District 6

Parent Involvement Policy

District 6 Multilevel Approach to Enhance Parent Training and Parental Participation

DISTRICT 6 VISION

One of our main goals as a Local District is “to provide learning environments that will improve the academic achievement of all students.” Such focus on academic achievement can only be productive if all of the three components: teachers, parents, and administrators, work together in unison to establish and nourish a Standards-Based system that will equalize instructional practices. Parents are the first teachers of their children and must have the capacity, through training and access to information, to provide the foundation for learning to their children, thus becoming partners in education with the rest of the school community to support student achievement. Research has proven that parent involvement and education results in higher student attainment and more effective schools.

DISTRICT 6 GOALS FOR PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN EDUCATION

Provide parents with strategies and techniques for assisting their children with learning activities at home that will support and extend their school’s instructional program.
Encourage and expand parent volunteerism at the school sites to support the local schools’ academic goals and school climate in general.
Provide extensive training to Community Representatives in charge of Parent/Family Centers at the local school to enhance the quality of services and communication available to parents.
Offer appropriate training to members of the local school councils, as well as to parent representatives to District 6 advisory councils, so they can become effective partners in the decision-making process at the local schools.
Augment through comprehensive training the communication skills of our parents so they can communicate more effectively with their children and lay the foundation for a positive family relationship.

DISTRICT 6 FRAMEWORK TO MEET THESE GOALS

District 6 will follow the Joyce Epstein’s “Six Types of Parent Involvement” Framework in order to attain these goals. This Framework facilitates the development of school and family partnership programs. Ms. Epstein believes that the benefits that can be achieved through the creation of interdependent bonds between schools and families is that these “…partnerships help all youngsters succeed in school and in later life.”

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Parent Involvement Policy

District 6 Multilevel Approach to Enhance Parent Training and Parental Participation

DISTRICT 6 VISION

DISTRICT 6 GOALS FOR PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN EDUCATION

DISTRICT 6 FRAMEWORK TO MEET THESE GOALS