Planning for Your Parental Involvement Program

1. Planning for Your Parental Involvement Program

2. The Cycle Needs Assessment Planning Implementation Evaluation Needs Assessment

3. Needs Assessmentfor the Parental Involvement Program • Focus on the Parental Involvement program. • Or, include Parental Involvement in the overall school needs assessment. • Surveys are the most widely used tool for assessing the needs of the Parental Involvement program.

4. Needs AssessmentPossible Data SourcesParents and Community • Participation in SBDM • Title I Compact • Surveys • Telephone Logs • Conference Records • Community and Business Involvement

5. Needs AssessmentPossible Data SourcesParents and Community • Communication to parents (language, frequency) • Methods for Encouraging Parental Involvement • Training Offered to Parents and Community Members • Community Resources Available

6. Needs AssessmentPossible Data SourcesStudents • Discipline referrals • Post High School Information Offered • College Admission • Financial Aid • Workforce Information • Surveys • Report Cards

7. Needs AssessmentPossible Data SourcesStudents • Attendance Records • Dropout Records • Promotion and Retention • Design and Success of Programs for Accelerated Education

8. Why survey? Annually conduct surveys to: • Identify needs • Set priorities • Aid in the planning process

9. Creating Surveys • Keep the questions simple and straightforward. • Keep surveys short, manageable, and useful. • Questions should be objective. • Open-ended responses should be kept to a minimum. • Make no assumptions about anything. • Keep the data collection process in mind when creating a survey.

10. Survey All Stakeholders Staff Surveys • Begin with a staff survey regarding the PI Program. • Seek staff input for creating surveys for other stakeholders.

11. Survey All Stakeholders Parent Surveys • These surveys should be short enough to complete in a reasonable amount of time, but long enough to collect sufficient data for planning. • Consider the timing of the survey – beginning of the school year, end of school year, busy times, etc. • May include questions regarding school climate.

12. Survey All Stakeholders Other Stakeholders • Consider very short surveys that can be completed when people visit the school. • Consider surveys that can be mailed to business owners and other community members.

13. Data Collection from Surveys • Keep deadlines. • Involve several people in the data collection and reporting processes. • Report to all stakeholders within two to three days if possible. • Tabulate the return rate for each type of survey in order to help for future planning for surveys.

14. Campus and District Planning Requirements for All Plans • Parental Involvement must be stated as a goal with at least one objective and activities that address increasing parental involvement.(TEC 11.253 (d) (9)) • Increasing Parental Involvement is one of the 10 Schoolwide Components. (PL107-110§1114)

15. Sample Goals for Parental Involvement • Encourage parent involvement through staff communication and school programs related to inclusive parent involvement. • Encourage effective and quality parental involvement. • Increase parental participation and involvement in the educational process. • Parents will be informed and involved in the academic progress and activities of their students. • ISD will collaborate with parent/guardians to increase student learning and success.

16. Sample Objectives forParental Involvement • Parental involvement will increase by 10% at school functions. • 100% of parents will participate as partners in their children’s education by having active contact with our schools the minimum of three times per year.

17. Sample Activities forParental Involvement • Offer school sponsored activities and committees: PTO, Open Houses, etc. • Provide grade level parent meetings to discuss curriculum expectations, various school health reports, federal programs, AEIS report, and how parents can help their children succeed in school. • Parent/teacher conferences will be held. • Family Fun Night will be offered to promote literacy and math. • A parent involvement committee will be formed to make decisions on the communications between school and home.

18. The LawNCLB Requirements (PL107-110§1114) • Written Parental Involvement Policies • Annual Evaluation of PI Policy • Written School-Parent Compact – annual update • Parent-Teacher Conferences in which the compact is addressed – required for elementary only – within the first semester

19. The LawNCLB Requirements (PL107-110§1114) • Title I Part, A Meeting – Schools must invite parents to an informational meeting to inform them about the school’s participation in Title I, Part A programs and explain the requirements, their right to be involved, and the opportunity to request regular meetings.

20. The LawNCLB Requirements (PL107-110§1114) • Needs Assessment – federal and state law (TEC 11.252, TEC 11.253) • Campus and District Improvement Plans that include parental involvement and the ten Schoolwide Components. • Plans that are developed in consultation with parents • Seek feedback from community leaders and parents for the planning process

21. Parental Involvement is an integral part of all school functions. Parents need to be involved in decision making, planning, implementation and evaluation for all programs.