{"id":9561,"date":"2020-08-06T14:56:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T20:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dvweb01.burnhamwood.org\/?page_id=9561"},"modified":"2022-12-15T10:11:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T17:11:01","slug":"parent-involvement-and-engagement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.burnhamwood.org\/?page_id=9561","title":{"rendered":"Parent Involvement and Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Parents1-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9677\" \/>The Burnham Wood Family of Charter Schools recognizes the essential role that parent involvement and engagement play towards student success. Throughout the year, our district&#8217;s schools make every effort to communicate and ingratiate parents and families to the school&#8217;s mission to support our students. The following are efforts that our district and campuses make towards supporting our students through parent involvement and engagement:<\/p>\n<ul><li>The District Superintendent publishes both District and Campus magazines and newsletters that celebrate student and program success, while encouraging parents to be involved through article, pictures and idea contributions.<\/li><li>The District Superintendent and campus administrators foster an \u201copen door policy\u201d for parents to encourage parents to be heard regarding student related issues.<\/li><li>The District provides professional development opportunities to educate teachers, staff and administration about effective strategies to engage parents in their child\u2019s education.<\/li><li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Parents2-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9679\" \/>The District invites all parents to be involved in the development of the District and Campus Improvement Plans.<\/li><li>All schools host a state mandated Annual Title I Parent Meeting to inform parents and families of their school\u2019s participation in Title I, the requirements of the Title I program, and to explain the right of parents to be involved in their student\u2019s education.<\/li><li>All schools create a Student\/Parent\/School Compact that serves as a formal commitment of all stakeholders to a student\u2019s education.<\/li><li>All schools create a School Policy for Parent Involvement and Engagement.<\/li><li>All schools invite all parents to participate in the development of the Student\/Parent\/School Compact and Policy for Parent Involvement and Engagement.<\/li><li>All schools host biannual Open House events to introduce new programs, develop a dialogue between parents, families, administration and staff.<\/li><li>All schools host Parent-Teacher Conference events during which student progress and successes are celebrated. Parent and teacher concerns can also be addressed during this time.<\/li><li>All schools introduce and maintain a parent portal to encourage an open communication between staff and parents regarding student progress in all classes.<\/li><li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Parents3-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9680\" \/>All schools maintain communication with parents through a school messenger system.<\/li><li>All schools create a district and campus website to communicate information to parents regarding upcoming events, and relevant information to their student\u2019s education.<\/li><li>All schools host Academic Parent Nights, including STAAR, Math, and Reading nights to encourage parents to be directly involved with student skill enhancement.<\/li><li>All schools host Festivals\/Carnival events to ingratiate our families and the community to our programs.<\/li><li>All schools host biannual Music Recitals and Concerts to celebrate with families the musical proficiency of our students.<\/li><li>All schools host Academic Recognition events to celebrate with families the academic accomplishments of our students.<\/li><li>All schools host Sports Recognition events to celebrate with families the sports accomplishments of our students.<\/li><li>All schools encourage parents to act as volunteers at their child\u2019s schools.<\/li><\/ul>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/documents\/el-paso-education-initiative\/school-policies\/parental-involvement\/district-compact-en.pdf\">Title I School-Parent Compact (English)<\/a><br \/><a href=\"\/?page_id=11437\">School Parental Involvement Policy (English)<\/a><br \/><br \/><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/documents\/el-paso-education-initiative\/school-policies\/parental-involvement\/district-compact-es.pdf\">T\u00edtulo I Pacto Escuela-Padre (Espa\u00f1ol)<\/a><br \/><a href=\"\/?page_id=11437#esp\">Pol\u00edtica de Participaci\u00f3n de los Padres Escolares (Espa\u00f1ol)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Burnham Wood Family of Charter Schools recognizes the essential role that parent involvement and engagement play towards student success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burnhamwood.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burnhamwood.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burnhamwood.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnhamwood.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnhamwood.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9561"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnhamwood.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12684,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnhamwood.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9561\/revisions\/12684"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnhamwood.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burnhamwood.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}