7 Effective Habits for Building an Engaged Parent Community

EffectiveHABITS7Webinar

for building a highly engaged parent community

Executive Director

Kristen Morrison

Today’s Speakers

Moderator ParentSquare

Robert BourgaultLinn SillersCo-founder

ParentSquare

What We Will Share

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Followed by a 10 minute Live ParentSquare Demo

Leadership

Intelligence

Integrity

Creativity

Happiness

Success

Confidence

Manage Impulsivity

Seek Clarity

Begin with the end in mind

Respect

Think Win Win

Find Humor

Seek Accuracy

Be Proactive

Responsible

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dignity of every INDIVIDUAL to improve

the art of living

Honor uniqueness and

Honor Uniqueness

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Understand the unique disposition of each family

Host parent meetings at the start of every year

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Practice Organizational Health

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Develop organizational HABITS

of the Mind and Heart to create an

engaged community

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Develop organizational principles that everyone is trained on

KPI Meeting happens every morning with all faculty and staff

Shared Start - all students gather every morning for 10 minutes

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Inspire Leadership

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Good leadership builds trust with FAMILIES

and createsadvocates at HOME and in the community  

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Create strategic and visionary communication with parents

Consistent messages sharing learning, success stories, ideas

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Empower Teacher-Parent Partnership

Teachers are the Experts!

empower them to share their KNOWLEDGE with parents and continue the

learning at home.

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Send regular messages to parents sharing classroom lessons, techniques, photos

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Enable bi-directional communication and feedback mechanisms

Bi-monthly classroom newsletters

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Activate Participation

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When parents participateat school, it shows DEVOTION and

sends a message that school is important

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Get parents involved with feedback mechanisms and online sign-up

Create visibility into participation to create new participants and build community

We see immediate participation because we make it easy to sign-up

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Community Outreach

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Share your school’s philosophy and

experiences with outer community and in turn

build advocacy

Community Outreach

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Engage parents in things they are passionate about

Ask parents to share profession or hobby in class

Take a field trips to community businesses and organizations

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Chamber of Commerce Field Trip

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Track and measure student and parent

ENGAGEMENT and take well-informed steps

toward improvement

Assessing KPI’s

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Adopt school-wide KeyPerformance Indicators

4 KPIs: • Safety, Facilities, Equipment • Families and Community • Teaching and Learning • Administration and Finance

Create a wall of KPIs the main office

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Habits for Building an Engaged Parent Community

Honor Uniqueness

Create Organizational Health

Inspire Leadership

Empower Teacher-Parent Partnership

Activate Participation

Community Outreach

Assessing KPIs

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7 EffectiveHABITSfor building a highly engaged parent community

Questions for Bob

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