This 4-module program has been designed by and for parents to help you become more familiar with Ohio’s education system and understand your important leadership role as family member of a student. Each module takes you to a different aspect of student achievement and parental involvement.
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I. Understanding Ohio’s School System
- Learn new knowledge
- Understand common core standards
- Learn about performance data
- Recognizing the link between nonacademic supports to academic achievement
- Identify resources to support higher level learning-systems approach
- Develop new skills
- Analyze Ohio’s Report Card
- Navigate the state reporting system online
- Connection to school climate and improvement
- Evaluate resources at the school level that support Ohio’s learning goals
II. Collaboration
- Learn new knowledge
- Analyzing student reading data
- The importance of building a collaborative culture
- How to utilize family, school, and community supports to address student reading needs
- Recognize your personal leadership style
- Identify communication challenges of your leadership style / how to overcome them
- Develop new skills
- Create a personal leadership plan that will help you become a more effective parent leader in improving reading performance gaps
- Connection to school climate and improvement
- Determine how your leadership style could help create a more parent friendly atmosphere at your school
III. School Improvement
- Learn new knowledge
- Understand the school improvement process
- The impact of decision making at the building level
- Analyze school report card math data
- Develop new skills
- Complete needs assessment by identifying barriers to student success
- Connect parent involvement activities to school improvement math goals
- Connection to school climate and improvement
- Help other parents understand the school report card and school improvement process
IV. Call to Action
- Learn new knowledge
- How to advocate and organize
- How to navigate the education system
- Effective Use of Resources
- Understanding barriers to success
- Develop new skills
- Create a plan to work with other students and parents to develop a high performing learning environment
- Leveraging resources to work the plan
- Connection to school climate and improvement
- Facilitate the workshops with parents and students at the building level