You will have the opportunity to examine your current thinking about leadership and learn more about the benefits
of parent leadership to parents, agencies and programs.
You will learn ways to
nurture parent leadership and discover how the protective factors influence parent involvement and leadership.
Provide opportunities
for parent leadership development and involvement in community mobilization and advocacy activities
We celebrate all groups helping
develop parent leadership, including long - standing groups like Oakland Community Organizations and yes, even ones we sometimes disagree with like OUSD Parents United, because we believe that healthy debate is critical for our democracy and that multiple perspectives can help us get to better solutions.
The meeting is the confluence of three important goals: effective outreach,
new parent leadership and participatory meetings.
Such attacks are unlikely to be unleashed on Ms. Davids, an unemployed single mother, and the NYC Parents Union because they have been past allies of the UFT
regarding parent leadership, supporting the community schools initiative, pushing charter schools to enroll more special ed students, and keeping teacher evaluations private.
Panelist Elaine Zimmerman, senior consultant for the Connecticut Commission on Women, Children and Seniors, echoed the sentiment of
fostering parent leadership stating, «Parents who care become parents who lead.»
The Texas IDRA Parent Information and Resource Center is a comprehensive, multicultural and
multilingual parent leadership support program for strengthening partnerships between parents and schools for student success.
Through successful organizing efforts in the Bay Area and across the country, effective
grassroots parent leadership and organizing has been key to changing the political landscape and challenging the status quo.
Engaging Communities — During the Annual IDRA La Semana del Niño Early Childhood Educators Institute, IDRA hosts a special full - day institute for parents to concentrate on early childhood education and how to
maximize parent leadership.
Madeleine Case, as director of a family - school partnership district initiative, drew from models of school - based and
parent leadership teams to develop a pilot program called Families and Educators Together (FET).
Circles of Parent Leadership These circles of
parent leadership show examples of different ways parents can grow.
Regardless of the form that
parent leadership takes, empowering parents through peer support is an effective way to strengthen families.
parent leadership A strength - based approach to family support that is founded on the belief that parents are knowledgeable about their families and communities and can provide valuable insight into programmatic and community changes to benefit children and families.
Circle of Parents ® A collaboration of Prevent Child Abuse America and the National Family Support Roundtable, Circle of Parents provides training and technical assistance
around parent leadership and resources on parent involvement.
Parent Cafés are based on the principles of adult learning and family support and are a gateway to
providing parent leadership opportunities.
To address this need, Innovate launched a nine - month training program for professional organizers and staff at education organizations focused on effective community organizing,
developing parent leadership, and how to build and sustain effective parent - driven efforts for more high - quality schools.
Project LAUNCH grantees bring evidence - based parenting support and education programs into communities; train professionals to implement evidence - based parenting programs; expand the capacities of programs to serve more families; and
promote parent leadership.
The event serves as a remarkable professional development and capacity - building opportunity for student - centered family - community engagement, such as home visits,
parent leadership development, parent - teacher teams, and organizing for school - community improvement.
Virginia Child Protection Newsletter, 92, 2011 Discusses the benefits and challenges
of parent leadership and parent and family engagement, successful models, and the three levels of parent engagement with the child welfare system.
Community Cafes are conversations, facilitated by Parent Leaders, which serve to build community strengths,
support parent leadership, and promote children's healthy development.
This annual institute offers families, school district personnel and community groups from across the country the opportunity to network, obtain resources and information, and receive training and bilingual materials on IDRA's nationally - recognized research - based model
for parent leadership in education.The institute is interactive and participatory.
Program focuses on test preparation, helping with homework, advocacy,
parent leadership and more.
PSI: Tell me about
your parent leadership programs.
Parent centers and
parent leadership are integral to our school culture.
While in Seattle, she also directed
a parent leadership and training initiative for under - represented parents, participated as a Brainerd Fellow at Social Venture Partners Seattle, and worked as a Research Assistant focused on diversity recruitment and retention and school / community partnerships at the University of Washington's Teacher Education Program.
Through four plenaries, nine mini-plenaries, 80 workshops, and four site visits, participants learned and shared systemic solutions in key topic areas, including equity in engagement, early childhood education, and
parent leadership and advocacy.
The conference offered 80 workshops highlighting high impact strategies on a wide array of topics including community partnerships, early learning and literacy, high school transitions,
parent leadership and advocacy, student achievement, systemic practice and policy, and teacher leadership and professional development.
One such benefit is new, revisited,
parent leadership.
The center offers workshops throughout the school year covering topics that include strategies for children with special needs, technology, math instruction, reading, and
parent leadership.
There is a growing recognition in the education justice movement that community organizing and
parent leadership are essential to achieving significant change, including opening and sustaining high - quality schools and systemic changes within districts and states.
The theme of this year's IEL conference, Engaging Families: Transformational Moments, Sustainable Practices, will tap into many knowledge areas that align with Flamboyan's family engagement work — relationship building and trust,
parent leadership, advocacy and community organizing, equity, and integrated, systemic approaches.
A group of parents participating in
a parent leadership series led by IDRA at a high school in Texas decided that their leadership project would be to survey parents and students.