COLORADO PARENTS FOR QUALITY EDUCATION

Provide parents with more authority. Use the team-oriented approach This approach allows parents to feel welcomed, to participate in meaningful ways, and to reinforce academic achievement at home while administrative and mental health teams implement and monitor the program at school.

Urge parents and/or guardians to remain or become active in their child’s educational process. Reiterate to them that they serve as their child’s primary educators. Their presence during the child’s educational career contributes to better behavior, which could lead to more school pride, higher self-esteem, and better grades.

Ask parents about their interest in the school. Too often, the school chooses what the parents should hear although the parents may have little or no interest in what is being presented. Give parents what they are interested in and provide them with interesting speakers so that their enthusiasm and excitement will remain at peak levels.

We will not judge or criticize parents. Even though the level of parent involvement may be low, do not lower students’ expectations of themselves. Instead, we will focus on “solutions” or activities to help develop the parents/children that we serve.

Ask the parents who attend meetings to spread the word to other parents. This strategy could grasp the interest of parents who normally do not participate and increase the amount of parental involvement at all levels.

Make sure that each child is properly educated and attends school regularly. Administrators, teachers, and parents should work together and reach a common goal to ensure that the child will receive a quality education and make the child aware of the importance and value of a good education.