices is the headline of a column at the Tampa Bay newspaper in Florida (where an attempt is being made to pass a trigger law). It quotes parent involvement researcher Joyce Epstein, who says: “That would not be first on our list of [...]
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Bad idea to grade parents is the headline on a Florida newspaper columnists piece published yesterday. It refers to the….bad idea I posted about a couple of days ago.
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4 Reasons Parents Should Speak Heritage Languages at Home is a very important article for teachers who have immigrant students. I’m adding it to The Best Ideas On How Parents Can Help Their Kids Succeed Academically.
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A Florida legislator’s terrible idea of having teachers grade parents was shot down last year, but now has just passed a legislative committee in its first vote. You can read my previous posts on the topic here.
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Should Parents Control What Kids Learn at School? is a New York Times forum on a New Hampshire law that I believe has gone way overboard and is another example of the wrong way to encourage parent involvement in schools. It’s worth a visit…
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Last month, Joe Mazza wrote a guest post about Parent Teacher Chat on Twitter. Joe has accepted my invitation to write a short post on this blog regularly to announce future topics for these chats: Special guest Karren Dunkley joins #ptchat this Wednesday, 1/25 at 9PM EST. Ms. Dunkley, Deputy Chief of the School District of [...]
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The San Francisco Chronicle recently published an article about a series of “PTA School Smarts Parent Academies” that are being held at a local school and others around the state. The President of the California PTA also has written a column about this effort. I’m sure it’s a good experience for the parents involved, but [...]
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Lightening the Load: A Look at Four Ways that Community Schools Can Support Effective Teaching is a new report from The Center For American Progress. I’ve written a fair number of posts about community schools, which, simply speaking, are schools which provide a lot of community services to the broader community. I obviously think they [...]
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New year brings new expectations for “parent trigger” law is a new article from Ed Source. It’s worth a look….
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NEA Today published a story today of how parent involvement in a school dealt with a tricky situation of gym uniforms for Muslim girls. It’s nothing dramatic — just a nice, simple story. You can never get too many of those….
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Parent Involvement is Smart. Don’t Turn it Into Something Stupid is a post by NEA leader Lily Eskelsen. It’s about Idaho’s plan to tie teacher pay to the number of parents who show up to school meetings. I’m adding it to The Worst Parent Engagement Ideas.
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Student-Led Parent Conferences: How They Work in My Primary Classroom is a nice post by teacher Kathy Cassidy. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On Parent/Teacher Conferences.
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I still feel very confident in saying that the “parent trigger” is pretty much dead in terms of having any kind of real influence in the education policy debate, but it does seem to appear to have some dying breathes left. You can read about them here: Adelanto school is targeted in second test of [...]
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The Flamboyan Foundation has developed a very accessible review of the most current parent engagement/involvement research. It includes some surprising info, particularly around issues related to homework. They’ve published it in two parts, and the great thing about it is that both are only two pages long! The first is called Setting the Stage: The [...]
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Jason Renshaw found this video, and I think it does a good job explaining the benefits that Hobbit teachers (and human ones) can gain from making home visits: I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Teacher Home Visits.
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Last month, Joe Mazza wrote a guest post about Parent Teacher Chat on Twitter. Joe has accepted my invitation to write a short post on this blog regularly to announce future topics for these chats: As a school principal, I receive more bullying referrals from the school bus than anywhere else. Unfortunately, the school bus [...]
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Study: Head Start Programs May Increase Parents’ Involvement is a short blog post at Education Week about a new….study. It might be worth a look…
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Large numbers of parents are organizing in Chicago against proposed school closings and “turnaround” plans. You can read about it here, and watch a local news report here.
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