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Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent

“Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org

Welcoming Environments: Is Your School Family-Friendly?

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Agenda

  • Why
  • Pre-Session Assessment
  • Core Beliefs
  • What
  • National PTA Standards for Family-School

Partnerships

  • How
  • Georgia’s Family-Friendly Partnership Schools
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How Family-Friendly Is Your School?

Please complete Column 1.

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Pre-Session Assessment

  • What does your school look like?
  • Where are there areas of welcoming

environments?

  • Where are there areas for improvement?
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Core Beliefs

  • Parents have dreams for their

children and want the best for them.

  • All parents have the capacity to support

their children’s learning.

  • Parents and school staff should be

equal partners.

  • Responsibility for building partnerships between

school and home rests primarily with school staff, especially school leaders.

*Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family-School Partnerships, by Anne T. Henderson, Karen L. Mapp, Vivian R. Johnson, and Don Davies (New York, NY: The New Press, 2007).

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Why Welcoming Environments?

Welcoming environments provide parents with a reciprocal relationship where not only do they feel that they belong to the school, but also that the school belongs to them.

  • Henderson, Mapp, Johnson, and Davies

(2007)

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The focus is not what schools should do to engage parents—it is what parents, schools, and communities can do

together to support

student success.

PTA’s National Standards for Family-School Partnerships

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Welcoming All Families into the School Community

Families are active participants in the life of the school, and feel welcomed, valued, and connected to each other, to school staff, and to what students are learning and doing in class.

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Georgia’s Systems of Con

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tinuous uous Imp mprovement ement

http://www.gadoe.org/School-Improvement/Federal-Programs/Pages/default.aspx

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Georgia’s Family-Friendly Partnership School Initiative

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Previous Award Winning Schools

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Where to Start: Data Based Decision Making

Parent Survey

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It’s at partnerships.gadoe.org

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It’s at partnerships.gadoe.org

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Virtual Tour

  • http://partnerships.gadoe.org or http://bit.ly/ffps_learn
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Small Group Work

  • Elementary Scenarios
  • Middle-High Scenarios
  • http://partnerships.gadoe.org or

http://bit.ly/ffps_learn

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Scenarios—Small Groups

  • Form small groups of 2-3 people.
  • Read the scenario.
  • Discuss with your small group what

are some changes that can be made to improve the welcoming environment.

  • Be prepared to summarize what

your group discussed.

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Walk-Through Exercise

  • Invite members
  • f the school

staff, the community, and

  • ther parents to

walk through the school together using the handout.

  • http://partnerships.gadoe.org
  • r http://bit.ly/ffps_learn
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  • Georgia Department of Education’s Family-

Friendly Partnership Schools Initiative at http://bit.ly/ffps_learn

  • Henderson, A.T., Mapp, K.L., Johnson, V., Davies,
  • D. (2007). Beyond the bake sale: The essential

guide to family-school partnerships. New York, NY: The New Press.

  • Parent Teacher Association. (n.d.). National

standards for family-school partnerships. Retrieved from http://www.pta.org/national_standards.asp

References

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Questions