Use Data Well
To what degree are parents/families empowered to:
- Provide relevant information and feedback to district/school personnel on multiple dimensions (e.g., academic, physical, social-emotional) of their child’s progress and challenges?
- Participate as members of the district or school leadership/data team?
- Understand the importance of grade-level expectations in core content areas (e.g., reading, math)?
- Understand the implications of how their child’s district/school/teacher(s) assesses what their child is learning and the level of learning?
- Work with the district/school/teacher(s) to collect data on their child’s performance in designated areas?
Focus Your Goals
To what degree are parents/families empowered to:
- Contribute to the identification of focused district goals for improving instruction and achievement?
- Support the district in reaching district-wide goals?
- Participate in activities related to school-level strategies designed to reach district goals?
- Understand the relationship between their child’s classroom instruction and school-level strategies designed to reach district goals?
- Offer feedback to school and district officials on the relevance of district goals and school-level strategies in meeting their child’s instructional needs?
- Select & Implement Shared Instructional Practices
- To what degree are parents/families empowered to:
- Support the delivery of instruction to their children in targeted areas?
- Assist in the implementation of prevention/intervention strategies to support the instructional process?
- Work with their child’s teacher(s) in using common classroom formative assessment to gather and provide feedback on their child’s level of understanding and application of content learned?
Implement Deeply
To what degree are parents/families empowered to:
- Participate in the implementation of focused instructional practices?
- Understand the need for full implementation of focused instructional practices?
- Understand what full implementation of focused instructional practices looks like?
- Gauge their child’s performance in response to teachers’ implementation of focused instructional practices?
Monitor and Provide Feedback & Support
To what degree are parents/families empowered to:
- Provide feedback to the school or teacher(s) on their child’s progress in relation to focused instructional strategies?
- Work with the school or teacher(s) to monitor the implementation of focused instructional strategies and the effect of that implementation on their child’s progress and learning?
Inquire & Learn
To what degree are parents/families empowered to:
- Provide information to the district, school, or teacher(s) about what is/is not working to improve their child’s learning?
- Contribute to evaluating the degree to which focused instructional strategies have been implemented and district-identified goals have been met?
- Participate in district or school professional learning opportunities?
