School Successes - Home school relations

Below are the equity-promoting successes around home-school relations that were shared  during our Gallery Walk at Alton Jones:

• After school enrichment
• HS has PTO
• School has web-site and individual teacher emails
• School improvment plan contains a parent involvement goal, and the goal is to incresae the percentage of 'link to learning' activities and monitor
• Team newsletter/mid-quarter progress reports/websites
• Student led conferencing
• Team family events
• Breakfast with principal by grade monthly
• Development of family engagement committee - teacher led which stimulates teacher buy-in
• Calendar developed beginning of year with various volunteers to 'chair'
• Parent liaison working closely
• Home literacy/math baskets developed to at-risk
• Video of 'day in the life'
• Volunteer workshops
• Parenting classes
• Student museum nights
• Monthly parent cafe - topics include homework help, what to expect in grade 1, bfast with principal
• Bilingual story hour