We’re speaking of parents’ engagement in their child’s teaching and learning. That happens often in many out of school times and places. As families talk, play games, do, household chores, engage in cultural activities, go places or do things together, teaching & learning happen.
“Productive collaborations between family and school will demand that parents and teachers recognize the critical importance of each other’s participation in the life of the child.”
– Sara Lawrence Lightfoot
On average, schools that implemented PTHV systemically tended to experience greater improvement in rates of student chronic absenteeism than those that conducted home visits less extensively.
5 decades of research attests to the fact that when parents are engaged in their children’s teaching & learning, children do better, stay in school longer, and like school more. With this evidence, it becomes a moral, ethical, relational, and intellectual imperative to act on it.
HAVE YOU REGISTERED? FAMILY ENGAGEMENT SERIES- The Power of Words with Patricia Weinzapfel - June 9, 2022 at 8pm
An evening with Patricia Weinzapfel as you look to build and rebuild relationships with your most important stakeholders-families.
To register: https://t.co/ezX2MxWStD
The University of Melbourne is working with Mental Health First Aid Australia to develop new guidelines on how to provide mental health first aid to children, and we need your help!
If you’d like to be involved, get in touch via the link >> https://t.co/zuOgvjzJZm
Congratulations!
Catholic School Parents Queensland (CSPQ), our peak parent body for our school Parents and Friends Associations, marks their 60-year anniversary this weekend.
When #educators enter a community, they're entering a place with relationships, culture, and a history that began before they arrived. They're entering as guests. To welcome #parents to a #school means that staff members open the door as hosts who recognize they are also guests.
Yesterday we announced our more than $1 billion investment in Queensland kindy services. It’s going to make kindy cheaper or free for 40,000 families – that’s 70% of families that have kids at kindy. 🖍