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Presenter Disclosures. 15th Annual Conference on Advancing School Mental Health. There are no financial interest to disclose. Three Tiers for Family Engagement. Trina W. Osher, Huff Osher Consulting, Inc. Tammy R. Stembridge, Cleveland Metropolitan School District

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  1. Presenter Disclosures 15th Annual Conference on Advancing School Mental Health There are no financial interest to disclose.

  2. Three Tiers for Family Engagement Trina W. Osher, Huff Osher Consulting, Inc. Tammy R. Stembridge, Cleveland Metropolitan School District Annual Conference on Advancing School Mental Health Albuquerque, NM October 7, 2010

  3. Agenda • Humanware in Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) • Definitions • The 3-Tier Model • How CMSD applied the model • Lessons learned

  4. Humanware in Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) Humanware at this conference: • Cleveland Metropolitan School Districts Efforts to Foster and Sustain School-Family-Community Collaboration and Effectively Support Student Well-Being: Conference Session IV • Creating Positive Learning Conditions for Students who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender or Questioning: Conference Session X • Poster Session • Humanware uses evidence-based programs and best practices to ensure that human resources in schools, families, and the community function together to improve conditions for learning and student achievement.

  5. Humanware and Family Engagement • A Family Engagement Task Force was formed to make recommendations about implementing a 3-tiered approach that would: • Make schools more family friendly and welcoming to all parents; • Provide additional supports to groups of families; and • Reach out to individual families and address the barriers and challenges they face.

  6. Family Involvement with Schools • Includes activities for parents that are organized by the school to support school programs and student learning. • Cleveland Metropolitan School District offers families a number of ways to be involved with schools such as: • SPO monthly meetings at each school • Open House at schools • Parent Empowerment Conference • Volunteering

  7. Family Engagement to Support Student Learning • Includes all the things that parents do to help their children learn and do well in school and life. • School staff and parents share responsibility for regular, two-way, and meaningful communication about each student’s learning in school and at home as well as their participation in other school activities on the school campus and in the community.

  8. How do Higher Performing Schools Engage Families and Community? • Build trusting collaborative relationships among teachers, families, and community members • Recognize, respect, and address families’ needs, as well as class and cultural difference • Embrace a philosophy of partnership where power and responsibility are shared (Henderson & Mapp, 2002)

  9. Will This Fish Thrive? • What is the condition of the water? • What is the fish’s capacity to live in this kind of water? • What happens when the environment is toxic? • Re-engineer the environment!

  10. What Affects Family Engagement to Promote Student Learning? Capacities Conditions

  11. Funding Environments Policies Individual Behaviors & Skills Information Communication Training ? Attitudes Perceptions Beliefs Approaches Models Strategies Services Systems Programs Organizational Cultures and Behaviors Some Conditions and Capacities that Help Shift the Gears.

  12. One Strategy Does Not Fit All Parents!

  13. 3-Tier Model for Differentiating Strategies to Maximize Family Engagement. Intensive: 3rd Tier Selective: 2nd Tier Universal: 1st Tier Special efforts for a few families. Additional supports to boost some families. Opportunities afforded to all families.

  14. Universal Strategies for ALL Families: 1st tier. • Create a welcoming environment • Solicit family input • Provide an orientation • Establish ongoing communication • Sponsor social activities • AND ---- Some Examples

  15. 1st tier Cleveland • Provided an Ohio Graduation Test (OGT) workshop series for parents to provide strategies, tips, and testing resources. • Reach to Succeed in Math workshop conducted to teach parents how to help their child at home. SomeExamples 15

  16. Selective Strategies to BOOST Some Families: 2nd tier. • Connect families with each other • Offer families education and training • Translate materials • Solicit family input • Recruit family members to serve on advisory groups • AND --- Some Examples

  17. 2nd tier in Cleveland • The Family Liaison provided packets of the handouts from the OGT workshop to parents who could not attend. • The Math workshop was also conducted at the Community Center to accommodate the parents who could not come to the school. Some Examples 17

  18. Intensive Strategies for Hard to REACH Families: 3rd tier. • Tailor approaches to each family • Repair relationships between the student and their family • Hire Family Liaisons to work with families 1:1 • AND --- Some Examples

  19. 3rd tier in Cleveland • School staff conducted door to door home visits to the parents who did not respond to the workshops or packets of handouts. Tutoring support was offered to the parents and students. • Family Liaison made phone calls to reach more parents. Parents were informed about the resources available to help their child with math. Some Examples 19

  20. Lessons Learned • Support from building principals, teachers, and family engagement supervisors is ESSENTIAL • Personal qualities that help • Perseverance • Believing the work is important • Earning trust from parents • Put experienced Family Liaisons in supervisory positions • Atmosphere must be inviting When there was cooperation between principal, teachers and parents, things went well. Parents must feel secure enough to question a principal or teacher if they have a concern.

  21. The ULTIMATE Questions! • As a parent: • Would I feel welcome in my school? • Would I feel the principal and teachers really cared about my child? • Would I feel my input about the school climate and programs was valued? • Would it be easy for me to talk with teachers about my child? • As a parent would I feel the school believed I was doing all I could to support my child’s learning?

  22. 3-Tier Approach to Family Engagement-Planning Guide

  23. Choose your Activity • What do you want parents to know or do as a result of this activity? • What are the different groups of families you are trying to reach? • How are you going to get this information or skills training to each of these groups?

  24. Contact Information Trina W. Osher, M.A. President Huff Osher Consulting, Inc. 8025 Glenside Drive Takoma Park, MD 20912 tosher3@comcast.net Tammy Stembridge, MSM Director, Family and Community Engagement 1380 East Sixth Street, Room 135 Cleveland, Ohio 44114 Office: (216) 858-0117

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