“Power of home visits and caring stressed to teachers” Power of home visits and caring stressed to teachers is an article about the Parent Teacher Home Visit Project and a training they are doing in Montana right now. In fact, the parent engagement coordinator at our school, Elisa Gonzalez, is helping ...
“Communicating With Parents” Communicating With Parents is a nice column by teacher by teacher Gail Tillery. It has just been published in Ed Week Teacher. Its advice is worth heeding…
“Review of Building Parental Engagement in Schools” Terry Freedman has written a review of my book, “Building Parent Engagement In Schools.” You might find it interesting…
“Mayor Booker’s reform plan was presented fully formed, without involving parents” The headline of this post is from a parent quoted in NPR’s story today, Fight Ensues Over Facebook Money for N.J. Schools. I’ve written extensively in the past about Newark’s fiasco with parent engagement and the Facebook money.
“High Performing Community Schools Receive National Awards for Excellence” I’ve written in the past about “community schools,” which are schools that make a particular effort to connect with the surrounding community. Many, though not all, work with local parents and community members as partners in developing effective ...
“L.A. Unified to spend $20 million on parent centers” L.A. Unified to spend $20 million on parent centers is the headline of an article in today’s Los Angeles Times. I generally don’t tend to be a big fan of these kinds of parent centers because they are often well-intentioned efforts to “do to” parents ...
“You have to really believe that parents have something vital to offer” The headline of this post is how Soo Hong, author of *A Cord of Three Strands: A New Approach to Parent Engagement in Schools*, ends a recent interview about her book. Check-out How a neighborhood organization is bringing parents and schools ...
Parent Trigger In The News As regular readers know, I’m definitely not a fan of the so-called “parent trigger” law (you might want to read The Best Resources For Learning Why The Parent Trigger Isn’t Good For Parents, Kids Or Schools). Today, there were lots of news articles ...
New Online Resource To Answer Parent & Student Questions About College En Camino: Educational Toolkit For Families is a series of free online “modules,” available in both English and Spanish, designed to help answer parent and student questions about college. It was just unveiled a few minutes ago by the National Center ...
“Engagement must not stop at the gate” “Engagement must not stop at the gate” is the title of an op-ed published in the Sydney Morning Herald. Its author is the president of the “Australian Council of State School Organisations.” I’m not sure if that’s the Australian equivalent of the PTA ...