Transcript 2007 Lansing School District Strategic Advisory Committee

Lansing School District
Effective
Parent Involvement Programs
Dr. Carolyn Stone and Paula Frantz
Title I District Parent Involvement Coordinators
November 6, 2008
Michigan Requirements
School Improvement
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MCL 380.1277 (1)
Each school district shall adopt and
implement and…shall make available to the
department a copy of a 3 to 5 year school
district school improvement plan and
continuing school improvement process for
each school within the school district.
Michigan Requirements
School Improvement Partnerships
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MCL 380.1277 (1)
School board members, school building
administrators, teachers and other school
employees, pupils, parents of pupils
attending that school, and other residents of
the school district shall be invited and allowed
to voluntarily participate in the development,
review, and evaluation of the district's school
improvement plans.
Board Adopted Goals 2007 - 2008
Focus Areas 2008 - 2012
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To think beyond today and propose for the district
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Student Achievement and Quality of Instruction
School Safety, Climate and Environment
Staff Development and Employee Relations
Fiscal Responsibility
Facilities and Support Services
Parental and Community Involvement
Customer Service and Communications
Cultural Competence
Strategic Planning
Stabilize or Increase Student Enrollment
Community Education and Extended Learning
2008 – 2009 District Strategic Plan
Protocols of Progress
Goal 6 Parental and Community Involvement
The district will increase involvement by parents,
businesses, faith-based agencies and other
community interests through partnerships designed
to achieve both management and academic
improvement; and will increase volunteerism,
service learning, and mentorship among our
students through an extensive community outreach
program.
2008 – 2009 District Strategic Plan
(3) Target Objectives
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Goal 6 Parental and Community Involvement
Increase parent, family, and community
involvement at all elementary and secondary
schools.
Establish a working partnership between teachers,
administrators, students, parents, families, and the
community to maximize student achievement.
Maximize two-way communication between
teachers, administrators, students, parents,
families, and the community and include them in
decision making and policy development.
Parental and Community Involvement
Performance Indicators
Target Objective #1: Increase parent, family,
and community involvement at all elementary
and secondary schools.
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Annual 10% increase in parent involvement at each
elementary building.
Annual 10% increase in parent involvement at each
secondary building.
Enhance access to Lansing School District’s
information so that a majority (80%) of survey
respondents among families rate access to district
information as “B” or better.
Lansing’s Effective
Parent Programs – Objective #1
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PTSA/PTA
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Region H Officer’s Training:
“Putting The Pieces Together, Together”
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The Lansing School District will be hosting a PTSA Officer’s training for all of
Region H on Saturday, November 8, 2008.
The training will include sessions on:
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Servant Leadership
Presidents/Vice Presidents
Treasurers
Secretaries/Bylaws
Membership
PTA Potpourri
Roundtable Discussions
MPTSA Annual Conference
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Brought 50 parents from the Lansing School District to the MPTSA Annual
Conference in May 2008.
Provided registration costs and transportation for participating parents.
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Parent Involvement Conferences/Workshops
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Parent Involvement Program sponsors the following
conferences and/or workshops to increase parent
involvement at the schools and to assist parents with their
students’ academic achievement.
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Retention Workshop
MEAP Workshop
PTA Officers’ Training Workshop
School Improvement Workshop
How To Make Your Schools More Family Friendly
Parent Involvement School Policy Workshop
District Wide Parent Involvement Policy Workshop
District Wide School Improvement Workshop
Parenting Conference
NASBE Conference
PTA National Conference
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Three-For-Me Parent Program
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A parent volunteer program where parents commit to three
hours of volunteer service for the entire school year.
Parent Involvement Sponsored Initiatives
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To increase parent involvement at the schools:
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Visit Your Child’s School
Have Lunch with your child
Father’s Day at School
Home Visitations
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Parent Involvement Coordinators do home visits to
encourage parents to sign the parent-teacher compact,
lunch applications, attendance issues, possible retentions
and at the request of the principal.
Parental and Community Involvement
Performance Indicators
Target Objective #2: Establish a working
partnership between teachers,
administrators, students, parents, families,
and the community to maximize student
achievement.
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Increase parent, family and community
participation by 10% in a working partnership
between administrators and teachers.
Lansing’s Effective
Parent Programs – Objective #2
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The Parent Involvement Coordinators work with Central
Administration and provide the following services:
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Review and revise District Parent Involvement Policy
Implement and monitor the Parent Involvement Strategic Plan 20082012
Recruit parents to serve on the Student Reinstatement Hearings
Recruit parents to serve on various committees, task force, advisory
councils and other organizations, such as the following:
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Instructional Council
Drug Free & Safe Schools Advisory Council
Board Committees (NCLB, Finance, etc.)
School Improvement Teams
Special Education Parent Advisory Council (SEPAC)
District Wide Parent Advisory Council (DWAC)
Parent Involvement Task Force
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Central Administration Support Con’t.
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Be a facilitator or presenter for professional development
Attend elementary and secondary principals’ meetings
Promoting Academic Success with Boys of Color (PAS) –
Assist with the parent component of this project
Restorative Justice – Assist with the parent breakfast
meetings once a month at the elementary schools
Do interviews with Lansing State Journal reporters and
provide appropriate parent information
Do interviews with television news reporters and provide
appropriate parent information
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The Parent Involvement Coordinators work with
twenty-five elementary schools. We provide the
following services at the buildings:
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Home visitations
Parenting Classes
Literacy Night Make-It-Take-It
Math Night Make-It-Take-It
Science Night Make-It-Take-It
Review School Improvement Plans
Revise and Monitor Parent Involvement Policy
Parent Teacher Compact
Attend PTA/PTO and other parent group meetings at
the schools
Attend Open Houses, Curriculum Nights at the
schools and assist in recruiting parent volunteers
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Provide community resources to the schools
Provide parent support and advocacy at the schools
Assist with parent involvement planning and/or
activities at the schools (such as Title I meetings,
Cafes, Literacy Night, Math Night, Science Night, etc.)
Provide translations at the schools as needed
Assist with calling parents
Assist with creating parent rooms at schools
Provide parent workshops, presentations at the
schools
Provide counseling to parents with issues and
concerns, problems and/or complaints and with proper
procedures and protocol
Provide summer packets to parents, such as math
packets, literacy packets, and MEAP practice
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Love & Logic Parenting Classes
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Parenting with love and logic is all about raising responsible kids.
It’s a win-win philosophy. Parents win because they love in a
healthy way and establish effective control over their kids, without
resorting to the anger and threats that will haunt them later
through rebellious teenage behavior. Kids win because at an
early age they learn responsibility and the logic of life by solving
their own problems. Thus they acquire the tools for coping with
the real world. – Foster W. Cline, M.D. and Jim Fay
Parents are taught how to discipline their children with love and
logic without losing their respect through a variety of tools and
strategies.
Parents work through workbooks, class discussions, CD’s and
have homework assignments.
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2 Classes are taught: Ages 0-5 and Ages 6-18
Each class is 6 weeks long
Dinner and child care are provided
Classes consist of 20-25 students with a waiting list of 10 or more
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Parents as Educational Partners – starting 2008
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Parenting Program for language minority parents
Objective of program is to increase awareness and
understanding of local school system, understand the importance
of parent involvement, learn ways they can become involved in
their child’s education and school, and improve their English
language proficiency.
Topics will include:
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School Personnel & the School Day
School Procedures
Parent-Teacher Conferences
Report Cards & Curriculum
Study Skills & Homework
Health
Gang & Drug/Alcohol Awareness.
Each session will be taught by language group
Each session will meet twice a week for 6 weeks
Interpreter will be in each class
Food, transportation, and child care will be provided
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Promoting Academic Success Program (PAS)
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The purpose of PAS is to help families, schools, and
communities promote the academic, social, and emotional
development of boys of color between 3 and 8 years old.
The 5 major components of the PAS Program are:
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Teacher Professional Development
Mentoring
After-School, weekend, and summer enrichment programs
Character and moral development
Parent Involvement
Parent Involvement Coordinators are involved in the
operations team and planning of the parent component of
the program.
PAS Parent Involvement Program Manual V1 (3.1.08)
Parent Leadership Institute Network (PLIN)
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The Parent Leadership Institute Network™ of Michigan (PLIN) focuses
on developing parents as leaders to form a network of parents to make
a positive change in student achievement (http://www.mfel.org/plin/about_plin.html).
Learning Goals for PLIN Graduates:
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Able to provide leadership in parent-school-community partnerships that
enhance student achievement
Will design and implement school-wide or district-wide projects designed to
improve student achievement
Will reach out to historically under-involved parents to involve them as
partner’s in their child’s school
Academic Expectations for PLIN Graduates:
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Bring parents and schools together
Create family-friendly schools
Take action to improve student achievement
Understand Michigan’s standards-based education system
Design and implement a project
In 2008, 17 parents completed 90 hours of training and graduated from
PLIN
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PLIN Fellows are provided with a $250 mini-grant to help fund their project.
Parents are taught skills in conducting meetings, disaggregating MEAP data,
designing an educational project, developing a budget, and writing a
proposal.
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Math Mamas & Papas
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A math project developed as a result of the Parent
Leadership Institute Network (PLIN). There are
two components of this project:
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Provide monthly parent workshops
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Teachers facilitate the workshop sessions and teach a math
lesson to the parents
MEAP Practice
Strategies for working on math at home
Summer activities/resources
After School Math Tutorial for 3rd & 4th grade students
who do not reach proficiency on the MEAP test
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4 days per week for one hour
Math practice and tutoring by MSU & high school students
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Circle of Parents®
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Mission: Prevent child abuse and neglect and
strengthen families through mutual self-help parent
support groups (http://www.circleofparents.org/about_us/mission.html)
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Issues are brought up and discussed by parents, community
resources are shared and presentations are sometimes
provided by community leaders and businesses based on
parents’ needs and concerns.
The meetings are led by a trained facilitator and a parent
leader.
Parent Involvement Coordinators have been trained as group
facilitators.
Groups will be starting at various sites this school year.
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Promoting Rigorous Outcomes in Math and
Science Education PROM/SE
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An academic program in partnership with MSU where
parents work with teachers to develop math parent
guides for grades K-8.
Parents are trained to do power point presentations in
math at schools, faith based institutions, and
community groups and agencies.
Mathematics Counts & Science Matters
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Collaboration with MSU and Lansing School District
Initiate a dialog in our community about the importance of
math and science education to our children and provide
parents with the school and community resources they need.
17 Lansing School District parents were trained as facilitators
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Nurturing Parenting Program
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A parenting class that teaches parents and/or guardians, or
whoever takes care of children, how to be more nurturing.
Allows parents to work through exercises with workbooks,
discussions, lessons assignments and tapes.
A pre and post test are administered to determine the parents’
level of nurturing before and after taking the class.
Grandparents University
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A program for grandparents (or other adults) and grandchildren
(ages 8-12) to spend time together while enjoying the college
experience of living in a dorm, attending classes across campus,
and sampling the many highlights of MSU.
Grandparents and their grandchildren attend programs together,
customizing their experience by selecting classes that fit their
family interests.
Participants share hands-on learning activities led by MSU faculty
and staff members.
Provides parents and their children an opportunity to experience
college life and attend classes with the hope that they might
attend a college and university in the near future.
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Parent Teacher Resource Center
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A wealth of FREE resources for parents and teachers:
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An extensive library that is updated frequently:
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Computer lab with internet access
Meeting area for up to 12 people
Bulletin board, construction, and oak tag paper
Poster board
Book binding machine
Ellison machines (cut designs, numbers, and letters)
Reproducible clip art
Laminating machine
Educational materials by grade level
Opaque projector for tracing and enlarging
Paperback books for children in all grade levels
Parenting and teaching tips from the experts, including: audio tapes on
motivating parents, disciplining students, and being a better parent
Love & Logic books, audio tapes, CDs, and DVDs
A host of booklets on topics including Skills for School Success, Homework
and Study Skills, Building Student Responsibility, and Reinforcing Learning at
Home
Children’s Learning Center:
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For children in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade
Learning activities cover math, reading, writing, science, vocabulary, and phonics
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Round Up Rally
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Coordinate the District’s “kick off event” at the beginning of
the school year
 Parade of all schools and programs in the district
 Community speakers to welcome students and families
back to school
 Games and activities for students and families to
participate in together (field games, moonwalk, dunk
tank, face painting, etc.)
 Free food
Students register for a free bag of school supplies
Promotes unity among all students, families, and staff
Operation Back Pack
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Partnership with DeWitt Rotary Club, UAW Local 6000, and
AT&T to provide backpacks stuffed with school supplies to
elementary students.
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Parent Involvement Coordinator Partnerships
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Partner with Community Agencies
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Michigan State University
Lansing Community College
Lansing-DeWitt Rotary Club
AT&T
UAW Local 6000
Prevention Network – Parenting Awareness Month
Chicano/Latino Advisory Committee
Refugee Services & Refugee Development Center
CACS Head Start
Parental and Community Involvement
Performance Indicators
Target Objective #3: Maximize two-way communication
between teachers, administrators, students, parents,
families, and the community and include them in decisionmaking and policy development.
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Two-way communication will be increased so that 100% of
teachers, administrators, students, parents, families, and the
community are better informed and report a more positive
attitude about communication.
Two-way communication will be maximized so that 100% of
teachers, administrators, students, parents, families, and the
community are included and part of the decision-making
process and/or present at meetings where important matters
are discussed and implemented.
Lansing’s Effective
Parent Programs – Objective #3
District-wide Parent Advisory Council (DWAC)
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The purpose of this Council is to provide a parent voice on a
district-wide level and thereby:
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To bring about effective communication between parents and the
Board of Education.
To express parent concerns and encourage parent involvement in
school issues.
To strive toward unity among all facets of the Lansing School
District.
The DWAC consists of parent representatives, principals, and
teachers from elementary, middle, and high schools, and
community representatives.
The Council empowers parents so they are able to take on
leadership roles, have a voice in decision-making and
governance, and act as a liaison between the district and their
school.
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District-wide Parent Advisory Council (DWAC)
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5 Sub-Committees were created this year to implement the
target objectives of the District’s Strategic Plan:
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Survey Committee: responsible for creating 4 surveys to be used
district wide: a parent needs/involvement survey, a parent
satisfaction survey, a school accessibility checklist, and a building
level parent involvement survey.
Community Outreach Committee: establish partnerships with local
businesses and the Chamber of Commerce and challenge local
businesses to adopt schools to offer mentoring and shadowing
opportunities for students, recognition events, and student and
business incentives.
LSD Resource Book Committee: create a resource book for families
in the Lansing School District that lists all of the extracurricular
activities, clubs, organizations, sports, etc. at each of the schools.
Parent Handbook Committee: create a handbook for all parents that
includes information on volunteering, expectations, school etiquette,
problem/issue resolving, complaint procedure, etc.
DWAC By-Laws/Policy Committee: review current DWAC by-laws
and policies to make recommendations on any changes, additions,
updates, etc. to ensure compliance with district parent involvement
policy and district strategic plan and goals.
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Parent Involvement Strategic Task Force
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Established to look at a 4-year strategic plan from
2008-2012 for parent involvement for the Lansing
School District.
The task force consisted of teachers, administrators,
parents, students and the community.
A survey was done based on five questions and ideas
were generated through a brainstorming process.
Target objectives were determined from the surveys
and strategies and action steps were developed
based on the target objectives.
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The Parent Involvement Strategic Task Force did a
presentation before the Strategic Advisory Council.
The Parent Involvement Strategic Task Force went before the
Lansing School District Board of Education.
Connect-Ed
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An automated telephone computer calling system that sends
emergency messages, community outreach messages, etc. to Lansing
School District families and employees in less than 10 minutes.
Messages are sent via email, telephone, cell phone, etc.
The Parent Involvement Program uses this system to announce
programs, send messages and also surveys.
Ed-Line
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A software based computer program where teachers develop their own
web pages.
Teachers able to post class grades, homework assignments, tests, etc
on their web pages.
Parent Involvement provided a series of sessions to make parents
aware of this program and how to use it.
Parents are given access codes to use this system.
As a result of parents wanting more teachers to use ed-line on a more
regular basis they are in the process of writing a proposal to strongly
encourage all teachers to use it.
Technology
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Parent Involvement Program Webpage
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Parent Involvement Program has a school success content
web page.
Parents are able to type in a parenting concern or question
and receive an answer fairly quickly by national experts in the
educational field.
Parents are also able to research over 10,000 educational
topics.
Parent Involvement is scheduling a series of technology
workshops for parents to assist them in communicating
more efficiently with one another by showing them how to
establish their own wiki pages.
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For more information, please contact us at:
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Dr. Carolyn Stone
[email protected]
(517) 755-4081
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Paula Frantz
[email protected]
(517) 755-4083
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Parent Teacher Resource Center
5815 Wise Road – NE Annex
Lansing, MI 48911