How Do You Build a Better School

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How Do You Build a Better School?
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If you always dowhat youve always done,then
youll always getwhat youve always gotten!
- The Wizard of Oz
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Parental Involvement
Leadership
Building a Foundation for Success
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Parental Involvement

• Mayberry style!!!

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Describe Andys Parental Involvement

• Its fairly safe to say that this does NOT
  represent the kind of parental involvement that
  we are looking for!
• Unfortunately, it is what we often get!

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Goal of Todays Training

• Expand the expertise
• of the school leader in parental involvement.

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Essential Questions

• What does the research say?
• What is the role of the administrator in the six
  standards for parent involvement?
• How is parent involvement connected to my
  school/district ACSIP plan?
• Whats in the future in the area of parent
  involvement training for administrators?

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What does the research say?

• Theres an old saying, If it looks like a duck,
  walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it
  must be a duck. But, if you dont know what a
  duck looks like, walks like, or sounds like, you
  still wont be able to recognize it. The same
  goes for continuous school improvement and the
  effective school. In order to implement
  sustainable school reform, you must become
  acquainted with the fundamental concepts of
  continuous school improvement.
• - Lawrence W. Lezotte

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What does the research say?

• 5 school-level factors
• Challenging goals and effective feedback
• Parent and community involvement
• Guaranteed and viable curriculum
• Safe and orderly environment
• Collegiality and professionalism
• -Robert Marzano
• What Works in Schools Translating Research into
  Action

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What does the research say?

• 3 aspects of parental involvement
• Mechanisms for communication
• Involvement in the day-to-day
• Use of governance structures
• - Robert Marzano
• What Works in Schools Translating Research into
  Action

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What does the research say?

• When families of all backgrounds are engaged in
  their childrens learning, their children tend to
  do better in school, stay in school longer, and
  pursue higher education. Clearly, children at
  risk of failure or poor performance can profit
  from the extra support that engaged families and
  communities provide.
• - Henderson Mapp
• A New Wave of Evidence The Impact of School,
  Family, and Community Connections on Student
  Achievement

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Question

• What obstacles are keeping you from building
  effective school and family partnerships?

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Remember
If you always dowhat youve always done,then
youll always getwhat youve always gotten!
- The Wizard of Oz
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Question

• What obstacles are keeping you from building
  effective school and family partnerships?

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What does the research say?

• When families of all backgrounds are engaged in
  their childrens learning, their children tend to
  do better in school, stay in school longer, and
  pursue higher education. Clearly, children at
  risk of failure or poor performance can profit
  from the extra support that engaged families and
  communities provide.
• - Henderson Mapp
• A New Wave of Evidence The Impact of School,
  Family, and Community Connections on Student
  Achievement

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Question

• What obstacles are keeping you from building
  effective school and family partnerships?
• How can you use the beliefs of Henderson Mapp
  to encourage Parental Involvement in your
  building?

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Yes, more research!

• In order to develop a parent community that
  leads, participates, advocates, and assumes
  collective responsibility, consideration of the
  following guidelines must occur
• State explicitly your schools high expectations
  of parent participation.
• Engage parents in developing a shared vision.
• Make learning transparent.
• Establish relationships that are reciprocal in
  purpose and behavior.
• Develop structures and processes for
  parent-to-parent leadership and advocacy.
• Assume that parents have the right,
  responsibility, and ability to struggle with
  tough issues.
• Keep parent participation broad-based.
• Ask parents to assess their own leadership
  skills.
• - Linda Lambert
• Leadership Capacity for Lasting School Improvement

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Parents as Partners
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And yes, even more

• The way schools care about children is reflected
  in the way schools care about the childrens
  families. If educators view children simply as
  students, they are likely to see the family as
  separate from the school.
• That is, the family is expected to do its job and
  leave the education of children to schools. If
  educators view students as children, they are
  likely to see both the family and the community
  as partners with the school in childrens
  education and development. Partners recognize
  their shared interests in and responsibilities
  for children, and they work together to create
  better programs and opportunities for students.
• - Dr. Joyce L. Epstein, Ph.D

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National Parent Involvement Standards

• Standard I Communicating
• This needs to be regular (on-going), two way, and
  meaningful
• Standard II Parenting
• Parents skills need to be promoted and supported
  so they feel valued
• Standard III Student Learning
• A team needs to be created that works for student
  success
• Standard IV Volunteering
• Parents need to be welcomed in the school, and
  their support and assistance sought
• Standard V Decision Making /Advocacy
• Parents need to be full partners in the decisions
  that affect children and families
• Standard VI Collaborating with Community
• Community resources need to be used to strengthen
  schools, families and student learning which will
  make it easier for students to learn.

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Ask yourself

• Do I, as a leader, verbally and on an ongoing
  basis encourage my staff to fulfill this point
  and do I follow up to be sure that it is taking
  place?

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ACSIP Relationship

• There needs to be a marriage between academics
  and parental involvement to increase student
  achievement.
• Parent involvement needs to be student centered.

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Lets return to

• Mayberry!!!

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How Do You Build a Better School?

• BECOME a parent magnet
• UNDERSTAND parents perspectives
• INTENTIONALLY recruit specific parents
• LEAD by example!
• DEDICATED and appreciated

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Historically speaking

• in loco parentis
• In the place of the parents.

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To infinity and beyond!!

• socii cum parentibus
• Partners with parents

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