Planning for Your Parental Involvement Program

1
Planning for Your Parental Involvement Program
2
The Cycle

• Needs Assessment
• Planning
• Implementation
• Evaluation
• Needs Assessment

3
Needs Assessmentfor the Parental Involvement
Program

• Focus on the Parental Involvement program.
• Or, include Parental Involvement in the overall
  school needs assessment.
• Surveys are the most widely used tool for
  assessing the needs of the Parental Involvement
  program.

4
Needs AssessmentPossible Data SourcesParents
and Community

• Participation in SBDM
• Title I Compact
• Surveys
• Telephone Logs
• Conference Records
• Community and Business Involvement

5
Needs AssessmentPossible Data SourcesParents
and Community

• Communication to parents (language, frequency)
• Methods for Encouraging Parental Involvement
• Training Offered to Parents and Community Members
• Community Resources Available

6
Needs AssessmentPossible Data SourcesStudents

• Discipline referrals
• Post High School Information Offered
• College Admission
• Financial Aid
• Workforce Information
• Surveys
• Report Cards

7
Needs AssessmentPossible Data SourcesStudents

• Attendance Records
• Dropout Records
• Promotion and Retention
• Design and Success of Programs for Accelerated
  Education

8
Why survey?

• Annually conduct surveys to
• Identify needs
• Set priorities
• Aid in the planning process

9
Creating Surveys

• Keep the questions simple and straightforward.
• Keep surveys short, manageable, and useful.
• Questions should be objective.
• Open-ended responses should be kept to a minimum.
• Make no assumptions about anything.
• Keep the data collection process in mind when
  creating a survey.

10
Survey All Stakeholders

• Staff Surveys
• Begin with a staff survey regarding the PI
  Program.
• Seek staff input for creating surveys for other
  stakeholders.

11
Survey All Stakeholders

• Parent Surveys
• These surveys should be short enough to complete
  in a reasonable amount of time, but long enough
  to collect sufficient data for planning.
• Consider the timing of the survey beginning of
  the school year, end of school year, busy times,
  etc.
• May include questions regarding school climate.

12
Survey All Stakeholders

• Other Stakeholders
• Consider very short surveys that can be completed
  when people visit the school.
• Consider surveys that can be mailed to business
  owners and other community members.

13
Data Collection from Surveys

• Keep deadlines.
• Involve several people in the data collection and
  reporting processes.
• Report to all stakeholders within two to three
  days if possible.
• Tabulate the return rate for each type of survey
  in order to help for future planning for surveys.

14
Campus and District Planning

• Requirements for All Plans
• Parental Involvement must be stated as a goal
  with at least one objective and activities that
  address increasing parental involvement. (TEC
  11.253 (d) (9))
• Increasing Parental Involvement is one of the 10
  Schoolwide Components. (PL107-1101114)

15
Sample Goals for Parental Involvement

• Encourage parent involvement through staff
  communication and school programs related to
  inclusive parent involvement.
• Encourage effective and quality parental
  involvement.
• Increase parental participation and involvement
  in the educational process.
• Parents will be informed and involved in the
  academic progress and activities of their
  students.
• ISD will collaborate with parent/guardians to
  increase student learning and success.

16
Sample Objectives forParental Involvement

• Parental involvement will increase by 10 at
  school functions.
• 100 of parents will participate as partners in
  their childrens education by having active
  contact with our schools the minimum of three
  times per year.

17
Sample Activities forParental Involvement

• Offer school sponsored activities and committees
  PTO, Open Houses, etc.
• Provide grade level parent meetings to discuss
  curriculum expectations, various school health
  reports, federal programs, AEIS report, and how
  parents can help their children succeed in
  school.
• Parent/teacher conferences will be held.
• Family Fun Night will be offered to promote
  literacy and math.
• A parent involvement committee will be formed to
  make decisions on the communications between
  school and home.

18
The LawNCLB Requirements

• (PL107-1101114)
• Written Parental Involvement Policies
• Annual Evaluation of PI Policy
• Written School-Parent Compact annual update
• Parent-Teacher Conferences in which the compact
  is addressed required for elementary only
  within the first semester

19
The LawNCLB Requirements

• (PL107-1101114)
• Title I Part, A Meeting Schools must invite
  parents to an informational meeting to inform
  them about the schools participation in Title I,
  Part A programs and explain the requirements,
  their right to be involved, and the opportunity
  to request regular meetings.

20
The LawNCLB Requirements

• (PL107-1101114)
• Needs Assessment federal and state law (TEC
  11.252, TEC 11.253)
• Campus and District Improvement Plans that
  include parental involvement and the ten
  Schoolwide Components.
• Plans that are developed in consultation with
  parents
• Seek feedback from community leaders and parents
  for the planning process

21
Parental Involvement is an integral part of all
school functions. Parents need to be involved
in decision making, planning, implementation and
evaluation for all programs.