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Wake County Schools Communicate With Families
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For students to succeed, it's important for families and schools to build a partnership that supports the child.
To try and further foster those partnerships, the Wake County School Board is embracing standards of the National PTA. The PTA's six standards for judging effective family-school partnerships are now included in Board Policy 2541.
Sarah Martin, the Wake County PTA Council President, is visiting schools to talk with principals about the standards. Martin visited with Jim Argent, principal of Swift Creek Elementary, to talk about Standard 2: Communicating Effectively: Families and school staff engage in regular, meaningful communication about student learning.
Principal Argent uses a number of tools to communicate with Swift Creek families. One new tool he is using is education summits for parents and students.
Click here to listen to Wake County Schools Communicate With Families
This is a 28 minute mp3 file.
You can read more about the National PTA Family and Parent Involvement Standards here.
We would like to hear how your Wake County Public School is communicating with families. Please share your best practices identifying the school and the steps taken to welcome families.
Posted by Bill Poston at 11:18 AM on January 20, 2009 | Leave Feedback
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