Ideas to Engage Families Living in Poverty

For a variety of reasons, schools in high poverty areas have difficulty engaging parents. It is important to discover the barriers preventing parents from becoming involved.  By forming a focus group of parents, schools can discover more details and begin respond to them.  Make sure your school is a welcoming place.  Begin addressing concerns by providing solutions to help remove those barriers.   Here is one school's story.  Perhaps one or more ideas would fit your school's situation.


Road Tested / Three Ways to Engage Parents in High-Poverty Settings.  Tiffany Anderson. Sept. 2014 Education Update ASCD
http://www.ascd.org/publications/newsletters/education_update/sept14/vol56/num09/Three_Ways_to_Engage_Parents_in_High-Poverty_Settings.aspx