School Change Projects
A New Kind of PTA
Sometimes the most effective changes in a system come about through the simplest changes. Perhaps a better way to phrase this same idea is that sometimes the most effective changes in a system comes at the most basic level. This is the kind of change that I propose for my district, although it is not the same kind of back-to-basics plan that is still sweeping across the American educational landscape.
This suggestion does not touch on the issue of how basic the curriculum should be, although curricular reform is (of course) one of the central questions for every educational professional since the passage of the federal No Child Left Behind act. Rather, the changes that I would like to see instituted in my district are a greater participation of parents and other family members in the students' educational lives. This is a simple idea that will take significant resources and energy to bring about and will require a great deal of planning and thoughtfulness to ensure that the range of families whose children attend district schools will all be able to be included.
The idea that children do better when their families are involved in their education is hardly a revolutionary idea, of course. Indeed, it is one of the most well-accepted tenets of modern education. It has even been held up as a panacea to educational ills, especially in inner-city and low-income schools. However, the fact that a push for inclusion of families has been recognized for so many generations of students (and educators) does not mean that there are consistent current efforts to bring parents (and other caregivers) into the educational process in my district.
This push towards parental inclusion is in fact part and parcel of the No Child Left Behind educational reform act, as described below:
Parent involvement...
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