Unleash Your Potential - Namagunga Girls Coding Club
Engaging Parents On School Landscapes
1. Engaging Parents On School Landscapes Parents as Partners Webcast Monday, May 5th, 2008
2. Prepared by Debbie Pushor Associate Professor, College of Education, University of Saskatchewan [email_address]
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9. Engagement Engagement Involvement school’s agenda hierarchical unidirectional school’s power teacher knowledge “ hotdogs & plumbing” shared agenda side by side reciprocal shared power teacher & parent knowledge teaching & learning
10. Key Finding “ Parent and community involvement that is linked to student learning [in other words, parent engagement ] has a greater effect on achievement than more general forms of involvement” (Henderson & Mapp, 2002, p. 38).
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12. Key Finding Instead, it was things which create “ an educationally oriented ambiance” – a sense of support and standards in the child’s mind – which produced the strongest results.
13. - a “new story” of school. It interrupts the “old story” of parent involvement to put a new story in its place. It redefines what we do, how we do it - and why. Parent Engagement
14. Engaging Parents On School Landscapes Parents as Partners Webcast Monday, May 5th, 2008