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Partnering with Parents for Student Success
Leadership, Parent and Community Impact | Pre-K-12
According to Dr. Susan M. Sheridan (n.d.), “Research shows that when a partnership approach between parents and teachers is evident, children’s work habits, attitudes about school and grades improve. They demonstrate better social skills, fewer behavioral problems and a greater ability to adapt to situations and get along.” As educators, we want what’s best for our students! It is our job to establish, foster, and maintain productive relationships with parents so that our students can be successful.
This course will introduce you to the importance of regular, effective communication with parents since all good relationships are built upon trust, openness, and regular communication. After developing a clear understanding of why communication is necessary, you will begin to explore how to create such opportunities within your classroom. Next, you will learn exactly how create and foster meaningful partnerships with parents. Parents can be partners in many ways, ranging from supporting their children at home, volunteering in the classroom, taking part in important decision making, and much more! After diving deeply into examples of parent partnerships, you will develop a plan for forging parent partnerships within your own classroom and school community.
By the end of this course, you will be equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to create meaningful partnerships with parents that last.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Exercises to assess your current level of parent engagement
- Best practices for effectively communicating with parents
- Techniques for involving parents in their children’s education
- Ways to promote meaningful parent partnerships
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Reflect upon current parent–teacher partnerships with the purpose of identifying current strengths and gaps in the classroom and school community.
- Evaluate the importance and benefits of forging parent–teacher partnerships in order to increase parent engagement within the classroom and school community.
- Create opportunities for productive parent communication so that parent relationships can be created and maintained.
- Develop an implementation plan for fostering long-lasting partnerships with parents in order to increase student achievement and parent engagement.
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Request a Free ConsultationWhy Partner With Us
- Train your staff in as little as eight hours or delve deeper into complex topics in our longer courses.
- Replace in-person PD days with 100% online, self-paced training teachers can complete virtually.
- Get PD tailored to your school's unique needs with our customizable content and flexible solutions.
- Offer higher education rigor and quality designed to give your teachers targeted, relevant training they can apply immediately.
- Increase buy-in and morale by providing teacher choice while maintaining school/district oversight and strategic alignment.
Interested in School/District PD?
Request a Free ConsultationCourse Design
We intentionally plan and build our course offerings to solve real problems in education. We regularly update our existing catalog and develop new courses based on schools’ needs, trends in K–12 education, and continual feedback from educators. Depending on your needs, you can train your staff in as little as eight hours with our short courses, or delve into complex topics in our longer ones.
Our course writers are content experts with extensive subject matter credentials and classroom experience. They work closely with our development team to build an experience that is relevant, highly practical, and aligned with industry standards. Courses are not just filled with innovative techniques, but also illustrate how to apply these tools in practice. With each course, teachers develop tangible products such as lesson plans or assessments that they can use immediately in their classrooms.
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