Schools are ideal for providing and facilitating the education of parents. They are first and foremost educational institutions and nearly every child and family has a relationship with them.

A recent report from the National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education marshals decades of research evidence from forward-looking schools that are already engaged in educating and involving parents. The report concludes that educating and engaging parents "leads to INCREASED STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, INCREASED SOCIAL SKILLS and BEHAVIOR, and INCREASED LIKELIHOOD of GRADUATION."

Indeed, because schools have the capacity to reach just about everyone in the community, their efforts to educate and support parents can be the pivotal and central means for getting more parents to be the best they can be.

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Access to the core, to high quality early childhood education, and to high quality, inclusive education programs
Climate and Culture that is responsive to the diverse cultural background and needs of students
Strategies that are focused on the use of data, and are based on the most rigorous and up-to-date educational research
High expectations and accountability focused on student learning and achievement.
----- P-16 Council, California Department of Education


 

Title I schools take HOME-SCHOOL-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS to heart!


Listed below is a sampling of parent/community activities that our schools have planned for 2009-2010.  These activities are designed to involve parents and community members to help children REACH HIGH LEVELS of academic SUCCESS!

THANK YOU TO OUR TITLE I SCHOOLS FOR PLANNING THESE ACTIVITIES!
Please contact your child's school for futher information.
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    Parent Partner Rooms
    Tele-parent Communication Systems
    English Classes for Parents
    Welcome Committee for NEW FAMILIES
    Band Jumper Nights for Parents
    PIQE (Parent Institue for Quality Education)
    Health Resources for Families
    On the Road to Learning
    Family Dance
    Breakfast with the Principal
    Step Up to Writing Parent Workshop
    Resource Center for Parents
    Family Literacy Workshop
    Family Math Workshop
    Homework Tips Workshop
    Family Stoies (The Latino Family Literacy Program)
    Meet Your Teacher Day

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FOR MORE INFORMATION ON PARTNERSHIPS FOR LEARNING, PLEASE SCROLL DOWN THE PAGE TO NUTS AND BOLTS!

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The Parental Information and Resource Center (PIRC) program provides resources that grantees can use in pursuit of the objectives of the No Child Left Behind Act. In particular, this program provides an opportunity for grantees to focus on assisting the parents of children who attend schools identified for improvement, corrective action, or restructuring under Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

Parent Information and Resource Centers (PIRCs) help implement successful and effective parental involvement policies, programs, and activities that lead to improvements in student academic achievement and that strengthen partnerships among parents, teachers, principals, administrators, and other school personnel in meeting the education needs of children. Sec. 5563 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) requires the recipients of PIRC grants to: serve both rural and urban areas; use at least half their funds to serve areas with high concentrations of low-income children; and use at least 30 percent of the funds they receive for early childhood parent programs.

CALIFORNIA PIRCS

There are two California PIRCS, one in northern California and one here in the southland.   Project INSPIRE is located close by in Covina.

California State PIRC 1 -- Parent Information Resource Center (PIRC) Project INSPIRE

Project INSPIRE (Innovations that Nurture Success and Parent Involvement to Reach Excellence) is a Parent Information Resource Center (PIRC) funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement and is the result of a partnership between the CABE, the San Bernardino County Superintendent of School (SBCSS), and Alameda County Office of Education (ACOE).  Project INSPIRE has been funded since 2003 through 2011 (contingent upon available federal funding).

The overall goals of Project INSPIRE include:

• Providing high quality parent education and leadership development to parents throughout California with an emphasis on services to parents of CA’s most disadvantaged students.
• Building the capacity of schools and districts serving disadvantaged students to maintain high quality parent education and leadership programs.
• Building the capacity of parent leaders to provide training to other parents and to effectively participate in local school reform efforts.

http://www.bilingualeducation.org/programs_parent.php

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All Title I schools are members of The National Network of Partnership Schools, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.   Each school has a partner or two that leads their family-school-community partnerships for students' academic success.  

Listed below are the 2009-2010 partners for the program:


MIDDLE SCHOOLS

• Magnolia - Mario Carranza
  
• Ramona - Shand Garrett
• Woodcrest - Paula Miller

ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

• Anna Borba - Patty Quiroz
  
• Chaparral - Tom Mackessy
• Cortez - Andrea Baker, Tricia Herrera
  
• Dickey - Rosemary Wood, Sherry Alverez
  
• Dickson - Carol Sullivan
  
• Glenmeade- Liz Myers
• Liberty -  Kim Keyes
  
• Newman - Brandon Davis
  
• Marshall - Rhea Boyd
  
• Walnut -   Fiorella Acevedo
  

Partnerships for Learning Facilitator

Carol Garman is a Title I /ELD Program Specialist for Chino Valley public schools and district facilitator for school, family, and community partnerships.  She guides Title I schools to use the Epstein model and framework for types of parent engagement to develop more goal-linked programs of family and community involvement. This is her fifth year of leading Partnerships for Learning.

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