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Title I Parental Involvement

Title I Parental Involvement. Missy Moore, Title I Coordinator St. Tammany Parish School System. What does research tell us about the Influence of Parent Involvement?.

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Title I Parental Involvement

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  1. Title IParental Involvement Missy Moore, Title I Coordinator St. Tammany Parish School System

  2. What does research tell us about the Influence of Parent Involvement? • When schools work together with families to support learning, children tend to succeed not only in school, but throughout life. • When families and schools cooperate, the results include: • Higher grades and test scores • Better attendance • More homework completed • Higher graduation rates/greater enrollment in post-secondary education ADD IT UP: Using Research to Improve Education for Low-Income & Minority Students. Poverty & Race Research Action Council(2001)

  3. The most accurate predictor of a student’s achievement in school is not income or social status, but the extent that a student’s family is able to: Create a home environment that encourages learning Express high (but not unrealistic) expectations for their children’s achievement and future careers Become involved in their children’s education at school and in the community. Notes from Research: Parent Involvement and Student Achievement. San Diego County Office of Education 1997

  4. School Parent Involvement Policy • Each Title I funded school must develop and distribute its own written parental involvement policy that includes: • Annual meeting • Offer a flexible number of meetings • Involve parents in planning, review and improvement of Title I programs • Provide timely information regarding the programs • Provide opportunity to submit dissenting views to LEA

  5. School Parent Compacts • Each Title I funded school must have a compact: • developed jointly with parents of the school • describes school and parents’ responsibilities. • The compact must also address the importance of ongoing communication between teachers and parents. At a minimum: • Parent-teacher conferences (at least annually) in elementary school, • Frequent reports to parents on their child’ progress • Reasonable access to staff and school

  6. NATIONAL NETWORK OF Partnership Schools JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY and St. Tammany Parish Title I Schools

  7. School Model The NNPS School Model includes four essential elements: Action Team for Partnerships Framework of Six Types of Involvement One-Year Action Plan for Partnerships Program Evaluation

  8. What is an Action Team for Partnerships? • A team of 5-6 people (teachers, administrators, parents, community members, and others) that work to organize and sustain a program for parental involvement • A team that helps to create a welcoming school environment for families • A team that works to engage families and the community in ways that support student achievement and success

  9. Six Types of Involvement:Keys to Successful Partnerships • Parenting • Communicating • Volunteering • Learning at Home • Decision Making • Collaborating with the Community

  10. One-Year Action Plan for Partnerships Detailed information on activities Implementation of all of the Six Types of Involvement Dates, grade levels involved, preparations needed, persons in charge and assisting, and evaluation tools for planned are required

  11. Schools proceed step by step using the NNPS Partnership Planner to establish and strengthen partnership programs.

  12. What do I need to do? • Set meeting dates for Action Team for Partnerships (ATP) • Select members for ATP • Develop a One-Year Action Plan for 2013-2014 • Continue implementing your Action Plan

  13. Documentation • Send copies of the following to Lynn Johnson at the Covington Education Center (make sure that you have copies of each on file at your school also): • Your school’s parental involvement policy • One-Year Action Team Plan for 2013-2014 • List of ATP members • List of ATP meeting dates

  14. Type 1 Type 2 Type 3 Type 4 Type 5 Type 6 THE KEYS TO SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL-FAMILY-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS EPSTEIN’S SIX TYPES OF INVOLVEMENT PARENTING:Assist families in understanding child and adolescent development, and in setting home conditions that support children as students at each age and grade level. Assist schools in understanding families. COMMUNICATING:Communicate with families about school programs and student progress through effective school-to-home and home-to-school communications. VOLUNTEERING:Improve recruitment, training, work, and schedules to involve families as volunteers and audiences at school or in other locations to support students and school programs. LEARNING AT HOME:Involve families with their children in learning activities at home, including homework, other curriculum- related activities, and individual course and program decisions. DECISION MAKING:Include families as participants in school decisions, governance, and advocacy through PTA/PTO, school councils, committees, action teams, and other parent organizations. COLLABORATING WITH COMMUNITY:Coordinate resources and services for students, families, and the school with businesses, agencies, and other groups, and provide services to the community.

  15. Reaching Results for Students Studies show that each type of involvement promotesdifferent kindsof results. EACH TYPE of involvement also can strengthenSPECIFIC RESULTS

  16. Sample: How School Improvement Goals are Linked to a One-Year Action Plan for Partnerships • Improve student achievement in reading – PAGE 1 • Family Reading Night • Weekly interactive homework in reading and writing • Parent/community volunteer book buddies and book talks • Improve student achievement in mathematics – PAGE 2 • Family Math Night • After-school tutoring program in math • PTA fundraiser for computer software • Increase student attendance rates – PAGE 3 • Family volunteers to phone parents of absentees • Attendance and lateness policies in newsletter and Web site • Family dinner with principal for improved attendance • Strengthen the climate of partnerships – PAGE 4 • Reformat the newsletter and Web site to be family-friendly • Teachers’ walks in students’ neighborhoods or home visits • Welcome back picnic before school starts in the fall

  17. YOUR ATP’s NEXT STEPS ? • COMPLETE A FINAL COPY OF THE • ONE-YEAR ACTION PLAN FOR PARTNERSHIPS • 1. SHARE THE DRAFTand gather input from teachers, parents, • the School Council, and others at school. • MAKE FINAL REVISIONSon a paper or electronic copy. • 3. PUBLICIZE THE FINAL PLANin the school • newsletter, on the Web site, at the next Open House • Night, and in other ways. • 4. GIVE COPIES TO ALL ATP MEMBERSand to the • district facilitator who will assist your team.

  18. Questions?Comments?Concerns? lynn.johnson@stpsb.org

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