Parent Communications and Involvement Workgroup

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Parent Communications and Involvement Workgroup (PCIW)

•	Overview
•	Standards Documents
•	Portfolio of Best Practices
•	Contact Information

Overview
Research clearly shows that when parents get involved, students do better. In January 2003, and in an effort to encourage parental participation in the education process, a Parent Communications and Involvement Workgroup (PCIW) was formed. Its purpose is to gather ideas, strategies and techniques for a comprehensive set of districtwide standards for parent communications and involvement.

The PCIW participants, made up of representatives from each of our parent committees and the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) along with teachers, principals, school-based Parent Academic Liaisons (PAL) and instructional leaders, help ensure the group's efforts represent our diverse student population. As leadership positions rotate among the parent committees, additional members will be added based on Workgroup membership turnover.

The development of the Parent Communications and Involvement Standards, aimed at engaging parents at four levels -- district, school, classroom and home - involved an extensive campaign of communications activities

to reach more than 40,000 parents and educators for review and feedback. Following approval by the Board of Education, copies of the standards were distributed to all schools and childhood development centers.

The PCIW was established from a three-year grant from The Annie E. Casey Foundation. The grant will also fund the reproduction and distribution of the standards.

Standards Documents

•	Standards Summary: English \| Spanish \| Somali \| Vietnamese \| Cambodian \| Lao
•	Standards: English \| Spanish \| Somali \| Vietnamese \| Cambodian \| Lao

Portfolio of Best Practices

Provides descriptions of activities and events that encourage parent involvement at schools. Schools are encouraged to submit descriptions of successful parent involvment endeavors for includsion in upconming All materials were published with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

2004 Portfolio of Best Practices

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2003 Portfolio of Best Practices

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