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» Developing the Fully Engaged Parent by Marilyn Price-Mitchell & Sue Grijalva
» How Do You Know if You're Really Open to Partnership Anne Henderson & Karen Mapp
» Parent Engagement in Education: Drama or Empowerment? David Womeldorff
» Engage Every Parent: Identifying Goals for Parent Engagement Nancy Tellett-Royce & Susan Wootten
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Looking for consultants, parent educators, trainers, organization development specialists, parent coaches, or speakers who work in the field of family engagement? Check out our Consultant Directory or submit a free listing!
We are advocates for building collaborative family-school-community partnerships that advance student learning and achievement.
We view achievement broadly, beyond grades and test scores, emphasizing the importance of a child's social, emotional, and intellectual learning and development.
Sponsored by the nonprofit National ParentNet Association, we are a leading resource on engaging families in the education and positive development of their children. Our site offers many free resources, including a growing Consultant Directory of professionals who work with schools in the family engagement field. We are also the home of ParentNet, a parent-led program in schools that engages parents in face-to-face conversations about raising healthy, successful kids in grades Pre-K to 12.
Our Most Recent Articles:
| Parent Engagement in Education: Transforming Schools and our Communities | |
| By Myrdin Thompson on May 17, 2012 | |
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Parents who are actively engaged in their school communities should also be seen as essential partners in community transformation. All voices are needed in the dialogue concerning creating a viable and healthy future for our children. Read more... |
| How to Revitalize Your School-Parent Compact | |
| By Marilyn Price-Mitchell, Ph.D. on May 15, 2012 | |
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Does your school have a School-Parent Compact? Is it old and dog-eared -- filed away for no one to see? With the help of the Connecticut Department of Education, your school can revitalize your compact into a meaningful collaborative tool for family engagement! Read more... |
| This Week's #PTchat: Summer Reading Programs for K-12 Students | |
| By Joe Mazza on May 14, 2012 | |
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It's getting closer to June, which means summer vacation for many students will be here before we know it. Some schools require summer reading lists to be completed and others do not. Elementary schools and secondary schools oftentimes look very different in terms of the expectations for summer reading. Read more... |
| Empowering Children to Realize Their Potential for Good | |
| By Connie K. Grier, M.Ed. on May 11, 2012 | |
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Student learning takes place both inside of the classroom and out. Here's a valuable lesson that can positively impact both academic and social growth for students. Read more... |
| Teaching to the Test is not Education | |
| By Josette Luvmour, PhD on May 8, 2012 | |
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A child’s relationship with learning has nothing to do with testing. Teaching to the test is not education and actually reduces a student’s love for learning. Standardized testing does not even give us a good reading on a student’s learning or an educator’s effectiveness. Read more... |
| This Week's #PTChat: Crafting the Partnership | |
| By Joe Mazza on May 7, 2012 | |
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What do parents look for in their child's teachers? As a parent, if you could stress the importance of one thing to support a new teacher, what would it be? Crafting the "partnership" is the focus of this week’s combined #PTchat / #NTchat on Twitter. Read more... |
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