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Parent Involvement

Parent Involvement. Tips, Tools and Strategies for Parents and Professionals Oregon r.i.s.e. Center. What is the Oregon r .i.s.e . Center.

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Parent Involvement

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  1. Parent Involvement Tips, Tools and Strategies for Parents and Professionals Oregon r.i.s.e. Center

  2. What is the Oregon r.i.s.e. Center We are a statewide organization that encourages, educates, and empowers children and young adults with disabilities, their parents, family members, and professionals to collaboratively achieve unlimited success. We are a regionalized model with staff living in the area that they serve.

  3. Current Programs Partners Program Statewide Conferences ›Bullying Prevention and Awareness ›Diversity ›OrPTI ›Transition ›IEP Partners ›Transition Partners ›Mediation Partners ›Annual Parent Conference ›Building Futures ›Infant and Early Childhood Conference Special Education Helpline 1-888-891-6784 Monday-Friday, 9am to 3pm info@oregonrisecenter.org

  4. Oregon r.i.s.e Center/Parent Training and Information Program “Coming together is a beginning, Keeping together is progress, Working together is success.” Henry Ford

  5. Research Shows • Parent involvement in children's learning is positively related to achievement. • The more intensively parents are involved in their children's learning, the more beneficial are the achievement effects. • The most effective forms of parent involvement are those which engage parents in working directly with their children on learning activities in the home.

  6. Research shows • Considerably greater achievement benefits are noted when parent involvement is active--when parents work with their children at home, certainly, but also when they attend and actively support school activities and when they help out in classrooms or on field trips, and so on. • The earlier in a child's education that parent involvement begins, the more powerful the effects will be.

  7. Five guiding principles for involving parents in schools • Offer parents opportunities in the context of a well-organized and long lasting program • Allow parents to choose from a range of participation options • Engage parents in decision making at all available levels • Intentionally design a parent friendly environment • Communicate regularly and acknowledge parent involvement

  8. Offer parents opportunities in the context of a well-organized and long lasting program • Offer parent participation “inservice” during the year • Develop parent involvement programs in instruction- at home, school and after school • Develop a parent mentoring program that matches involved and uninvolved parents • Provide professional development opportunities for parents

  9. Allow parents to choose from a range of participation options • Options need to accommodate schedules, preferences and capabilities • Offer short term and longer term projects • Develop projects that can be done at home and brought back to school • Assign “parent involvement” homework assignments (family history, daily schedules)

  10. Engage parents in decision making at all available levels • Invite parents to be part of classroom as well as school or district wide decision making • Allow opportunities for parents to complete surveys or short feedback forms on specific topics • Identify ways that parents can take a lead role is task forces or meetings • Involve families in evaluating the effectiveness of family involvement programs

  11. Intentionally design a parent friendly environment • Recognize the community’s ethnic, linguistic and cultural composition and resources and reflect that in school • Identify a parent center for parents to use while at school • Give parents a badge that identifies them as a “parent partner” at school • Hire and train a family coordinator

  12. Communicate regularly and acknowledge parent involvement • Keep parents informed of their child’s performance through notes, email, newsletters, etc. • Be available for quick conversations with parents during drop off and pick up time • Recognize parent participation in regular newsletters • Provide social opportunities for teacher and parents .

  13. Five Guiding Principles for Parents Who Want to be Involved • Share attributes, strengths and skills that could support your child’s classroom or school • Communicate with your child’s teacher • Ask to participate in school improvement and decision making opportunities • Support classroom curriculum and activities at home • Participate in a positive, collaborative and trusting manner

  14. Share attributes, strengths and skills that could support your child’s classroom or school • Organization, planning skills • Clerical, copying • Hobbies, crafts, talents, artistic abilities • Special expertise

  15. Communicate with your child’s teacher • Email, phone, written notes • Attend Parent-Teacher conferences • Attend school open house or other social events • Before or after school check-ins

  16. Ask to participate in school improvement and decision making opportunities • Site council • Parent clubs or Parent-Teacher club activities • Staff selection committees • Special project task forces

  17. Support classroom curriculum and activities at home • Make time and space for homework at home • Follow through with assignments at home • Make phone calls to other parents • Prepare art projects or pieces at home for school projects

  18. Participate in a positive, collaborative and trusting manner • Follow through on tasks or commitments • Develop relationships with school personnel • Express concerns or needs with a friendly demeanor • Be considerate of time that teachers have for one-on-one conversations • Approach participation as adding to the education of ALL children

  19. Attributes of Successful Partnerships • Mutual respect • Trust • Shared problem solving • Common vision and goals • Conflicts, when present, are openly acknowledged and addressed • Focus

  20. The Future of Parent Involvement • How will generational changes influence parent’s expectation of participation? • How will participation change as a result of the economic climate for schools? • How can the schools need “to do more with less” and the potential of parent participation create a win-win solution? • How will you use this discussion to increase parent participation at your school or workplace?

  21. Contact Information • Call us at 503-581-8156 or 1-888-505-2673 (toll free in the state of Oregon) • Special Ed. Help Line 1-888-891-6784 • Fax us at 503-391-0429 • Email us at info@oregonrisecenter.org • Website- www.oregonrisecenter.org

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