Community Engagement
Families are essential partners to schools in the shared mission to help every child reach their full potential.
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Family-School Partnerships
PTA’s National Standards for Family-School Partnerships set the bar for how schools and parent organizations work together to support student success.
The Standards have contributed to greater awareness and capacity for improving family-school partnerships across the country and internationally for over 20 years.
National Standards for Family-School Partnerships
- Standard 1Welcome All Families
- Standard 2Communicate Effectively
- Standard 3Support Student Success
- Standard 4Speak Up for Every Child
- Standard 5Share Power
- Standard 6Collaborate with Community
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4 Principles of Transformative Family Engagement
Parents know that they play an important role in their child’s success. But traditional family engagement practices don’t always meet the needs of each and every family, nor treat them as equal partners in ensuring their child’s success. Family-school partnerships often focus primarily on academic success, but whole child development is also an essential part of the conversation.
The solution? Transformative Family Engagement.
Transformative family engagement is a shared effort of families, schools, and community leaders to advance programs, practices, and policies that empower families to make their child’s potential a reality.
The Four I’s of transformative family engagement outline how your PTA can become more inclusive, individualized, integrated, and impactful in its approach to family engagement.
- Inclusive
- Embracing and valuing diverse perspectives.
- Individualized
- Meeting the unique needs of every family and child.
- Integrated
- Connecting and aligning with the educational system.
- Impactful
- Empowering families to support their child's success.
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