Whitman Elementary - Tulsa Public Schools

PARENT FACILITATORS
EVIDENCE OF FAMILY & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
The Title I office provides coordination, technical assistance and other support necessary to
assist all schools in planning and implementing effective parent involvement activities to
improve student academic achievement and school performance. All schools have Parent
Facilitators or someone in charge of those duties. Parent Facilitators are the liaison between the
school, parents and community. In their capacity as liaison they are the outreach to increase
communication between interested parties. Every month of the school year, the Parent
Facilitators meet to receive technical support, collaborate with other facilitators and link with
other resources. Each Title I school has established a Parent Community Advisory Council. All
schools keep a binder with the evidence of Title I requirements for parent involvement that is
formally monitored once a year.
Tulsa Public Schools provides training for Parent facilitators with the Practical Parent Education
Curriculum (PPE) (below is an explanation of the initial training). Parent Facilitators that have
taken the initial training for PPE have a new one‐day workshop using a PPE Profile of Families
Checklist; a PPE Educational Consultant will help the parent educators identify specific
characteristics of their families and create a plan that will do two things: (1) It will design parent
involvement events at their school that are culturally comfortable to encourage parents to
attend, and (2) it will help parents change their parenting practices at home so that their home
life supports their children’s learning.
Initial Parent Educator Training
Practical Parent Education’s Initial Parent Educator Training is designed to provide participants a
comprehensive set of skills in three days of interactive fun. Practical application and practice are
joined with theory and research so that parent educators leave with the following concepts and
the confidence to make them applicable in their programs:
• an understanding of the field of parent education as it has emerged in the 21st
century
• recognition of the benefits to children when parents and families have
appropriate parenting skills
• confidence in establishing and maintaining appropriate professional boundaries
• an understanding of family systems and its application to parent education
• awareness of the ways that lifespan development affects families
• an understanding of how long‐term change takes place
• effective strategies for increasing parental capacity and parental involvement