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Let’s Get Out of the Box!
ENGAGING POSITIVE PARENTAL
INVOLVEMENT
9/11/2011
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 now 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
improvement;9/11/2011 copyright 2011 _ BEW CONSULTANTS _ Parental Engagement
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 _ BEW CONSULTANTS _ Parental Engagement9/11/2011
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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“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
PARENT ENGAGEMENT
Policy + Compact + Liaisons + Feeder Schools ______________________
FORMULA
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= PARENTAL ENGAGEMENT
POLICY
LIAISON COMPACT
(Parents)
INVOLVEMENT FORMULA9/11/2011 copyright 2011 _ BEW CONSULTANTS _ Parental Engagement
FEEDER SCHOOLS
(Team)
LIAISON COMPACT (Parents)
POLICY
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FEEDER SCHOOLS
(Team)
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Then there was policy! ESEA 1965 the federal government provided funding to states to implement Parental Involvement.
LIAISON
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FEEDER SCHOOLS
(Team)
COMPACT (Parent)
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Reasonable access to staff, opportunities to volunteer and participate in their child’s class, and observation of classroom activities.
FEEDER SCHOOL
(TEAM)
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LIAISON
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Parent liaisons increase and progress the involvement of families in the community.
FEEDER SCHOOLS
(TEAM)
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A new concept that brings parent involvement full circle.
Defining A New Concept
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ENGAGING POSITIVE PARENTAL
INVOLVEMENT