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Family Friendly Schools Creates a Pathway
for Success with No Child
Left Behind Legislation
Family Friendly Schools can assist you, whether
school or district, to measure, develop and improve your
leadership and practice in the arena of real family engagement,
student achievement, and school improvement. Our processes
include schools at all levels and those that are facing
needs improvement challenges, corrective action, and in
need of "turnaround" competencies.
- All processes within Family Friendly Schools are based in
sound empirical research.
- Family Friendly Schools helps to coordinate your cadre team
to act as the foundation of systemic cultural change
- Family Friendly Schools provides data gathering and analysis
to insure that all policies, processes procedures and plans
are measurable and sustainable
- Family Friendly Schools offers the most up-to-date opportunities
to provide you information and networking opportunities
- Family Friendly Schools provides you with a full array of
ongoing development experiences to build and strengthen your
efforts toward family engagement, student achievement and
school improvement.
How we do it
- Family Friendly Schools insures that all materials, processes,
and outcomes are in strict compliance with Section 1118
of the NCLB Act
- Develop and train a cadre leadership team composed of administrators,
teachers, parents, and others
- Collect and analyze data regarding family engagement practices
and use that data to create measurable plans of action for
long-term improvement and culture change
- Offer numerous capacity-building "Mastery Learning" seminars
in subjects that will allow all staff to understand and support
the culture change
- Help districts develop family engagement policies that meet
the requirements of present legislation through our unique
and custom Policy Rubric©
- In addition to NCLB section 1118 requirements, Family Friendly
Schools teaches the fundamental processes to attach real family
engagement to real student achievement.
Comparison of NCLB and The Family Friendly Schools
Process
- The law now says that parents are to be "afforded substantial
and meaningful opportunities to participate in the
education of their children." (Title I, Sec. 1001 (12))
- Parent
leaders should make sure that the school district appoint
a school support team that includes parents and community
members for schools identified as needing improvement,
restructuring and/or corrective action
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- Understand present levels of opportunities of involvement
with the FFS data collection and analysis process
- Create the Family Friendly Schools cadre leadership
team composed of administrators, teachers, families and
others to lead the processes
- Create measurable plans that improve opportunities and
improve student achievement
- Learn how to create leadership
opportunities for families that help improve the culture
of the school
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- Parents and community representatives need to part of
this critical planning process. This requirement
gives them the opportunity to work with educators to (1)
develop a plan that addresses how the SEA, LEA, and
individual schools will promote the social, emotional,
and academic growth of students, and (2) shape Title I
services that include meaningful parental involvement
policies and school practices that lead to increased student
achievement.
- Parent leaders should make sure that a representative
group of parents participate in the development
of the parent involvement policy and parent involvement
compact.
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- All Family Friendly Schools workshops and seminars are inclusive of families
- The
Family Friendly Schools Plan is comprehensive and includes
evaluations and revisions of present plans, including
the required Compact for Learning (Title I Schools)
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- There are over ten different roles used in NCLB to describe
the ways that parents and/or community organization can
become involved. They are:
- Advice and recommendation
- Evaluation and review of plans
- In "consultation with" or "shall be consulted
by" or in "meaningful consultation with" or "in
systematic consultation with."
- Opportunity to submit comments or challenge a decision
- In participation with
- School district shall work with
- Input being sought
- in partnership with
- Once a policy and compact have been developed, make
sure they are carried out appropriately and reviewed
on a regular basis.
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- Family Friendly Schools provides meaningful and measurable
processes for all NCLB language to ensure that all parents,
not just some, are actively engaged and involved.
- Family
Friendly Schools provides direct instruction for continuous
evaluation of the Compact for Learning.
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- Ensure that your school district, when it implements
programs and activities around parent involvement, are
actually done so with meaningful consultation of parents
of participating children.
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- Family Friendly Schools provides processes for real family
engagement that produce real results and achievement
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