Parent and Family Involvement - Public Schools of North Carolina

5. Advocacy and Decision-Making: Include parents/guardians as partners in the decisions
that affect children and families.
Leading Developing Emerging Lacking
The school implements a
decision-making system to
ensure that parents and
community stakeholders
authentically participate in
An appropriate
representation of parents
and community stakeholders
for the school participate in
the planning and
Parents and community
stakeholders are
members of the school
improvement team.
Some parents are
The school improvement
team includes no parent
representatives or
insufficient parent
representation of the
the planning and
implementation of school involved in informal student population.
implementation of school improvement activities. conversation with school School staff informs
and district improvement School staff shares and staff to address their parents of students’
activities. Parent participants monitors successful
child’s individual
academic progress.
appropriately represent all strategies for meeting
learning needs. Teachers handle parent
student populations in the individual learning needs The school has a policy complaints but outcomes
school.
with all parents and
and a process to resolve are not tracked or
School staff implements advocacy groups.
issues or complaints reported.
systematic steps to discuss, School staff understands and outcomes are School staff does not
monitor and share
and provides parents with sometime tracked and include parent or
successful strategies for clear, complete information reported.
advocate input when
meeting individual learning on the established policies School staff knows making decisions about
needs with all parents and and procedures to resolve which students have a student academic goals
advocacy groups.
issues and complaints. parent or another adult or learning needs.
School staff collaborates Outcomes are used to who can advocate for Some teachers provide
with stakeholders in
identify needed
them regarding their additional strategies for
developing policies and improvements.
academic goals and their students, but parents
procedures to resolve issues School staff ensures that learning needs.
are not routinely
and complaints, tracking the parents and community School staff identifies informed.
outcomes, and using the members are well informed students needing
information to identify
about how to become an targeted strategies for
needed improvements. educational advocate or how academic improvement
The school implements to access an educational strategies and parents
professional development advocate when needed. are informed.
plans for parents and staff to School staff cooperates with
be trained to serve as
educational advocates or to
access trained educational
advocates for students to
and provides training for
parents and other advocates
for specific student
populations (e.g. ESL,
meet their academic goals. Migrant, students with
School staff actively seeks disabilities, etc.) and the
partnerships with parents
and other advocates for
strategies needed to improve
academic achievement.
specific student populations
(e.g. ESL, Migrant, students
with disabilities, etc.) to
improve the way school
meets student learning
needs.
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