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The Parental Involvement Checklisttm
Checklist for an Effective Parent-School Partnership

One way to start improving your school's parent-school partnerships is by assessing present practices and establishing standards for parent involvement. The following questions can help you evaluate how well your school is reaching out to parents.

  • Which partnership practices are currently working well at each grade level?
  • Which partnership practices should be improved or added in each grade?
  • How do you want your school's family involvement practices to look three years from now?
  • Which present practices should change and which should continue?
  • Which families are you reaching and which are hard to reach?
  • What can be better done to communicate with the latter?
  • What costs are associated with the improvements you want?
  • How will you evaluate the results of your efforts?
  • What opportunities will you arrange for teachers, parents, and students to share information on successful practices in order to strengthen their own efforts?
The Six Slices
Project Appleseed's
Parental Involvement National Standards

Slice 1 - VOLUNTEERING GOAL: Recruit and organize parent help and support


Sample Best Practices

Findings from the U.S. Department of Education's Prospects Study (1993) reveal that students in schools with pledges or learning compacts in place perform better than children in similar schools without them because of greater reinforcement of learning at home. Furthermore, effects of the pledge on student learning were stronger than effects from other forms of school-home interactions. 

Challenges

Results

For Students

For Parents


For Teachers

Slice 2 - PARENTING
GOAL: Help all families establish home environments to support children as students.

Sample Best Practices

Challenges

Results

Students

  Parents

  Teachers


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Slice 3 - COMMUNICATING
GOAL: Design more effective forms of school-to-home and home-to-school communications with all families each year about school programs and their children's progress. 

Sample Best Practices

Challenges 

Results

For Students

For Parents

For Teachers

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Slice 4 - LEARNING AT HOME
GOAL: Provide information and ideas to families about how to help students at home with homework and other curricular-related activities, decisions, and planning.

 

Sample Best Practices

Challenges

Results

For Students
For Parents

For Teachers

 

Slice 5 - DECISION MAKING

GOAL: Include parents in school decisions, developing parent leaders and representatives.

Sample Best Practices

Challenges

Results

For Students

For Parents

For Teachers

Slice 6- COLLABORATING WITH COMMUNITY
GOAL: Identify and integrate resources and services from the community to strengthen school programs, family practices, and student learning and development.

Sample Best Practices

Challenges

Results

For Students
For Parents 

For Teachers 


"Responsibility for our children's education must begin at home"
President Barack Obama


Aligned with the Six Slices of Parental Involvement PowerPoint, your schools can organize parent responsibility with the Parental Involvement Toolbox.  Each Toolbox has Title I compatible, school branded, master copies and a year long authorization to reproduce unlimited copies of:
Also Included:
Masterfiles are in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf files). Toolboxes are delivered by e-mail.
Overview of Title I American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)
"Principles: The overall goals of Title I of the ARRA are to stimulate the economy in the short term and invest in education and other essential public services to ensure the long-term economic health of our nation. The success of the education part of the ARRA will depend on the shared commitment and responsibility of students, parents, teachers, principals, superintendents, education boards, college presidents, state school chiefs, governors, local officials, and federal officials.



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