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Understanding What Parents Want: Insights for Schools and Students

Discover the essential concerns parents have regarding their children's education and safety. This chapter emphasizes the increasing involvement of parents in school activities and their desire for a supportive environment where their children can thrive. Topics include the significance of feeling safe, belonging, achieving academic success, and becoming good citizens. Learn how schools can address these concerns through strategic communication, involvement opportunities, and demonstrating genuine care for students and their families. Engage parents effectively to foster a sense of community within educational institutions.

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Understanding What Parents Want: Insights for Schools and Students

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  1. Chapter SevenWhat Parents Really Want Leticia Cardenas Chavez Nelda Calderon

  2. Take time to find out what your parents want most from you and your school • What are some of the concerns your parents have on your campus?

  3. “Today, Parents are involved and oversee most every activity their kids are in or make sure someone else does, because they believe it is their responsibility to do so. They also don’t feel it is safe for them to do otherwise, and this generation of parents believes that doing so is good parenting. Parents are much more in tune with every hurt their children experience. It pains them a lot when their children don’t fit in for any length of time.” Today’s Parents

  4. Safety • Feeling Like They Belong • Academic Success • Participation in Activities • Becoming Good Citizens • Do you agree with these concerns and the order of these concerns? Why or why not? Five Parent Concerns

  5. Schools in the news Los Fresnos ISD IDEA Academy San Benito Perceptions on School Safety

  6. Maslow’s Hierachy Bullying

  7. Participation in Activities : Cheerleading, Athletics, Band, etc. Can you think a specific situation you have had with this at your campus? • Good Citizens: Parents turn to you for advice and support

  8. Advertising and Product Placement (nothing is coincidental) • Provide strategically placed evidence that you understand their wants and needs to showcase that you understand their concerns and that they are being addressed *parent suggestion box *advertise what is being provided such as anti-bullying sessions, character building etc. How are you going to show parents that you are addressing their concerns and what evidence will you showcase? Target Audience and Product Placement

  9. “To often we let ourselves be frustrated by needs instead of viewing them as the opportunities that they are.” Take A Little Time

  10. “…your ongoing efforts and improvement will go a long way toward convincing parents that they should keep their children in your school and that you and your staff will be there when needed. Parents do not expect perfection, but they do want to know that you and other educators care enough to do everything you can to respond to their needs.”

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