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Moving Beyond Compliance: Authentic Partnerships Through Parent Leadership

Moving Beyond Compliance:Authentic Partnerships

Through Parent Leadership

Division of Family and Community EngagementYolanda Torres

Executive Superintendent

2018Developed By Anthony Settle


Challenge is the pathway

to engagement and progress in our lives.

But not all challenges are created equal.

Some challenges make us feel alive,

engaged, connected, and fulfilled.

Others simply overwhelm us.

Knowing the difference

as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself

is critical to

your sanity, success, and satisfaction.

Brendon BurchardMotivational Speaker, NYT Best Selling Author


Something to Think About

1. What indicators do you use to determine how parents and parent leaders are

engaged in your in your school?

2. Do you feel that as a Parent Coordinators you are supported by the district to support

the parent leaders in your school?

3. How do you assess the capability of the parent leaders in your school?

4. How are you developing the competence and capability of parent leaders in your

school?


Meaningful Participation

• Requires that individuals are actively engaged in the decisions that directly affect them in a

well determined and deliberate manner.

I. What is being shared?

II. What is the response to the shared information?

III. How are next steps reached? (determined)

IV. How are next steps implemented?


Meaningful Participation

Acting Together

Deciding Together

Consultation

InformationI. What is being shared?

And how?

II. What is the response

to shared information?

III. How are next

steps reached?

IV. How are next steps

implemented?


Meaningful Participation – Inquiry Questions

Who are you?

Project or Process manager

Someone in a position of influence/power.

Someone with professional expertise or knowledge?

Why do you want to use this method?

What do you hope to achieve?

To try and develop plans that meet people’s expectations.

To give people a say in the plans.

To give people control over the solutions.

Who will have the final say over decisions?

Yourself.

A team.

Everyone who gets involved.

A different group or other people

How ready are people, and organizations, to work

in a participatory way?

Do they have the desire?

Do they have the skills?

Do they have the authority?


Meaningful Participation – Check Lists

Information checklist

• Are you clear which interests

you are informing, and how

much they know already?

• Are they likely to be satisfied

with only information?

• Can you present your

proposals in a way people will

understand and relate to?

• Have you identified

appropriate communication

• methods for the time available

and audience?

• Are you prepared to change

your stance if people want

more than information?

Consultation checklist

• Are you clear which interests you

are consulting, and have you the

means to contact them?

• Are they likely to be satisfied with

consultation?

• Can you present your vision and

options for achieving it in a way

people will relate to and

understand?

• Have you identified appropriate

communication methods for the

time available and likely

participants?

• Can you and your colleagues

handle the feedback?

• Have you arranged for a report

back to those consulted?

• Are you prepared to change your

stance if people want more than

consultation?

• Are you just seeking endorsement

of your plans?

Deciding together checklist

• Are you prepared to accept

other people’s ideas?

• What are the boundaries?

• Are you clear who it is

appropriate to involve?

• Are you clear about what

you want to achieve, and the

boundaries to any ideas you

will accept to get there?

• Do you have the skills to use

joint decision-making

methods?

• Do you have the authority to

follow through with solutions

which are decided with

others?

• Have you involved

colleagues who need to be

part of

• the solution?

Acting together checklist

• Are you clear about what

you want to achieve, and

how flexible you are in

pursuing that vision?

• Have you identified

potential partners?

• Do you have any

evidence that they share

a similar vision, and are

interested in a

partnership with you to

achieve it?

• Do they trust you?

• Do you have the time

and commitment

necessary to form a

partnership?

• Are you prepared to

share power?









school?


Building Capacity

• Requires that an organization analyze its key structures either to improve upon existing

successful structures or eliminate obstacles that inhibit the organization from achieving its

goals and objectives.

I. What do we do well?

II. What do we want to do better?

III. What resources are available to us?

IV. What resources do need or want?


Building Capacity

Effective & Efficient

Harness Existing Resources

Capacity Building

Create & Attract New Resources

I. How can we do this

better?

III. What

resources are

available to us?

IV. What resources do

we need and or want?

II. What do we

need to do better?


Building Capacity

District/City

School

Membership

Capacity at the District/City

level: State/City Educational

Policy, Chancellor’s

Regulations.

Capacity at the school

level: capacity of the staff,

parents, leadership,

logistics.

Capacity at the individual level:

skills and knowledge of elected

& general members, materials

& equipment, attitude and

commitment to the work.


Building Capacity

Observe & identify

needs &

opportunities for

change

Review the

organization's

mission & vision

statements

Identify capacity

needs and plan for

capacity building

Discuss and agree

on the support that

can be provided

Implement and

manage the

change process

Monitor and re-

evaluate the

developments

Begin by monitoring

and studying the

external

environment in order

to identify positive

and negative

aspects of the

organization and

opportunities for

growth and or

change.

Review the

mandates, missions,

future plans and

strategies; needs

can be identified or

clarified

Understanding the

external

environment and the

organizational

mission & vision

statements makes it

easier to identify

needs, wants and

obstacles; clarify

assumptions

Identify what support

systems and or

interventions are

needed, to create

sustainable positive

change.

Support of the

decision makers in

the organizations is

essential at this

stage. As capacity

building processes

call for

organizational

changes, effective

management and

environment

conducive to

changes are needed

Since not only the

outcomes, but the

process of capacity

building is important,

monitoring the

process is essential.

Based on the results

of monitoring and

periodic evaluations,

you need to discuss

and negotiate the

strategy being

implemented with

the organization.


Parent Leadership Structures

Parent/Parent-Teacher

Association

School Leadership

Team

Presidents’ Council

Community & Citywide

Education Councils

Chancellor’s Parent

Advisory Committee




Parent/Parent-Teacher Association

Forum through which parents can become more involved in their children’s education.

Conduct outreach to determine members’ needs and interests.

Provide parents with access to available

educational resources and information.

Surface parent concerns and work with school

staff to identify appropriate solutions

Plan activities designed to attract and recruit parents

to take part in a robust parent involvement

program at the school.

Conduct fundraising activities to benefit the educational, social and cultural programs in the

school.

Identify community-based organizations and other external partners that provide services

parents need.



School Leadership Team

Responsible for developing the Comprehensive

Educational Plan (CEP)

Responsible for ensuring that the CEP is aligned to the School Based Budget

Responsible for creating a culture of collaboration in

the school




Represents the interests of parents and parent

leadership organizations

Independent organizations of PA/PTA

President’s within a district and or borough

Provide support and resources to constituent

PA/PTAs

Support district goals and initiatives leading to improved student

achievement

Develop parent leadership and build capacity for greater

involvement

Provide training opportunities and training for parents to participate

in school governance and decision-making

Foster and encourage parent participation on all

levels









school?


Moving Beyond Compliance

Compliance Benchmarks


Association


School Leadership

Team


Moving Beyond Compliance

Compliance Benchmarks


Association Elections

Interim Financial

Report January

Annual Financial

Report June Title 1

Annual Meeting

School Leadership

Team Vacancy Elections



Community & Citywide Education Councils

Responsible for promoting student

achievement, advising and commenting on educational policies

Established in NY State Education Law 2590-e

Responsible for creating a culture of collaboration

in the school

Providing input to the Chancellor and the Panel for Education

Policy (PEP) on matters of concern for the district


Chancellor’s Parent Advisory Committee

(CPAC)


Advises Chancellor on important issues to

parents of NYC Public School Students

Citywide organization of President’s Council

Presidents

Supports Presidents Council by providing

information on important issues affecting schools

Provide Guidance in the development of local

parent leadership

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