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Time to use your cell phone!

Time to use your cell phone!. Use your cell phone to TEXT your answer to this question… Have you ever participated in or been the recipient of a family friendly walk through? To vote YES …. text “ RETURN ID6004 1 ” to 41411 To vote NO … . text “ RETURN ID6004   2 ” to 41411

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Time to use your cell phone!

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  1. Time to use your cell phone! • Use your cell phone to TEXTyour answer to this question… Have you ever participated in or been the recipient of a family friendly walk through? • To vote YES….text “RETURN ID6004 1” to 41411 • To vote NO…. text “RETURN ID6004  2” to 41411 • or go to http://m.textthemob.com/id6004 http://textthemob.com/id6004

  2. Using Data to Engage, Enable & Empower Parent Engagement Takes Flight Jenni Brasington, Center for Active Family Engagement (CAFÉ)

  3. Purpose • Participants will have an increased awareness of… • …how the FFWTworks and what it measures. • …how to use the data from the FFWT to empower your school to make improvements • …how to obtain additional training on the FFWT

  4. Session Overview • We live in a data-driven society and yet, when it comes to family engagement, many are still extremely “old school”—relying on intuition, tradition and convenience to drive decisions. • This workshop challenges those traditional beliefs and charts a new course by introducing participants to an assessment process that produces baseline family engagement data critical to implementing impactful strategies that ENABLE, ENGAGE and EMPOWER families to be active partners in ways that support student learning.

  5. Contact Info • Contact Information • rmirr@mac.com • jennibrasington@gmail.com • 3411 Ireland Drive • Iowa City • IA • 52246 • Handouts • http://108.178.203.234/groups/cafe1/ • User name: cafe1 • Password: cafe1

  6. Phobias Not being color coordinated (head to toe) Hobbies Shopping Jenni Faults Always running on Jenni time Retirement Dream Candy shop in Paris… Ashamed to Admit I’m addicted to reality TV! Favorite Job Being Hudson’s Mom You’d Be Surprised to Know.. I don’t like Chocolate!

  7. School Staff Says… “we would like advice and tools about how to build trust and cultivate warm relationships with families.” From Beyond the Bake Sale

  8. The Arizona PIRC Baseline Data Identify areas for refinement Stakeholder Input The Need for a Comprehensive Assessment Aligned to National Standards Identify Successes Fresh Eyes

  9. Family Friendly Walk Through

  10. Communication Indicator

  11. Information Questions • The actual questions for 2.4 • 2.4 The school has programs and procedures to involve parents with their child’s academic achievement. • 2.4.1 Do you meet with parents to facilitate school transitions in a systematic manner? (PLS-9) • 2.4.2 Do you send home student work for parent review and comment? (ES-6) • 2.4.3 Do you talk to parents about the learning style of their child? (ES-5) • 2.4.4 Do you offer resources to parents (verbal/written) on how to help their child? (ES-8) • 2.4.5 There is a resource center or designated area that provides additional information for families and teachers. (PC-14) • 2.4.6 Does your school offer information or training on how to help your child learn? (PS-8)

  12. What is the Walk Through?

  13. Components • School Campus Visit • School WebsiteReview • Shopper Phone Calls • Stakeholder Surveys • Parent, Educators, Principal and Parent Liaisons • DocumentReview • Data Analysis& FFWT Report

  14. Before the Walk Through • Review the details with the principal • Arrange for educator and parent surveys • Conduct shopper call • Review website • Schedule debriefing

  15. Rubric

  16. Day of the Walk Through • Conduct physical walk through • Review documents • Interview principal • Data input

  17. After the Walk Through • Debrief school team/principal • School selects items for improvement, plans, and implements • Consulting agency provides follow up support/training • Follow up FFWT to see if they “moved the needle”on the numbers

  18. Database

  19. Report

  20. Parent Liaison • Communication (5 items) • Contact between parent liaison, schools and families are frequent, comfortable, and two-way • There is a shared understanding among administration, staff, families and parent liaison of position goals and responsibilities • Families and educators are aware of the services offered by the parent liaison • Linked to Learning (6 items) • The parent liaison is trained to inform families about academic standards, accountability and state/federal legislation • The parent liaison is supported in developing programs and materials to involve parents with their child’s academic achievement • Participation (7 items) • The parent liaison position is a valued member of the educational team at the school • Collaboration exists between parent liaison and staff at the school • Parent liaison is included in key meetings at the school • Families take advantage of opportunities presented by the parent liaison

  21. Why should you collect data this way? • It’s a starting point – you can’t know where you need to go without assessing where you are. • There is more buy-in from the entire school community, no one hears a prophet in their own land. • The hardest part about family engagement is it’s a big idea. It’s easy to try to engage families in random acts based on instincts but without data it itsn’t intentional and not aligned to student achievement.

  22. Now What? • Share the data • Align the strategies identified in the assessment to school improvement goals • Implement action plan • Reassess

  23. Sharing • Share & explain the data to digest, understand, and brainstorm • Who • Where • When • How

  24. Developing strategies • Smaller group does the action plan • What’s working • Recommendations • Priorities • Action steps with timeline • Budget • Other considerations

  25. Implementation

  26. Implementation

  27. Re-assessing • The purpose of collecting data is to measure growth. • Once the data is collected and the plans are implemented it is important to revisit the process to measure any growth and make adjustments if things are not progressing in the right direction. • It’s also important that the key stakeholders have a role to play in the process.

  28. Getting Trained • The Welcoming Walk Through is available from the Iowa PIRC website (www.iowaparents.org) • National PTA has a Great Idea Bank that has groups and forums related to family engagement and other resources are available at www.pta.org • For more information on scheduling a FFWT contact Ron Mirr • rmirr@mac.com

  29. Questions?

  30. Final Question • Stand up if you know a school who could use a Family Friendly Walk Through. • Stand up if plan on sharing this information with someone who couldn’t be here today. • Stand up if you know a good mall nearby. • Approach the podium if you just stood up! Thank you for coming!

  31. Contact Info • Contact Information • rmirr@mac.com • jennibrasington@gmail.com • 3411 Ireland Drive • Iowa City • IA • 52246 • Handouts • http://108.178.203.234/groups/cafe1/ • User name: cafe1 • Password: cafe1

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