"Beyond the young people the organizations directly involve, community-based service-learning benefits the people served, their communities, and, ultimately, society..."
This manual contains an introduction, three training sections, and an appendix with supplemental materials:
I. How Students Benefit from Parent Involvement
II. Understanding Your School
III. How ... Parents Become Involved
IV. Appendix
The manual can be used in several ways:
To enable a school or established parent group to look at new ways to involve parents and
families in the education of their children, such as...
To enable all parents to feel more comfortable with the school so they will want to become
involved. Meetings may be held at various places; other options to meeting on campus
include...
The "Collaborating for Success" Parent Engagement Toolkit is designed to provide parents with practical strategies for getting engaged in schools, and to offer schools research-based approaches to overcoming barriers to parental engagement. Parents will find strategies and information that will encourage their future or current involvement with their children's schools. The school-related approaches will support the development of new parent programs or the enhancement of existing ones.
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Sir Ken Robinson
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As school choice evolves in Vermont having a PR strategy and "brand" recognition will be a necessity. If a school doesn't define its brand...it will be defined for it. What is yours?
"A public relations program must incorporate public engagement, website content development, crisis communication, community partnerships and strategic PR counsel," ... "That's in addition to news media relations and regular publications."
I'd add the need for at least one or two Social Media streams. (Twitter, Facebook)
"While that sounds like a lot to manage, a good PR program can help you gain support for your district initiatives in some key ways:
*Taxpayer support: ...
*Demonstrate economic impact: ...
*Ensure public engagement: ..."
Districts must manage their own PR and push out information through channels it can control, such as websites, direct mail, social media and email."
"Social media has enabled anyone to become a 'citizen journalist' with the ability to sway public opinion - regardless of accuracy or intent," said Nichols. "Not only do we need to embrace these new technologies and opportunities, but we must master them to ensure that we can successfully operate our PR programs in all situations."
Kleinz adds that today's mobile technology means that school districts must be prepared to respond immediately in a crisis to help manage the situation and ensure that the community receives accurate and timely information."