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KnowledgeBases > The American Indian Education KnowledgeBase > Element 3 > Activity 2 > Task 2: Communicate With and Involve Parents

Guideline: Parental involvement has been demonstrated to be an essential element of a successful school. The No Child Left Behind Act calls for parents to be involved in their child's education, as well as mandating specific communications from schools to parents. Educators need to be cognizant of how they communicate with and involve native students' parents in their childrens education.
Tools Parent Guidance Handbook 2003 _EXTERNAL_LINK
"This Parent Handbook is provided by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as a tool for all Native American parents of school-aged children as an aid in advocating for their children's education. This manual serves as a template for each tribe and state to adapt to their specific needs, concerns, and culture."
Tools Working Together: An Education Handbook For Alaskan Native Families _EXTERNAL_LINK

Written with Alaskan Native families as its audience this resource's content may be useful for other communities as well.

Tools Working Together: School-Family-Community Partnerships _EXTERNAL_LINK

Developed for New Mexico school communities, "this Toolkit is designed to support the development of school, family and community partnerships with the ultimate goal of helping all children and youth succeed in school and in life." Its six modules are organized around six types of family and community involvement. Though created with New Mexico communities in mind, this resource's content may be useful with any school community.

Policies Parent/Family Involvement Policy

The No Child Left Behind Act requires schools receiving Title I funds to develop policies addressing their parental involvement program. This document offers guidance and a model policy from the National PTA's National Standards for Parent/Family Involvement Program as a resource to assist schools in developing such a policy.

Practical Tips Helping Your Child _EXTERNAL_LINK

This link is to the U.S. Department of Education's Helping Your Child publication series. As noted at its website, "These booklets feature practical lessons and activities to help their school aged and preschool children master reading, understand the value of homework and develop the skills and values necessary to achieve and grow."

References National Parent Teacher Association _EXTERNAL_LINK

As noted at its website, "As the largest volunteer child advocacy association in the nation, National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) provides parents and families with a voice to speak on behalf of every child. The PTA provides parents tools to help their children be successful students." Local parent/teacher organizations may be useful sources of financial and non-financial resources.

References Writing to Linguistically Diverse Audiences

Writing effectively for an audience with a wide variety of backgrounds is difficult. This page provides several resources to help writers craft their message to reach the widest possible audience.

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