By Dana Sirotiak Image credit: http://www.pbs.org Parents are the driving force behind their child’s education. The partnership between the home and school is important in the social and educational development of the child. As a teacher, I am usually asked the question “How can I help my child?” “How can I assist with the educational [...]
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Here are even more good additions to The Best Posts & Articles On Parent Trigger Movie “Won’t Back Down”: A Political Football in the Classroom: ‘Won’t Back Down,’ With Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis is by The New York Times. Director of “Won’t Back Down” Tries to Explain, but Questions Remain is by Anthony Cody [...]
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Parenting the secondary student: We’re not in elementary school anymore, by teacher Cindi Rigsbee, offers some useful advice to parents of children moving into secondary school. Here’s how it begins: As an educator who hangs out in a middle school hallway on a daily basis, and as a parent who hasn’t forgotten my children’s middle [...]
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Here are new additions to The Best Posts & Articles On Parent Trigger Movie “Won’t Back Down”: ‘Won’t Back Down’: Film critics pan parent-trigger movie — update is from Valerie Strauss at The Washington Post. Reaction to “Won’t Back Down” Shows Critics Have Learned Something is by Anthony Cody at Education Week Teacher. ‘Won’t Back [...]
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[education reform advocacy organization] leaders are increasingly realizing that the successful enactment, implementation, and protection of the education policy reforms on their agenda—and public perception of the agenda’s legitimacy—necessitates the development of a new, more active approach to parental engagement. This new approach will need to build a permanent, coordinated network of organizations engaged in [...]
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Engaging Every Secondary School Family is a useful post by Steve Constantino. Here’s an excerpt: At the secondary school level, the plan to engage families should emanate from the families themselves. Understanding their perspectives and needs and then crafting a plan based on that information helps to make engagement efforts more meaningful and relevant to [...]
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I’ve written extensively about the potentially devastating impact actions being taken by billionaire Molly Munger, supported by the California PTA, could have on our schools. Munger and the PTA refused to step away from their ballot measure to raise funds for schools and support one pushed by Governor Brown. I think the PTA’s move is [...]
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Mentoring becomes as much about parents as it is about kids is an article on NBC’s website about a very impressive “mentoring program” sponsored by the Logan Square Neighborhood Association in Chicago. Here’s a very short excerpt from the lengthy article: The year-long program places parents into a classroom in their child’s school for two [...]
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Parent Trigger Laws: Why It’s Better to Embrace Collaboration is a post over at Edutopia written by Anne O’Brien. Here’s how it ends: Passionate and active parents are a critical component of a successful education system. And while parent trigger laws can provide an avenue for parents to engage, their energy might be better directed [...]
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NBC’s Education Nation had a parent engagement discussion today with a questionable panel. I’ve brought together some tweets from the event using Storify: [View the story "Tweets From \"Parent\" Panel At Education Nation" on Storify]
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A new article in The Tennessean describes the latest version of a parent trigger law that wealthy parents in Nashville are hoping to use to create their own charter. Why am I not surprised?
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Guest Post by Joe Mazza This week’s Parent-Teacher Chat on Twitter Wed., 9/26/12 – 9PM EDT / 6PM PST #ptchat – Tweetchat Link Image credit: csmonitor.com You can find quizzes like the one above all over the Internet. The questions refer to the balancing act of “Tiger Mom” vs. “Dolphin Mom.” While these words are [...]
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Parents As Partners has regularly organized webcasts on parent engagement issues for years, and it’s starting its new season on Monday Sept 24, 2012. You can read all the details here. Here’s how they are describing it: Our first show will star you! We are starting off with a brainstorming session and you are invited [...]
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I’ve documented the many problems New York City schools have had with parent engagement. They apparently are continuing… Read about it today’s article in The Wall Street Journal, Parents Seen Less Involved In Schools: Report Shows Decline in Calls, Meetings. Here’s how it begins: New city statistics are showing a steep decline in parent involvement [...]
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The Family Involvement Network of Educators from Harvard has just published their September issue. It contains several articles, including this one: Creating Conditions for Effective and Ongoing Family Engagement In this Commentary, Harvard Family Research Project’s Senior Research Analyst, Heidi Rosenberg, looks at the ways in which schools, programs, and other community institutions can help [...]
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A “school reform” group called the Center For Education Reform has come up with a misnamed “Parent Power Index” to rate states on how much they support “Parent Power.” Their criteria seems to include school choice, evaluating teachers by student test scores, and support for online learning, among other things. My criteria might include parent [...]
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“Won’t Back Down” Film Pushes ALEC Parent Trigger Proposal is a very thorough article from The Center For Media and Democracy bout the film and the policy. I’m adding it to The Best Posts & Articles On Parent Trigger Movie “Won’t Back Down.”
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I’ve been a critic of the California PTA’s involvement with billionaire Molly Munger in sponsoring Proposition 38 on the California ballot instead of throwing their full support to Governor Brown’s Prop 30. I still think it was and is a mistake, but it’s also clear to me that the wisest move now is for supporters [...]
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Keeping parents in the loop is an article in The California Educator, the magazine of the California Teachers Association, that gives some good advice to teachers about engaging parents. It’s worth a visit….
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Guest Post by Joe Mazza http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrsdkrebs #YouMatter – These two words hold so much power and potential in supporting kids in today’s world. School students come to us with unlimited potential and oftentimes all it takes is for them to feel a little extra support, confidence and love from their parents and educators to help [...]
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