Enhancing Parent and Family Engagement in Education
Explore strategies and opportunities for engaging families in the education system. Learn how to strengthen relationships with families, address barriers to engagement, and collaborate effectively for improved student outcomes. Reflect on past engagement experiences and consider best practices for family involvement. Presented materials offer valuable insights and tools to enhance family-school partnerships.
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Engaging Families Presented by: Kym Asam, LICSW Bonnie Poe Find all materials at: pbisvermont.org Wifi Information: Grand Guest
Maximizing Your Session Participation Consider these questions: Where are we in our implementation? What do I hope to learn? What did I learn? What will I do with what I learned? By when? Use the Learning Reflection Sheet
Where are you in the implementation process? Adapted from Fixsen & Blase, 2005 Exploration & Adoption We think we know what we need so we are planning to move forward (evidence-based) Installation Let s make sure we re ready to implement (capacity infrastructure) Initial Implementation Let s give it a try & evaluate (demonstration) Full Implementation That worked, let s do it for real and implement all tiers across all schools (investment) Let s make it our way of doing business & sustain implementation (institutionalized use)
BEST Expectations Be present Engage with others Strengths-based Team solutions
Learning Outcomes Explore current strategies for engaging families Examine family engagement opportunities across tiers Examine barriers to family engagement across the tiers Enhance strategies for strengthening relationships with families Share tools and resources for engaging families
Reflections Think of a time when you felt really engaged with a parent. What were the circumstances? What was the forum? What strategies did you use? What qualities did the parent have?
Parent and Family Collaboration: Improving Student Outcomes Several decades of research suggests Strong partnerships between families, schools, and communities Building a caring community Dynamic, positive and productive collaboration Source = MTSS VT Field guide
Engaging Families: What really works? Positive expectations = 15% Generation of hope Expectation of change Provider confidence Personality, warmth, empathy = 15% Client s strengths and access to resources = 40% Knowing the effectiveness of evidence based practice: Richard C. Rapp and D. Timothy Lane
Three Key Strategies for Family Involvement Awareness Involvement Supports Image result for images of simplicity Intervention and Supports (PBIS): aligning and integrating family engagement in Postive Behavior Concepts and Strategies for Families and Schools in Key Contexts Deceptively simple, but
Parents Involvement At Every Tier Family involvement, school and home support and awareness Family involvement, invitation, and practice Building awareness, involvement
Natural Opportunities What are the current forums/opportunities families have for being a part of the school community?
Family Engagement Measures Tiered Fidelity Inventory (TFI) School-Wide Assessment Survey (SAS) Family Engagement Checklist (Muscott and Mann) Family Engagement Survey (PBIS website) Others?
Universal Parent newsletter Parent representative Celebration support/participation PTO money Breaks and PBIS
Universal Resources Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family- School Partnerships (Henderson, Mapp, Johnson, Davies) Packed with tips from principals and teachers, checklists, and an invaluable resource section Shows how to form essential partnerships and how to make them work
Beyond the Bake Sale Study Guide 1 https://moodle.cpsd.us/moodle/pluginfile.php/34759/m od_resource/content/2/Beyond the Bake Sale Study Guide.pdf
Too Much Information Image result for image of person overwhelmed with papers Oh yeah I got the manual
Targeted Yikes, my kid is struggling Relentless teaching of academics Homework 5:1 positives who is calling home? Menu of choices Share progress monitoring Strengths-based lens How am I communicating to the child and caregiver?
Targeted Resource Vermont MTSS Field Guide to Engaging Families Aligning and Integrating Family Engagement in Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports Chapter 3 and 7 edited by Mark D. Weist, S. Andrew Don Kincaidnterventions and Garbacz, Kathleen Lynne Lane and Supports (PBIS)
Intensive Now we are tired Competence and confidence External locus of control Barriers Ancillary supports Who has the relationship? How do you frame the supports?
Barriers to Family Involvement Institutional Access, proximity, transportation, time, mandates, safety Impersonal Benign neglect, cultural considerations, literacy level, technology Personal Triggers, belief systems, conflict, membership
Safety and Security Changing adult behavior by changing adult behavior starts with changing our assumptions -- Is the environment really safe ? Sandra Bloom, M.D.
Creating Sanctuary The community has a responsibility to parents to provide the social conditions that makes good parenting possible an to supply whatever education is necessary to improve parenting skills. Hurt people hurt people How can I help? Creating Sanctuary in teh School, Sandra Bloom, M.D.
Changing the Paradigm and Assumptions Blaming the victim Demanding Manipulative Attention-seeking Needy Oppositional Why? What purpose do these symptoms serve that could be adaptive? What do these behaviors tell us about the tragedy of their lives? Dr. Sandra Bloom; Sanctuary Model
It Really Does Take a Village Once a problem becomes a social problem, and not just the problem of an individual perpetrator, then we are all engaged, we must all participate in solving the problems. The Sanctuary Model, Sandra Bloom, M.D.
What Comes Into the Room? Setting events Antecedents Past trauma Triggers
The Johari Window Image result for images of the johari window
A Few Ideas Loaf of bread and house plants Same challenges, same skill set 5 Positives to every negative!
Empathy and Attunement What has happened to you in the past? Is it affecting you today? How can I help? Adverse Childhood Effect Study, Dr. Felitti
Brene Brown on Empathy Being with not doing for
Resources http://www.swiftschools.org/ Family and Community SWIFT Guide: Trusting Family Partnerships http://www.pbisvermont.org/resources/for- families/family-resources
Resources, cont School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action by Epstein and Associates Comprehensive handbook that: Addresses 6 types of partnerships Challenges Expected outcomes Evaluation tools Middle and High School partnerships
How to Obtain a VTPBIS State-Approved Coach 1. Contact your VTPBIS State TA to review the needs of your SU/SD/School 2. Review the VTPBIS Coach Fees: $62.50/hour, $250/half day or $500/day plus mileage 3. Coordinate with your central office Grants Coordinator to use local funds or to apply for BEST/Act 230 funds: http://education.vermont.gov/sites/aoe/files/documents/e du-integrated-frameworks-best-act-230-innovation-grant- instructions.pdf. 4. Contact a VTPBIS State-Approved Coach: http://www.pbisvermont.org/resources/coaches-a- coordinators/coaches.
Questions? Contact a VTPBIS TA VTPBiS State TA Regional Map VTPBiS State TAs: Amy Wheeler-Sutton Sherry Schoenberg Sherry Schoenberg Sherry Schoenberg Ken Kramberg Ken Kramberg When in doubt, contact Anne Dubie! (802) 656-5775 or Anne.Dubie@uvm.edu
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