1. PARENT INVOLVEMENT 101 JILL MATHEWS
Family and Community Engagement Coordinator
Idaho State Department of Education
office: (208)

2. “If you think small things don’t matter, try spending the night in a room with a mosquito.” – The Dalai Lama

3. What makes the biggest difference in the success of a child?
ONE GOOD ADULT
In a study of 14,879 individuals aged 12–25 years against 1.5 million data points.
This survey is the first to be conducted on a national level regarding youth mental health. More than 14,000 people aged have been surveyed, and the data captured will be widely disseminated in order to improve services and supports to meet the needs of young people. The My World Survey is the largest and most substantial research project conducted on youth mental health in Ireland.
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—Dr. Tony Bates, in a speech in Dublin, Ireland, April 19, 2012

4. Beyond the Bake Sale Teacher outreach to parents pays off:
In a study of Title 1 elementary schools, researchers found that teacher outreach to parents improved student progress in both reading and math. When teachers did these three things, student performance improved at a percent higher rate:
Met face-to-face with each family in their class
Sent families materials each week on ways to help their children at home
Telephoned routinely with news about how their children
Davies, D., Henderson, A.T., Johnson, V.R., & Mapp, K.L. (2007). Beyond the Bake Sale:
The essential guide to family-school partnerships. New York: The New York Press

5. Chad Schmidt - Principal
Parental Advisory Committee
*Coffee/Donuts with the Principal (Teacher)
*Welcoming to School – Car rider line
*Goal setting with the Parent at Parent – Teacher Conferences
*Adopt a Partnership Philosophy
*Parents are accessible to other parents
*Advisory system

6. Robinson, V. , Hohepa, M. , & Lloyd, C. (2009)
Robinson, V., Hohepa, M., & Lloyd, C. (2009). School leadership and student
outcomes: Identifying what works and why. Ministry of Education.
Retrieved from

7. Key idea from BES

8. Stanford ‘tips-by-text’ Program
READY4K!
*scalable, inexpensive,
accessible
Text MESSAGES TO SUPPORT PARENTS
Weekly to give bite-sized tips to developing early literacy skills
Simple nuggets around literacy strategies of information that is easy to receive and useful
Increased the frequency of parents engaged in home literacy activities
Parents showed higher levels of engagement by asking teachers questions about their children’s growth
A successful pilot of the texting program was conducted during the school year at 31 preschools in the San Francisco Unified School District.
Three texts were sent each week throughout the school year to the participating parents of 4-year-olds. On Mondays, parents received a general fact about the benefits of a certain literacy skill. On, Wednesdays, parents got a specific tip on something they could do to work with their child on building that skill. On Fridays, parents received ideas on how they can take it a step further.
The children of parents who participated in the eight-month pilot program and received the READY4K! Texts scored significantly higher on a literacy assessment than those within a control group of families who received only placebo texts of school-related announcements.
Wong, M. (2014). Stanford ‘tips-by-text’ program helps boost literacy in preschoolers, study finds. Stanford Report. Retrieved from

9. Developing Your Guidance Document
Assessment System
Leadership Team
Tiered Instruction
Family Involvement
Establish Structures
Live & Refine the Structures
Document the Structures
Assess and determine where to begin and who needs to be involved in the goal specific area.

10. The Family Engagement Tool
The State’s Role

11. The School Community Network’s Building Block Framework
Our program components, tools, and resources are organized by Building Block to make it easier to match tools and resources with family engagement objectives and planning.

12. Examples of School-Parent-Community Partnership Activities
Student Centered
Family Centered
School Centered
Community Centered
Student awards, student incentives, scholarships, student trips, tutors, mentors, job shadowing, and other services and products for students
Parent workshops, family fun-nights, GED and other adult education classes, parent incentives and rewards, counseling, and other forms of assistance to parents
Equipment and materials, beautification and repair, teacher incentives and awards, funds for school events and programs, office and classroom assistance, and other school improvements
Community beautification, student exhibits and performances, charity, and other outreach
Families and schools traditionally have been viewed as the institutions with the greatest effect on the development of children. Communities, however, have received increasing attention for their role in socializing youth and ensuring students’ success in a variety of societal domains. Joyce L. Epstein’s (1987, 1995) theory of overlapping spheres of influence, for example, identifies schools, families, and communities as major institutions that socialize and educate children. A central principle of the theory is that certain goals, such as student academic success, are of interest to each of these institutions and are best achieved through their cooperative action and support. Good schools are part of a total system of interactive forces, individuals, institutions, goals, and expectations that are linked together inextricably (Epstein et al., 2002, p. 30).

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15. Importance of a Common Language
“The teachers are communicating better with the students. The planning meetings are better and the language is better.”
“I think it gives all the staff a common language to address anything that is happening in the school.”
“I have seen, because of the common language, it has helped parents at home.”
Westgate Research

16. Whitney Elementary

17. Chad Schmidt - Principal
Parental Advisory Committee
*Coffee/Donuts with the Principal (Teacher)
*Welcoming to School – Car rider line
*Goal setting with the Parent at Parent – Teacher Conferences
*Adopt a Partnership Philosophy
*Parents are accessible to other parents
*Advisory system

18. Anderson Elementary School

19. PARENT INVOLVEMENT 101 JILL MATHEWS
Family and Community Engagement Coordinator
Idaho State Department of Education
office: (208)