FILE: KO
PARENT INVOLVEMENT POLICY
A critical dimension of effective schooling is parent involvement. Students learn better if, in addition to being provided a good instructional program, they receive the continuing support of parents and other significant adults.
Parent involvement has an impact when parent, students and school share responsibility for the growth and development of each student. Academic achievement can be enhanced through a clear, shared understanding of learning outcomes, a focus of student attention and effort on assigned learning activities, and open two-way communication by the schools’ staff and parent/guardian concerning learning issues.
Schools will regularly provide information to parents designed to help parents play their expected role in supporting the learning environment of both home and school. Parents should be:
1. engaged positively in their children’s education by helping to develop skills to use at home that support the school program.
2. provided opportunities to be informed about their child’s development and the criteria for its measurement.
3. provided with home activities, learning strategies, discipline techniques, and skill to build healthy relationships with children and positive attitudes toward learning.
4. provided opportunities to participate in formal organizations for parent/guardians at each school building.
5. provided opportunities to communicate with the school through scheduled conferences and other formats.
ADOPTED: October 12, 2004
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