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The Support, Monitor & Advocate Model

Three Key Roles Parents Can Play in Their Children's Education

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• Housekeeping
• About the Right Question School-Family Partnership Strategy
• Exploring the Support, Monitor, and Advocate Model
• Integrating the Model
• Facilitation
• An Exercise in Asking Questions
• Closing Remarks & Assignments
• Q & A

Overview

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Honoring the original source: Parents in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1990

“We don’t go to the school because we don’t even know what to ask.”

Lessons…

8 WORKSHOPS How to Choose Your Child’s School How to Use and Evaluate the Service: Communicating with the Teacher and Principal When the School Evaluates Your Child , It Evaluates Itself Who is Responsible for Discipline? Discipline Leading to Evaluation The School as a Part of the Political System The School Committee The School Budget

Components of the Strategy

The Right Question School-Family Partnership Strategy has three components that can be used separately or as a unit. The Question Formulation Technique (QFT) The Support, Monitor, and Advocate Model The Framework for Accountable Decision-Making

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An integrated strategy

A Strategy, NOT a program Complementary to existing programs

Outcomes

• Parents have foundational skills they can use to

partner and advocate more effectively

• Parents and school staff are resources for each
• ther on behalf of children
• Educators and school staff have tools and a strategy

to engage and prepare parents to partner more effectively

Exploring the Support, Monitor, and Advocate Model

Parents as supporters

To help; to provide for; to be available for their children.

Name two things parents could do to support their child.

Time: 1 min Time’s up!

Parents as monitors

Watch / Keep track of:

• their children’s progress
• their children’s needs

Name two things parents could do to monitor their child.

Time: 1 min Time’s up!

Parents as advocates

Parents speak up and make specific requests on behalf

• f their children.

Name one situation in which parents should advocate for their child.

Time: 1 min Time’s up!

Parent Examples

Reflection:

• What could happen if parents support but don’t

monitor or advocate?

• What could happen if parents support and Monitor

but don’t advocate?

• And what could happen if they advocate, but don’t

support or monitor?

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Reflection

Reflection:

• What did you learn?
• How can you use it?

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Integration Opportunities…

Parent Engagement Activities

Introduce 3 roles: Support Monitor and Advocate

Integration examples…

Open House A school principal and teachers engage parents to think about the issue of bullying

Integration examples…

Individual Education Plan (IEP) A parent liaison works with a parent in preparation for an IEP meeting

• Support, monitor, and advocate
• Ask questions

Facilitating the Support Monitor and Advocate Model

Facilitation Template

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An Exercise in Asking Questions

Rules for Producing Questions

• 1. ASK AS MANY QUESTIONS AS YOU CAN
• 2. DO NOT STOP TO ANSWER, JUDGE OR DISCUSS
• 3. WRITE DOWN EVERY QUESTION EXACTLY AS STATED
• 4. CHANGE ANY STATEMENTS INTO QUESTIONS

Producing Questions

Increasing parents’ effectiveness in the IEP process.

QFocus:

Time: 3 min Time’s up!

Prioritizing Questions

Review your list of questions

• Choose the three questions you consider most important.
• Keep in mind your QFocus: Increasing parents’ effectiveness

in the IEP process. After prioritizing consider…

• Why did you choose those three questions?
• Where are your priority questions in the sequence of your

entire list of questions? Time: 1.5 min Time’s up!

Share Your Work

Please share:

• 1. Your three priority questions
• 2. Your rationale for selecting those three

Time: 2.5 min Time’s up!

Reflection:

• What did you learn?
• What do you understand differently now about

Increasing parents’ effectiveness in the IEP process?

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Certificate

Upcoming Webinars

Webinar Series: Building Stronger School-Family Partnerships

Speakers: Luz Santana & Siyi Chu

• Part 3 - The Framework for Accountable Decision-Making:

Strengthening Parents Skills to Participate in Decisions.

• Tues. April 16, 2019, 12:00 – 1:00 PM, CST
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• Parent Webinar s
• I – QFT
• English: Tues. April 9, 2019, 4:00 – 5:00 PM, CST
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• II – Support, Monitor, and Advocate
• English: Mon. April 29, 2019 4:00 – 5:00 PM, CST
• Spanish: TBD

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