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We must first enter the heart of a child,
before we can enter the mind. Barron E. White
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Stuck Inside the Box!
ENGAGING POSITIVE PARENTAL
INVOLVEMENT
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“When parents are
involved
in education, children do
better in school and
schools
improve.”
Lewis, Anne C.; Henderson, Anne T.,
Urgent Message: Families Crucial to
School Reform, 1998
PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT
The Law
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POLICY REQUIRES…
Schools must develop strategies that increase
parental involvement…
POLICY REQUIRES…
Schools and parents
to build capacity for
high student
achievement
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parents to know their
children’s academic
strengths and
weaknesses and how
well schools are
performing,9/11/2011
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POLICY REQUIRES…
POLICY REQUIRES…
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local development of
parental involvement
plans with sufficient
flexibility to address
local needs
parents to have other
options and resources
for helping their
children if their schools
are identified in need of
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POLICY REQUIRES…
POLICY REQUIRES…
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expanded public
school choice and
supplemental
educational services
for eligible children in
low-performing
schools;
to help close the
achieve- ment gap
between disad-
vantaged and minority
students and their
peers;
POLICY REQUIRES…
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POLICY REQUIRES…
a change in the culture
of America’s schools so
that success is defined in
terms of student
achievement and schools
invest in every child. copyright 2011 _ BW CONSULTING _ Parental Engagement9/11/2011
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Strategies
Capacity
StrengthsWeaknesses
Sufficient
Flexibility
ResourcesClose Achievement Gap
PL 107~110 Sec. 1118 Provides the Latitude and Permission to Create a
Functional Parent Involvement Connection.
STATEMENT…
“…involvement of parents in their children’s education and schools is critical to that process. Secretary Paige put it succinctly when he stated, “[s]chools can’t improve without the help of parents.”
Rod Paige, USA TODAY, April 8, 2002, Page A-13
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Policy + Compact + Liaison + School______________________
FORMULA
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= PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT
POLICY
LIAISON COMPACT
(Parents)
CURRENT INVOLVEMENT FORMULA9/11/2011 copyright 2011 _ BW CONSULTING _ Parental Engagement
SCHOOL
LIAISON COMPACT (Parents)POLICY
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SCHOOL
LIAISON COMPACT (Parents)
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SCHOOL
POLICY
Then there was policy! ESEA 1965 the federal government provided funding to states so to implement Parental Involvement.
LIAISON
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SCHOOL
COMPACT (Parent)
LIAISON
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SCHOOL
COMPACT (Parent)
Reasonable access to staff, opportunities to volunteer, participate in their child’s class, and observation of classroom activities.
SCHOOL
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LIAISON
SCHOOL
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LIAISON
Parent liaisons increase and progress the involvement of parents, families, and the community.
SCHOOLS
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SCHOOL
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The venue where parent involvement is avoided, and operated in isolation.
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SCHOOL
LIAISON
COMPACT
(Parent) POLICY
DEFINING A NEW CONCEPT
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ENGAGING PHYSICALLY &
MENTALLY
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IF YOU HAD THE TECHNOLOGICAL ABILITY AND TOOLS, COULD YOU HAVE
BUILT THIS BRIDGE BY YOURSELF?
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TAKE A FEW MINUTES TO IDENTIFY CONTRASTING ISSUES BETWEEN
BUILDING THE BRIDGE AND P.I.
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COMPARE YOUR INFORMATION AND COMMONALITIES.
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SCHOOL
LIAISON
COMPACT
(Parent)
POLICY
PARENT ENGAGEMENT
PARENT ENGAGEMEN
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Let’s Get Out of the Box!
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PARENTAL ENGAGEMENT
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M A
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EDUCATION IS OUR NATION’S MOST VALUABLE INSTITUTION,
BUT WE HAVE FAILED TO SUCCESSFULLY MARKET ITS
WORTH AND ENGAGE ITS CONSTITUENCY.
ADMINSTAFF
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LIAISON
WORKING IN ISOLATION IS NO LONGER AN EFFECTIVE
METHOD WHEN ENGAGING PARENTS
PRINCIPAL
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ESTABLISHING PARENT ENGAGEMENT AS A FEEDER PATTERN INITIATIVE PROVIDES STRENGTH, FOCUS, AND CONNECTIVENESS.
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THE FEEDER PATTERN APPROACH TO PARENT ENGAGEMENT IS MORE
COST EFFECTIVE AND ACCOMMODATING.
E
MS HS
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HOW DO WE MARKET THIS NEW APPROACH AND WHAT IMPACT WILL IT
HAVE ON THE OVERALL PARENT ENGAGEMENT PROCESS?
E
MS HS
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IN ORDER FOR PARENTS TO CREATE
POSITIVE CHANGES IN THE LIFE OF
THEIR CHILDREN, THEY MUST BE
ENGAGED AND EMPOWERED, NOT
INVOLVED!
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“ In the final analysis it is not what you
do for your children but what you have
taught them to do for themselves that
will make them successful human
beings.”
Ann Landers
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