Posted on October 31, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
The headline for this post comes from a quote by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who just announced with great fanfare a plan to give parents $25 gift certificates for parents who participate in conferences with their child’s teachers. I’d like to suggest that he might be better served if he tried to empty his mind [...]
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Posted on October 30, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
I’ve written a lot about school’s work with the Parent Teacher Home Visit Project and our parent-driven “parent university” program. Here’s a video Mai Xi Lee, one of our school’s Vice-Principals, made for last weekend’s national Parent Teacher Home Visit Project conference. For what it’s worth, that’s me speaking after the text introduction….
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Posted on October 29, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
Guest post by Joe Mazza Image credit: http://www.becoming1.org On a typical Wednesday night, we hold a Parent-Teacher chat on an important and timely home-school topic. This week, we’re providing a special 60-day school year check-in and opening up the conversation to your individual and school needs. Think about the following. What does your class or [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
Is There a Need for Parent Trigger Laws? is a series of commentaries, most providing insightful perspectives, that appears in U.S. News. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning Why The Parent Trigger Isn’t Good For Parents, Kids Or Schools.
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Posted on October 26, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
Diane Ravitch reports that “Won’t Back Down,” the parent trigger-pushing film, is now officially a box office flop. Read the details at “Won’t Back Down” Continues to Plummet. I’m adding this info to The Best Posts & Articles On Parent Trigger Movie “Won’t Back Down.”
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Posted on October 26, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
Tapping Community Partnerships to Change Education is a post over at Education Week by Michele Molnar. It reports on an impressive foundation-supported effort to encourage school districts to develop community partnerships. Some of them sound interesting.
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Posted on October 26, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
Each day, as a teacher and as a strong proponent of parent engagement in word and deed, I find myself more amazed by the actions being taken by the California PTA this election season. I don’t think I’m overstating it to suggest that their efforts this year will be used as a case study in [...]
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Posted on October 24, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
I’ve previously written several posts about the Parent Mentor Program of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association in Chicago. Michele Molnar over at Education Week has just written another useful piece titled Principals Need to be ‘On Board’ for Parent Mentor Program. It’s worth a look…
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Posted on October 21, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
Guest post by Joe Mazza Image credit: http://www.educationfuture.info This Wednesday night at 9PM EDT/6PM PST, we’ll be talking politics and the future of U.S. Education on #PTchat (Parent-Teacher Chat). Nikhil Goyal (@nikhilgoya_l), a 17 year-old student and author of One Size Does Not Fit All: A Student’s Assessment of School will answer questions and offer ideas during [...]
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Posted on October 20, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
I’ve previously written a lot about the state of Alabama’s efforts to identify undocumented families and their children attending schools (which has thankfully been temporarily stopped by courts). The Southern Poverty Law Center is now suing the state over the constitutionality of the law, and is seeking data on its negative impact on immigrant children. [...]
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Posted on October 19, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
Small Minority of Parents at “Trigger” School Choose Charter Operator is a post at Diane Ravitch’s blog. It describes the latest sad development in parent trigger efforts in California. You might be interested in The Best Resources For Learning Why The Parent Trigger Isn’t Good For Parents, Kids Or Schools.
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Posted on October 16, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
It appears like the California PTA and others were able to bring Molly Munger to her senses and, as the Sacramento Bee reports, Molly Munger pulling ad critical of Jerry Brown’s Prop. 30. Her spokesperson says: “We made our point, and now we’re moving on,” said Proposition 38 spokesman Nathan Ballard. “This isn’t the No [...]
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Posted on October 14, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
Guest post by Joe Mazza Image credit: youngactorscamp.com After attending an EdCamp & EdCamp Leadership, it’s easy to envision how those conference structures might work from the parent lens. After our staff completed “KnappCamp” in early September, the large and messy un-conference schedule was left on display for the Home & School Meeting to allow [...]
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Posted on October 13, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
The organization “Choice Literacy” sends out a weekly email that usually has some pretty good resources. This week their theme was “Communicating With Families.” It includes some articles that are worth checking-out….
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Posted on October 13, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
I thought readers might find it helpful for me to again post links to all my “The Best” lists related to parent engagement: The Best Ideas On How Parents Can Help Their Kids Succeed Academically “The Best Research Available On Parent Engagement” The Best Reasons Why Parents Should Be Looked At As Allies & Not [...]
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Posted on October 13, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
Billionaire Molly Munger continues to escalate her effort to cause damage and destruction to California’s public education system. One’s gotta think that leaders in the California PTA must be regretting their decision to tie their fortunes to hers. One can only hope that they decide to salvage some of their credibility by withdrawing from their [...]
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Posted on October 13, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
Schools Falter at Keeping ELL Families in the Loop is a new Education Week article. Here’s an excerpt: One of the biggest challenges, educators and advocates said, is communicating effectively with parents who don’t speak English—an issue that, in part, has brought recent complaints of discrimination against Latino students and their families to two large [...]
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Posted on October 11, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
The campaign to fund or, in Molly Munger’s case, de-fund public education in California continues. Here are some excerpts from today’s Sacramento Bee’s editorial: The California PTA and Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson are the most prominent supporters of Munger’s Proposition 38. On Wednesday, Torlakson called on Munger to cease the attack. The PTA [...]
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Posted on October 10, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
Here in California, billionaire Molly Munger began running ads, apparently with the California PTA’s support, supporting her doomed-to-fail initiative and attacking the Governor and teacher-supported initiative that actually has a chance to win and providing monies to public schools. You can read all about it at today’s post at Ed Source, Munger-funded “compare and contrast” [...]
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Posted on October 10, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
In news that will surprise just about…no one, a new study finds that “Parenting More Important Than Schools to Academic Achievement.” Unfortunately, I suspect that the “school reformers” who need to hear this are unlikely to read it….
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