Parents, More Than Teachers, Are the ‘Silver Bullet’ for Students in Poverty is a useful post by Pérsida Himmele. It just appeared in Education Week, and is worth a read….
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Third California ‘Parent Trigger’ Petition Submitted is a post worth reading over at Education Week. It gives an update and overview of what’s happening in California around the parent trigger.
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The United States Department of Education and the National Center For Family Literacy just announced a new “Family Engagement Partnership.” It’s not clear — to me, at least — what it actually means. I certainly have little faith in the USDE, though the National Center does have a better track record.
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One Size Does Not Fit All: Engaging Families Next Year by Soliciting Feedback Now is an excellent post by Joe Mazza over at Edutopia. It’s a “must-read.”
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Arizona State University Outreach Program Targets Latino Parents talks about a pretty interesting outreach program from ASU. Here’s how it begins: Arizona State University administrators are working on recruiting more first-generation Latino college students — by including parents in their outreach efforts. The Future Sun Devil Families program offers workshops to families, with students grades [...]
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‘Who allowed these big boys to go and play in education? Now the moms have to clean it up’ is a post in The Washington Post about a parent-led effort in Texas to reduce the number of required standardized tests. It’s worth a read….
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Embracing & Celebrating Diverse Families is my newest Education Week Teacher column. It includes responses from two author/educators, Cindi Rigsbee and Darcy J. Hutchins.
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Rethinking Difficult Parents is a nice post from Edutopia about a challenge that most teachers have to face during their careers. It offers some helpful advice. I’m adding it to The Best Sources Of Parent Engagement Advice For Teachers.
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Parent trigger: Who’s for it and who’s against it tells the story is a useful blog post by Valerie Strauss at The Washington Post. She begins with this: You can learn pretty much everything you need to know about the controversial “parent trigger” legislation now before the Florida Legislature by looking at who is for [...]
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Education Leaders Weigh In On Parent Engagement, Privacy Issues is a pretty interesting post from Education Week. Here’s an excerpt: Fully 58 percent of national education decision makers and influencers sampled in a recent survey believe that states have done a “poor” or “very poor” job at family and community engagement for school turnarounds, according [...]
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Parents Relying on School Report Cards Can Be Confused is a useful post from Education Week. And for more info on the grading school “racket,” check out The Grading Game at The National Education Policy Center.
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Things are getting a little surreal in this year’s effort to get a parent trigger bill passed in the Florida Legislature — proponents couldn’t find a parent to appear at their press conference, and all the state’s parents groups are lined-up opposing the bill. Read all about it here.
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Engaging Parents in the Learning Process is a nice post by George Couros that is worth a read. It’s prompting me to think that I need to organize a “The Best…” list related to parent engagement and technology. It’s now on my “to do” list……
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Raising Modern Learners is a new blog by Will Richardson for parents. Here’s an excerpt from its “about” page: Each week, we’ll pull out five of the best articles, blog posts, videos, etc. from the huge streams of information and online networks we currently swim in, stuff that will most inform your thinking about the [...]
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Low-Hanging Fruit: Three Things To Do Before We Say We’re Doing All We Can… is a good post from Eduwonk sharing three excellent actions schools can take to encourage parent engagement. It’s worth a read….
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A Guide to Involving Parents in Your Class Blog is an excellent post, including hand-outs, by Kathleen Morris. If you have a class blog, or are thinking of starting one, her post is a “must-read.”
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5 Ways to Improve Communication between Parents and Schools is a nice short post from a blog called THOUGHTstream. Thanks to Chris Wejr for the tip.
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Education research/writer Alfie Kohn has just published a two-part series on parent involvement. I admire a lot of his work and he does raise a good point: What kids need, therefore, are parents willing to question the conventional wisdom and to organize others to challenge school practices when that seems necessary. What kids don’t need [...]
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Bruce D. Baker has written an exceptional post over at his blog, School Finance 101, titled Dismantling Public Accountability & Transparency in the Name of Accountability & Transparency? The entire post is worth reading, but the third part, which focuses on the parent trigger, I think is particularly good. He has developed a chart titled [...]
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When Parents and Schools Work Together, Everyone Wins! is a blog post over at Learning First by the director of an organization called Parents For Public Schools. It’s worth a read, particularly the parts about the parent engagement “curriculum” they’ve developed.
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