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Barriers to School Involvement and Strategies To Enhance Involvement from Parents at Low-Performing Urban Schools

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January 2003

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Assessed what urban African American custodial parents perceived as barriers to school involvement and strategies to facilitate involvement. Data from surveys of and interviews with parents of students at low-performing Florida elementary schools indicated that poor communication between home and school, lack of child care, and lack of transportation were major barriers. Parents offered strategies for increasing attendance of parents at parent-teacher conferences and for increasing volunteerism. (SM)

... • The Barriers to School Involvement Survey (Reglin et al., 2003), which allows families to reflect on their school and their school-teacherfamily relationship in a 30-item survey with a 4-point Likert scale • Artifact collection of families' creations of specific materials or anecdotal notes on a caregiver's utilization of a given skills Student learning outcomes • Data gathered from student outcomes on individualized education program goals or assessments • Family evaluation of a specific academic or social goals set for the student " A successful project requires coordinators to be adaptive and responsive to participant needs. ...
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Helping Families Reach Their PEAK: Partnerships That Promote Family Empowerment

Barriers to School Involvement and Strategies To Enhance Involvement from Parents at Low-Performing Urban Schools

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