Parent teams represent and are inclusive of the interests of the whole parent community, aiming to strengthen the partnership between family, school, parish and the wider community for the benefit of a child’s faith formation, learning and well-being.
Effective leadership: what does it look like?
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What Guides your work?Parent Teams in the Broken Bay Diocese are encouraged
to support and help parents to engage with their school & to engage in the education of their children. Read: Parent Engagement Cheat Sheet Building Learning Partnerships |
Research shows .... # that children do better at school when parents are engaged with their child's learning and well-being both at school and at home Research indicates that ... # that parents should be partners in their child’s learning & that education is a shared responsibility of schools, parents & communities. |
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What are you spending your meeting time on?
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Up to 10% of the meeting time should be spent on attending to the previous meeting (minutes and business arising), financials if approp
Up to 40% of the meeting should be spent on discussing & understanding what is currently happening, Up to 50% of the meeting should be spent on looking towards the future, planning, responding to current information Read more click graphic left |
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Meeting Planning Tools: Translating the annual agenda into practical meeting agendas
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More Resources: www.btadvisorybodies.catholic.edu.au/resources
Know Your Community
Welcoming schools acknowledge and honour the diverse needs of families and cater to those needs.
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All parents of your school community are members of the P&F. It is important that P&F teams consider the nature of their school community in all planning, by developing an understanding of "who" the families in the school are, and organising communication and events to suit the needs of all families.
* collect information about your school community Resource * include discussion on agenda item of P&F meetings * conduct 'getting to know you' surveys * find out the ideas, needs and skills of your parent community |
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School Improvement Goals (SIPs)Primary & Secondary Schools in the Broken Bay Diocese have 3 year Strategic Plans. Each year the school leadership team implement 3 School Improvement goals (SIPs) in the domains of * Teaching and Learning, * Student Wellbeing, and * Mission. Do you know your schools SIP goals? |
Supporting SIP goals & Strategic PlanningParent Teams goals and activities should support their schools leadership team in the implementation of the schools SIP goals.
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Constitution goals of the P&F?The constitution provides guidelines and ideas on how P&F
teams operate to support their school community. It is is the starting point for understanding all parent leadership roles and outlines what is involved for each executive position. Download Constitution |
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In short, when families are engaged in learning at home and school, children do better and schools get better.
Parent EngagementWe need to think about shifting our focus from ...‘how to get more parents into the school’ to ‘how we can support them at home’ ....where (more than) half Parent Engagement in Broken BayThe CSP has a strategic initiative to support parent leadership in schools to engage families in their child’s learning & wellbeing. DOWNLOAD
Defining Parent Engagement
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#ParentKnowledge
"True parent engagement is when it draws on what you know as a parent. Parent engagement is not about being a teacher at home. Its about being engaged as a family" Dr Debbie Pushor |
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Activities for planning in your school community
Involvement & EngagementResearch has shown that in order to raise achievement parents need to be both involved in schools and engaged in their children’s learning. (Harris and Goodall: 2007)
Read: Involvement or Engagement: what’s the difference? |
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Parent Engagement
The strongest predictors of effective parental engagement in a school are the programs the school has in place and teacher practices.
(Dr Joyce Epstein Johns Hopkins University)
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Embedding Parent Engagement
It doesn't necessarily mean new, just different.
What existing activities can be adapted to engage more families? "By 'engaged' we mean all - know, understand and have experiences of what school and learning looks like today" |
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I want to be engaged but I can’t go to my kids’ school. I don’t have the right clothes and I don’t have the right words.”
"Looking into the mom’s face and hearing the painful emotion in her words, it was heart breathtakingly apparent that the place for change did not rest with the mom, but instead with the structures and practices being lived out on the school landscape." "embracing a philosophy and pedagogy of “walking alongside” is at the heart of working with all families." READ MORE
Dr Karen Mapp - Harvard Uni
- The relationship between family engagement and improved outcomes
- The additional benefits family engagement brings to everyone
- What the research shows about the importance of engaging families
Linking Family Engagement to Learning
Dr Deb Pushor presenting in Broken Bay 2017
Database - P & F Parent Team / Executive Team 2018
Thank you for taking on your role for your school community, we look forward to working with you throughout the year.
Please complete the details of your school P&F Parent Executive Team as this will allow relevant information and invitations to CSP functions to be forwarded to your team. If your team are using alternate job titles, please add also.
Please complete the details of your school P&F Parent Executive Team as this will allow relevant information and invitations to CSP functions to be forwarded to your team. If your team are using alternate job titles, please add also.
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Reflections and Prayers For Meetings:
Download Booklet: prayerbooklet.pdf
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Websites with Reflections & Prayers
Walking the Way is an initiative in the Diocese, for parents in accompanying their children on their journey with God. MORE
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