1. Family Engagement Staff Development
Jan. 16, 2017

2. Welcome DISD Learning Today, Leading Tomorrow
Dayton ISD appreciates your commitment to professional growth and learning. In order to respect every attendee’s time and contributions, we will follow these expectations during today’s meeting:
Be Attentive - participate, contribute, collaborate
Be Prepared - we will begin on time & follow the agenda
Be Polite - silence phones, limit messages, take calls outside
Be Open-Minded - thinking is student centered & solution driven
Be Present - avoid sidebar conversations & multi-tasking
Be Professional - respect others’ opinions and perspectives
DISD Learning Today, Leading Tomorrow

3. Today we will
Discuss how parental involvement is connected to accountability at the state/federal level
Discuss ideas for involving parents at the classroom, school, and district level
Create texts to use when calling parents over a variety of issues
Participate in a gallery walk to add your ideas for ways to involve parents in their children’s education.

4. Parental Involvement Update
Parental Involvement has long been a component in education especially if you receive Title Funds.
NCLB is being phased out and ESSA is replacing it. Parental Involvement becomes even more important with ESSA due to its connection with Accountability.
One domain of the new accountability will be our district’s self-report that is due in the spring. Parental Involvement will count 10% towards our district’s accountability. This domain is designed as the district’s “curve” towards our ranking.
This year it will not count but beginning in it will count.

5. Ways of building relationships with parents, getting them to volunteer in your classroom, and to give you feedback
Send a positive note home on one student every day. (Handout)
Conduct a survey of parents to identify volunteer interests, talents and availability. (Handout)
Contact parents via , text and social media.
Have a clear list of ways that parents can help out.
Create volunteer recognition activities such as events, certificates and thank-you cards (These can be written by the students).
Create an electronic suggestion or comment box for families to anonymously provide their questions, concerns and recommendations. (Handout).

6. Specific tasks parents can do
Be a class parent.
Organize an after-school homework club.
Assist with extra-curricular activities such as drama clubs, civic organizations and hobby clubs.
Participate in a reading partners club.
Become a class adviser to assist in fundraising projects, bookkeeping and special events such as dances or class trips.
Start a community book club. If an English class is reading "Great Expectations", a parent can have the community join in by gathering copies of the novel and starting an online discussion between students and parents, as everyone in the club works through the chapter assignments.

7. Specific tasks parents can do (cont.’)
Chaperone field trips or social events.
Share their expertise. Some parents have very interesting jobs or life experiences. Invite them to give a presentation that can supplement a unit of study.
Prepare learning materials from home.
Coordinate classroom volunteers.
Be in charge of:
Classroom newsletter
Class twitter
Class blog
Class website
Pinterest board
Google Hangouts (this is a very good way for students to connect with other students around the globe).

8. How can I get involved in engaging our parents
How can I get involved in engaging our parents? Why is engagement so important?

9. Phone call texts
Goal: to help teachers and staff feel more comfortable making difficult and/or positive phone calls to parents/guardians
Directions:
Work in teams
Come up with a skeleton text for the issue chosen
Greeting – how you want to start the phone call
List questions you want to be sure to ask to get the information you need
Closing – re-cap and conclude the phone call
Have a scribe type your script into the Google Doc or write on the paper provided
When you are finished, please add your ideas for ways to engage parents to the gallery walk sheets
Will be shared as a resource with all DISD staff

10. Gallery Walk Listed by typical areas of concern identified by teachers
Add your ideas for ways to involve/engage parents, students, and community members to address these areas of concern
Results will be compiled and shared

11. Instructional strategies used in this session
Collaborative group work
Gallery Walk
Turn and Talk
Lecture
Questioning

12. Questions? Thank you for attending our session today!