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The Support, Monitor, & Advocate Model: Three Key Roles Parents Can Play in Their Children's Education

This webinar explores the Support, Monitor, & Advocate model as a strategy for parents to effectively support, monitor, and advocate for their children in education. It also discusses integration opportunities and provides an exercise in asking questions.

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The Support, Monitor, & Advocate Model: Three Key Roles Parents Can Play in Their Children's Education

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  1. The Support, Monitor & Advocate ModelThree Key Roles Parents Can Play in Their Children's Education

  2. Overview • Housekeeping • About the Right Question School-Family Partnership Strategy • Exploring the Support, Monitor, and Advocate Model • Integrating the Model • Facilitation • An Exercisein Asking Questions • Closing Remarks & Assignments • Q & A

  3. Free Resources The Right Question Institute offers many of our materials through a Creative Commons License and we encourage you to make use of and/or share this resource. Please reference the Right Question Institute as the source on any materials you use. Source: www.rightquestion.org

  4. An Interactive Webinar Time: 3 s Time’s up!

  5. Let’s see who’s here! Please share in the chat box: • Your name • The region you are from • Your position Make sure you are sending the message to everyone!

  6. After the Webinar • Complete assignments to obtain certificate of participation • Fill out evaluation • Download free resources • https://goo.gl/J683Kk • Look out for email announcements and stay in touch!

  7. Honoring the original source: Parents in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1990 “We don’t go to the school because we don’t even know what to ask.”

  8. Lessons…

  9. Components of the Strategy The Right Question School-Family Partnership Strategy has three components that can be used separately or as a unit. • The Question Formulation Technique (QFT) • The Support, Monitor, and Advocate Model • The Framework for Accountable Decision-Making

  10. An integrated strategy A Strategy, NOT a program Complementary to existing programs

  11. Outcomes • Parents have foundational skills they can use to partner and advocate more effectively • Parents and school staff are resources for each other on behalf of children • Educators and school staff have tools and a strategy to engage and prepare parents to partner more effectively

  12. Exploring the Support, Monitor, and Advocate Model

  13. Parents as supporters To help; to provide for; to be available for their children. Name two things parents could do to support their child. Time: Time’s up! 1 min

  14. Parents as monitors Watch / Keep track of: • their children’s progress • their children’s needs Name two things parents could do to monitor their child. Time: Time’s up! 1 min

  15. Parents as advocates • Parents speak up and make specific requests on behalf of their children. Name one situation in which parents should advocate for their child. Time: Time’s up! 1 min

  16. Parent Examples

  17. Reflection: • What could happen if parents support but don’t monitor or advocate? • What could happen if parents support and Monitor but don’t advocate? • And what could happen if they advocate, but don’t support or monitor? Time: Time’s up! 1.5 min Time: Time’s up! 1.5 min Time: Time’s up! 1.5 min

  18. Reflection

  19. Reflection: • What did you learn? • How can you use it? Time: Time’s up! 1 min Time: Time’s up! 1 min

  20. Integration Opportunities…

  21. Parent Engagement Activities

  22. Integration examples… Open House A school principal and teachers engage parents to think about the issue of bullying Introduce 3 roles: Support Monitor and Advocate

  23. Integration examples… • Individual Education Plan (IEP) • A parent liaison works with a parent in preparation for an IEP meeting • Support, monitor, and advocate • Ask questions

  24. Facilitating the Support Monitor and Advocate Model

  25. Facilitation Template

  26. An Exercise in Asking Questions

  27. Rules for Producing Questions • ASK AS MANY QUESTIONS AS YOU CAN • DO NOT STOPTO ANSWER, JUDGE OR DISCUSS • WRITE DOWN EVERY QUESTION EXACTLY AS STATED • CHANGEANY STATEMENTS INTO QUESTIONS

  28. Producing Questions QFocus: Increasing parents’ effectiveness in the IEP process. 3 min Time: Time’s up!

  29. Prioritizing Questions Review your list of questions • Choose the three questions you consider most important. • Keep in mind your QFocus: Increasing parents’ effectiveness in the IEP process. • After prioritizing consider… • Why did you choose those three questions? • Where are your priority questions in the sequence of your entire list of questions? Time: Time’s up! 1.5 min

  30. Share Your Work Please share: • Your three priority questions • Your rationale for selecting those three Time: Time’s up! 2.5 min

  31. Reflection: • What did you learn? • What do you understand differently now about Increasing parents’ effectiveness in the IEP process? Time: Time’s up! 1 min Time: Time’s up! 1 min

  32. Assignment • Complete evaluation • https://goo.gl/forms/0rrVL83uV5xm11zI2 • Share with 2 people – friends, relative, colleague, parents they work with. Share experience and feedback. • Complete Form at https://goo.gl/forms/seBInQ6hcPyHcOhB3, OR • Type up your answers and send to siyi.chu@rightquestion.org

  33. Certificate

  34. Upcoming Webinars Webinar Series: Building Stronger School-Family Partnerships Speakers: LuzSantana & Siyi Chu • Part 3- The Framework for Accountable Decision-Making: Strengthening Parents Skills to Participate in Decisions. • Tues. April 16, 2019, 12:00 – 1:00 PM, CST • Register now! • Parent Webinar s • I – QFT • English: Tues. April 9, 2019, 4:00 – 5:00 PM, CST • Spanish: Thurs. April 11, 2019, 4:00 – 5:00 PM, CST • II – Support, Monitor, and Advocate • English: Mon. April 29, 2019 4:00 – 5:00 PM, CST • Spanish: TBD Learn more: https://www.texasparent.org/webinar

  35. Thank you. Now, some time for your questions.We are eager to connect with you and explore how we can support your work:Siyi.Chu@rightquestion.orgLuz@rightquestion.orgRegister to access free resources at: www.rightquestion.org

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