WHY Create Partnerships?
- Research tells us parents and school districts must create partnerships in order to maximize their children’s development, learning, and success in school.
- Partnerships are essential!
- Partnerships can only be created when everyone understands the skills and learns how to use these skills when interacting with each other.
- Conversations build trust and transparency, which leads to partnerships.
HOW to Create Partnerships?
- Meet with administrators to determine what is currently in place
- Have ‘workshop/conversations’ with parents and educators
- Gather information regarding the District’s perspective
- Gather information regarding the Parents’ perspective
- Bring the two groups together to share information
- Create an Action Plan to build, support, improve Home-School Partnerships
- Create a team of parents and educators to facilitate Action Plan Implementation
- Provide workshops to promote ongoing school-family communication
- Suggested Topics to foster Home-School Partnerships
- Effective Communication Skills
- Understanding the “Language of Education”
- Understanding How to Interpret Student Achievement
- Learning Styles
- How to Have Meaningful Conversations
- Being a Skillful Listener
- Suggested Topics to foster Home-School Partnerships
It’s More Than What You Say; It’s How You Say It.