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Empowering Parents Through Common Core State Standards Education

This project aims to educate parents and communities about the CCSS, increase public awareness and support, enhance parent participation in PTA, and promote diversity. Challenges include reaching non-PTA parents, consistent messaging, and language barriers. The 15th District PTA in Louisville, KY conducted workshops at schools and community groups, reaching over 10,000 parents and community members. The success included awards, extra funding for workshops, and recognition as National Champions of Change. Assessment guides and resources were provided to support parents in understanding the new standards. National PTA is creating assessment guides for each state and providing resources and FAQs to support parents.

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Empowering Parents Through Common Core State Standards Education

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  1. Common Core State Standards: An Opportunity for Progress Lee Ann J. Kendrick, M.Ed. Regional Advocacy Specialist, National PTA Sharon Whitworth, Parent Relations Specialist Jefferson County Public Schools

  2. Presentation Overview

  3. National PTA & CCSS Wave I: Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, North Carolina Wave II: Minnesota, Mississippi, Ohio, Washington Wave III: Delaware; Michigan; 15th District PTA Louisville, KY; Springdale, Arkansas; Duval & Pinellas, Florida Wave IV: Kansas, Indiana, Michigan

  4. CCSS Education by the numbers PTA has educated: 2,912,512 people through written communication (email, newsletters, website)

  5. CCSS Education by the numbers

  6. 15th District PTA Louisville, KY Goals of the project • To educate parents and the community about CCSS • Increase public awareness and support of the CCSS • Increase parent participation in PTA • Increase diversity in PTA

  7. 15th District PTA Louisville, KY Anticipated Challenges • How to reach non-PTA parents and/or uninvolved parents • How to ensure we had consistent messaging about CCSS • How to reach enough people to ensure the message was effective • Language barriers

  8. 15th District PTA Louisville, KY • Workshops at 36 Schools • Workshops for 42 Community groups • Reached over 10,000 parents/community (face to face contact) thru trainings and educational events • Through social media, newsletters, Parent Connection, GE Foundation newsletter, over 900,000 people know about the common core • 3,000 NEW e-mail addresses have been acquired to continue educating about KCAS

  9. 15th District PTA Louisville, KY Presentation folders included: • National PTA Overview of CCSSI • National PTA Parent Guides • National PTA Assessment Guides for Kentucky • PowerPoint Presentation • Letter from 15th District PTA President • Response Card

  10. 15th District PTA Louisville, KY • Brown Bag Lunches • Community Outreach • JCPS Staff Workshops • Educational Outreach • Social Media • YouTube

  11. 15th District PTA Louisville, KY Success! • Received the Gheens Institute for Creative Innovative and Entrepreneurship Award • Receive $2,500 extra monies to print more materials • Added $5,000 in the 15thDistrict PTA budget for future workshops • National Champions of Change recognition

  12. 15th District PTA Louisville, KY • Assessment & Accountability Challenges • PTA Solutions Kentucky Assessment Guide • Additional funding for statewide work • Supported JCPS Business Breakfast on Common Core • Train the Trainers 13 people across the state • 26 CCSS workshops across state

  13. 15th District PTA Louisville, KY

  14. Assessment & Accountability National PTA is creating Assessment Guides for each CCSS State. • CCSS overview and what are standards • Why new assessments, why are these better, benefits of better tests • PARCC and SBAC info (very little – we didn’t want the focus to be on the consortia, we wanted to show state ownership)

  15. Assessment & Accountability • Definitions of tests being created (interim, summative, formative, etc) • Sample test questions at the elementary, middle and high school levels • State-specific accountability systems at the student, teacher and school levels • What parents can expect • How parents can support their child

  16. Assessment & Accountability • Working with each DOE to collect and verify state-specific information • The first two states (New York and Oregon) should be ready in the next few weeks • We are also trying to keep up with the rapidly changing environment around assessments – the new flexibility allowances, states shifting consortia, etc.

  17. National PTA Resources National PTA CCSS Resources National PTA CCSS FAQs National PTA State Specific Resources

  18. What questions do you have?

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