1. Parental Engagement Parental Engagement Supporting social and emotional learning at home “It takes a village to raise a child” “Whatever you would have your children become strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation”

2. Children learn everywhere, at any time. Learning has shifted from school-centred to student-centred learning. Working from this stance, there are many influences on learning that need to be elevated. One of the most powerful of these is family engagement, in children’s Learning, development, health & wellbeing.

4. Involvement and Engagement: What’s the difference?

5. Engagement in Learning requires Engagement in Learning requires An intentional and collaborative strategy lead by the school Giving parents the tools and the confidence to collaborate around the learning/wellbeing of their children Providing opportunities for families to fit together their knowledge and experience of the child with the teachers knowledge By being engaged families know, understand and can experience meaningful ways to be engaged both at school and at home

6. Engagement Test How do you currently Build connections and relationships with parents Work with parents to support learning at home Develop a shared understanding about students, develop shared goals and aspirations What's “just one thing you could do” To increase engagement of families

7. Think about Think about: Existing 'programs' that you could use or develop (e.g Kidsmatter) Targeted strategies to support particular families or groups of families Universal strategies for all families (i.e. Newsletter snippets, parent information nights, parent education) How existing practices (eg Parent Teacher Interviews, P&F meetings) can be used more effectively to ‘engage’ families.

8. Parent Education Workshops Ages & Stages/SEL at home Social & Emotional Stages of Development Brain development, supporting SEL at home Resilient child Strategies to develop ‘Mental Health Fitness’ in children. Based on Positive psychology 123 magic Parenting strategies for positive behaviour. Based on SEL skills Seasons for Growth Programs Children's companion program :resilience strategies to deal with grief and loss Parent program: Strategies for parents to support their child when families experience separation and divorce

9. Workshop example Ages & Stages/SEL at Home

10. DPC website www.parentcouncil.com.au Catholic schools office Wellbeing link http://www.parenttoolkit.com/index.cfm?objectid=50A8EC10-32D8-11E4- B03B0050569A5318 Casel