Parent Involvement Requirements for Districts and Schools Every school receiving funds for No Child Left Behind funding for parental involvement is required to:
Develop with parents a written parent involvement policy that is then distributed to parents and made available to the local community
Hold an annual meeting of parents to inform them of the policy and their right to be involved
Conduct, with the involvement of parents, an annual evaluation of the content and effectiveness of the parent involvement policy under No Child Left Behind in improving the academic quality of schools.
Offer a variety of times for parent involvement meetings and, if necessary, with Title I funds provide childcare, transportation, or home visits.
Involve parents in an organized and ongoing way in the planning, review, and improvement of school programs.
No Child Left Behind legislation requires schools to develop with parents a school-parent agreement that outlines actions to be taken to improve student achievement.
Increase opportunities for parent involvement in the school by helping parents understand state academic standards.
Provide materials and training for parents, teachers, pupil services personnel, and other staff to foster greater parent involvement and underestanding of No Child Left Behind and its features.
Integrate activities with other programs.
Identify barriers to greater participation by parents at the school.
Coordinate and integrate parental involvement strategies.
Build the schools’ and parents’ capacity for involvement through the implementation of required parent involvement activities. NCLB Section 1118e
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17 years 8 months ago#67254by <unregistered>
I'll take you and I am not even on the PTO Board anymore.
I've been in a similiar situation. Come to find out the school and most of the staff wanted volunteers but didn't really know how to go about it. I made out a plan tossed it to the principal and she said "Sounds good talk to the staff in an hour at our meeting." YIKES. They liked the idea of an organized program. I spent hours devising this plan, no telling how long to work my nerve up to talk to the principal and I had talked to parents too. A survey is a good start. If you can get a program started at your school don't expect it to be an over night success. Also keep in mind there are some teachers who just aren't comfortable with volunteers in their room. Perhaps in the past they have had bad experiences or the extra person just throws them off their groove. Kinda like some people do not like people in their kitchen when they are cooking. They don't mean anything bad by it, it is just out of their comfort zone.
It is so frustrating at our school, we have volunteers that would like to help in the classroom and school but they are not wanted by the teachers or principal. I have offered my services over the past 2 years and have yet to be called upon like so many others. Parents only want to help but are treated as intruders. As a member of the PTO board I have sent out surveys but receive little response, I have tried everything to get teachers to work with us, but it's not happening. What can we do?
