Jun 162011
Advocacy Panel with other parents
- Education to the public-gifted vs. special needs skewed data
- Fight before too late
- Cost of testing
- Other learning opportunities
- Missed whole child
Consequences
- Can they be counseled to leave if not meeting minimum commitments?
- Conversation individual-what can be done.
- Meet Woods-More focus on expectations at Open House
Parent led “Expectation Setting” Orientation
- Peer pressure
- Statistics classroom volunteer impact
- Parents reaching out to each other
- Parent recognition program-Can we post publicly hours or names or is this counter to Woods philosophy?
Welcoming Parent
- Revitalize
- Questions
- Subtle-1 call then and invite
- Direct invite with first call.
- Orientation in May
- What were the obstacles for parents who provided zero volunteer hours?
- Let’s give parents the ‘why’ they should be more involved from the perspective that it benefits their child.
- What about 1 on 1 with teachers and parents with zero volunteer hours; could you have face-to-face communications? Maybe at parent/teacher communications?
- Capture parents to sign up for volunteering or information sharing at the performances/programs. Have sign up sheets ready.
- Summer activities to get kids together, more learning cool activities. Parents should help out. “I miss my friends”
- Complaint: “when I come to reading, I get put to work with kids with the highest needs, it feels like I should be reading to proficient readers”.
Advocacy Panel with other parents
- Education to the public-gifted vs. special needs skewed data
- Fight before too late
- Cost of testing
- Other learning opportunities
- Missed whole child
Consequences
- Can they be counseled to leave if not meeting minimum commitments?
- Conversation individual-what can be done.
- Meet Woods-More focus on expectations at Open House
Parent led “Expectation Setting” Orientation
- Peer pressure
- Statistics classroom volunteer impact
- Parents reaching out to each other
- Parent recognition program-Can we post publicly hours or names or is this counter to Woods philosophy?
Welcoming Parent
- Revitalize
- Questions
- Subtle-1 call then and invite
- Direct invite with first call.
- Orientation in May
Parent Volunteer feed back (continued)
- What were the obstacles for parents who provided zero volunteer hours?
- Let’s give parents the ‘why’ they should be more involved from the perspective that it benefits their child.
- What about 1 on 1 with teachers and parents with zero volunteer hours; could you have face-to-face communications? Maybe at parent/teacher communications?
- Capture parents to sign up for volunteering or information sharing at the performances/programs. Have sign up sheets ready.
- Summer activities to get kids together, more learning cool activities. Parents should help out. “I miss my friends”
- Complaint: “when I come to reading, I get put to work with kids with the highest needs, it feels like I should be reading to proficient readers”.
One Response to “How can parent volunteering be encouraged?”
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WLC PTC Input:
The parents at Woods are amazing. I have heard from staff who split their time between Woods and other schools comment on how special our school parents are. We don’t want to make anyone uncomfortable about the time they have to volunteer at Woods. Everyone is busy with many commitments pulling us in different directions. We want to take something that’s already good and make it better.
Your suggestion to make more opportunities to volunteer at home is exactly the kind of feedback we were hoping to get. The PTC board wants to focus on improving communications, organization, and motivation to positively affect parents and students. A measurable output may be increased volunteer hours but the outcome desired is providing our children with the best education possible.
The staff at Woods believe that family involvement demonstrates to the children that we are involved and interested in what they are doing. I believe that being seen in an active role with a kids education sends a positive message to the child. The time we give to the school allows the staff to spend more time focusing on students’ needs. We want to empower parents to find ways to volunteer that fit their unique family situation and daily challenges.