I’ve previously posted about Tellin’ Stories, a parent engagement strategy and program. In that post, I linked to this video, but forgot to include it in The Best Videos On Parent Engagement. It’s there now.
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I’ve previously posted about a proposed bill in Tennessee to reduce welfare benefits to families whose children don’t do well in school. In fact, I had added it to The Worst Parent Engagement Ideas. And last night The Daily Show did a great piece on it. It’s embedded below, and I’ll add it to the [...]
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The Campaign for America’s Future just released this new video on the parent trigger. You can read more at its accompanying blog post: The National Education Association has also released this state-by-state update on parent trigger laws.
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I just received this from writer and organizer Leigh Dingerson: I wanted to share a good, new, 4 minute video about the series of town halls that have been held across the country, hosted by community-based groups and teacher union locals. This is a project that was launched last summer by the AFT and a [...]
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Joe Mazza, the coordinator of #PTchat on Twitter and a school principal in Philadelphia, has put all his parent presentations online in one place. They’re definitely worth checking out…
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A few years ago, The Parent Teacher Home Visit Project made a great video explaining what it does. I recently discovered that they had put it on the web, and have embedded it below. For what it’s worth, two-thirds of the way through I’m show teaching one of my classes while our vice-principal tells about [...]
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“Organized Parents, Organized Teachers was produced by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform as part of AISR’s ongoing efforts to support community organizing for better schools and collaborative, effective partnerships between community members, parents, and teachers.” I’m adding it to The Best Reasons Why Parents Should Be Looked At As Allies & Not Targets Of [...]
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I’ve posted a number of videos related to parent engagement over the years, and I thought that it would be useful to collect the best ones in one post. You can find links to all my parent engagement “Best” lists here. Here are my choices for The Best Videos On Parent Engagement: The Annenberg Institute [...]
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Alexander Russo shared this video on his blog. No matter what your position is on Bill Ayers and his work, he does make some interesting comments on parents and the community in this short video. You might also want to check out The Best Reasons Why Parents Should Be Looked At As Allies & Not [...]
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I’ve previously posted a great Slideshare presentation by principal Chris Wejr on Creating conditions for Parent Engagement. Now, the audio recording of his live interview and chat about the topic is available. Check it out at Parents As Partners.
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Chris Wejr has created this useful slideshow presentation: Creating The Conditions for Parent Engagement from Chris Wejr
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Five-Minute Film Festival: Parent-Teacher Partnerships is a must-see collection of videos and resources about…parent-teacher partnerships. Amy Erin Borovoy has put it together over at Edutopia.
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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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Parent Engagement Webinar Series is the title of a great page of resources from the respected literacy organization, Reading Rockets. There are too many good resources to list — check it out….
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College Bound is a series of videos — both in English and Spanish — designed to help parents get ideas on how they can support their children academically. Parent have to register at the site in order to watch them, but it only takes a few seconds to do so. The videos are very accessible, [...]
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I just stumbled upon this interview with Karen Mapp, a renowned researcher on parent engagement, on Harvard’s website. The site includes a couple of short videos with her, too. You can read their transcripts here.
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The Annenberg Institute for School Reform has produced the film “Parent Power” and is offering a copy of it, along with a “viewers guide” for free, though they are charging $10 for shipping and handling. You can also view it online for free. You can order it here. Here’s how they describe it: Through the [...]
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Let’s Take the Sting Out of Education Cuts is a video published by Educate Our State, a California parents group. I’ve previously posted about them.
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“We can speak for ourselves: Parent involvement and ideologies of Black mothers in an urban community” is project by Billye Rhodes, a Ph.D. candidate in the Culture, Curriculum, and Change program at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Education. You can see a transcript of this video, along with information about Ms. Rhodes’ work, at [...]
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