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Parentships in a PLC at Work
Forming and Sustaining School-Home Relationships With Families
Kyle Palmer draws from his experience as both a principal of a Model PLC at Work® school and a parent to offer practical strategies for including parents or guardians as part of your collaborative culture focused on student learning.
Benefits
- Understand the basics of PLCs and parentships
- Learn how parentships can integrate into and enhance the PLC process
- Create mission and vision statements for parentships in a PLC
- Discover best practices for improving instruction and student learning.
- Use specific strategies to enhance your parentship and engage effectively with parents
- Maintain an effective parentship into the future
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part 1: Foundations of Parentships in a PLC
Chapter 1: Understanding Parentships in a PLC
Chapter 2: Creating Parentships in a PLC
Chapter 3: Creating Shared Mission and Vision Statements for Your Parentships
Chapter 4: Creating Values and Goals for Your Parentships
Part 2: Strategies for Parentships in a PLC
Chapter 5: Strategies Related to Curriculum
Chapter 6: Strategies Related to Individual Student Progress
Chapter 7: Strategies Related to Parental Engagement
Chapter 8: Strategies for Building Stronger Parent Relationships
Chapter 9: Strategies for Monitoring and Sustaining Your Parentships
Epilogue: Now What?
STUDY GUIDE
REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
- Figure 3.1: Questions to Guide the Mission-Writing Process
- Figure 3.2: Questions to Guide the Vision-Writing Process
Chapter 4
- Figure 4.1: Parentship Collective Commitment Writing Process
- Figure 4.2: Parentship Goal-Writing Process
- SMART-R Goal Template to Track Parentship Goals
Chapter 5
- Figure 5.1: Parent Career Navigator Request Letter
- Figure 5.2: Interactive-Homework Design
- Figure 5.3: Planning Tool for College and Career Student Panels
- Planning, Implementing, and Monitoring Tool for Curriculum Strategies
Chapter 6
- Figure 6.1: Parentship Parent-Teacher Conference Planning Tool
- Figure 6.3: Planning Tool for Student-Attendance Family Support
- Planning, Implementing, and Monitoring Tool for Student-Progress Strategies
Chapter 7
- Figure 7.1: Example of a Front-Office Creed
- Figure 7.2: Parentship Promise
- Figure 7.3: Parent Phone-Call Script
- Figure 7.4: Volunteer Invitation
- Planning, Implementing, and Monitoring Tool for Parent-Engagement Strategies
Chapter 8
- Figure 8.1: Parent Ambassador Recruitment Template
- Figure 8.2: Home-Visit Template
- Figure 8.3: Heroes-in-the-Home Framework
- Planning, Implementing, and Monitoring Tool for Parent-Outreach Strategies
Chapter 9
- Figure 9.4: Parentship Mission Statement Continuum
- Figure 9.5: Parentship Vision Statement Continuum
- Parentship-Perception Survey
- Parentship-Perception-Survey Overview Tool
- SMART-R Goal and Timeline Tracking Template
- Planning, Implementing, and Monitoring Tool for Sustaining the Parentships
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
BOOKS
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- DuFour, R., DuFour, R., & Eaker, R. (2008). Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work: New insights for improving schools. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., & Many, T. W. (2010). Learning by doing: A handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (2nd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., Many, T. W., & Mattos, M. (2016). Learning by doing: A handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (3rd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Eaker, R., & Keating, J. (2012). Every school, every team, every classroom: District leadership for growing Professional Learning Communities at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Eaker, R., & Keating, J. (2015). Kid by kid, skill by skill: Teaching in a Professional Learning Community at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Kanold, T. D. (2011). The five disciplines of PLC leaders. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Marzano, R. J., & Waters, T. (2009). District leadership that works: Striking the right balance. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Mattos, M., DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., & Many, T. W. (2016). Concise answers to frequently asked questions about Professional Learning Communities at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Roberts, M. (2020). Shifting from me to we: How to jump-start collaboration in a PLC at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Spiller, J., & Power, K. (2019). Leading with intention: Eight areas for reflection and planning in your PLC at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
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