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Get
the Parental Involvement Toolbox Now!
 Project Appleseed's
Parental
Involvement Toolbox is designed for educators and parent leaders who
strive to increase family engagement. The Toolbox is aligned
with the Six
Slices of Parental
Involvement. By purchasing the Toolbox, your schools can
organize parent responsibility with an effective researched based
program - that meets district and state mandates and best
practices.
 Parental involvement is a
centerpiece of high performing schools and Title
I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Project
Appleseed worked with the White House and helped pioneer the original
parental involvement provisions in Title I in the 1990's. Title I
defines
the term “parental involvement” as the participation of parents
in regular, two–way, and meaningful communication involving student
academic learning and other school activities.
By using these tools, you can increase the number of family
members involved in your schools and the "transparency" for parental
involvement in children's education.
Who Participates in Project
Appleseed? (Sample
School & District):
- Individual schools: Read the results
of The
Abington
Jr.
High
School: Parent
Involvement
report (PDF) (Abington, Pennsylvania). Read
how Project Appleseed impacted the school's parental involvement
plan and the positive results the school achieved (Pages 13-14)! School
profile here.
- School Districts:
See how all the schools in Muskogee
Public Schools,
(Muskogee,Oklahoma), are working to get the entire community
involved in Project Appleseed! District profile here.
The Toolbox contains five
primary parent
engagement & mobilization tools:
- The
Parental Involvement Report
Card - branded with your school's name and school logo, this is a
self diagnostic tool for
distribution to every parent, grandparent, and
caring
adult.
- Parent Organizing Database 1.0.1 software runs on any
Windows computer, and is easy
enough for everyone to learn.
- The Toolkit for
Title I Parental Involvement from SEDL
(Southwest Educational
Development Laboratory) We provide the most recent research inside the
Toolbox with detailed explanations of the Title I, Part A parental
involvement provisions as well as 33
tools to ass ist
state departments of education, districts, and schools in meeting these
requirements. Both the explanations and the tools are designed to help
educators increase parental involvement and provide opportunities for
parents to engage in and support their children's academic achievement.
The toolkit includes information on the following topics:
- Policy, Planning, and Building Capacity
- Communication, Notification, Reporting, and Information
Sharing
- Parent Rights and Options
- Meaningful Involvement and Decision Making
- Fund Allocation
Masterfiles
are
in Adobe
Portable Document Format (.pdf files). Toolboxes are delivered by
e-mail.
The
Cost
of
the
Parental
Involvement
Toolbox:
- One Year -
$300.00 for
each individual school one calendar year.
$250.00 for each additional
district school.
- Two
Years - $400.00 for
each
individual
school
one
calendar
year.
$300.00 for each additional
district school.
- Three Years -
$500.00 for
each individual school one calendar year.
$400.00 for each additional
district school.
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Measured Results
Hello!
Abington
Junior
High School
is very excited about
Project Appleseed!
We
have been able to expand our parent volunteer groups
substantially. As a result of Project Appleseed, new parent/adult
committees have been formed.
Our
success can be measured by our
committee work and by our amazing school-wide projects. We
are very
proud to be members of the Project Appleseed family of schools!
I
am
also
proud to
report that Abington Junior High School recently hosted guests from
Singapore. The purpose of the visit was to review our Character
Education and School-Wide Behavior Programs (P.R.I.D.E.) and Project
Appleseed. The visiting teachers heard about our success and were
eager to learn about how we are utilizing such programs here in the
United States. We were thrilled to host the teachers from
Singapore
and to share our accomplishments through the use of Project Appleseed!
Sincerely,
Nicole Cicci Kazarian
Spanish
Teacher / Project Appleseed Project Leader (3 years) /
Abington
Junior High School, Abington, Pennsylvania
Results:
Abington
Jr.
High,
Abington,
PA.,
2009-2010
- Parent database
of over 170 volunteers
- Established a
Going Green Committee
- Increase of
parent volunteers on
committees
- Strong Market
Day fundraiser for
P.R.I.D.E. activities
- Positive
community reaction to
Communication Envelopes
- New
parent-directed
fundraisers: Box Tops for
Education and Labels for Education
- School
Beautification:
parents involved in designing bulletin boards, painting, and
purchase of trees and plants
- Parent volunteer
examples: School Store, Learning Center, P.R.I.D.E. Activities,
Communication Envelopes
SOURCE: The
Pennsylvania
Governor's
Institute
for
Parental
Involvement.
The Institute is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. In
its
2009 list of America's best high schools, U.S. News & World
Report awarded Abington Senior High School a Bronze Medal
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