Motivating Parents to Participate

Sherri Wilson, ScholasticJenni Brasington, Scholastic

Jenni Phobias

Mice and snakes

HobbiesShopping

Ashamed to AdmitA little bit of a “shopping problem”

Favorite JobPIRC Director

FaultsOperates on “Jenni time”

Retirement Dream

Owner of a candy store… In Paris

You’d Be Surprised to Know… Jenni has an impressive key collection

SherriPhobiasArriving too late

HobbiesBlogging, tweeting, and Facebooking

Ashamed to AdmitHas a bit of a “social networking problem”Favorite JobPIRC Director

Faults

May spend a little too much

time online

Retirement Dream

A castle in Europe… Where

she belongs

You’d Be Surprised to Know.. Sherri is half hippy and half clown!

Family School Partnership Labhttp://www.vanderbilt.edu/peabody/family-school/index.html

What is the most frequent family engagement activity

you do?

What is the most effective family

engagement activity you do?

CURRENT PRACTICE

What is your favorite family engagement activity?

There is nothing so practical as a good theoryKurt Lewin (1945)

What is your theory of change related to family engagement?

What are the 4 learning attributes all students must have to be successful in school?

Share with the large group

In groups of 4, identify 1 or 2 attributes you have in common

Talk to 1 other person

The 3 most important messages parents can give their children…

5 level model for giving these

messages

You need to try hard

School and education

are important

Homework is

important*

5 Level Model

3 – Checking to see what students have learned from their parents

2 – What parents can do to influence their children’s learning behaviors and beliefs

4 - Student learning attributes related to increased student achievement

5 - Increased Student Achievement & Learning

1 – Helping motivate parents to be involved and feel invited, and understanding factors effecting parent participation

1.5 – Where parents can influence their children’s learning behaviors and beliefs

Level 1

◻ What are the 3 most important things to consider when trying to get parents involved in their children’s learning?

◻ Why don’t parents participate?

Level 1 - Invitations to Participate

• Motivating parent participation…• Helping parents feel invited to participate…• Understanding and honoring factors that effect parent

participation…

Consider your list. How do you promote these?

1 – Helping motivate parents to be involved and feel invited, and understanding factors effecting parent participation

Level 1.5

◻ What are the 4 areas in which parents can influence their children’s learning?

◻ “Where” does it happen?

Level 1.5 - Where

◻ How do you help parents understand how to promote values, goals, expectations and aspirations as they talk with their children?

◻ How do you help parents understand what they can do at home that supports what is being taught in the classroom?

◻ How do you help maintain effective 2-way communication with parents?◻ How do you help parents understand what they can do at school that

supports learning?Consider your list…how do you promote these?

1 – Helping motivate parents to be involved and feel invited, and understanding factors effecting parent participation

1.5 – Where parents can influence their children’s learning behaviors and beliefs

Level 2

◻ “What” 4 things can parents do to influence their children’s learning?

Level 2 - What

• How do you help parents to positively encourage their children to succeed academically?

• How do you help parents to model positive ways in which their children can succeed academically?

• How do you help parents to reinforce what their children are doing to succeed academically?

• How do you help parents understand how to provide instruction that supports their children’s learning?

2 – What parents can do to influence their children’s learning behaviors and beliefs

1 – Helping motivate parents to be involved and feel invited, and understanding factors effecting parent participation

1.5 – Where parents can influence their children’s learning behaviors and beliefs

Level 3

◻ Is it enough?◻ Positive encouragement◻ Modeling◻ Reinforcing◻ Providing instruction

◻ What is the essential next step?

Level 3 – Checking In• How do you help parents check in to see if they have positively encouraged their children?• How do you help parents check in to see if they have modeled positive ways in which their

children can succeed academically?• How do you help parents check in to see if they have reinforced what their children are doing to

succeed academically?• How do you help parents check in to see if they have provided instruction that supports their

children’s learning?

2 – What parents can do to influence their children’s learning behaviors and beliefs

3 – Checking to see what students have learned from their parents

1 – Helping motivate parents to be involved and feel invited, and understanding factors effecting parent participation

1.5 – Where parents can influence their children’s learning behaviors and beliefs

Level 3 – Checking In

2 – What parents can do to influence their children’s learning behaviors and beliefs

3 – Checking to see what students have learned from their parents

1 – Helping motivate parents to be involved and feel invited, and understanding factors effecting parent participation

1.5 – Where parents can influence their children’s learning behaviors and beliefs

Consider your list…

how do you promote

checking in?

5 Level Model

3 – Checking to see what students have learned from their parents

2 – What parents can do to influence their children’s learning behaviors and beliefs

4 - Student learning attributes related to increased student achievement

5 - Increased Student Achievement & Learning

1 – Helping motivate parents to be involved and feel invited, and understanding factors effecting parent participation

1.5 – Where parents can influence their children’s learning behaviors and beliefs

There is nothing so practical as a good theoryKurt Lewin (1945)

What is your theory of change related to family engagement?

• How does the list of items you created (favorite activities, etc.) fit with the model?

• What are the key messages you heard today?

• What questions do you still have?

?