I’ve previously written about changes that New York City Chancellor Carmen Fariña is making to deal with the abysmal parent engagement record the city schools have had over the past few years. Here’s another article about them that appeared in Chalkbeat, With new school year, new rules for parent engagement have begun.
City schools will push for more ‘family connections,’ parent involvement, Chancellor Carmen Fariña says is the headline of a New York Daily News article. Here’s are some excerpts: Family engagement at schools will be getting an overhaul, the city schools boss tells the Daily News. Changes include longer one-on-one parent-teacher conferences, workshops for parents and […]
I’ve written a lot about Elisa Gonzalez, our school’s extraordinary parent coordinator. Her work is invaluable to our school’s overall success. As part of New York City Chancellor Carmen Fariña’s often-stated goal to increase parent engagement there, a New York City parent coordinator has some suggestions for her: As part of her pledge to boost […]
New York City schools have a recent history of not being very effective around parent engagement, but it appears that new Chancellor Carmen Fariña might be beginning to change that…. Here are two recent articles from Chalkbeat describing her plans: Fariña’s parent engagement strategy starts with index cards Parent coordinators look for specifics, and reassurance, […]