1 / 39

Assisting Schools to Improve Facilitation of Family Involvement: Home School Note

Assisting Schools to Improve Facilitation of Family Involvement: Home School Note. National Center for Special Education Accountability Monitoring (NCSEAM) . Where are we going today?. Let’s talk about family involvement What are some strategies to improve how we get families involved?

gayora
Download Presentation

Assisting Schools to Improve Facilitation of Family Involvement: Home School Note

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Assisting Schools to Improve Facilitation of Family Involvement: Home School Note National Center for Special Education Accountability Monitoring (NCSEAM)

  2. Where are we going today? • Let’s talk about family involvement • What are some strategies to improve how we get families involved? • Feedback & Goal Setting

  3. Indicator B-8 • Percent of parents with a child receiving special education services who report that schools facilitated parent involvementas a means of improving services and results for children with disabilities

  4. The 4 A’s • Approach • Attitude • Atmosphere • Actions

  5. Developing Pathways to Partnerships Prerequisite Conditions: “3 A’s” must be in place for Actions to be accepted and effective Approach Actions Communicating a tone of partnership through bidirectional home-school communication and fostering family involvement in learning at home Successful learning opportunities and outcomes for children Atmosphere Attitude (Christenson & Sheridan, 2001; Sheridan & Kratochwill, 2008)

  6. Steps to Establish a Home School Note • Conduct a conference • Select areas for improvement • Determine how the goals will be defined • Determine the criteria for success • Design the Home School Note • Establish responsibilities Adapted from William E. Pelham www.ccf.buffalo.edu; Kelley, M.L.,1990

  7. Steps to Establish a Home-School Note 7. Explain the Home School Note to the child & obtain input about rewards 8. Establish the reward system 9. Monitor and modify the program 10. Feedback for everyone 11. Troubleshoot or Maintain & Fade Adapted from William E. Pelham www.ccf.buffalo.edu; Kelley, M.L.,1990

  8. Conduct a Conference • Convenient time • Convenient location • Mutual input

  9. Select Areas for Improvement • Problematic behavior • Academic concerns • IEP goals

  10. Determine Definition of Goals • Measurable • Mutually understood • Meaningful

  11. Determine Criteria for Success Reasonable targets • 2-8 goals • Frequent monitoring

  12. Design the Home School Note • Layout • Rating schedule • Transportation logistics

  13. Establish Responsibilities • Teacher • Child • Parent

  14. Explain HSN to Student & Brainstorm Rewards • What’s the Home School Note for? • How does the Home School Note work? • Child’s opinioncounts!

  15. Establish the Reward System • What gets rewarded? • Daily vs. weekly • Level of desirability

  16. Monitor & Modify the Program • Baseline data • Tweak as necessary

  17. Feedback for Everyone • Child • Teacher • Parent

  18. Maintain & Fade or Troubleshoot • Judging success • When to stop? • Troubleshooting FAQ: http://ccf.buffalo.edu

  19. Sample Home School Note Used with permission of William F. Pelham, Jr, @ CTADD. Available for downloading at no cost in expanded format at http://ccf.buffalo.edu

  20. Sample Home-School Note(Center for Effective Parenting, 2000) Used with permission of Mark C. Edwards, @ CEP. Available for downloading at no cost in expanded format at http://www.parenting-ed.org.

  21. Daily Progress Report – Alex  = 3 Points received___  = 2 Daily goal reached:  = 1 Yes No

  22. Name: _________________ Date: ___________ I can earn smiley faces for reaching my goals. If I get at least 7 smiley faces –I can choose a special activity. I can do it!

  23. Home – School Note

  24. Daily Behavior Report Card

  25. Weekly Monitoring Report

  26. Monthly Monitoring Report

  27. Feedback. . .

  28. Questions for you. . . • What are the potential barriers for using this model? • How can we overcome these barriers? • What support is necessary from administration? • What support is necessary from other school staff? • How will we ensure this support is offered and barriers are overcome?

  29. For More Information • www.ed.gov • www.acountabilitydata.org • www.rrfcnetwork.org • www.nectac.org It’s about Better Results

  30. We’re Done for Today! www.accountabilitydata.org

  31. References • Blechman, E. A., Taylor, C. J., & Schrader, S. M. (1981). Family problem-solving versus home notes as early intervention with high-risk children. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 49, 919-926. • Kelley, M.L. (1990). School-Home Notes: Promoting Children’s Classroom Success. The Guilford Press: New York. • www.ccf.buffalo.edu • www.fsp.unl.edu • www.interventioncentral.org

  32. Acknowledgments • The National Center for Special Education Accountability Monitoring (NCSEAM) would like to take a moment and offer a very special thank you to the Future of School Psychology Task Force on Family School Partnerships. A great deal of information presented in these modules was contributed by this team and our sincere appreciation goes out to you for all your efforts. • NCSEAM would also like to thank those who provided essential feedback to us throughout the development process.

More Related