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Building School Partnerships with Families and Community Groups
PSEd 26 – Home-School RelationsPresented by:
Mr. Ronald Macanip Quileste, MAEd-SM
School of Education
Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan
Corrales Avenue, Cagayan de Oro City
Topic Outline
A. Levels of Involvement
B. Components of Successful Change
C. Program Models
D. Features of Successful Collaborations
E. Achieving Partnerships
Levels of Involvement in Collaborations
• Good collaborative efforts mean that theindividuals in an evolving group endeavor willrecognize that different levels of involvementexists in partnerships (Epstein et al.,2008; Rubin,2002).
• Levels of Involvement:
1. Minimum level
2. Associative level
3. Decision-making level
Understanding Involvement
Understanding Involvement
• The key to successful collaboration is formany community citizens to beinvolved at one level or another, with afew individuals contributing at all levels.
Understanding Involvement
• Minimum Level
- Schools tell, inform and make requestsfrom homes and community
Understanding Involvement
• Minimum Level
School
Parents Community
PTA
Understanding Involvement
• Associative level
- Schools involve parents in many waysand communicate with community
Understanding Involvement
• Associative level
School
Parents Community
Understanding Involvement
• Decision – Making level
- Schools, homes, and communities allwork together as equals to devisegood learning opportunities forchildren.
Understanding Involvement
• Decision – Making level
SchoolParents Community
Components of Successful Change
Components of Successful Change
• Planning Process
- during planning, the team determinesthe needs of children in the community,develops goals, and designs proceduresfor accomplishing these goals.
Components of Successful Change
• Implementation Process
- after the team sets the priorities for thecommunity’s needs, it begins to plan andcollaborate on such activities as providingfamilies with needed services, improvingschool and home discipline, adaptingcurriculum to particular community needs,establishing appropriate social activities, anddeveloping program evaluation strategies.
Components of Successful Change
• Assessment Process
- Data are collected and interpretedregularly; then strategies used in theschool programs are altered or continuedaccordingly.
Components of Successful Change
• Communication
- Good partnership team will providemany avenues for parents andcommunity members to get informationabout school activities and the status ofthe collaboration.
Program Models
Program Models
Program Models
• Head Start
- Head Start, through involvement andcommitment, it began to provide, inholistic rather than fragmented ways,comprehensive services in health,nutrition, and economic counseling forindividuals, as well as school readiness forchildren and their low-income families.
Program Models
• Head Start
Structural Features
a. Parents as Partners
b. Parents as Observers
c. Parents as Learners
d. Supporting Children’s Learning
Program Models
• Comer’s School Development Program
- In 1968, James Comer and hiscolleagues at Yale Child Study Centerbegan the School DevelopmentProgram, a collaboration with two NewHave, Connecticut, elementary schoolsto increase parental involvement inchildren’s education.
Program Models
• Comer’s School Development ProgramStructural Featuresa. School Planning and Management Team
b. Mental Health Teamc. Pupil Personnel Team
d. Parent Programe. Focus Programf. Workshop for Adults
g. Extended – Day Programsh. Social Skills Curriculum
Program Models
• Reggio Emilia- The Reggio Emilia program was developed
in Northern Italy by a group of parentssoon after WWII.
- The curriculum in these 3-year preprimaryschools evolved as teachers, children,and parents worked together, learnedabout each other, and valued eachother’s ways of processing information.
Program Models
• Reggio Emilia
Structural Features
a. Organization
b. Scheduling
c. Implementation is Evolving
Program Models
• National Network of Partnership Schools
- As in other partnership models, theframework of Joyce Epstein’s programcenters on the idea of the sharedresponsibilities of parents, schools, andcommunities for children’s learning anddevelopment.
Program Models
• National Network of Partnership Schools
Structural Features
a. Action Team
The group membership is important and includes reasonablearrangement of delegates from following constituencies:
1. A few teachers from different grade levels
2. A few parents
3. The school principal
4. At least one community delegate
5. A student delegate if the school is a junior or senior highschool
Program Models
• Community Schools
- Community schools are built on thepremise that “educators can’t improveschools without paying attention tochildren, their families, and thecommunity around them” (Warren, 2005,p. 135).
Program Models
• Community Schools
Structural Features
a. Extended School Day
b. School – Based Health Clinic
c. Community Focus
d. Parent Involvement
Program Models
• Freedom Schools
- The Children’s Defense Fund (CDF)Freedom Schools program is a newendeavor by CDF to connect childrenand families to their cultural heritage sndto their communities.
Program Models
• Freedom Schools
Structural Features
a. Sponsor
b. Project Director
c. Site Coordinator
d. Servant – Leader Interns
e. Volunteers
Program Models
• HABLA Program
- HABLA, founded in 2001 by VirginiaMann, aims at improving the languageskills of low income preschool children inSanta Ana, California’s Hispanic families.
- Home-based Activities BuildingLanguage Acquisition
Program Models
• Charter Schools- The charter school movement began in the
early 1990s and grew rapidly.- Featuring charter schools as a positivemodel for family-school-communitycooperation is risky, because in the 16 yearsof their existence, the philosophy direction ofthese programs has moved in manydirections.
Program Models
Program Models
• Charter SchoolsGoals and Objectivesa. To free individual public schools from
large-district bureaucracy;b. To grant autonomy to make decisions
regarding structure, personnel,curriculum, and educational emphasiswhile holding accountability foracademic achievement.
Features of Successful Collaborations
Features of Successful Collaborations
All successful partnerships seem to include the followingfeatures (Comer, Haynes, Jovner, & Ben-Avie, 1996; Rubin,2002):• Programs integrate educational and social services for
children, and especially for needy families.
• Parents’ schools personnel, and community members areempowered to make decisions about, to plan for, and toimplement changes for the community children.
• School bureaucracy is reduced, and involvement offamilies and community members in school managementincreases.
Features of Successful Collaborations
All successful partnerships seem to include the followingfeatures (Comer, Haynes, Jovner, & Ben-Avie, 1996; Rubin,2002):• Schools become family centers to promote better
interactions among teachers, children, parents, andcommunity members.
• Programs include strong volunteer programs, with parents,grandparents, and community members contributingexpertise to support children’s learning and assist in schooloperations.
• The community and home are viewed as important childlearning environments and are integrated into schoollearning.
Features of Successful Collaborations
All successful partnerships seem to include thefollowing features (Comer, Haynes, Jovner, & Ben-Avie, 1996; Rubin, 2002):• Programs have strong leadership and committed
partners able to gain the support of power brokers intheir setting.
• School faculty and staff develop skills needed tobuild and maintain relationships of trust and respectwith children and families.
• Researchers, teachers, and parents work together inassessing the successes of school programs.
Achieving Partnerships
Achieving Partnerships
•Anyone interested in achievingpartnerships for their schools shouldcarefully examine the literature onestablished programs.
• Information about the sustainability ofthese programs is helpful for beginnersdeveloping their own particular plans.
Individual Responsibility
Achieving Partnerships
• Individual Responsibility- When reading about model programs, wecan certify that those programs including aresearch and assessment dimension haveshown great strides in reaching a new levelof participation.- These also demonstrate that exciting thingshappen when new ideas are introduced,nurtured carefully, and built as changemechanisms.
Thank You!Namaste!