Wake County Families and Schools Support Student Success

Families and schools are working in partnership to support success for students and for their schools.

To further foster this partnership, 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 Principal Matt Wight of Apex High, to talk about Standard 3: Supporting student success – Families and school staff continuously collaborate to support students’ learning and healthy development both at home and at school, and have regular opportunities to strengthen their knowledge and skills to do so effectively.

Principal Wight has a number of ways that parents, students and teachers work together to support student academic success.

Click here to listen to Wake County Families and Schools Support Student Success

This is a 35 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 support student success.