Parent Engagement: A Paradigm Shift is an article by Marilyn Price-Mitchell that’s worth reading.

Here’s an excerpt:

Many equate parent engagement to volunteering, school governance, and fundraising. While these activities are vitally important to schools, the kind of parent engagement that affects student success is vastly different. This type of engagement involves parents as teachers and learners. It means building parent-school partnerships that not only increase student learning but expand learning for everyone in a child’s support system.