1. Good afternoon NAF 2010 Participants! Building Partnerships with Parents This workshop will give participants an overview of how to sustain a partnership with parents through collaboration with Business Partners and the local Chamber of Commerce. Participants will hear about Chavez High School’s efforts to forge a partnership with the East End Chamber of Commerce and how this four-year collaboration now provides parents opportunities to become involved with their child’s education.

2. Parent Participation is the Gateway to Community Involvement.

3. Near Self-Sustaining Enrollment: Word of Mouth; Recruitment Support Open Communication: Trust from Families; Feedback; Change Access to Capital: Human; Financial; Intellectual

4. COLLABORATION CONSISTENCY OUTREACH

5. COLLABORATION CONSISTENCY OUTREACH East End Chamber of Commerce Student-Parent Dinners Flyers and Telling Students to Come

6. The Tale of Five Souls The Lesson? BUY-IN OUTREACH

7. PARENTS CHAVEZ EECOC

8. WHAT DOES THE ACADEMY ENVISION? HOW CAN BOTH SIDES BENEFIT? WHAT CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED? WHAT DOES THE ACADEMY ENVISION? HOW CAN BOTH SIDES BENEFIT? WHAT CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED? Parent Participation At Your Academy

11. Our Work is In Progress: I hope this program has given you a couple of things: -A starting point -A perspective -Some points to validate your work

12. A special thanks to you! Stephanie Rivera srivera5@houstonisd.org Deborah Jaques djaques@houstonisd.org http://parentparticipation.blogspot.com