Parental engagement ‘terrifying’ for many families is from TES. Do I Really Need to Volunteer at My Children’s School? is from Slate. LA parent voice: What I learned in 25 years of being a Latino parent engagement advocate – ‘Knowing the school system can really transform everything’ is from LA School Report. NEW TODAY: latest […]
Borrello & Hernandez: Making Family Engagement a Real Partnership for Boosting Student Achievement and Improving Schools is from The 74. Petrilli: From Report Cards to Parent-Teacher Conferences, Schools Must Do a Better Job of Telling Families How Their Kids Are Doing is also from The 74. Difference-makers: Cynthia Hernandez. Pushing to boost parental engagement in […]
I’m trying to clear out a backlog of resources to share before the end of the year. Here are a few final parent engagement ones for 2017: Some LA parents say paperwork and new fees are forcing them to quit volunteering at their schools and jeopardizing extracurricular programs is from the LA Schools Report. It […]
I’ve written a lot about the award-winning Logan Square Neighborhood Association parent engagement program in Chicago. Now it appears like the new Republican governor of Illinois would like to shut it down. You can read more about it here.
As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of — and our school and local union is a very active participant in — The Parent Teacher Home Visit Project (see The Best Resources For Learning About Teacher Home Visits). They recently had their national conference, and I invited Carrie Rose from the Project to write […]
Pinellas schools hope app engages parents is an article from a Florida newspaper about a large school district creating a smartphone app for students. Here’s how it begins: Pinellas County schools have launched a new smartphone application meant to encourage parents to play a more active role in their children’s education. The “PCS Family Engagement […]
The topic of increasing the involvement of fathers in schools has been garnering some attention lately, and I thought I’d bring together some of the previous posts on the topic together. I was prompted to do so by today’s article in The Washington Post, Schools roll out the red carpet for dads who volunteer. Coincidentally, […]
Prince George’s schools charge PTAs that use buildings is an article in The Washington Post. Here are a couple of excerpts: The John Hanson Montessori Parent Teacher Student Association has offered after-school dance and chess lessons for years, believing that the enrichment programs help engage Prince George’s County students. The group charges a small fee […]
California parents on school participation is a new article in The San Francisco Chronicle. Here are some excerpts on the unsurprising results of a new survey: Wealthy parents are more likely to make cookies for bake sales, volunteer in classrooms and be otherwise involved in their children’s schools than lower-income mothers and fathers. That’s the […]
Engaging Fathers in Education is a nice post by Kevin Bennett over at the Teaching Channel. You definitely want to read the entire post, but here are his suggested “tips”: 1. Don’t assume all fathers are the same. By predetermining what role a father should play in the school community, we inadvertently place them in a […]
“Report: Race & Income Play Role In Perception Of Parent Engagement” is an article reporting on a recent Urban League story. The results aren’t surprising, but that doesn’t make it any less discouraging. Here are some excerpts from the article: Race plays a pervasive—and negative—role in perceptions of parent engagement and student achievement, while community-based […]
is a beginning list of the best infographics about parent involvement. You can see all my parent involvement/engagement-related “Best” lists here. You can find a bigger version here. An Infographic by Open Colleges Embed Infographic An Infographic by Open Colleges Explore more infographics like one on the web’s largest information design community – Visually. The […]
First, an attorney for a New York school district is videotaped cursing at parents after a meeting (see The School District’s Attorney Cursing At Parents In Parking Lot Probably Won’t Make Them Feel Welcome). Now, today, here in Sacramento, our School District’s attorney told a judge that a lawsuit parents were bringing against recent school […]
I have many “Best” lists on multiple aspects of parent engagement, but thought with all the recent talk about expanding early education, a list on pre-school parent engagement would be useful. You can see all my parent engagement “Best” lists here. Here are my choices for The Best Resources On Pre-School Parent Engagement: Preschools Aim […]
From a newspaper article about a New Jersey school: Allen Frear Elementary School in Camden is winning acclaim for finding a new way of getting parents involved that might be familiar to anyone who’s ever kept a customer appreciation card in their purse or wallet. This year the school has been handing out “Frear Frequent […]
I thought topic would a useful post for readers, and hope you’ll suggest other resources. You can also see all my “The Best…” lists related to parent engagement here. Here are my choices for A Beginning List Of The Best Resources On Using Technology To Help Engage Parents: Tech May Have A Role, But Is […]
I’ve written several posts about the Parent Mentor Program of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association in Chicago. An article titled Parent mentor program at risk of losing funds now describes some challenges they’re facing. Here’s an excerpt: A year after winning state funding to expand a program aimed at getting parents actively involved in their […]
Guest post by Joe Mazza This week on #PTchat (Wed., 2/20 9PM EDT) we’ll be working on our school websites and mobile app offerings. Today, most schools have a website. Whether the website is useful to the specific family needs at the school is the real question. Does the site serve as simply an information […]
It’s O.K. to Skip That Bake Sale is good article on parent involvement that strangely appears in the Fashion and Style section of The New York Times. It provides recommendations from two key parent involvement researchers — Anne Henderson and Joyce Epstein — and the founder of KIPP charter schools. The tone of the article […]
I post a lot about home visits, but not often about a practice that seems to be growing in popularity — early childhood home visits by non-school staff. Education Week recently posted a useful article on the practice, Home Visits Help New Families; Support School Readiness. Here’s how it begins: Kindergartners across the country are […]