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6. Training: Assess parents’ and school personnel informational needs and provide training based upon those needs. Leading Developing Emerging Lacking School culture audits or surveys are conducted each year with all stake-holders and response rate is at School culture audits or surveys are conducted each year with all stakeholders, and the response rate is at School culture audits or surveys are conducted each year and teachers encourage parents to School culture audits or surveys are not provided. The school has no least 75%. least 50%. respond. written parent School staff collaborates School staff implements a The school implements a involvement plan. with parents and community members to develop and implement a written parent involvement plan that addresses parent communication (e.g. written parent involvement plan developed by the school improvement team that includes parent communication, parent activities, and parent training written parent involvement plan that addresses parent communication and activities for parents to attend, but provides little The school has no formal professional development plan for providing training for staff on the vital elements of parent involvement. newsletters, progress on how to support children’s to no opportunity for Little to no parent reports, school calendars, learning. parent training. training is provided on an etc.), and parent activities The school implements Some school staff annual basis. (e.g. Doughnuts for Dads, professional development participates in The school reserves no Open House, Fall Festival), plans on an annual basis to professional resources for providing but focuses primarily on provide some required staff development on the vital staff and parent training. parent training on how to training on the vital elements elements of effective support children’s learning, school, and district of effective parent involvement such as family, parent involvement, but on a voluntary basis. improvement efforts. community and school Parents are provided The school implements partnership development, with training on an comprehensive professional development plans to provide creating an inviting school climate, and cultural annual basis at the school only for items all training for staff on the vital awareness. required by state and elements of effective parent Parents are provided with local policy. involvement, such as family, multiple opportunities to Evaluations are community and school participate in training conducted and partnership development, sessions on maintained on file. creating an inviting school • North Carolina Standard The school reserves a climate, and cultural Course of Study limited amount of awareness. Plans are based • Services provided through resources for providing on stakeholder feedback and student assistance teams staff and parent training. individual teacher needs. • State and local Parents are included in the assessments planning and development of training sessions as described under Developing. Parent training sessions are offered at various times and locations to enhance • Promotion and graduation requirements • Literacy and math • Goal-setting and high expectations for student achievement opportunities for participation. Sessions are evaluated and Parent and staff training results are used by the sessions are evaluated, results are shared with all stakeholders, and results are used to determine additional school improvement team to determine additional training needs. The school utilizes sufficient training needs. resources for providing The school reserves and appropriate staff and parent utilizes sufficient resources training. (e.g. funds, staff, time) specifically for providing appropriate staff and parent training. Evidence: 36
7. Community Collaboration: Collaborate with community agencies and other organizations to provide resources to strengthen school program, families, and student learning. Leading Developing Emerging Lacking Stakeholders help plan district and school survey content regarding school District stakeholder surveys are developed by school staff and used in District stakeholder surveys are developed by the district office. Stakeholder surveys are not utilized to enhance collaboration with performance as it relates to conjunction with any Fewer than 50% of the community partners. their child. surveys developed by the organizations surveyed There is no process in At least 75% of organizations district. respond to district place to include surveyed respond to district At least 50% of the stakeholder surveys. stakeholder survey data stakeholder surveys. organizations surveyed Stakeholder survey data is in school improvement Stakeholder survey data is respond to district sometimes used to plan planning. consistently used to plan stakeholder surveys. school improvement School leadership rarely school improvement efforts Stakeholder survey data is efforts. invites employers to and to evaluate their used to plan school Employer-partners adopt support adult effectiveness. improvement efforts. practices to promote and participation in School staff networks and School leadership regularly support parent and education. partners with community shares information on volunteer participation in School staff rarely leaders and organizations to build parent understanding of academic expectations, school strategies, and student achievement and involves business and community leaders in school improvement students’ education. School staff sometimes provides community organizations with provides general information to the community about academic expectations student achievement results. efforts. information about of students. District/school staff, parents The school has identified academic expectations for School staff rarely and community stakeholders identify and utilize sufficient the available community resources and shared the parents who use their services. updates a resource directory or community resources to information with all staff. School staff maintains a communicates with local meet students’ and parents’ School staff partners with resource directory on agencies or programs learning needs. community leaders and some agencies, programs that provide learning School staff uses multiple organizations to build and services that provides services. strategies to involve community leaders to assist in parent education on issues directly related to student achievement. School leadership ensures all stakeholders are aware of community-based learning opportunities that are linked to student-specific needs. parent understanding of academic expectations, school strategies, and student achievement results. School staff offers and publicizes communitybased learning activities, such as tutoring linked to the curriculum, for all students and parents. services for students. Evidence: 37
Page 1 and 2: Parent and Family Involvement: A Gu
Page 3 and 4: Table of Contents Acknowledgments.
Page 5 and 6: INTRODUCTION Public Schools of Nort
Page 8 and 9: The Importance of Family and Commun
Page 10 and 11: EIGHT ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF FAMILY
Page 12 and 13: effectively the school devises and
Page 14 and 15: Empower parents to understand their
Page 16 and 17: COMMUNITY COLLABORATION - Collabora
Page 18 and 19: Taking a Closer Look: A Guide to On
Page 20 and 21: A Toolkit for Family and Community
Page 22 and 23: II. Action Plan for Communication T
Page 24 and 25: FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN
Page 26 and 27: THE SCHOOL-FAMILY-COMMUNITY RESOURC
Page 28 and 29: Essential Element: Student Learning
Page 30 and 31: Essential Element: Community Collab
Page 33 and 34: NORTH CAROLINA STATE BOARD OF EDUCA
Page 35 and 36: Appendix B NORTH CAROLINA STATE BOA
Page 37 and 38: SCHOOL SELF-ASSESSMENT OF PARENT AN
Page 39 and 40: 3. Student Learning: Inform and inv
Page 41: 5. Advocacy and Decision-Making: In
Page 45 and 46: SELF-EVALUATION SUMMARY Appendix C-
Page 47 and 48: Self Esteem EOG Testing Violence
Page 49 and 50: HOW does CIS work? CIS supports the
Page 51 and 52: Module 3 - The Hard to Reach - was
Page 53 and 54: parents of the same language break
Page 55 and 56: REFERENCES Public Schools of North

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