Families In Schools

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Families In Schools
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Compliance Vs. Partnership

• History
• Federal law requiring parent engagement
  practices as compliance to receive funding.

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Compliance Vs. Partnership

• History
• Focuses on developing the capacity of a few
  parents to develop, and monitor funding/programs
  (Title I school site council).

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Compliance Vs. Partnership

• History
• Parent engagement is the responsibility of the
  central office or the parent center at best.
• Parent engagement practices at the local level
  are random acts

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Compliance Vs. Partnership

• History
• Read Title I and Parent Involvement Lessons
  from the
• Past, Recommendations for the Future
• Karen L. Mapp, Harvard Graduate School of
  Education
• http//www.americanprogress.org/events/2011/03/av/
  parental_involvement.pdf

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Compliance Vs. Partnership

• Future
• School/Family partnership in which parent
  engagement is a key strategy for school
  improvement and student achievement.

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Compliance Vs. Partnership

• Future
• Develops the capacity of leaders day-to-day
  parents
• Parent engagement is strategic

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Compliance Vs. Partnership

• Future
• Parent engagement happens at the school site
  not at the central office.

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Compliance Vs. Partnership

• Future
• Read Beyond the Bake Sale
• Anne Henderson, Karen Mapp, Vivian Johnson, and
  Don Davies
• http//www.hfrp.org/evaluation/the-evaluation-exch
  ange/issue-archive/building-the-future-of-family-i
  nvolvement/beyond-the-bake-sale-how-school-distric
  ts-can-promote-family-involvement

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Transformation

1. Create more opportunities for more parents to
   play a role (dimensions of involvement)
2. Develop clear understanding of new roles (for
   schools and for parents)
3. ID and help eliminate new obstacles to parent
   engagement and involvement
4. Increase responsibility and accountability
5. Increase staff training and capacity
6. Push resources/responsibility to the local level
7. Still need to do compliance but focus attention
   to other key components

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Framework (Intensity)Traditional View
Parent Involvement
Parent Engagement
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Framework (Roles Responsibilities)FIS View
Parent Involvement
Schools
Families
Parent Engagement
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Roles and Responsibilities

• Parent Engagement is what schools do to
  facilitate parent involvement
• Parent Involvement is what parents do to support
  their children's education at home and at school

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New Framework
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Dimension of Parent Involvement
What is the role of schools in helping eliminate
the obstacles families face in getting involved
at each of the levels?
Involvement at home
Involvement at school
Parenting
Role Modeling
Academic Support
Academic Support
Volunteer
Leadership
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Dimension of Parent Involvement
Issue Increase participation at back to school
night
Child care, translation, personal calls to attend
meeting, flyers meaningful/productive meeting,
parent friendly, interactive
Involvement at home
Involvement at school
Parenting
Role Modeling
Academic Support
Academic Support
Volunteer
Leadership
Close monitoring of student performance
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Dimension of Parent Involvement
Issue Increase literacy at home
Programs that provide books to families, training
for parents on how to read aloud, trips to
libraries, etc.
Involvement at home
Involvement at school
Parenting
Role Modeling
Academic Support
Academic Support
Volunteer
Leadership
Higher student reading levels
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Assumptions

• All families care about the education of their
  children an want the best for them
• School see their core responsibility to engage
  parents and help eliminate the obstacles they
  face to getting involved
• Nonprofits can support both schools and parents
  to develop a partnerships
• Strong leadership to make this a district-wide
  school improvement effort