Are you a teacher? Coach? Faith community youth leader? Afterschool activity coordinator? Point person for parent involvement? Then you know how important it is to encourage parents to become actively involved in their child's education and extracurricular activities. Research convincingly shows that student achievement goes up as parents become actively engaged in their children's daily lives. So what's the best way to ensure they do?

Whether you need tools for communicating effectively with non-English-speaking parents, advice about maintaining positive relationships with overzealous “extracurricular” parents, tips for overcoming participation barriers, or ideas for getting parents to be more hands-on with kids’ homework, Engage Every Parent! has great suggestions.

Engage Every Parent! offers more than 40 handouts on CD-ROM to help you communicate with parents, build solid relationships, organize volunteer information, and show appreciation to parent volunteers.

•“No Child Left Behind” legislation mandates that schools engage parents in some advisory capacity—use this resource to begin your program.
•Includes tips for communicating with non-English-speaking parents.
•CD-ROM includes over 40 reproducible handouts and organizational tools for busy parents.
•Offers valuable links to research briefs, online resources, and further readings

Authors

Nancy Tellett-Royce is Senior Consultant at Search Institute and a community and youth development expert. She is also the former co-chair of Children First, author of Supporting Youth, and the creator of Speaking of Parenting kit. She lives in Minneapolis, MN.

Susan Wootten is an editor at Search Institute Press and a former teacher of English and mathematics. She is active in public school, community, and church activities, and is the parent of three teenagers. She resides in Minneapolis, MN.