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Bridging the Gap: Empowering Parents for Academic Success

This book emphasizes the vital role parents play in their children's academic achievement and provides strategies to enhance parental involvement. It addresses common challenges faced by parents in supporting their children's learning and offers practical tips for strengthening the home-school connection to improve academic outcomes.

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Bridging the Gap: Empowering Parents for Academic Success

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  1. Parents Helping Children Succeed in School Vanessa Arthur  - Maritza Munzón - Judith Oron  - Rose Waringa

  2. Parents Need More Support to Help Children Succeed in School • Broken relationship between parents and teachers • Parents do not know how to contribute to their child’s learning

  3. Parents Can Play an Important Role in Academic Success • Parents need to adopt new behaviors. • Sitting down with the child • Meeting with the teacher • Parents are the gatekeepers of schooling, but are not included in decision-making

  4. Connecting Parents to Classroom Expectations Strategic Objective : By 2019, 30% of KC HH currently living under poverty ($2 per day/per person) will achieve sustainable livelihood. Intermediate Results

  5. Changing Behaviors at Home to Build Success at School • Parental understanding of classroom • Home engagement leads to academic success. • Examples : • Parents ask “Can you show me what you did at school today?” • Parents check in on their children’s progress • Parents make everyday tasks into learning activities

  6. A Web of Reasons Prevent Primary School Completion Problem Tree

  7. Connecting Home and School Will Lead to Higher Reading and Math Scores Strategic Objective : By 2019, 30% of KC HH currently living under poverty ($2 per day/per person) will achieve sustainable livelihood. Purpose To improve academic achievement of at-risk children in Kisumu County. • Outputs • Network of parent/caregiver support groups • Two-way feedback system to connect home and school and strengthen child’s academic progress • Network of peer-to-peer providers of psycho-social support for children’s well-being • teacher-to-teacher support system. Log Frame Indicator By 2019, an annual increase of 15% is achieved over the baseline average of reading and maths readiness test scores of Primary 1 to Primary 3 students in targeted Kisumu County schools.

  8. Influencing Behavior Change with Information and Knowledge

  9. Impact Continues After the Project

  10. Four Small Things that Make a HUGE Impact • Problem tree for project design • System map = Relationships • Keep the reader in mind when writing proposals. Make your proposal stand out! • Mary the Consumer

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