6-Action+Plan

Main Objective: To improve the communication between school and home and to get parents more involved in their child’s education.

// (List of Team Objectives) // ||  ** Tasks ** // (What you need to do to achieve your objectives) // ||  ** Success Criteria ** // (How you can identify your success) // ||  ** Time Frame ** // (By when you need to achieve the tasks) // ||  ** Resources ** // (What Resources you need for each task) // || literacy week Schedule for parent visits Post parent surveys ||
 * ** Objectives **
 * Elementary Teachers will improve communication with parents by implementing a discussion board within their website. || Teachers will edit their websites and add a discussion page that will allow parents to quickly ask questions and teachers to efficiently answer them. It will also allow teachers to post the going-ons in their classrooms and parents to leave a response if desired. || The success criteria will be determined by the number of parents who take advantage of using the discussion board to communicate with teachers. || Teaches have workdays August 12 and 15. During this time, teachers should have sufficient time to add the discussion page to their website since all teaches already have websites created. || Teachers will need access to their websites via their computers. As the principal, I will use our Schools bulletin news which is published monthly to inform parents of the discussion pages on each teachers’ website. Teachers can also use parent/teacher conferences held in September to inform parents of this addition and communication resource. ||
 * A literacy week will be planed and implemented once during each semester of the 2011-2012 school year, in order to give parents the opportunity to go into their child’s classroom to see how the new reading program works. || Teachers will set up a schedule which will allow each of their students’ parents to come into their classroom to watch reading instruction during the reading block time. || There will be a survey given to each parent, who attends literacy week, to fill out following his or her visit. The success of this activity will be based on the reactions displayed in the surveys and also on the number of parents who attend. || The first literacy week will be the week of September 19-23. This will allow for face-to-face feedback during September 28 when parent teacher conferences will be held. || Notes to inform parents of

// (List of Team Objectives) // ||  ** Tasks ** // (What you need to do to achieve your objectives) // ||  ** Success Criteria ** // (How you can identify your success) // ||  ** Time Frame ** // (By when you need to achieve the tasks) // ||  ** Resources ** // (What Resources you need for each task) // || development team Possible handouts from ESU 6 || Input Calendar to decide on dates Parent invitations Refreshments for each social || About the class invites Schedule or parent signup sheets ||
 * ** Objectives **
 * Provide new teachers with training on how to conduct formal and informal meetings with parents, and give veteran teachers a little refresher. || Contact ESU 6 professional development reps to come to our school to provide training on communication strategies when dealing with parents. || Observations during meetings, parent comments, and a possible survey at the end of the year will provide the success criteria. || The training by the ESU 6 professional development team will be provided on August 12, 2011 during a teacher in-service day. || ESU 6 professional
 * The elementary will implement parent/teacher socials, which will allow parents to socialize with teachers in order to get to know them and their educational philosophies. || As the principal, I will meet with teachers to get their ideas and input on this activity. Teachers will need to “buy into” this or it will not be successful. || I will do a post survey with the teachers to see what they thought after the first social takes place. I will informal talk to parents to get their thoughts. I would definitely hold a second social to see if parent attendance stays they same or improves. || I would like to have one social every nine weeks. We only have one parent/teacher conference in September. This is the only parent conference held throughout the entire year. I would have to look at the calendar to determine the dates of each conference, as the calendar is subject to change at anytime. The first one will take place Oct. 19, 2011 || Teacher meeting to get
 * Class Invites will hopefully create a sense of partnership between parents and teachers. I give parents the idea of the school having an open-door policy. || Teachers will be asked to find a way to invite parents into their classrooms in some way. This may be in the form of story reading or career day etc. Parents may be asked to sign up during parent teacher conferences in September. || The number of parents that attend class invites and any feedback given to the teachers or me by the parents will determine success criteria. || This activity will start as soon as teachers can begin scheduling parents to come into their classrooms once school starts in August. || Letters letting parents know

// (List of Team Objectives) // ||  ** Tasks ** // (What you need to do to achieve your objectives) // ||  ** Success Criteria ** // (How you can identify your success) // ||  ** Time Frame ** // (By when you need to achieve the tasks) // ||  ** Resources ** // (What Resources you need for each task) // || Template Access to internet to email Newsletter to me || of those parents that have been called ||
 * ** Objectives **
 * Teachers will implement a monthly newsletter as a means of communicating with parents. || Teachers will be asked to create a monthly newsletter that will be added to the school’s bulletin news that goes out to all patrons via U.S. mail monthly. The newsletter will include what units or skills are being taught in the classroom and any upcoming events. || Success Criteria will be determined by teachers verbally asking what parents think about the newsletters and keeping anecdotal records on these comments on any other incidental comments. || Teachers will submit their first bulletin news to the office by September 15, 2001 and the 15th of every month there after. || Possible newsletter
 * The Friday 5 will be implemented in hopes of giving parents good news about their child as well as negative when necessary. || As the principal, I will begin to make it a practice to call 5 parents each Friday with reports of positive observations seen by myself or reported to me by the teachers in regard to their children. || Success Criteria will be determined by my ability to call each elementary parent or guardian with positive feedback at least once each semester, or twice a year. || I will begin this August 26, 2011 after the first full week of school. || Spreadsheet to keep track
 * As the principal, I want to be able to keep parents informed of all events and going-ons that are occurring in our elementary. || I will write a newsletter, much like the teachers will be doing, called the Principal’s Report. It will include an explanation of upcoming activities with an attached calendar solely dedicated to the elementary events as well as student honors and motivational stories. || The success criteria will be based on my ability to get something in writing for the Principals Report each month and parent feedback. || I will begin posting the Principal’s Report August 15, 2011 and the 15th or each month after that. || Principal’s Report template ||