Title: How Parent Involvement Leads to Student Success | Waterford.org
Headings: How Parent Involvement Leads to Student Success
Education
How Parent Involvement Leads to Student Success
What is Parent Engagement?
Why Parent Involvement is Important
Parent Engagement and Student Success
How to Increase Parent Engagement
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Content: Some parents have scheduling or transportation issues that make volunteering or attending parent-teacher conferences tough. Others, like low-income or minority families, feel that staff makes them uncomfortable or shows a lack of cultural awareness. [ 4] If a parent-teacher relationship wasn’t established early in the year, parents also may not know whether they’re welcome at school. Some groups, however, are more at-risk for low parent engagement. Parent involvement is lowest in families below the poverty line or with older children, as well as parents who do not speak the area’s primary language or did not graduate high school. [ 5]
Parent involvement in schools is the first step to parent engagement and, ultimately, parent partnership. When parents and teachers work together to establish a thriving classroom, the effect on their students is profound. Students with engaged parents don’t just have high test scores: their attendance, self-esteem, and graduation rate rise, too. Parent-teacher relationships are more than an optional classroom benefit.