Dimension of Involvement

Indicators

Dimension I. Providing Parenting Information

Supporting parenting through the provision of information.

Successful efforts in providing information to parents on parent-child communication, discipline, self-esteem, drug and alcohol prevention, child development issues.

Dimension II. Planning and Providing Parent Involvement Opportunities at School

Providing opportunities at the school to ensure parent/community involvement.

Successfully identifying a person or team responsible for coordinating parent involvement at the school; families serving on the team or on school policy making groups; developing needs assessments to guide plans for parent involvement; parents completing needs assessments; evaluations of family involvement activities; personal invitations to parents; family meetings, workshops, discussion groups; teacher demonstrations of learning strategies or activities; times for parent/teacher socialization; home-school fun nights.

Dimension III. Building School-Community Partnerships

Sharing ideas, facilities, materials, and professional support through interaction of school with parents, community members and organizations/businesses, and other schools and districts.

Successful designation of a place at school for parents to gather; offering information about school programs and services to community agencies and organizations; supporting or co-sponsoring community events; offering resource materials to community organizations; inviting community agencies to participate in professional development activities; community agencies offering workshops facilitated by their staff to the school; community agencies offering the use of facilities, equipment, or materials to the school or inviting school personnel to participate in professional development activities.

Dimension IV. Communicating to Parents about Content and Performance Standards and Assessments

Providing information about local, state, and national goals and assessments as well as school and individual assessment results.

Providing information about parent-teacher conferences or student-led conference, local and national education goals, state content and performance standards, state and local assessments, school performance profiles, student assessment results, a description of the curriculum.

Dimension V. Helping Parents Support Their Children's Learning

Developing school-parent compacts, offering parent workshops and meetings, and providing activities and books to support learning at home.

Practical school-parent compacts, children and parent workshops or discussion groups, learning/activities packets for home use, suggested home learning activities, books or materials for home checkout.

Dimension VI. Obtaining Parent Input on School Operations in the Areas of Curriculum and Instruction, Discipline, and School Climate

Structuring opportunities for parents to provide input or feedback on such issues as curriculum, teaching strategies, assessment, discipline, and school climate.

Opportunities or action plans that include families on advisory committees, surveys, class meetings where parents are invited, shared IEP's, to provide input on curriculum, teaching strategies, student assessment, discipline and behavior, school climate and safety issues.