Six Types Family/School/Community Partnerships ParentingType 1

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Six Types Family/School/Community
PartnershipsParenting Type 1

• Based on the research of Dr. Joyce Epstein,
• Johns Hopkins University Baltimore Maryland
• PowerPoint presentation by
• Parents Plus of Wisconsin

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Parenting Type 1

• Parenting Basic responsibilities of families.

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Parenting Type 1

• Assist families with parenting skills and setting
  home conditions to support children as students,
  and assist schools to understand families.

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Sample Practices Type 1

• Workshops, videotapes, computerized phone
  messages on parenting and child development at
  each age and grade level.
• Parent education and other courses or training
  for parents (e.g., GED, family literacy, college
  or training programs.)

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Sample Practices Type 1

• Family support programs to assist families with
  health, nutrition, and parenting, including
  clothing swap shops, food co-ops,
  parent-to-parent groups.
• Home visiting programs or neighborhood meetings
  to help families understand schools and to help
  schools understand families.

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Sample Practices Type 1

• Annual survey for families to share information
  and concerns with schools about their childrens
  goals, strengths, and special talents.

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Challenges Type 1

• Provide information to all families who want or
  who need it, not just to the few who attend
  workshops or meetings at the school building.
• Enable families to share information with schools
  about background, culture, childrens talents,
  goals and needs.

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Challenges Type 1

• Make all information for families clear, usable,
  age-appropriate, and linked to childrens success.

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Redefine Workshop Type 1

• Workshop is not only a meeting on a topic held
  at the school building at a particular time but
  also the content of a topic to be viewed, heard,
  or read at convenient times and varied locations.

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Results for Students
Results for Parents
Results for Teachers
Awareness of family supervision. Respect for
parents. Positive personal qualities, habits,
beliefs, and values taught by family. Balance
between time spent on chores, other activities,
and homework. Regular attendance. Awareness of
importance of school.
Understanding families backgrounds, cultures,
concerns, goals, needs,and views of their
children Respect for families strengths and
efforts. Understanding student
diversity. Awareness of own skills to share
information on child development.
Self-confidences about parenting. Knowledge of
child and adolescent development. Adjustments in
home environment as children proceed through
school. Awareness of own and others challenges
in parenting. Feeling of support from other
parents.