The document is a presentation about enhancing parenting skills through parent involvement given by Chris Martin, a retired NFL player. He discusses the six levels of parent involvement using football analogies: 1) Parenting is like a ball carrier or coverage on the field 2) Communication is like plays being discussed in a huddle or changed at the line of scrimmage 3) Volunteering is like being a playmaker who makes big contributions 4) Learning at home gives an advantage like playing on your home field 5) Decision making relies on experts like signal callers 6) Collaboration taps community resources like man coverage or a balanced line. The presentation encourages parents to get involved in their child's education.
1) The document discusses effective parenting strategies such as communication skills, co-parenting for separated families, and signs that a child may need professional help.
2) It provides guidelines for positive parent-child communication including listening, using simple language, and discussing important topics.
3) For separated families, it emphasizes the importance of children having relationships with both parents and avoiding parental conflict. Parents should speak positively about each other and keep children out of disputes.
4) Signs that a child may need professional help include a marked decline in school performance, severe anxiety, depression, threats of self-harm, and substance abuse in adolescents. Younger children may show excessive temper tantrums or aggression.
This document discusses four main parenting styles: permissive, uninvolved, authoritarian, and authoritative. It outlines the characteristics of each style and examines their typical psychological and biological effects on children. Authoritarian parenting is low in nurturance but high in control, and can lead to issues like low self-esteem and stress in children. Authoritative parenting, which is high in all areas, tends to produce children with confidence and self-control. An uninvolved style causes neglect, while permissive parenting lacks discipline. Overall, the authoritative approach generally has the most positive outcomes.
The document discusses different parenting styles. Authoritative parenting is recommended as it encourages independence while still setting limits through explanation. Authoritarian parenting expects high conformity through rules without explanation. Permissive parenting gives children much freedom without enforcement of rules. Uninvolved parenting is emotionally detached with minimal involvement in the child's life while still providing basic needs. Family planning refers to parents responsibly determining family size based on available resources.
This document provides guidance on effective parenting in several sections. It discusses that parenting is a gift, labor of love, and about enjoying time with children. It also explores parenting myths and the different parenting styles of authoritarian, permissive, and democratic and their outcomes. The A-Z section lists effective parenting skills from accepting children to valuing their opinions. It discusses addressing situations like children misbehaving and offers a parent's pledge to love, listen, praise, and respect children while enjoying time together.
Raising a child in today's world is challenging for parents. The document provides guidance on positive parenting techniques to help children grow up healthy. It emphasizes becoming an expert in child development, providing unconditional love while also setting clear boundaries and rules, and empowering children by listening to their views and guiding them through tough decisions. The tips encourage focusing on developing a strong relationship with open communication, understanding a child's friends and influences, and seeking help from professionals when needed to best support a child's healthy development.
Slides from 2011 Preparing Your Child for Success seminar hosted by The Bear Creek School annually in Redmond, WA. Slides are excerpts from the presentation "Raising Responsible Children Using the Love and Logic Approach" by Karen Wright, Ph.D. Lower School Division Head at The Bear Creek School.
This document discusses families and relationships. It states that families form interacting systems where parents and children influence each other bidirectionally. Parents socialize children through direct instruction, modeling, feedback, reinforcement, and punishment. Effective parenting involves warmth and appropriate control. Children are also influenced by parenting styles like authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, and uninvolved. Divorce can negatively impact children's development, though effects depend on age and parental cooperation. Play benefits children's social and emotional development.
The document discusses strategies for dealing with teenagers in the 21st century. It notes that teens today experience earlier physical and cultural maturation compared to previous generations. Parents are encouraged to practice positive parenting by providing nurturing support and clear rules, spending quality time with their teens, monitoring their activities, and maintaining open communication. Following these strategies can help teens develop better social skills, academic performance, and mental wellbeing compared to teens who do not receive such support from parents.
1) The document discusses effective parenting strategies such as communication skills, co-parenting for separated families, and signs that a child may need professional help.
2) It provides guidelines for positive parent-child communication including listening, using simple language, and discussing important topics.
3) For separated families, it emphasizes the importance of children having relationships with both parents and avoiding parental conflict. Parents should speak positively about each other and keep children out of disputes.
4) Signs that a child may need professional help include a marked decline in school performance, severe anxiety, depression, threats of self-harm, and substance abuse in adolescents. Younger children may show excessive temper tantrums or aggression.
This document discusses four main parenting styles: permissive, uninvolved, authoritarian, and authoritative. It outlines the characteristics of each style and examines their typical psychological and biological effects on children. Authoritarian parenting is low in nurturance but high in control, and can lead to issues like low self-esteem and stress in children. Authoritative parenting, which is high in all areas, tends to produce children with confidence and self-control. An uninvolved style causes neglect, while permissive parenting lacks discipline. Overall, the authoritative approach generally has the most positive outcomes.
The document discusses different parenting styles. Authoritative parenting is recommended as it encourages independence while still setting limits through explanation. Authoritarian parenting expects high conformity through rules without explanation. Permissive parenting gives children much freedom without enforcement of rules. Uninvolved parenting is emotionally detached with minimal involvement in the child's life while still providing basic needs. Family planning refers to parents responsibly determining family size based on available resources.
This document provides guidance on effective parenting in several sections. It discusses that parenting is a gift, labor of love, and about enjoying time with children. It also explores parenting myths and the different parenting styles of authoritarian, permissive, and democratic and their outcomes. The A-Z section lists effective parenting skills from accepting children to valuing their opinions. It discusses addressing situations like children misbehaving and offers a parent's pledge to love, listen, praise, and respect children while enjoying time together.
Raising a child in today's world is challenging for parents. The document provides guidance on positive parenting techniques to help children grow up healthy. It emphasizes becoming an expert in child development, providing unconditional love while also setting clear boundaries and rules, and empowering children by listening to their views and guiding them through tough decisions. The tips encourage focusing on developing a strong relationship with open communication, understanding a child's friends and influences, and seeking help from professionals when needed to best support a child's healthy development.
Slides from 2011 Preparing Your Child for Success seminar hosted by The Bear Creek School annually in Redmond, WA. Slides are excerpts from the presentation "Raising Responsible Children Using the Love and Logic Approach" by Karen Wright, Ph.D. Lower School Division Head at The Bear Creek School.
This document discusses families and relationships. It states that families form interacting systems where parents and children influence each other bidirectionally. Parents socialize children through direct instruction, modeling, feedback, reinforcement, and punishment. Effective parenting involves warmth and appropriate control. Children are also influenced by parenting styles like authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, and uninvolved. Divorce can negatively impact children's development, though effects depend on age and parental cooperation. Play benefits children's social and emotional development.
The document discusses strategies for dealing with teenagers in the 21st century. It notes that teens today experience earlier physical and cultural maturation compared to previous generations. Parents are encouraged to practice positive parenting by providing nurturing support and clear rules, spending quality time with their teens, monitoring their activities, and maintaining open communication. Following these strategies can help teens develop better social skills, academic performance, and mental wellbeing compared to teens who do not receive such support from parents.
This document provides information on different parenting styles and tips for effective parenting. It discusses hands-on parenting, hands-off parenting, and half-hearted parenting. It includes worksheets to help identify your parenting style based on factors like involvement in your child's activities and communication. The document then covers topics like knowing your child's strengths, building their confidence, teaching social and cognitive skills, effective communication, discipline, and being a role model. It emphasizes the importance of family bonding, encouraging creativity, and using compassion when parenting.
Positive relationships are important for well-being as humans are social animals. Good relationships are built on trust, effective communication, mutual respect and valuing differences. Teachers and parents can develop positive relationships by listening to understand each other's perspectives, respecting different views, and working together for mutual benefit rather than competition. Children learn relationship skills from role models, so adults should build trust with kids and encourage friendships.
Effective parenting requires effort to better a child's life. Different parenting styles like permissive, authoritarian, and attachment parenting are discussed. The key aspects of effective parenting are maintaining a positive mood, encouraging a child's passions, teaching basics, and accepting them unconditionally. Special thanks are given to child psychologists who helped inform this discussion on parenting.
This document provides guidance on positive parenting techniques to improve parenting skills and reduce stress. It emphasizes that parents should model good behavior, clearly communicate rules and expectations, and consistently use praise and logical consequences to encourage positive choices and build a strong parent-child relationship. The key is for parents to remain calm and assertive while holding children accountable for their behavior.
Adolescents face challenges in finding their identity as they try different roles. They experience confusion over who they should be. The main tasks of adolescence include dealing with conflicts with parents, peers becoming more important, and mood changes. Adolescents are influenced both by their parents and peers, though studies show they cannot be influenced by both. Risky behaviors like smoking increase as friends' influence grows during adolescence. Around 39% of adolescents suffer from low self-esteem, which tends to drop during ages 9-13 and again from 18-23. When life becomes difficult, some adolescents make wrong choices that make them feel guilty.
The document outlines 10 principles of good parenting according to experts. The principles include showing love to children, being involved in their lives, adapting parenting styles to fit each child's development, establishing clear rules consistently, fostering independence appropriately, avoiding harsh discipline, explaining rules and decisions, and treating children with respect. The document emphasizes that there is no perfect parent but that following research-based parenting strategies can help children grow into well-adjusted adults.
The document discusses various aspects of parenting and provides guidance. It notes that parenting has evolved over millions of years in the paleopallium region of the brain. While some awareness and correction of mistakes may be needed, natural parenting should generally be allowed to retain its charm. Specific to humans, the chief task of parenting is to ensure the infant's survival given their vulnerability. Intellectual theories on parenting should be kept in mind but not interfere with natural biological parenting. Parenting involves numerous functional areas like physical health, intellectual development, social behavior, and mental health. The roles and challenges of parenting are changing with factors like the rising status of mothers and interest of fathers. Both over-parenting and under-parenting should be
An overview of Positive Parenting
Strategies for raising children through positive approaches. Contains strategies for preventing and treating challenging behavior
This document discusses factors that can contribute to students' poor performance in learning, including lack of motivation, family issues, low confidence, and classroom environment. It outlines specific causes for each factor, such as students avoiding difficult tasks if they have a poor self-image or living in poverty distracting from academics. Solutions are provided for parents to help with motivation, create a study space at home, communicate with teachers, and build their child's confidence by allowing independence. Effective classroom management is also highlighted as important for reducing disruptions.
The document discusses the problems that teenage relationships can cause, such as increased obligations, isolation from friends, and the risks of premarital sex and unwanted pregnancy. It notes that having a relationship at a young age can distract from school and dreams. The author recommends that teenagers instead focus on clubs, activities, and family to avoid the disadvantages of early romantic relationships.
A parenting style is a psychological construct representing standard strategies that parents use in their child rearing. The quality of parenting can be more essential than the quantity of time spent with the child. For instance, a parent can spend an entire afternoon with his or her child, yet the parent may be engaging in a different activity and not demonstrating enough interest towards the child. Parenting styles are the representation of how parents respond and demand to their children. Parenting practices are specific behaviors, while parenting styles represent broader patterns of parenting practices
Technology is now accessible in almost every part of the world and it has completely changed the way we interact with one another. Though we’ve made many great technological advances, studies have shown that screen time can have an impact on your child’s development.
Children need discipline to learn self-control, acceptable social behaviors, and limits. Effective discipline involves setting clear rules, positive reinforcement of good behaviors, consistency, and using techniques like timeout proportionate to the child's age and misbehavior. Punishment should not replace encouragement, and parents should agree on discipline and be respectful role models. Positive discipline teaches alternatives to misbehavior and respects the child.
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We want the best for our children
But we are still trying to raise our children like our parents did.
Our plans and dreams for them will be obsolete.
We could shortchange their goals.
We need to be prepared, aware and participate.
I believe that it is completely up to us.
Teenage relationships with parents can be challenging, as around 1 million children run away from home each year due to defiance and oppositional behavior from parents. Parenting styles influence how children develop relationship skills. Conflict is normal but parents should focus on listening, assertive communication, discussing feelings, and showing empathy and support. Parents should avoid reacting fast or being judgmental, talk about positive aspects first, and differentiate important issues from non-issues. Parents need to understand peer dynamics and include teens in decisions affecting their lives.
This document provides tips and strategies for engaging families in children's learning and planning through effective communication and partnership. It discusses how family involvement benefits students and highlights the importance of shared responsibility between families and schools. Specific recommendations are given for conducting productive parent-teacher conferences, including preparing for, having, and following up on meetings. The goal is to facilitate respectful, collaborative discussions that focus on student progress and developing plans to support learning.
The document discusses the importance of parental engagement in a child's education. It defines parental involvement and the major factors that influence engagement. Additionally, it provides strategies for when and how parents should get involved, including establishing home environments conducive to learning and communicating regularly with the school.
This document provides information on different parenting styles and tips for effective parenting. It discusses hands-on parenting, hands-off parenting, and half-hearted parenting. It includes worksheets to help identify your parenting style based on factors like involvement in your child's activities and communication. The document then covers topics like knowing your child's strengths, building their confidence, teaching social and cognitive skills, effective communication, discipline, and being a role model. It emphasizes the importance of family bonding, encouraging creativity, and using compassion when parenting.
Positive relationships are important for well-being as humans are social animals. Good relationships are built on trust, effective communication, mutual respect and valuing differences. Teachers and parents can develop positive relationships by listening to understand each other's perspectives, respecting different views, and working together for mutual benefit rather than competition. Children learn relationship skills from role models, so adults should build trust with kids and encourage friendships.
Effective parenting requires effort to better a child's life. Different parenting styles like permissive, authoritarian, and attachment parenting are discussed. The key aspects of effective parenting are maintaining a positive mood, encouraging a child's passions, teaching basics, and accepting them unconditionally. Special thanks are given to child psychologists who helped inform this discussion on parenting.
This document provides guidance on positive parenting techniques to improve parenting skills and reduce stress. It emphasizes that parents should model good behavior, clearly communicate rules and expectations, and consistently use praise and logical consequences to encourage positive choices and build a strong parent-child relationship. The key is for parents to remain calm and assertive while holding children accountable for their behavior.
Adolescents face challenges in finding their identity as they try different roles. They experience confusion over who they should be. The main tasks of adolescence include dealing with conflicts with parents, peers becoming more important, and mood changes. Adolescents are influenced both by their parents and peers, though studies show they cannot be influenced by both. Risky behaviors like smoking increase as friends' influence grows during adolescence. Around 39% of adolescents suffer from low self-esteem, which tends to drop during ages 9-13 and again from 18-23. When life becomes difficult, some adolescents make wrong choices that make them feel guilty.
The document outlines 10 principles of good parenting according to experts. The principles include showing love to children, being involved in their lives, adapting parenting styles to fit each child's development, establishing clear rules consistently, fostering independence appropriately, avoiding harsh discipline, explaining rules and decisions, and treating children with respect. The document emphasizes that there is no perfect parent but that following research-based parenting strategies can help children grow into well-adjusted adults.
The document discusses various aspects of parenting and provides guidance. It notes that parenting has evolved over millions of years in the paleopallium region of the brain. While some awareness and correction of mistakes may be needed, natural parenting should generally be allowed to retain its charm. Specific to humans, the chief task of parenting is to ensure the infant's survival given their vulnerability. Intellectual theories on parenting should be kept in mind but not interfere with natural biological parenting. Parenting involves numerous functional areas like physical health, intellectual development, social behavior, and mental health. The roles and challenges of parenting are changing with factors like the rising status of mothers and interest of fathers. Both over-parenting and under-parenting should be
An overview of Positive Parenting
Strategies for raising children through positive approaches. Contains strategies for preventing and treating challenging behavior
This document discusses factors that can contribute to students' poor performance in learning, including lack of motivation, family issues, low confidence, and classroom environment. It outlines specific causes for each factor, such as students avoiding difficult tasks if they have a poor self-image or living in poverty distracting from academics. Solutions are provided for parents to help with motivation, create a study space at home, communicate with teachers, and build their child's confidence by allowing independence. Effective classroom management is also highlighted as important for reducing disruptions.
The document discusses the problems that teenage relationships can cause, such as increased obligations, isolation from friends, and the risks of premarital sex and unwanted pregnancy. It notes that having a relationship at a young age can distract from school and dreams. The author recommends that teenagers instead focus on clubs, activities, and family to avoid the disadvantages of early romantic relationships.
A parenting style is a psychological construct representing standard strategies that parents use in their child rearing. The quality of parenting can be more essential than the quantity of time spent with the child. For instance, a parent can spend an entire afternoon with his or her child, yet the parent may be engaging in a different activity and not demonstrating enough interest towards the child. Parenting styles are the representation of how parents respond and demand to their children. Parenting practices are specific behaviors, while parenting styles represent broader patterns of parenting practices
Technology is now accessible in almost every part of the world and it has completely changed the way we interact with one another. Though we’ve made many great technological advances, studies have shown that screen time can have an impact on your child’s development.
Children need discipline to learn self-control, acceptable social behaviors, and limits. Effective discipline involves setting clear rules, positive reinforcement of good behaviors, consistency, and using techniques like timeout proportionate to the child's age and misbehavior. Punishment should not replace encouragement, and parents should agree on discipline and be respectful role models. Positive discipline teaches alternatives to misbehavior and respects the child.
Success For Our Children Establishing “Smart Sanskar”
India is now collision of the ancient and the modern.We are undergoing a transformation! 3 new forces are shaping our children!
Like us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SmartSanskars?ref=stream
We want the best for our children
But we are still trying to raise our children like our parents did.
Our plans and dreams for them will be obsolete.
We could shortchange their goals.
We need to be prepared, aware and participate.
I believe that it is completely up to us.
Teenage relationships with parents can be challenging, as around 1 million children run away from home each year due to defiance and oppositional behavior from parents. Parenting styles influence how children develop relationship skills. Conflict is normal but parents should focus on listening, assertive communication, discussing feelings, and showing empathy and support. Parents should avoid reacting fast or being judgmental, talk about positive aspects first, and differentiate important issues from non-issues. Parents need to understand peer dynamics and include teens in decisions affecting their lives.
This document provides tips and strategies for engaging families in children's learning and planning through effective communication and partnership. It discusses how family involvement benefits students and highlights the importance of shared responsibility between families and schools. Specific recommendations are given for conducting productive parent-teacher conferences, including preparing for, having, and following up on meetings. The goal is to facilitate respectful, collaborative discussions that focus on student progress and developing plans to support learning.
The document discusses the importance of parental engagement in a child's education. It defines parental involvement and the major factors that influence engagement. Additionally, it provides strategies for when and how parents should get involved, including establishing home environments conducive to learning and communicating regularly with the school.
The document summarizes a parent engagement event about developing the local offer for children with special educational needs. It includes an agenda for the day with presentations and workshops. The presentations discuss what parents want from communication and information, examples of successful local offers, and what interventions work for different needs. The workshops gather parent input on improving outcomes and how to design the local offer website.
Parents play a vital role in their child's education in several ways: 1) They can create a supportive learning environment at home by setting clear expectations, encouraging learning, and designating a study space. 2) Parents can also be actively involved in their child's school through regular communication with teachers, attending meetings, and volunteering. 3) Additionally, parents serve as advocates by collaborating on educational plans, monitoring homework, and promoting extracurricular activities.
Parental support in children's learning means parents working together with schools for the best educational outcomes. When parents are involved beginning in early childhood, the effects are powerful. Parental support includes communicating with schools, volunteering, helping with homework, and making educational decisions. Benefits include improved student achievement and behavior, as well as strengthened home-school relationships. However, barriers like lack of time, confidence, and familiarity with school systems can limit parental involvement. Schools and parents should work to establish routines, monitor activities, express high expectations, and encourage reading to best support children's learning.
The document discusses parental involvement in schools. It begins by defining parental involvement as a commitment by parents to actively participate in their child's education and in the school. It then discusses the importance of parental involvement, citing research that shows children perform better academically when parents are more involved. The document also discusses ways to involve and motivate parents, such as keeping them informed about their child's progress and the school, and inviting them to participate in school activities and committees. It concludes by noting some potential gaps in parental involvement like lack of communication between parents and schools.
This document provides guidance for parents on partnering with Gerstell Academy to support their child's education. It emphasizes that parental involvement is crucial for student success and character development. It outlines the school's mission, leadership model, four pillars of education, and expectations for reinforcing the curriculum at home. The document encourages parents to attend school events and provides opportunities for parental involvement through the parent association.
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The document describes a survey on parent-school relationships designed by Harvard and SurveyMonkey that measures constructs like parent support, school fit, self-efficacy, child behaviors, engagement, school climate, communication, and roles. It provides details on the design and implementation of the survey which has been used by over 670,000 students across 877 schools to help evaluate needs, compare groups, and inform strategic planning. Examples of survey questions are given for each construct measured.
The document presents a toolkit called "FaCE the challenge together" for implementing effective family and community engagement strategies in schools. It discusses why family and community partnerships are important for improving student outcomes. Effective engagement requires a whole-school approach, respect for cultural values, understanding of barriers, and focus on communication, respect and trust. The toolkit provides a framework with five themes: leadership, embedding engagement school-wide, welcoming families, supporting student learning at home, and developing community partnerships. Next steps recommended include designating staff leadership, incorporating priorities into the school development plan, defining roles and training, using targeted funds, and collaborating with other schools.
This document discusses the importance of teacher-family partnerships and provides strategies for organizing family support. It notes that involving families enhances children's learning and well-being, improves how teachers are viewed professionally, and allows teachers to support learning at home. The document outlines traditional, normed, and vulnerable family structures and discusses understanding different parenting styles, reactions to learning difficulties, and the goals and challenges of family involvement. It provides principles for empowering families and strategies for organizing support, such as developing a family resource center, holding family workshops and festivals, and acknowledging family contributions.
The document discusses the important role that parents play in a child's educational success. It states that investing time, money, and effort into a child's education can have lasting benefits for the child and society. When parents are involved in a child's education by helping with homework, communicating with teachers, having high expectations, and creating a home environment that supports learning, children tend to have higher test scores and grades, better school attendance, and are more likely to complete high school and pursue further education. The document emphasizes that developing a partnership between parents and teachers is key to promoting students' academic and social development.
The document discusses the importance of visibility and involvement for various internal and external publics of an educational institution. Internally, it is important for administrators, teaching staff, non-teaching staff, and students to be visible to build trust, provide communication, and support learning. Externally, there are various ways for parents to be involved, such as volunteering in the classroom, communicating with teachers, helping with homework, and attending school events. Effective parental involvement can occur both while parents are at school and at home by establishing routines and communicating regularly about their child's education.
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The document discusses key aspects of preschool, including:
- Preschool aims to prepare children for school through learning, play, and socialization in a safe environment.
- Preschool programs include public, private, and Head Start options with part-time or full-time schedules.
- A quality preschool features age-appropriate activities, low student-teacher ratios, and trained staff to foster children's academic skills and development.
- The daily schedule balances free play, outdoor time, large group instruction, and small group activities to engage children in diverse settings.
This document outlines an online course aimed at parents, stakeholders, researchers, developers, and policymakers. The course covers five key challenges related to educational success: supporting parenting; learning together; communication; volunteering; and participating in the community. It aims to help parents reflect on practices to support children's development and academic achievement. The course also seeks to stimulate attitudes about creating supportive family and school environments and designing strategies to promote educational success for all children. The course materials include resources, audiovisual content, and tools for reflection. It is intended for both individual self-learning and shared learning through online discussion.
The document discusses the benefits of parent and family involvement in education. It states that research shows parent involvement significantly improves student outcomes, such as higher achievement, better attendance, and higher graduation rates. Benefits are seen for students, parents, teachers, and communities. Effective involvement includes creating a supportive home learning environment and communication between families and schools. However, schools must work to overcome barriers like cultural differences, time constraints, and lack of understanding around the parent role to fully engage families as partners in education.
This document provides a toolkit for parents of students with learning disabilities as they prepare for the new school year. It includes guides on building relationships with teachers, becoming an advocate, advocating for your child, and preparing for parent-teacher conferences. The guides offer tips on communicating with teachers, sharing information about your child, maintaining involvement, and working collaboratively. The document emphasizes the importance of partnership between parents and schools to support children's education.
This document provides guidance for early childhood practitioners on supporting children's holistic development in accordance with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework. It emphasizes that children learn through positive relationships and enabling environments that meet their individual needs and interests. The document outlines four interconnected themes of the EYFS - a unique child, positive relationships, enabling environments, and learning and development. It describes observing, assessing and planning for children's progress across prime areas of learning and characteristics of effective learning. The goal is for practitioners to closely match support to each child's developmental level and needs.
2. Welcome
I’m Chris Martin
• I’m excited to be here today as parent involvement is an
important facet of my life, and I know it is important to
you too. I’m a retired professional football player. Today
I want to discuss some important parent involvement
strategies with you and share similarities of how juggling
parenting responsibilities is a lot like surviving and
winning on the football field. Please feel free to raise
your hand if you have questions during the presentation.
I am happy to explain points more clearly and provide
even more football strategies in addition to those shown
throughout the Power Point. First, I’d like the parents to
introduce themselves by sharing your name and age of
your child(ren).
• Now Let’s Get Started!
3. What is Parent Involvement?
* Definitions from the audience?
* Chris’ definition/discussion
* Joyce Epstein’s Six Levels of Parent
• 1. Parenting
Involvement are:
• 2. Communication Parent Involvement means
teaming with your child’s
• 3. Volunteering school and teacher!
• 4. Learning at Home
• 5. Decision Making
• 6. Collaborating with Community
4. What do the Six Levels of Parent
Involvement Mean?
• Parenting – help all parents establish home environments to
support children as students
• In Football this is like:
• Ball Carrier – is in possession of the ball, like the parent is usually the legal guardian of the
child, and most knowledgeable of the child’s developmental, social, emotional, and educational
needs
• Coverage - to defend a position, player, or location on the field. Parents must ensure they
support children by equipping them with proper nutrition, clothing, housing, parenting support, and
other basic needs. Children need defensive coverage just like a team player in football.
• Guard – there are 2 guards on every play and they are lined up on either side of the offensive
center. Children need to be represented by their 2 strongest advocates (mother and father), and
sometimes other family members are responsible for the child. Schools need to be
knowledgeable and respectful of the family system.
• Head Coach – is responsible for all aspects of the team (child’s education plan, curriculum and
activities) and in charge of all other coaches (lead partner with child’s teacher and director of
child’s education)
5. Communication – Design effective forms of school-to-home
and home-to-school communication about school programs and child
progress
• In Football, there are similar examples of how communication is important
in the game, just like in parenting:
• A Huddle is when 11 players on one team come together as a group to
discuss an upcoming play. Parents can win when they have opportunity to
network with one another to suggest school activities and help plan the
school calendar. When schools effectively communicate with parents,
families can better plan their attendance and are more apt to take on parent
leadership roles.
• Check Off is changing a play at the line of scrimmage by calling a pre-
determined set of signals when the quarterback doesn’t like the play being
called. Schools and teachers should give parents opportunity discuss their
ideas and feelings about curriculum and overall education plan. Parents
feel respected when they have a chance to modify or change things that
dissatisfy them. And if a change can’t be made, they feel better if the
school explains policies, procedures, etc. in detail.
6. Volunteering – Recruit and organize parent help and
support
• Let’s look at how important volunteering is to parenting as it in
football:
• Be a Playmaker by volunteering in your child’s school. In football
this is a player that has a history of making big plays. Schools need parents
who are consistent, committed, and dedicated. Many sources of research
evidence a strong connection between continuous parent involvement and
enhanced child achievement
• Open Up Holes in football means pushing the opposition aside
to make room in their defense for a ball carrier to run with the ball. Your
child is the ball carrier. Open up holes (opportunities) for your child by
educating yourself on important child assessments, tests, and other
requirements. With this knowledge you can equip your child with the tools
and support needed for success!
7. Learning at Home – provide information and ideas about
how to help students at home with homework and other curriculum-
related activities, decisions, and planning
• Learning at Home relates to football in the following ways:
• Home Field Advantage – the benefits a team gets from
playing games in it’s own stadium. Benefits are familiarity with the field and
surroundings, fan support, and lack of required travel. The home is the #1
learning environment for the child, and the place where they can learn and
relax. Parents should work with teachers to ensure they are involved in
reinforcing learning at home. Make sure you are aware of homework
activities and use community resources like the library and after school
programs to offer your child further assistance.
• Place Kicker – the player who kicks the ball on kickoffs, extra
points attempts, and field goal attempts. Reinforcing Learning at
Home helps your child earn extra knowledge and a head start on
their studies. Set up a learning environment at home to help your
child become a Place Kicker!
8. Decision Making – Include parents in school
decisions developing parent leaders and representatives
• One of the most important football techniques is the ability to make
decisions, and most importantly that decisions are made by experts. We
must remember that parents are the experts on their children. Here are
some football examples:
• Signal Caller – player who calls the plays in the huddle or on the line
of scrimmage. School should ensure parent representation on school
leadership committees. Parent voices are strong advocates when
developing school improvement plans.
• Ready List – short list of plays tailored specifically for an upcoming
game. Parents should volunteer in decision making opportunities. This
prompts commitment and motivation to parent involvement. Include parent
decisions when planning and tailoring upcoming school activities.
9. Collaborating with Community – identify and integrate
resources from the community to strengthen school programs, family
practices, and student learning and development
• In football without a strong sense of collaboration and
support from the team, you cannot win. Here are some
examples of how community collaboration affects
parenting and performance on the football field:
• Man-to-Man Coverage – pass coverage in which every defensive
back is assigned to a particular receiver. This football example supports the
need for schools to align themselves with community agencies to bring in
specific services for families such as housing information, transportation
support, clothing and food assistance, etc.
• Balanced Line – a formation that consists of an equal number of
linemen on either side of the center. This term is similar to the concept of
ensuring community services are wrapped around each school. Schools
should collaborate with businesses, organizations, etc. to bring in needed
resources for families. Community services help support and protect
families just as the linemen support the center in football.
10. Q&A
• We’ve discussed the Six Levels of
Parent Involvement. Now let’s get
examples from you – the parents. What
are some ways you can become
involved or more involved in your
child’s school?
• Allow time to get responses from parents
11. How Will You Start?
• The examples are great. Reflecting back
on the six levels of parent involvement, are
there certain steps you need to take to get
involved? If so, what are they?
• Examples:
• Assess work schedules and determine if you can attend meetings
• Do you have transportation to school meetings and activities?
• Are you comfortable in the school environment?
• Other examples?
• Helpful Handout – more strategies for parent
involvement. Disseminate to the group
12. Thank You
• I appreciate you for giving me an opportunity to share
important parent involvement information with you. I
hope you had fun learning football terms, and I have a
full glossary you can take home with you to further your
knowledge of football terminology. I know that you want
the best for your children. That’s why you are here.
Remember, you are your child’s first and most important
teacher. Partner with your child’s school and build a
partnership for learning with the teacher and principal.
• Take the first step.
• This is the beginning of a winning team!