Parents and guardians can be a powerful resource for teachers, but it takes skill and confidence to build partnerships, or parentships, and proactively engage in a positive way. Kyle Palmer draws from his experience as both principal of a model PLC school and as a parent to offer practical strategies for including parents or guardians as part of your collaborative culture focused on student learning.
- Understand the basics of PLCs and parentships.
- Learn how parentships can integrate into and enhance the PLC process.
- Create mission and vision statements for parentships in a PLC.
- Use specific strategies to enhance your parentship and engage effectively with parents.
- Maintain an effective parentship into the future.
Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I: Foundations of Parentships in a PLC
- Chapter 1: Understanding Parentships in a PLC
- Chapter 2: Creating Parentships in a PLC
- Chapter 3: Creating Shared Mission and Vision Statements for Your Parentship
- Chapter 4: Creating Values and Goals for Your Parentship
- Part II: Strategies for Parentships in a PLC
- Chapter 5: Strategies Related to Curriculum
- Chapter 6: Strategies Related to Individual Student Progress
- Chapter 7: Strategies Related to Parental Engagement
- Chapter 8: Strategies for Building Stronger Parent Relationships
- Chapter 9: Strategies for Monitoring and Sustaining Your Parentship
- Epilogue: Now What?
- References and Resources
- Index
