Parent Meetings: Bypassing the Dance of Blame is an excellent article by my Teacher Leaders Network colleague Dave Orphal.
I’m adding it to The Best Sources Of Parent Engagement Advice For Teachers.
Parent Meetings: Bypassing the Dance of Blame is an excellent article by my Teacher Leaders Network colleague Dave Orphal.
I’m adding it to The Best Sources Of Parent Engagement Advice For Teachers.
Parent Engagement: A Paradigm Shift is an article by Marilyn Price-Mitchell that’s worth reading.
Here’s an excerpt:
Many equate parent engagement to volunteering, school governance, and fundraising. While these activities are vitally important to schools, the kind of parent engagement that affects student success is vastly different. This type of engagement involves parents as teachers and learners. It means building parent-school partnerships that not only increase student learning but expand learning for everyone in a child’s support system.
I’ve written about the Parent Involvement Matters organization in the past, and was pleased to hear that later this month they’ll be starting a new blog on family engagement issues.
It sounds like they’ve lined up a great list of writers, including Joe Mazza.
It Takes A Community is the theme of this month’s “California Educator,” the magazine of the California Teachers Association.
It has a number of good stories of teachers and schools working with parents to improve local communities.