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Topic 2: Parent Involvement
Welcome to our discussion about parent involvement in the schools. Any thoughts or ideas here are welcome! Specific topic links are below or in the navigation bar on the left. Browse through the discussion threads and add your thoughts to any thread you are interested in. If you are doing the book study with us, it is helpful if you post your thoughts under the chapter starters.
Beyond the Bakesale: Parent Involvement bookstudy
Parent Events in the Schools
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Parent Involvement Links
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| ccantley | Parent Involvement | 2 | Jan 31 2008, 12:52 AM EST by kdharris | |
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Thread started: Aug 15 2007, 2:48 PM EDT
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Parent involvement is a must. If you can get the parents to support the teacher, the school and their child then together they will become a winning team for their child's education. For this to be a success we need to make the parents feel welcome to the school envirnment and feel that they must contribute to the school envirnment.
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| rdbennet | Parents and Middle School | 0 | Jun 11 2007, 8:45 AM EDT by rdbennet | |
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Thread started: Jun 11 2007, 8:45 AM EDT
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Getting parents involved in the Middle School is a very challenging obstacle to leap over!
It is so hard to get parents involved at the Middle School for many reasons. Many times parents have burned themselves out at the Elementary level and don't have the time or see the importance. There is also the large size of the Middle School and the number of students often scare parents. The Middle School also loses the "Neighborhood" feel, it isn't like the little school down the road. It is more of a community in itself. I often tell groups to reflect on how they were at the Middle School age, it is a big change from the grade school. It is a time in life when many children want to be independent of their parents and try to push them away. That is just part of growing up. All of these, among many others, help us understand why parent involvement dwindles in the Middle Level. Even though it is difficult it is worth the effort to get parents involved. |
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| nbooth | Parent Involvement | 0 | May 30 2007, 10:27 AM EDT by nbooth | |
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Thread started: May 30 2007, 10:27 AM EDT
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It sounds like the people that have responded so far to this prompt are really going in the right direction. Communication with families about school programs and student progress through effective school-to-home and home-to-school communications is the key. Involving parents in their children's learning activities and other curriculum-linked decisions can only be done in collaboration with the teachers, counselors, and administrators of the schools.
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| Allyson | Parent Involvement | 2 | Feb 19 2007, 4:41 PM EST by Allyson | |
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Thread started: Feb 19 2007, 2:06 PM EST
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Great minds think alike. In Cabell County, we also began exploring the Joyce Epstein model this year. In fact, on Wednesday, we have a consultant from the National Network of Partnership Schools coming to work with teams from our Title I schools. We see the NNPS model and the WVDE Strategic Plan as two sides of the same coin. NNPS will help us organize our thinking for the strategic plan work which is coming up this spring. Also, at the national Title I conference in Long Beach last month, Dr. Epstein DONATED an hour of her time to meet with the staff from Cabell County to answer our questions prior to the workshop that will be held this week. That was a most gracious and generous gesture on her part. It spoke volumes to us about the sincere dedication of Dr. Epstein for her work and her parent involvement model.
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