frog11: parental engagement - the benefit of harnessing an unpaid workforce
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Presentation at FROG11 by Iain Williams and Dominic Tester - ICC June 14 2011. Please note thate useful email addresses and url references are on last two slides.TRANSCRIPT
Parent InvolvementThe benefit of harnessing an unpaid workforce
Dominic TesterDominic Tester@dtester@dtester
Costello Technology College
Iain WilliamsIain WilliamsBradley Stoke Community School
o 3rd Phase Specialist Technology Collegeo 1030 studentso An improving school with many good features
(OfSTED 2008)o Strong vision and leadershipo Culture of innovation and transformational
changeo Well developed E-Strategyo Large investment in ICT infrastructureo Supportive CPD programme for staffo Won SSAT ICT Register Secondary Showcase
Award 2010 for our parent portalo Shortlisted for TES Schools Award 2011
Contextual InformationContextual InformationCostello Technology College
o New secondary school in Sept 2005 – now 986 students
o Community school – a key drivero Oldest students now in Y12o Judged as outstanding by OfSTED in 2009o Culture of innovationo SSAT Consultant Schoolo PEQS Gold Award – first school nationallyo ‘Young’ staffo Ethos crucial and often commented upono Stakeholder voice central to developmento Inclusive: low exclusions, high attendanceo Comprehensive intake – full age and abilityo CVA - 1020 – high attaining
Contextual InformationContextual InformationBradley Stoke Community School (BSCS)
“A school’s work with parents makes a difference to how it responds to pupils’ needs and supports their learning and
progress. Most schools recognise the need to engage parents. Schools that are outstanding in this respect exploit many
different forms of communication, invite constructive feedback and raise
aspirations by giving parents useful and frequent information about how their child is progressing. Importantly, they also
show parents how they can support learning in the home. We propose to consider the quality of a school’s work with parents
in the judgement on leadership and management”
Inspection 2012 – March 2011
Auditing Parental EngagementAuditing Parental EngagementFor what it’s worth…
o Parental Engagement Quality Standard (PEQS)
o You need to register on the SSAT website
o Excellent online (and free) toolkit to work through in school
o Pulls together all of your best practice
o Provides useful action planning tool and is useful for SEF/Ofsted Section A4.4 - The effectiveness of the school’s engagement with parents and carers
Auditing Parental EngagementAuditing Parental EngagementA useful starting point…
o Overarching Ethos (includes useful audit)
o Parental Engagement and Learning (vital for learning in the home)
o Information, Communication & Dialogue
Each strand has benchmark statements within it
Signposting: beginning, developing, extending, transforming/leading
Auditing Parental EngagementAuditing Parental EngagementPEQS…
o Information, Communication & Dialogue
o How logical is our reporting?
o What general information do we provide about the school?
o What information do we provide for parents about their children?
o What mechanisms for information exchange are in place?
o What information do we glean from parents?
Auditing Parental EngagementAuditing Parental EngagementPEQS – a quick way in…
Auditing Parental EngagementAuditing Parental EngagementPEQS screenshots
Auditing Parental EngagementAuditing Parental EngagementPEQS – selecting an area
Auditing Parental EngagementAuditing Parental EngagementPEQS – choosing a category
Auditing Parental EngagementAuditing Parental EngagementPEQS - uploading evidence
Auditing Parental EngagementAuditing Parental EngagementPEQS – summarising evidence
o Right information, right format, right time
Effective use of data should enable:
o focused conversations between children and parentso positive learning opportunities between children and parentso change the dialogue at parent evenings to an AfL focuso improved attendanceo parents to become more pro-active and less re-active with school
Effective Use of Data by ParentsEffective Use of Data by ParentsGetting it RIGHT
Using Data with ParentsUsing Data with ParentsAssessment Data o Review current reporting
format/cycles – do processes fit?
o Crucial that MIS is set up correctly
o Graphing requires historical data rather than different ‘aspects’ being used
o Only sync reporting data when we want to publish new data
o Keep it simpleo Data made available to
parents and students
Using Data with ParentsUsing Data with ParentsBehaviour Data o Crucial that MIS is set up
correctly
o Cleansing data is essential
o Don’t share specifics – some things are best kept for 1:1 discussion
o Routine checks (as a parent) are worthwhile!
o Keep it simple
o Data made available to parents and students
Using Data with ParentsUsing Data with ParentsAttendance Data o Crucial that MIS is set up
correctly
o Cleansing data is essential
o Watch out for missing registers!
o Routine checks (as a parent) are worthwhile!
o Keep it simple
o Use routinely with all stakeholders
Assessment dataAssessment dataHomework Diary
Changing Learning in the HomeChanging Learning in the HomeWarwick University
80% of factors affecting children happen in the home, only 20% in school
SO…Why do schools put 100% effort into addressing 20% of the problem?
Changing Learning in the HomeChanging Learning in the HomeA Subtle Shift
Changing Learning in the HomeChanging Learning in the HomeFROG Focus – IL aspiration
Homework
Developing
independence in
students
Parents as co-
learners
Parents supporti
ng learning
o Innovations Team established as vehicle for all school development work
o IL pilot (1 year) using FROG is one of five Innovations groups
o Representation from all subject teams
o Focused on the pedagogy and practice first before using FROG
o Gradually introduced FROG to test how well it works
o Staff gaining in confidence to set work for their classes in school
Changing Learning in the HomeChanging Learning in the HomeTransitioning to Learning in School
Fostering PartnershipsFostering PartnershipsUsing Social Media
o De-sensitise the educational environmento Remove barriers and make more accessibleo Provide opportunities for lower level ‘buy-in’o Promote +ve relationships by celebrating work and achievementso Use technologies to create ‘on-demand’ parental resources for
their childo Signpost events and services; promote activitieso Remove reliance on parents logging in push technologieso Create online communitieso Facilitate parents engaging with each othero Access the PTAo Must have guidance notes on Facebook presence
Fostering PartnershipsFostering PartnershipsNetworking
Fostering PartnershipsFostering PartnershipsCreate a specific school email account to link to Twitter
Register new account with Twitter, keep name short!
Link twitter account to other social networking presence
Have a clear vision of how service is to be used - train staff
Start delivering content
Schedule Tweets using cloud solutions such as Hootsuite
Fostering PartnershipsFostering PartnershipsCreate a specific school email account to link to YouTube / Google Account
Register new account with YouTube – think about your channel name
Set up your YouTube channel as a ‘reporter’
Make sure that comment moderation is on
Start delivering content
Fostering PartnershipsFostering PartnershipsCreate a specific school email account to link to Facebook
Create new Facebook account and create page
Set up page – adjust permissions
Add additional admins
Start delivering content
Fostering PartnershipsFostering PartnershipsLaunching FROG with Parents
Review and amend your AUP
Cleanse your MIS data and decide what’s comfortable (or safe) to share
Decide how you’re going to allocate /process usernames and passwords
Involve parents in the specification, design and operation
Launch with one year group at a time (KS3 first?)
Dominic Tester BlogDominic Tester Blog
Useful ResourcesUseful ResourcesDominic Tester – Educator’s Bloghttp://blog.digeratidom.com
Costello Technology College @costellotechhttp://www.youtube.com/costellotechcollege http://www.facebook.com/costellotechnologycollegehttp://www.yudu.com/item/details/339097/ - Newsletter May 2011http://www.ict-register.net/docs/lp/costello-case-study.pdf
Many downloadable resources and links for parental engagement from BSCShttp://www.bradleystokecs.org.uk/consultantschool/http://toolkit.ssatrust.org.uk/DataToolkit/Parentstoolkit/EPRAtutorial/EPRA%20tutorial.htm
Useful ResourcesUseful ResourcesGeneral resourceshttp://www.nextgenerationlearning.org.uk/ohnothingmuch/Executive-Summary/http://schools.becta.org.uk/index.php?section=oe&catcode=ss_es_fam_02http://www.specialistschools.org.uk/article.aspa?PageId=1320http://www.ict-register.net/pe.phpEngaging Parents in Raising Achievement: Do Parents Know They Matter?Exploiting ICT to improve parental engagement, moving towards online reporting: An introduction for schoolsExploiting ICT to improve parental engagement, moving towards online reporting: Framework guidehttp://www.yudu.com – fantastic online publishing for your school from only £99 p/ahttp://www.eventelephant.com/ - Great way of managing schools events, whether they be free or paid activitieshttp://www.iamlearning.co.uk – excellent games based learning/revision for students
Iain Williams – Bradley Stoke Community School [email protected] Tester – Costello Technology College [email protected]