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Course 1014

Parents, Communities and Schools: Partnering for Student Success

Apply this towards your professional development requirements

Tuition: $249 complete

Contact us for our quantity discount policy at questions@americancenterforeducators.org

What You'll Learn

Partnering with parents and your community isn't about good PR. It's necessary for solid district leadership, whole-school change, strong school organization, improvement plans, learning goals and more. What's the best way to create and get buy-in for your involvement programs? This course will show you:

  • The key components for getting enthusiastic family and community involvement
  • School-centered programs that everyone wants to get behind
  • Six types of involvement that support student achievement, attendance, and behavior
  • Research-proven tools and materials for more effective involvement programs
  • How NCLB requirements for family involvement can work at any school

Highlights

Important New Definitions of Partnerships

  • Straightforward ways to help parents redefine the meaning of parent involvement
  • What you should expect (and get) from parents and community
  • Why shared leadership is important — and what you should be doing to foster it

Keys for Effective Program Design

  • Six types of family and community involvement that you can get today
  • Proven ways to meet the challenge of reaching and motivating all your families
  • How to write functional plans that everyone can get behind

Ensuring Your School Achieves Results

  • How can you link partnerships/involvement to school goals and classroom learning?
  • How do you address equity issues so every student can benefit?
  • Was it worth it? How do you track the effectiveness of your partnerships?

The Virtual Teachers Lounge™

Check in with your peers and get answers to your questions – any time, 24/7. Taking this course will give you exclusive access to the thoughts, insights and experience of other educators and K-12 experts discussing your topics and giving you solutions and ideas for whatever is on your mind. In the Teachers' lounge, you can:

  • Learn new, working strategies and solutions from other educators – live!
  • Get answers to your toughest questions from top K-12 experts
  • Discuss course topics with your peers and benefit from their experiences
  • Share your success stories and best practices to benefit other teachers and administrators
  • Get new perspectives, fresh ideas and guidance – whenever you need it.
  • You can log whenever is most convenient for you, 24/7

All you have to do is sign up for this course, and you're in!

Connect with, hear from and get help from you peers.


Materials & Assessment

Lectures Your lectures, delivered by one of the nation's leading, recognized experts on this topic, are presented in multiple parts to make listening and tracking your progress easier. You can listen to each as often as you like by playing it on your computer, downloading it to your iPod or other MP3 player, even burning it to CD. Listen wherever it is most convenient for you: at home, in your car; at the park; and whenever you like: before or after work, at night or on weekends. Many educators can complete a module in only a week.
Text Resources Virtual text resources are downloadable and expand on the material covered in your lectures. They may include articles, web links to related materials and web sites, definitions of important terms and concepts, and a bibliography. All materials can be viewed on your computer or downloaded and printed.
Assessment To receive your Certificate of Completion or Certificate of Attendance and earn Professional Development/Continuing Education units/credits/hours, you will need to complete all assessments and submit all final projects.
Virtual Teachers Lounge To gain Professional Development credits or hours for any of these three modules, you must participate in the Virtual teachers Lounge discussion for that module. If you are not seeking credits or hours, participation in the Lounge is not mandatory, but you are still welcome to connect with and share your thoughts, questions, insights and experience with your peers at any time.
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Parents, Communities and Schools: Partnering for Student Success

Tuition: $249
Contact us for our quantity discount policy at questions@americancenterforeducators.org