Good afternoon NAF 2010 Participants!

Building Partnerships with Parents

This workshop will give participants an overview of how to sustain a partnership with parents through collaboration with Business Partners and the local Chamber of Commerce. Participants will hear about Chavez High School’s efforts to forge a partnership with the East End Chamber of Commerce and how this four-year collaboration now provides parents opportunities to become involved with their child’s education.

NAF Core Principle: Engaged Community and Youth

Parent Participation is the Gateway to Community Involvement.

Near Self-Sustaining Enrollment: Word of Mouth; Recruitment Support

Open Communication: Trust from Families; Feedback; Change

Access to Capital: Human; Financial; Intellectual

COLLABORATION

CONSISTENCY

OUTREACH

COLLABORATION

CONSISTENCY

OUTREACH

East End Chamber of Commerce

Student-ParentDinners

Flyers and Telling Students to Come

The Tale of Five SoulsThe Lesson?

BUY-INOUTREACH

PARENTS

CHAVEZ

EECOC

Our AOE Parent-Student Dinners now have an attendance of 300+

WHAT DOES THE ACADEMY ENVISION?

HOW CAN BOTH SIDES BENEFIT?

WHAT CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED?

Parent Participation At Your Academy

Work

Attain Change Maintain

Awards

Career/ College

Parents

Business Community

Dinners

Our Work is In Progress:

I hope this program has given you a couple of things:

-A starting point-A perspective-Some points to validate your work

A special thanks to you!

Stephanie Rivera

• srivera5@houstonisd.org

Deborah Jaques

• djaques@houstonisd.org

http://parentparticipation.blogspot.com