I Was a Parent at Your School Until...

1. I Was a Parent at Your School Until... Charles Barry

2. Parents – the lifeblood of our schools... “There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. It is the customer who determines what a business is. It is the customer alone whose willingness to pay for goods or services converts economic resources into wealth, things into goods.” Peter Cheales

3. I was a parent at your school until… • You no longer gave me what I wanted.

4. What Parents consider value is what learners need: An education that is academically rigorous and “real world” relevant. Dr Willard Dagget

5. What Parents Want • Competence: I want my child to keep up with technology, to be more creative, to make better decisions, to be better able to team with people from varied backgrounds, AND at the same time • Character: I want them to be good, honest, well-mannered, self-directed, respectful, disciplined, and honourable citizens.

6. Curriculum Service

7. Curriculum Service Support

8. What Parents Consider Value An education that is academically rigorous and “real world” relevant. Dr Willard Dagget

9. Real World Relevant • Education that equips students with values, (Affective Domain), skills (Psychomotor domain) and knowledge (Cognitive domain) that is relevant to meet the challenges of the 21stCentury.

10. Real World Relevant • 3 R’s • Reading • ’Riting • ’Rithmatic

11. Real World Relevant • 4 C’s • Critical thinking and problem solving • Communication • Collaboration • Creativity and innovation

12. 21st century themes • Global Awareness • Financial, Economic, Business and Entrepreneurial Literacy • Civic Literacy • Health Literacy • Environmental Literacy

13. Information, Media and Technology Skills • Information Literacy • Media Literacy • ICT (Information, Communications and Technology) Literacy

14. Life and Career Skills • Flexibility and Adaptability • Initiative and Self-Direction • Social and Cross-Cultural Skills • Productivity and Accountability • Leadership and Responsibility

15. www.p21.org

16. Competence Personal Social Empathy Organizational Awareness Service Inspirational Leadership Developing Others Creating Change Conflict Management Building Bonds Teamwork & Collaboration • Self Awareness • Self Assessment • Self Confidence • Self Control • Transparency • Adaptability • Achievement • Initiative • Optimism

17. CEO Enersolve: Donnie lane Competence Character But what gets them hired and what keeps them hired is character.” • “The first I look for when hiring is skills. Skills gets people in door to be interviewed

18. What Parents Want • Competence: I want my child to keep up with technology, to be more creative, to make better decisions, to be better able to team with people from varied backgrounds, AND at the same time • Character: I want them to be good, honest, well-mannered, self-directed, respectful, disciplined, and honourable citizens.

19. Parents Want Added Value • Tools that will give them skills to parent these millennium kids

20. Parents Want Added Value • Tools that will give them skills to parent these millennium kids

21. The 7 Habits • Be Proactive - Personal Vision • Begin with the End in Mind- Personal Leadership • Put First Things First - Personal Management • Think Win/Win – Principle based behaviour • Seek First to Understand Then to be Understood • Synergize - Principles of Creative Cooperation • Sharpen the Saw - Principles of Balanced Self Renewal

22. I was a parent at your school until… • You failed to communicate effectively.

23. You failed to communicate effectively • That your curriculum and delivery are able to prepare my child for the challenges of the 21st century

24. You failed to communicate effectively • That you are • Information literate • Media Literate • ICT (Information, Communications and Technology) Literate • By the ways you communicate

25. You failed to communicate effectively • The progress of my child

26. You failed to communicate effectively • Your unique selling points and how they are helping me

27. I was a parent at your school until… • We had financial issues.

28. We had financial issues • You do not have a financial policy. • Your financial policy is not implemented. • I feel guilty.

29. I was a parent at your school until… • There was unresolved conflict.

30. There was unresolved conflict • Relationship breakdown • Parent /staff • Parent /church • Parent/parent • Child-slanted news • Child/child

31. There was unresolved conflict

32. I was a parent at your school until… • The quality dropped

33. The quality dropped • Values (REGI) • Quality Control

34. I was a parent at your school until… • I got a better response

35. Accelerate your response rate Communication needs not only to be Clear, Concise, Caring, Consistent, and Accurate but also quick, with feedback. Take responsibility – no blame shifting.

36. I was your customer • Until I felt more at home...

37. I was a parent at your school until… • You stopped listening “Being a good listener means much more than simply hearing what people are saying. It means blocking out all distractions, giving the customer your undivided attention, and listening with your whole self.” Michael LeBoeuf in How to Win Customers and Keep them for Life”

38. I was a parent at your school until… • My child graduated • Show me how to stay involved in the vision of reaching the world for Christ one child at a time!

39. I was your parent in your school • Until my child graduated • Show me how to stay involved in the vision of reaching the world for Christ One child at a time….

40. Parents – the lifeblood of our schools... “There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. It is the customer who determines what a business is. It is the customer alone whose willingness to pay for goods or services converts economic resources into wealth, things into goods.” Peter Cheales

41. I Was a Parent at Your School Until... Charles Barry