1. Parent Friendly Schools March 2014 Diocesan Parent Council Leadership Evening Diocesan Parent Council Leadership Evening

2. Dimension 5 Student Centered-Leadership Dimension 5 Student Centered-Leadership Ensuring an Orderly and Safe Environment  Without order, educational improvement is unlikely- but in acting to improve order educational leaders must keep educational ends constantly in mind. Source: Robinson, V.M.J. (2011) Student-Centered Leadership

3. Increasing Engagement Through Strong Parent-School Ties Although the worlds of school and home may differ greatly, students will still thrive if there are enough bridges between school and home to make the crossing a walk into familiar rather than foreign territory. A parent friendly school continues to build bridges to make the territory on both sides friendly. Source: Robinson, V.M.J. (2011) Student-Centered Leadership (p133)

4. Schools with strong parent-school ties tend to have safer school environments, better student attendance, and greater parent- school trust Building Ties Through Parental Engagement

5. If the purpose of engaging the community is educational benefit for students, then efforts should go into involving parents in ways that create a stronger educational partnership between the school and its parents because that is the strategy that is most likely to deliver the intended results. Source: Robinson, V.M.J. (2011) Student-Centered Leadership (p135)

6. Building Ties Through Parental Engagement When high trust is combined with effective strategies for parental engagement in their children’s education, then student attendance and achievement are likely to increase. Source: Robinson, V.M.J. (2011) Student-Centered Leadership (p138)

7. Effective Strategies for Increasing Parental Engagement …  Develop a sustained and coherent program rather than a series of one-off initiatives. Plan to take about three years to develop a good program aligned to the School Improvement Plan (SIP).  Involve parents, teachers and community leaders in oversight of the program so that the parties can share responsibility and be mutually accountable.  Set goals that are linked to specific student needs, for example, improvements in aspects of student engagement and achievement in literacy and numeracy. Source: Robinson, V.M.J. (2011) Student-Centered Leadership (p139)

8. Building Ties Through Parental Engagement In Broken Bay, we have highlighted the importance of genuine parent engagement in the student-centred strategic improvement goals – the SIP SIP implies parent engagement, partnership in: - Mission - Learning - Pastoral Care and Student Well-Being P&F Teams act as the bridge to their community

9. Aligning ‘resources’ that include: time, people, knowledge toward agreed SIP goals is a collective strategic leadership effort and for P&F teams requires a diagnosis of your community and what is needed in order to build this alignment… This describes a P&F team’s bridging role. Building Ties Through Parental Engagement