Some educators are organizing a “Beyond The Bake Sale” Book Club over the summer to discuss that well-known and well-written book on parent involvement and engagement. You can learn more about it and sign-up here.
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This is an excerpt from a statement by The National Center For Family Literacy: Today the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) announced a new six-year initiative, Toyota Family Learning. One major component of the initiative also kicks off today: NCFL is now accepting grant applications to further family learning beyond the classroom and into [...]
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The Library Media Connection has just published a useful excerpt in chart form from my book, Building Parent Engagement In Schools. It’s a one-page chart clearly highlighting the differences between parent engagement and parent involvement, and you can see it here.
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I certainly haven’t heard of this kind of parent engagement before today — parents helping each other to learn their languages. It’s a little unclear to me exactly how this works beyond sitting next to each other using a computer language-learning program, but I’m assuming their is more to it than that: But little Navajo [...]
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Nominate the 2013 Toyota Teacher of The Year — here’s an excerpt from the announcement: Family engagement is a key element in realizing the nation’s goals to improve education for our children, and it has rightfully captured the attention and focus of local, state, and national leaders. The National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) is [...]
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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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Jose Vilson sent out a wise tweet this morning: Parents and teachers are natural partners in a child’s education, not enemies. We can come up with better solutions together. — Jose Vilson (@TheJLV) August 9, 2012 You might also be interested in The Best Reasons Why Parents Should Be Looked At As Allies & Not [...]
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I’ve previously posted about Lorna Constantini and her Parents As Partners webcasts. The next one is coming up on Monday. You can read the details here, but here’s a summary: Monday June 11, 2012 Aaron Puley – @bloggucation will be the special guest on Parents as Partners. Aaron Puley is a K-12 educator and Parent [...]
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Parents protest Pearson, New York state’s ‘field-testing’ of exams is the headline of a post in today’s HechingerEd. Here’s how it begins: Over 300 parents and their children gathered outside the New York City office of testing-giant Pearson Education this morning to protest the company’s field-testing of exams in elementary and middle schools across New [...]
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I’ve previously posted about a series that Education Week was running on parent involvement, and my contributions to it. They’ve now posted a summary, including links to all the related posts. Check out Roundup Post: Parental Involvement Is a Key to Success.
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The organization sponsoring the influential National Assessment of Educational Progress assessments has just announced an effort to reach-out and: increase awareness among parents about the urgency to improve overall student achievement and reduce achievement gaps by race, ethnicity, and income. I hope they include helping parents see the limitations of NAEP test results, too. You [...]
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This is from Education Week: “On June 21st, at 2 p.m., Eastern time, Education Week is hosting a webinar designed to help school officials, parents, and others learn more about the challenges that come with parent engagement, and about strategies that can help schools overcome those barriers. You can register here. Karen L. Mapp, of [...]
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Leonie Haimson, a parent leader from New York City, sent a tweet linking to a great 1950′s photo of demonstrating parent engagement. Here’s the link to the photo, and here’s her tweet: great foto in NYC archives of 1950′s Brooklyn moms calling for more schl construction in 1950′s… more things change goo.gl/WXmiH — leonie haimson [...]
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I was looking through the California Department of Education website to see their parent engagement resources, and found that they had “Parent Handbooks” for each class content area. Each one is full of ideas about how parents can help their children learn more in those specific content areas (Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, Math). It [...]
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Alfie Kohn and others are asking people to sign a petition: asking the National PTA to adopt recommendations on homework – guidelines that will help educators innovate and improve their approaches to designing and assigning homework in our classrooms. In June, the National PTA will meet at their annual convention. Join us today in urging [...]
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Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest The above quote comes from a new “meta-analysis” of scores of studies that found that parent involvement in student learning was the most effective intervention in enhancing attitudes such as: the aspirations to do well at school and to aim for advanced education, the sense that one’s own actions [...]
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The Center For Teaching Quality regularly organizes Twitter chats on education issues. Here are a few highlights from their late April, 2012 chat on parent engagement. [View the story "A Few Highlights From #Teaching2030 Chat On Parent Engagement" on Storify]
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I previously posted about the two-week parent engagement discussion over at Education Week and my contribution to it. As part of that conversation, the Center For Teaching Quality is organizing a Twitter chat on the topic this Thursday. Here’s their announcement: Join @teachingquality for a live twitter chat about parent involvement, Thursday, 4/19/12, 8:30-9:30 p.m. [...]
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I’ve previously posted this collection, but I thought it might be useful to new readers — this blog has gotten quite a few new readers recently. Of course, I also keep them continually updated: The Best Ideas On How Parents Can Help Their Kids Succeed Academically “The Best Research Available On Parent Engagement” The Best [...]
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