Parent Jiggernaut Follow-Up: Opting out vs. Opting In is a thoughtful post by Rachel Levy. It discusses the issue of if parents should “opt-out” of having their students take standardized tests.
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Parent Engagement: Do you have a policy on that? is a new post at Parent Involvement Matters. It was written by Myrdin Thompson. It’s worth a read….
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How to Work Together not Against Each Other: Parents as Part of the Educational Change Conversation is the title of this Monday’s Parents As Partners Webcast. It looks pretty interesting. You can learn more about it at the link….
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The NEA Priority Schools Campaign has a lot of useful parent engagement materials at their “Engaged Families And Communities Resources page. It’s definitely worth a look….
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A report on a new British study begins this way: A study by the Royal Economic Society, to be presented this week, finds that parental effect on test results is five times that of teachers’ influence. I haven’t gotten a chance to read the study yet, but plenty of other studies have found that non-school [...]
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A Southern California school district found– again — that a Parent Revolution petition to initiate the parent trigger came up short. Here’s a Storify from the meeting: [View the story "Parent Trigger Fails Yet Again In California" on Storify]
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Parents’ effort to fix failing Adelanto school comes to a head is an article in today’s Los Angeles Times. The city’s school board will make a final decision on whether to approve parents’ signature on a parent trigger petition.
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Parents of Teens: You Can Influence Your Kids About School is the headline of the newest post at Ed Week’s K-12 Parents and the Public blog. Here’s how it begins: Many parents believe that they have lost the “influence game” when their children become teenagers. They think their teens’ peers hold more sway than they [...]
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Regular readers know that I support, and have a great deal of respect for, the PTA. However, I’ve previously written about what I believe to be a critical strategic mistake they are making in supporting a tax initiative here in California that is different from the one proposed by Governor Brown (see Great Parent Engagement [...]
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The Difference Between Parent “Involvement” & Parent “Engagement” is the title of my newest post over at Education Week Teacher. It’s the final post in my three-part series on parent engagement issues.
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The Mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota has just called for spending $300,000 on expanding parent engagement efforts. Here’s a video clip of his comments. I don’t know the specifics, and the devil is always in the details, but it sure sounds good:
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Guest Post by Joe Mazza: You just got back from an amazing professional development or conference. Now what? How do you share all that new learning with your parent population? Won’t you need their support in moving the school forward? In the best interests of transparency and keeping our school parents up on the latest [...]
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Parents Agree – Better Assessments, Less High-Stakes Testing is an article reporting on a new survey released last week. Here’s an excerpt: After conducting online surveys of more than 1,000 respondents, NWEA found that these stakeholders essentially want the same thing. Large majorities say that, although year-end tests might provide some sort of useful snapshot, [...]
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I periodically post a list of my most popular posts on parent engagement. It’s that time again. And, if you’re interested, I also periodically post a list of my best posts on parent engagement (which include “The Best…” lists), too. Here are My Most Popular Posts On Parent Engagement Over The Past Six Months: 1. The [...]
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Bringing It Home is a nice piece in The Huffington Post about teachers making home visits. It’s by Harriet Sanford, the CEO of the NEA Foundation.
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A Conversation About Building Trust Between Parents & Teachers is Part Two in my three part series on parent engagement over at Education Week Teacher. It’s a “conversation” between two leaders in the parent engagement field, Steve Constantino and Joe Mazza.
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A Parent’s Guide to 21st-Century Learning is another great downloadable guide from Edutopia. Here is how they describe it: Discover the tools and techniques today’s teachers and classrooms are using to prepare students for tomorrow — and how you can get involved. What should collaboration, creativity, communication, and critical thinking look like in a modern [...]
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The Importance of Community Involvement in Schools is a new post at Edutopia by Anne O’Brien. It’s worth a read….
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I’ve just posted Part One in a three part series on parent engagement over at Education Week Teacher. This first piece, Ways To Build Trust Between Parents & Teachers — Part One, includes guest responses from the President of the National PTA and from the Executive Director of the Parent Teacher Home Visit Project. Your [...]
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I Know What They Think of Me is the title of a guest post by parent engagement expert Steve Constantino at Peter DeWitt’s Education Week blog. It’s a good piece.
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