1. Best Practices for Family Engagement & Partnerships in Alternative and Traditional Educatonal Settings
Imagine: Imagine your school with 100% Parent and Family Engagement:
What does it look like?
How does it affect students’ academics?
How does it affect students’ behavior?
What would your college-going culture be like?
How would your veteran teachers be inspired?
How would you feel as Principal, AP, Dean, Teacher, TA, Parent, Student, Community?
Top Benefits on Family and Community Engagement (article)
Common Barriers to Family Involvement (article)

2. The States in blue have a smaller population than LA County.
4,084 Square Miles
Population: 10,441,080
Hispanic 44.6%
White 31.1%
Asian12.3%
Black 9.7%
American Indian.5%
Pacific Islander.3%
The States in blue have a smaller population than LA County.
Los Angeles County:
4,084 Square Miles
Population: 10,441,080
Hispanic44.6%
White31.1%
Asian12.3%
Black9.7%
American Indian.5%
Pacific Islander.3%

3. Two Juvenile Hall Schools Five Camp Detention Schools
Two Specialized High Schools
Nine County Community and Independent Studies Schools
Challenges to family engagement in LACOE

4. Spectrum of Diversity

5. 2015 - 2016 Family Engagement 71 Workshops 471 5 schools sites
Participants
$ 450,000
Where we were

6. Title I Parent Education and Consultation Program, PECP
2017 – 2018
140 workshops
2,200 participants
All schools
2018 – 2019
147 workshops
2,100 participants
All schools
2016 – 2017
120 workshops
1,600 participants
All schools
$164,446
$193,295
$218,658
What we have achieved

7. How? How? Instruction Relationships Partnerships Environment
Portraits in Leadership for Family Engagement in urban Schools – Susan Auerback (article)

8. Instruction
Worksheet

9. Effectively and Positively
Relationships
Welcoming
All
Families
Supporting
Student
Success
Communicating
Effectively and Positively
Sharing
Power
Supporting
Every
Child
Collaborating
with the
Community
Worksheet

10. Ecological Systems Theory Urie Brofenbrenner
Partnerships
Ecological Systems Theory Urie Brofenbrenner
What is Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory? (Article)

11. The Birthday Cake Dilemma
Emilia is a new student at your school site. She moved here about 1 year ago months ago with her family from El Salvador and is just beginning to learn English. Her family speaks only Spanish at home and has only come to school once: for registration. Today is Emilia’s birthday and her mother accompanies her (for the first time) in the morning. As you greet her, she smiles broadly as she gives you a cake to share with the students for Emilia’s birthday. However, your school has a strict policy about disrupting routine, serving junk food, and celebrating birthdays in class. What do you do?
The Birthday Cake Dilemma
Elbow partner

12. Vs. Environment Lightfoot Parents as resources
Parents as empty vessels

13. “The term parental involvement, as used by [most] schools, implies middle-class cultural capital in a way that implicitly defines lower income parents as deficient when they do not meet the schools’ expectations and creates an “ideal type” of parent which is linked to both race and class.”
(Lightfoot, 2004, p. 96)
Lightfoot
“Some parents just don’t care” – decoding the meanings of parental involvement in urban schools

14. Thank you! Rami Christophi Jael Ovalle Project Director, Title I
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Jael Ovalle
Program Manager, Parent Education
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