Saturday, November 5, 2011

Parent engagement positions

Word is that PPS will close parent engagement positions and give a teacher a stipend to work 44 minutes per week to hold PSCC meetings.

9 comments:

Questioner said...

Can anyone provide more information about the work of parent engagement staff? Has this been a full time position at schools? What exactly did these individuals do and how effective was their work? Are there any issues with having teachers handle this work?

Anonymous said...

check the power point presented by Dr. Lane on ppstube. It may also be linked from the A+ site, aplusschools.org. It is actually 44 min per day for 2300.00 in additional pay.

Mark Rauterkus said...

Allegheny on the North Side has a GREAT parent engagement person. She is a huge asset.

Anonymous said...

Re: Mark's comment: I work there - you're right. Without her we are significantly diminished. Period.

Anonymous said...

I too know the person at Allegheny Mark and anonymous mention and always wondered why she was not the model for all other Parent engagement efforts in schools.

Mark Rauterkus said...

Why not -- because of principals.

Philosophy: I think it is about a bottoms-up approach rather than a top down approach.

Parent engagement is unlike Central Office Command & Control (i.e., top down).

Angry Taxpayer said...

Nice to see Dr. Lane's priorities...a contracted Archivist and three Human Capital Managers are hired this year, but out with the Parent Engagement Specialists.

Anonymous said...

Out with the Parent engagement positions because Dr. Lane does not see parents as part of the equation. Or students. Let's just harass teachers and principals and toss in crappy curriculum....that will solve all our problems.

Anonymous said...

The spin seems to be that we only had nine schools covered before but now every building will have Parent engagenment initiatives. There is not enough money. What will 2012-13 look like? To some kids and families it won't be obvious that any cuts have occured becasue somehow the classroom teacher plugs the holes in the dikes.