1. Parental Involvement

2. What is Parental Involvement?
Taken from Henderson & Mapp (2002). A new wave of evidence: The impact of school, family, and community connections on student achievement. National Center for Family & Community Connections with Schools.

3. Parental Involvement Defined
Staff
Parents
Visibility in the school
Attendance to family functions
Trusting and community environment
Intimacy of relationships
emotional support and different opportunities
visibility in the school
communication with teachers

4. What is Parental Involvement?
Parents’ definition
emotional support and different opportunities
visibility in the school
communication with teachers
Staff definition
Visibility in the school
Attendance to family functions
Trusting and community environment
Intimacy of relationships
Taken from Henderson & Mapp (2002). A new wave of evidence: The impact of school, family, and community connections on student achievement. National Center for Family & Community Connections with Schools.

5. Influences of Parental Involvement (cited in Henderson & Mapp, 2002)
Parents’ perceptions of their own skills, interests, and abilities
Parents’ experiences of other demands on time and energy (burden of family responsibilities)
Specific suggestions and invitations for involvement
Beliefs about involvement (cultural norms and values)
language
childcare

6. What are you already addressing?
Influences of Parental Involvement
Parents’ perceptions of their own skills, interests, and abilities
Parents’ experiences of other demands on time and energy
Parents’ experiences of specific suggestions and invitations for involvement
beliefs about involvement as shaped by cultural norms and values
burden of family responsibilities
language
childcare
What are you already addressing?
What can we do to address some of these issues at Parents Night?
----- Meeting Notes (9/25/14 10:27) -----
childcare--> counseling with childcare; students on wait list
barrier--> language; no full-time translator; 40% Hispanic/Latino; 30% limited to no English
Pablo coming--> always one representative
who is parenting?--> grandparents (hands-off)
----- Meeting Notes (9/25/14 11:17) -----
childcare room reserved; parents thinking overburdened--> have meetings on different days (Mondays with Pablo when he's here)

7. Communicating the Vision
Cultural considerations?
recreate?
Suggestions:
make the definition more general
team of people who come up with the definition: parents, teachers, support staff, students, etc.
----- Meeting Notes (9/25/14 11:17) -----
different definitions of parental involvement even from the staff; not in a high school and see what needs are from parents;

8. Parent Night Goals Keep the numbers small and intimate
Engage the parents
Collaborate—learn from the parents as they also learn from you
Parents should have some tool, strategy, or sheet of explanations that they can take with them
Utilizing skills from the “Why Try” workshop
Nametags
what else?
----- Meeting Notes (9/25/14 11:17) -----
name tags: who you are who your child is
music between transition

9. Opportunity to BUILD RAPPORT and RELATIONSHIPS with the parents
Parent Night Goals
Opportunity to BUILD RAPPORT and RELATIONSHIPS with the parents
Quality vs. Quantity
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-weekly feedback and making sure we are doing it quality
-teachers model feedback and conversations with the parents

10. Parent Night Agenda 6:00-8:00pm Eat/welcome/mingle (25 min)
Welcome and ready for transition with about 5 minutes remaining
transition (5 min)
3 Breakout Sessions (25 min each with approx. 5 min. of transition in between)
----- Meeting Notes (9/25/14 11:17) -----
decrease 2-3 rotation; decrease amount of time

11. Sessions- Discussion How to motivate your child
getting them to come to school (school leadership opportunities/activities)
work completion
High school graduation requirements (general)
Options after graduation
How to support your child
advocating for your child?
communicating with teachers and staff?
how to have conversations about future?

12. Session Outlines Brief introduction (2 min)
Discussion/Presentation (10-14 min)
strengths of the parents?
any ideas that they might have?
what have you done that’s been successful?
Ms. Jones, Ms. Bair, Ms. Haymer for ideas to do this
How can you/staff here be utilized after tonight? (3 min)
Q&A (parking lot/Poll Everywhere) (2-7min)
Tangible item to leave with (1-3 min)
(brochure, business card, worksheet, etc)
----- Meeting Notes (9/25/14 11:17) -----
walk out with something; take off tangible; staff be utilized to 1; question 2-5; discussion keep to 10 minutes

13. Sessions-Sign-up ________________ _________________
How to motivate your child
getting them to come to school (school leadership opportunities/activities)
work completion
High school graduation requirements (general)
Options after graduation
How to support your child
advocating for your child?
communicating with teachers and staff?
how to have conversations about future?
----- Meeting Notes (9/25/14 11:17) -----
number on name tag or give them a rotation; group move together;
Motivate: Administration
Graduation Requirements: Covington
Options: Moore & Haymer
Support: Jones

14. Spanish Session? How long? Topics to discuss? 2 sessions for 45 min
High school requirements
How to navigate the American schools/communicate with faculty
give input on what might be most helpful ??
----- Meeting Notes (9/25/14 11:17) -----
Translators and headsets in the room
4 translators

15. Additional Ideas/Responsibilities
Giveaways
Duke ticket raffle
State fair ticket?
food bank supplies
Calendar ready for the parents that night for upcoming events
Child care
Food
Get information about interests
Talk to the students
----- Meeting Notes (9/25/14 11:17) -----
4 bags for the giveaway;
Haymer for calendar
Survey for the parents/rating of the sessions
Poll Everywhere and written survey

16. Future Events/Ideas Student Night Parent Focus Groups
Activities
Workshops
Talking about the future
Navigating schools as your own guardian
High school with kids
College application help
Parent Focus Groups
Family Coordinator
Using parents
Phone calls as relationship building
----- Meeting Notes (9/25/14 11:17) -----
about weekly calls and ed connect for the principal; blurb about the Parent Night

17. References
Henderson, A.T., & Mapp, K.L. (2002). A new wave of evidence: The impact of school, family, and community connections on student achievement. National Center for Family & Community Connections with Schools.