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For a Limited Time Only! Watch Past Leaders To Learn From Virtual Events On Demand

Improving outcomes for students is a family affair for Patricia Spradley and Tracy Hill.

Education Week Leaders To Learn From Tracy Hill  (2014) and Patricia A. Spradely (2015) led a webinar on “Parents as Partners in Improving Student Achievement.” Both educators see parents as critical partners in improving student achievement—and have actively sought to engage them in the curriculum and school community. For Hill, that means taking parents along on college visits, or offering tips about the latest instructional strategies over donuts. For Spradley, that means offering a smorgasbord of classes to parents and community members through the district’s parent academy. They build strong family and community partnerships to help drive student achievement.

Watch their webinar on demand for free: www.edweek.org/go/webinar/ParentsAsPartners?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

Know leaders in your districts that engage parents for student success? Nominate them before 8/1/15.

For a Limited Time Only! Watch Past Leaders To Learn From Virtual Events On Demand

“We want students to feel connected to caring adults”

—Vickie Reed, 2015 Leader To Learn From

Reed joined our webinar “Amplifying Student Voice" and discussed her use of student-perception surveys as a factor in teacher evaluations for more than a decade in the 7,700-student Murray County, Ga., school district. Teachers take the same surveys, and the district’s schools work to narrow the gap between the views of employees and those of students.

Watch her webinar on demand for free: www.edweek.org/go/webinar/AmplifyingStudentVoice

Check out the Storify: https://storify.com/edweekevents/amplifying-student-voice

Know any leaders in your districts that put students first? 

Nominate them before 8/1/15.

Empowering Parents to Transform Schools

Increasingly, parents are playing a larger role in the transformation of schools and school districts. But that larger role is certainly not as common for those families living in many school districts with large, underserved communities of minority, low-income, and rural families.

These families don’t always feel they have the time or ability to become involved in driving their children’s achievement in schools. And schools that could provide the families of their students the tools they need to effectively improve achievement are often at loss for how to empower parents.

How can the forces at play come together to create an environment where parents serve an active and positive role in school improvement?

What obligation does the federal government have in playing a helpful role?

Education Week’s “Empowering Parents to Transform Schools” Webinar moderated by Commentary Editor Elizabeth Rich (November 15, 2013, at 2 p.m. ET) will explore the necessary levers that schools and parents can use to drive real change.

Register for the webinar here, and check out EdweekComm's Storify below for all the need-to-know information about our Parent Empowerment Package.