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Holmdel Township Public Schools - Parent and Community Involvement
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Parent- and Community-Involvement
Strategies That Work (10/03/00)
The research is clear: When parents and communities are involved in schools,
education improves. From New York to California, from an individual student's
notebook to community-outreach programs, here are five approaches to parental
and community involvement that work! Included: Five successful programs
for parent and community involvement plus links to dozens of online resources!
Article also contains:
ADDITIONAL ONLINE RESOURCES ABOUT PARENT
AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Parent
Involvement in Education: A Resource for Parents, Educators, and Communities This page on the NPIN Web site links to the first chapter of a document
by the State of Iowa Department of Education; seven more chapters are
included.
- Americans
Seek to Support -- Not Abandon -- Public Schools, New PEN Poll on
Community Involvement in Education Reveals This page on the LAEP Web
site announces the results of a poll by the Public Education Network
(PEN) taken in October 1999 that found that most Americans view community
involvement as a means of improving public schools.
- Project
Appleseed The National Campaign for Public School Improvement offers
a parental involvement pledge, parental involvement report card, and
parental involvement toolbox.
- Parent
Involvement at the Middle School Level This article, prepared by
ACCESS ERIC, details the benefits of parental involvement in children's
education and offers general advice to parents about how to become involved.
- Parents
and Public Involvement in Schools This page from MiddleWeb, a site
devoted to middle school teaching, offers an extensive list of links.
- The
National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education This organization,
headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, offers guidelines for schools and
school districts on developing family-school partnerships along with
other resources.
- The
Future of High School Success: The Importance of Parent Involvement
Programs This article by Catherine Wehlburg Hickman, Ph.D., discusses
the role of parent involvement programs in the high school of the future
and how parent involvement programs can help meet the changing needs
of high school students and their families.
- Parent
and Family Involvement This page from the Pathways to School Improvement
section of the U.S. Department of Education's North Central Regional
Educational Laboratory offers the Trip Planner Inventory, a tool to
help schools begin the school-improvement process. The site also includes
links to several related essays within the Pathways section and to related
resources.
- Parents
Ask About Parent Involvement Policies This page discusses parent
involvement policies, which are a requirement for federal Title I funding.
The page is also available in Spanish.
- Steps
You Can Take to Improve Your Children's Education This article from
the Family Involvement Partnership for Learning, which is affiliated
with the U.S. Department of Education, explains to parents how to become
involved in their children's education.
- National
PTA This organization offers many resources related to parent involvement,
including National
Standards for Parent/Family Involvement Programs, a comprehensive
study of the benefits of parental involvement in education with suggestions
for parents and teachers, and Middle
School/High School Parent Involvement Resource Kit, which includes
suggestions of ways to get parents and students involved in their education.
- Parent
Engagement as a School Reform Strategy This article, from the Urban
Education Web of the U.S. Department of Education, focuses on parental
involvement as a strategy for transforming failing urban schools. The
site includes links to ERIC abstracts of several sources quoted in the
article.
- The
Challenges of Parent Involvement Research This 1998 ERIC Digest
describes flaws in earlier studies analyzing parental involvement in
education (such as unclear or inconsistent definitions of "parent
involvement" and failure to isolate parent involvement from other
influences) and lists study design improvements for future research.
- Family
Education Network This page, aimed at parents, contains information
about parental involvement in education, including related topics such
as preparing for parent-teacher conferences.
- Extract
from Children's Learning: The Parent Factor This is an extract from
the chapter "The Magic Ingredient: Parent Beliefs and Attitudes"
in the June 1996 report Children's Learning: the Parent Factor, provided
by the Australian Parents Council, Inc. The extract concludes "that
children's learning is best served when parents see themselves as partners
with teachers in the education process."
- The
Relationship Between Parent Involvement and Student Achievement: A Review
of the Literature This paper was prepared to provide background
information to participants in the March 1993 Illinois Summit on Parent
Involvement sponsored by the Office of the Governor and the Illinois
State Board of Education. The site includes an extensive list of resources
used in preparation of the report.
- Parent
Involvement This page from the Alachua County Council of PTAs and
PTSAs of Gainesville, Florida, provides a good discussion of the benefits
of parent involvement and names specific goals parental involvement
can achieve. The site includes many links to related material.
- Family
Involvement This compendium from the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse,
which is funded by the U.S. Department of Education, has articles about
successful parent-involvement programs and a descriptive listing of
curriculum resources.
- The
Evidence Continues to Grow: Parent Involvement Improves Student Achievement This is an ERIC abstract of an annotated bibliography prepared in 1987
by the National Committee for Citizens in Education of Columbia, Maryland.
The bibliography cites 49 studies of the effects of parent involvement
on children's academic achievement and the performance of schools.
- The
Power of Parent Partnership: Setting a High Standard for Parent Involvement
Projects Will Boost Student Achievement This article, by Anne T.
Henderson, Karen Jones, and Beverly Raimondo, describes Commonwealth
Institute for Parent Leadership, an organization created in Kentucky
to help schools set standards and guidelines for promoting parent involvement.
The site includes a Parent Involvement Project Scoring Guide.
- Families
and Learning This page, a project of the University of Minnesota
Children, Youth, and Family Consortium, offers lots of resources about
family and community involvement in education. The site includes Parent and Family Involvement Resources from the Center for Law and
Education.
- Bibliography:
Parental and Community Involvement This is a long list of publications
about parental and community involvement.
- Public
Education Network This is the home page of the Public Education
Network, which calls itself "the nation's largest network of community-based
school reform organizations."
- How
to Inform and Involve Parents This page from Inspiring Teachers
is aimed at beginning teachers. It includes a list of ways to involve
parents in the classroom and tips for teachers on how to prepare a newsletter
for parents.
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