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Vision
Comprehensive parent involvement includes the participation of parents in all aspects of their children’s education resulting in improved and supportive relationships among students, parents and teachers; and provides significant academic and social growth for their children.
Overview
The Parent, Community and Student Engagement (PCSE) Office works to engage the community—including parents, students, local residents, businesses and organizations—in the education process to assure a collaborative partnership. The San Diego Unified School District is committed to providing parent involvement opportunities of sufficient size, scope and quality to promote an effective home-school partnership by:
- Providing opportunities to help parents strengthen their parenting and literacy skills to foster conditions at home that affect children’s efforts in learning;
- Supporting the efforts of parents to work with their children to understand and attain the district academic content standards;
- Encouraging and facilitating parental interest and involvement in school organizations and activities;
- Encouraging parents to assume school and district leadership roles in governance, advisory and advocacy decision-making processes;
- Helping parents acquire needed services through identified school district and community resources;
- Training principals, staff and parents to build a partnership between the home and school to promote effective two-way communication;
- Consulting with parents on an ongoing basis concerning the manner in which schools and parents can work together to plan, design, implement and evaluate school programs to ensure academic progress;
Alignment to District Goals
San Diego Unified is committed to including all stakeholders in the process of performance improvement. The goal is to establish a collaborative relationship with our parents as partners in accomplishing the district’s goals of:
- Accelerating gains in student performance
- Provide safe, orderly and well-maintained schools
- Strengthen parent, community and higher education support
- Boost employee morale
- Secure adequate funding for schools
Programs and Services
- Attendance Intervention Center
- Community Relations
- Counseling and Guidance
- Mental Health Resource Center
- Nursing and Wellness
- Parent Services:
- Harold J. Ballard Parent Center
- Parent Academic Liaisons
- Parent Concerns/Complaints
- Parent University
- Placement and Appeal
- Race /Human Relations and Advocacy
- School Attendance Review Board (SARB) and Interagency Services
- Special Projects:
- Early Childhood Education Programs
- Title I – VII Programs:
- Program Monitoring
- Foster Youth and NCLB Homeless Liaison
- NCLB Private Schools
- Indian Education Program
- Southeast Asian Program
- Supplemental Education Services
Outreach Initiatives
| • | Family Friendly Schools: English | Spanish |
| • | PCSE Quarterly Newsletter and Upcoming Events: January-March 2008: English  | Spanish October-December 2007: English | Spanish
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Related Resources
| • | Parent Academic
Liaisons (PALs): English | Spanish | Lao | Somali | Vietnamese |
| • | Parent/Guardian Rights: English | Spanish | Somali | Cambodian |
| • | Parent Involvement Opportunities |
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Policy Regarding Accommodation to Parents with
Disabilities
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Contact Information
Parent, Community and Student Engagement Office
Eugene Brucker Education Center
4100 Normal Street, Room 2232
San Diego, CA 92103
(619) 725-8193 – Phone
| Topic | Contact |
| Parent, Community and Student Engagement Issues | Dorothy Harper, Associate Superintendent dharper1@sandi.net (619) 725-8193 Edward Caballero, Administrator ecaballero@sandi.net (619) 725-5519 |