Here are my choices for the best posts I’ve written on parent engagement in 2014 since June (by the way, you can find all my “The Best…” lists related to parent engagement here, including My Best Posts On Parent Engagement In 2014 – So Far): Ridiculous British Rules On Parents Taking Kids Out Of School […]
As regular readers know, I’m a big supporter of the Parent/Teacher Home Visit Project (see The Best Resources For Learning About Teacher Home Visits). Here’s a guest post written by Carrie Rose and Elaine Smith from the Project: What School Reform Can Learn from Business: It’s not what you think Change Won’t Work Without Relationships […]
Some crazy stuff is happening in New Jersey these days, and I’m not just talking about “Bridgegate.” The Newark school superintendent just suspended five principals — four for speaking out against a plan to turn their schools into KIPP charters and one for supporting the president of her schools Parent Teacher Organization and opposing the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Since I have published so many “The Best…” lists, I thought it might be helpful to readers if I posted a few year-end collections. Here is A Collection Of “The Best…” Lists On Parent Engagement — 2011: The Best Ideas On How Parents Can Help Their Kids Succeed Academically “The Best Research Available On Parent […]
I usually just do a year-end list on parent engagement posts and many other topics, but it gets a little crazy having to review all of my zillion posts at once. So, to make it easier for me — and perhaps, to make it a little more useful to readers — I’m going to start […]
The headline of this post is from a parent quoted in NPR’s story today, Fight Ensues Over Facebook Money for N.J. Schools. I’ve written extensively in the past about Newark’s fiasco with parent engagement and the Facebook money.
Post Rank uses a variety of ways to measure level of “engagement” that readers have with specific blog posts. I have a constantly updated “widget” on my blog’s sidebar that lists these posts, but I thought a quarterly post would be helpful/interesting to subscribers who don’t regularly visit the blog itself. Here’s a listing of […]
Over the past two years, I have posted: My Best Posts On Building Parent Engagement In Schools — 2010 My Best Posts On Parent Engagement Over The Past Six Months My Best Posts & Articles About Building Parent Engagement In Schools — 2009 My Best Posts On Parent Engagement So Far This Year It’s been […]
I was a community organizer for nineteen years prior to becoming a teacher, and one of the lessons we learned from the work of Saul Alinsky (the father of modern-day community organizing) was that “the price of criticism is a constructive alternative.” I think I’ve provided plenty of examples of effective parent engagement/involvement — both […]
Earlier this month, I wrote about how Newark Continues To Show The World How NOT To Do Parent Involvement/Engagement. It now looks like the school district in my native town, New York City, is giving Newark a run for its money. The New York Times reports this about the Office of Family Engagement: In January, […]
The Associated Press reports that the first use of the $100 donation to Newark schools by Mark Zukerberg will be to send our canvassers to: …to reach out to parents of schoolchildren to find out what’s working and what isn’t. [Newark Mayor] Booker says that over the next two months canvassers will knock on doors […]