Leveraging Parents as Partners in Distance Learning
Tammy Milligan, Staff Development & Curriculum Specialist: ELA/ELD
Lenore Medina, Staff Development & Curriculum Specialist: ELA/ELD
Justin Paredes, Staff Development & Curriculum Specialist: History/Integrated Studies
Katherine Goyette, Educational Technology and Integrated Studies
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Leveraging Parents as Partners in Distance Learning
Tammy Milligan, Staff Development & Curriculum Specialist: ELA/ELD
Lenore Medina, Staff Development & Curriculum Specialist: ELA/ELD
Justin Paredes, Staff Development & Curriculum Specialist: History & Integrated Studies
Katherine Goyette, Educational Technology and Integrated Studies
Element 1.D: Family and School Partnerships
Schools value and build strong family
and school partnerships.
How can this look in a virtual environment?
Please add your ideas to the chat box
Thank you!
#1
DAD
We can do this together!
Leveraging Parents as Partners in Distance Learning
Key Components
of Culturally Responsive
Family Engagement
1) Partnership Orientation
2) Asset-based approach to students and families
3) Relationships of trust and respect
4) Two-way communication
5) Capacity building of educators and families
Deficit Approach
• Myth-based: Families don’t care
• Educators define students and their families by their weaknesses
• Educators blame families for students’ failings
Asset Approach
• Research-based: All families want the best for their children
• Educators focus on strengths
• Educators seek to learn about family and community “funds of knowledge”
Two Ways of Thinking...
Build Relationships of trust and respect
Developing an Online Culture
Classroom culture is playing a big part in our google classrooms. I am not sure that teachers realize this, but the trust that is being built between the teacher, student and even the parents is incredible. Our focus may be a little off topic from what would normally happen in a classroom setting but we are all appreciating individual differences. We are inviting each other into our own personal spaces (homes). Everyone online can see and hear your surroundings and sometimes that can be a little intimidating, but we are all trusting and respecting one another.
− Principal, Sunnyside School District
Connect with Families- Empathy Interview-Understanding
Connect with Families- Empathy Interview-Understanding
Parent Survey
Two-way Communication
Parents need to know:
Teachers need to know:
Chat box: What has worked?
What ideas do you have?
Centralized Location
A “hub” for communication
Class Dojo
Padlet
Google Classroom
Canvas
Blackboard
Moodle
Flipgrid
SeeSaw
Remind101
ClassDojo
SeeSaw
Zoom
Google Meets
Class DOJO
Predetermined mode of communication
Open Accessibility
Create a platform and time where students and parents can count on you to be available and responsive
Translate
ParentSquare
Communicate!
Students and Families Need:
Monitoring &
Feedback
Expectations/ Accountability
Affirmation
Communication
Informal Assessment
Capacity Building of
Educators and Families
Parents are students too!
Provide opportunities for parents to learn…
Supporting multilingual learners (MLLs)/English language learners (ELLs) during the COVID-19 Shutdown (TNTP) - CLICK FOR ACCESS
Remember: This is NOT homeschool- it is distance learning with the teacher directing the way for both the student and the parent.
Capacity Building of
Educators and Families
Karen Mapp, Ed.D.
Senior Lecturer on Education
Faculty Director, Education Policy and Management
Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE)
Capacity Building of
Educators and Families
Capacity Building of
Educators and Families
Success Criteria
Alternatives For Parent Involvement
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Parent Resources
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Tammy Milligan, Staff Development & Curriculum Specialist: ELA/ELD
Lenore Medina, Staff Development & Curriculum Specialist: ELA/ELD
Justin Paredes, Staff Development & Curriculum Specialist: History/Integrated Studies
Katherine Goyette, Educational Technology and Integrated Studies