Transcript Beyond the Bake Sale*

Beyond the Bake Sale‖
Engaging Families for Student Growth
Beyond the Bake Sale‖
What is a Family-School
Partnership supposed to look
like?
Beyond the Bake Sale‖
The ideas in this book help to answer
that question in two ways:
1) Through research studies
2) Through many years of experience
in schools
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Strong leadership by principals,
teachers, parents and community
leaders can turn these ideas into
reality.
Student growth can start with YOU
& YOUR SCHOOL!
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“Where is your school when it comes to partnering
with families?
 Does your school confine parents to traditional roles?
 Has your school tried to define what it means by
parent involvement and partnership with families?
 How is your school connecting with community
resources?”
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“Ask yourself this question:
What might a school look like that has
created a genuine culture of schoolfamily-community partnership, and that
has made real progress toward high
social and academic achievement for all
students?”
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Four Versions of Partnership Rubric
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Partnership School
Open-Door School
Come-if–We-Call-School
Fortress School
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Four Versions of Partnership Rubric
1. Partnership School
 Building Relationships
• Family center is always open, full of
interesting learning materials to borrow
• Home visits are made to every new family
• Activities honor families’ contributions
• Building is open to community use and social
services are available to families
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Four Versions of Partnership Rubric
2. Open-Door School
 Building Relationships
• Teachers contact families once a year
• Parent coordinator is available if families
have questions or need help
• Office staff are friendly
• Staff contact community agencies and
organizations when help is needed
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Four Versions of Partnership Rubric
3. Come-if-We-Call School
 Building Relationships
• Better-educated parents are more involved
• “Many immigrant parents don’t have time to
come or contribute”
• Staff are very selective about who comes into
the school
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Four Versions of Partnership Rubric
4. Fortress School
 Building Relationships
• Families do not “bother” school staff
• “Minority families don’t value education
• Parents need security clearance to come in
• It is important to keep community influences
out of the school
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Four Versions of Partnership Rubric
Other areas in the rubric will include:
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Linking to Learning
Addressing Differences
Supporting Advocacy
Sharing Power
Four Versions of Partnership Rubric
Using the scoring guides, you can get a rough
idea of where your school falls. The scoring
guides are located in the Beyond the Bake Sale
Chapter 2 folder located on the SCS website
under the “staff” tab, then under professional
development there is a parent engagement tab
which includes today’s PPT. and the four
versions of Partnership Rubric listed above.
Where Does Your School Fall?
“Check the boxes that have the most statements under
them marked or circled. Check only one box in a row.
• If three or more of your checked boxes fall in the
Fortress School section and none under the Open-Door
or Partnership, your school is trying to keep parents
away rather than work with them. In standards terms, it
is below basic.”
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Where Does Your School Fall?
• “If three or more of your checked boxes fall under
Come-if-We-Call and none under Partnership, your
school may want parents to be involved only on its
terms. In standards-based terms, it is at the basic
level.”
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Where Does Your School Fall?
• “If at least four of your checked boxes fall under OpenDoor or Partnership and none under Fortress School,
your school welcomes families and supports them to
be involved in a number of ways. In standards based
terms, it is proficient.”
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Where Does Your School Fall?
• “If at least three of your checked boxes are under
Partnership and the rest are under Open-Door, your
school is willing and able to work with all families. We
bet the student achievement level goes up every year.
In standards-based terms, it is advanced.”
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Where Does Your School Fall?
“Now suppose you have put partnership into action at
your school, using this book and your own ideas. Imagine
what a group of thoughtful observers would see and
report when they visit your school.”
Many schools and districts are conducting family friendly
walk-throughs with teams of parents, school staff, and
community members to help to see their school through
the eyes of others.
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Where Does Your School Fall?
Chapter 9 of this book deals in detail with family friendly
walk-throughs and SCS also has a family friendly walkthrough tool designed by the North Carolina Parent
Involvement Resource Center (NC PIRC).
NC PIRC’s Family Friendly Walk-Through tool has been
scanned and is included in the Chapter 2 documents for
Beyond the Bake Sale located under the staff tab under
parent engagement on the SCS webpage. I will be glad to
form a team and conduct a family friendly walk-through
for any school that is interested. Central Elementary used
this tool last year to provide feedback to their school
regarding family friendly practices and to work towards
positive changes noted in the tool.
Final Notes
Chapter 2 has presented Beyond the Bake Sale’s Vision of
Effective family-school partnership as a way to summarize
the main ideas and themes of the book.
The book encourages us to now develop a vision for each
individual school. It reminds us that there is no magical
combination of partnership practices that produce results
every time.
Hopefully, by the end of this study, your school will have a
clear idea of why Partnerships are So Important and why
family-school-community collaborations are worth the
investment of your time and energy.
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A Final Quote from the Book…
“We hope that you use this book in the spirit
with which it is offered – to build a vital, trusting,
productive community of people who enjoy
learning from each other and can work through
their differences in the interests of the children.
A school is a treasured place in a community, a
place where people of all backgrounds can come
together and thrive. Every school can be such a
place. How to get there is what this book is all
about.”
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Session Homework
1)
Review & Discuss the Four Versions of Partnership located in
Chapter 2 of Beyond the Bake Sale- located on the SCS webpage
under the staff tab under parent involvement Beyond the Bake
Sale Chapter 2. I have made individual copies of these four
versions of Partnership that you can copy and write on to
determine where your school falls.
2) Discuss with your school staff/team to see if your school is ready to
implement a family friendly walk-through. I will be responsible for
gathering the team and conducting the walk-through if your school is
interested in completing the family friendly walk-through.
3) Have the principal email [email protected] to
share which of the four versions of Partnership your school is
currently falling under and if you would like to conduct a family
friendly walk-through or not at this time.