Parent Voices

Data Gathering Plan: 

1. Partner with local decision-making bodies and groups to disseminate the information to parents (SGT, SSC, ELAC, Parent Center, etc.)

2. Identify community partners with connections to parents and enlist their support in reaching parents (through Hoover Community Connections partners).

3. Work with school stakeholder groups to identify “parent ambassadors” that can help reach other parents.

4. Schedule Parent Focus groups that help inform the needs and assets assessment.

5. Create touch points (1 to 3 power questions) to be used the beginning of parent meetings on campus.

Part 1: Community Schools Sub-Committee Working Group Pullout - (3/2)

1. Preview Data Gathering Plan with the group and elicit critiques, alterations, and/or confirmation/consensus. 

2. Preview Parent Survey to sub-committee to elicit critiques, alterations, and/or confirmation/consensus.

3. Preview Parent Survey to parent focus group to elicit critiques, alterations, and/or confirmation/consensus.

Part 2: Data Collection

1. Pre-work - Refine the process and the questionnaire per the feedback from the community schools sub-committee pull-out on 3/2. 

• Finalize a rough draft to be previewed by other staff stakeholder groups (particularly administration and parent leaders).

• Focus group the rough draft with parent groups to see if they have any critiques, comments, or additions for the substance and/or process for the survey and/or data collection. 

2. Implementation: 

Focus Group & Survey Implementation 

• Schedule potential focus groups. Partner with parent ambassadors to recruit participants.

• Work with partner organizations to implement processes with their parent groups.

• A day or two before the implementation, send reminders to all participants.

• Focus Group Implementation: 

  • Run focus group questions

  • Identify strengths and opportunities for improvement

  • Identify the top three priorities

• Send out parent needs/asset assessments to all parents via email. Make printed copies. Text survey link to all parents.

• Partner with campus groups to include parent power questions at the beginning and end of all gatherings.

3. Follow-up:

Process Questions/Wonderings: 

1. Should the parent survey be anonymous or have them put down their name? 

2. Is spring the ideal time to implement the parent survey due to other surveys (Health Kids Survey, Budget Survey)? Will this contribute to survey fatigue? 

3. Should home visits be a part of this data-collection process? Can home visits also help collect student data? 

4. How long should the data collection window be? Should efforts overlap with other stakeholder groups, or should we focus on one group at a time? (first staff, then students, etc.)

Data

DATA SURVEY

PARENT POWER QUESTIONS

PARENT FOCUS GROUPS