Parameter 12: Parent Involvement in Supporting Students' Achievements

Parameter 12 Description

Parents as Critical Partners - CLARITY p63-70

Dual Capacity Building Framework v2  How can we build capacity for family engagement? 

Education Capital. Our evidence base defining parental engagement 

Global Family Research Project Executive Summary (2018)  Prompting leadership dialogue about family engagement: “Joining together to create a bold vision for next generation family engagement” 

Ontario Ministry of Education (2012) Capacity Building Series – Parent Engagement 

EveryDay Labs (2020) – Family Insights Toolkit 2020 

Connecting school, family and community: the power of positive relationships 
MACS places RELATIONSHIP as key to learning: what does the research say about this?   Otero (2016)

Parents don’t need to come to school to be engaged: teachers’ use of social media for family engagement Parent engagement in the 21st Century – making best use of technologies to maintain the learning focused family-school partnership. Baxter & Toe (2021) 

Leading an examination of beliefs and assumptions about parents. 
How do we check our assumptions about families and their capacity to be engaged in their child’s learning, and tap into the power of what they know about their child’s way of learning?  Pusher & Amendt (2018) 

We conquered this together: Tier 2 collaboration with families  Gerzel-Short (2018) 

School Community Sphere

Families as Partners in Catholic Schools

Other FACE Resources -  CEVN

eXcel: Wellbeing for learning in Catholic school communities  All four of the dimensions eXcel Guide consider family engagement in their child’s learning – CONNCET dimension considers this from the relational perspective 

Parents Engagement in Action Resource (PEAR) Guide – to be used in conjunction with the Self-Reflection A3 Checklist 

 Learning Together video and booklet: 

Explores a simple framework for how schools can build capacity to strengthen the learning focused partnership between schools and families.

Family school partnership animation :

Outlines the underpinning concepts and purpose in a neat package. Comes with a poster. Prompts 10 different discussion points for staff and/or parent groups (See CEVN: Student Services – Parent Engagement link for poster) 

Community Conversations: 

An active process for engaging small groups of parents/carers in conversations about issues, questions, initiatives, and innovations relating to school/children’s learning.

Webinar:  The Power of our words

Explores how schools can change the way teachers communicate with families to improve the learning partnership and the trust relationship. (Best started at the 7.30 minute mark – this is a long watch but provides prompts for new thinking). 

Remote Learning, how can we learn from this?

Leaders, students, teachers and parents from Melbourne Catholic schools talk about what we can learn from lockdown and how it can help strengthen the learning partnership.

Parent Community Conversations - parent voice about student learning in lockdown periods 

Parents from Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic primary schools talk about their perspective on being connected to their child’s learning through remote learning periods. “I know more now than I do when she is in actual school!” What can schools learn from this? Divided into 10 key questions.