Help get parents and the community involved in your classroom education. The NEA reports that students benefit from school-family-community partnerships because these enhancements can lead to:
- Higher grades and test scores among students across grade levels.
- Improved student attendance, motivation, self-esteem, and behavior.
- Higher rates of homework completion.
- Fewer placements in special education.
- Higher graduation rates and increased postsecondary enrollment.
- Increased civic responsibility and citizenship.
Resources
America Goes Back to School
Started by U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley in 1995 and sponsored by the Partnership for Family Involvement in Education. America Goes Back to School encourages families and communities to make the most of back-to-school time by launching or expanding family-school-community partnerships.
America Reads
What families can do to help young children become successful readers.
Department of Education
Family Involvement in Children's Education - Successful Local Approaches; An Idea Book.
Homeworknow.com
FREE on-line service that keeps teachers, students, and parents connected! Over 275 schools nationwide are providing more than 150,000 students (and their parents) access to their homework on-line.
My School Online
Educational tools, resources, and content to help you make a difference. Great features including: Online gradebooks, free email accounts, free web site, lesson plans, fundraising and more. Special sections for teachers, PTA, Administrators and Organizations.
NEA
The National Education Association provides online brochures that will help you build partnerships for student learning. Check out their outreach ideas for families and communities.
Parent Involvement and Community Empowerment
The Parent Involvement and Community Empowerment Unit is a resource for LEAs through regional education service centers to use in their efforts to strengthen the relationship between families, schools, and local communities.
The Parent Institute
Education's #1 Source for Family Involvement Information.
Playbooks™ encourage parents to read aloud with kids at home!
Playbooks™ are designed to be read aloud, like a play, and create a powerful and effective group-reading activity that parents enjoy as much as their kids. Playbooks™ are designed for the whole family to read aloud together and bring a story to life. Each character's dialogue is printed in a different color which makes reading like a play easy! Each reader chooses a character and the fun begins! Family members become reading role-models for your students at home. Playbooks™ are structured and adaptable for all readers, from beginning to expert. Being a Star Makes Reading Fun™!
PTA
National PTA is the largest volunteer child advocacy organization in the United States. A non-profit association of parents, educators, students, and other citizens active in their schools and communities, PTA is a leader in reminding our nation of its obligations to children. PTA has nearly 6.5 million members working in 26,000 local chapters in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and in the Department of Defense schools in the Pacific and Europe.
School Notes.com
A free community service, SchoolNotes.com is a simple and effective means to communicate school information to your education community. SchoolNotes.com complements school websites by allowing teachers to post school information on the world-wide-web without worrying about HTML or FTP because there is no programming required!
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