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Tired of Trying and Getting Nowhere? Parent and Family Engagement Tips

Tired of Trying and Getting Nowhere? Parent and Family Engagement Tips. Presented By: Sara Shriver, School ADvance, MASA sshriver@gomasa.org ~ 989-620-5899. Outcomes of Presentation. Learn the legislative requirements

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Tired of Trying and Getting Nowhere? Parent and Family Engagement Tips

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  1. Tired of Trying and Getting Nowhere? Parent and Family Engagement Tips Presented By: Sara Shriver, School ADvance, MASA sshriver@gomasa.org ~ 989-620-5899

  2. Outcomes of Presentation • Learn the legislative requirements • Learn relevant ideas for staff professional development for parent engagement • Learn effective ways to engage parents • Assess your team’s parent engagement level of success

  3. Parent and Family EngagementTip #1 Know the law Know the expectations Know how you meet the guidance • Easy Parent Involvement Plan to use all rolled into one • Engage parents in the development or review of the Parent Involvement Plans

  4. Parent and Family EngagementTip #2 Know the Research Apply the Research with Professional Development • Book by Joyce Epstein’s: School, Family, and Community Partnerships • Review the Six Types of Engagement with Staff • National Standards for School-Family Partnerships Implementation Guide

  5. Parent and Family EngagementTip #3 Gather, share, and reflect on perception data to connect with parents Survey Data and/or Focus Groups • Band Boosters • Sports Boosters • PTO/PTA Groups • School Events • Door Greeting Before and After School

  6. Parent and Family EngagementTip #4 Frontload School Improvement Agendas • Put parents on the agenda first • Have a purpose for parents to be there • Excuse parents after their agenda items, but invite to stay as long as they want • Ask each parent rep to bring along another parent rep

  7. Parent and Family EngagementTip #5 Align parent engagement activities with other school activities • Literacy Workshop – Breakfast and Books during Book Fair • FASFA Support – Athletic Events, School Events, Local Businesses/Shops • Parent Portal Training – Parent/Teacher Conferences

  8. Parent and Family EngagementTip #6 Disguise your parent engagement activities • Literacy and Math Events – Game Night or Day with Office Central • http://www.officecentral.net/west-branch-mi-educational-games • West Branch, MI - 989-345-4120 • Annual Title I Meeting – Literacy and Math Celebrations

  9. Parent and Family EngagementTip #7 Tips from the parents point of view • National Standards for Family-School Partnerships (National PTA) • https://www.pta.org/home/run-your-pta/National-Standards-for-Family-School-Partnerships?gclid=Cj0KCQiA2o_fBRC8ARIsAIOyQ-nCBdFXzRVR68JWOvzzdUENSIBpzFUdKA3ouRVDRN0qzjeIoMtLH7MaAg3uEALw_wcB • Use this rubric to rate your team’s level of parent and family engagement status

  10. Parent and Family EngagementTip #8 Offer parent feedback opportunities at random events • Feedback boxes around the buildings, at events, at local businesses/shops • Discuss feedback at District/Building meetings • Make an Action Plan to address feedback • Publish Action Plan on website, in newsletters, at parent events

  11. Parent and Family EngagementTip #9 Have announcers at sporting events or school activities highlight upcoming parent and family engagement events • Have registration tables set up • Link incentives to registrations/attendance

  12. Parent and Family EngagementTip #10 Start with relationship building • Invite every parent into the building, out to breakfast, lunch, etc… for a meet and greet, no school related reasons • Call every parent and share good news about their child at least once a year • Try to learn parent names and call them by name every chance you see them; greet at the door, in the hallways, in the classrooms, in the grocery store, at church,

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