Post by karla on Feb 12, 2014 15:30:49 GMT
Taking Stock
What effective things are we already doing at Glenn in terms of family-school partnerships? What resources for effective family-school partnerships do we already posses? In what ways have we seen effective family-school partnerships directly improve student learning and success?
1. Being a small school, I think we have the advantage of getting to know our students and families quickly and easily. Our physically small school and low student enrollment seems to allow for faster and more intimate connections. Hopefully this allows teachers, staff and parents to recognize quickly when problems need to be addressed.
2. I'm aware of the Back to School and Backpack programs we can use as resources. I'm unaware of others. Itt would be interesting to have a list of resources that the PTO could share with families.
3. The question of the connection to student and learning success should probably be left to the teachers to answer - I would assume that the stronger the family-school relationship is, the better students do.
