Academic Parent Teacher Teams
Elevating Parent Teacher Conferences
Are you looking for a more effective way to conduct your parent teacher conferences that help support student learning in the home and builds positive relationships with parents?
If you answered YES, come learn about Academic Parent Teacher Teams!
Why Academic Parent Teacher Teams?
•Improved social networks: Parents report expanded social networks as a result of getting to know other families at team meetings.
•Increased teacher participation
•Increased father involvement: A surprising result has been the high numbers of fathers who have come to team meetings—more than in classrooms with conventional parent–teacher conferences. When fathers were asked what made them more interested in coming to team meetings, they said that they were specifically interested in academics and wanted to be involved in understanding their child’s progress.
•High attendance: In the classrooms that had APTTs, attendance at meetings was 92% on average. That was much higher than participation in conventional parent–teacher conferences.
•Improved efficiency and time use: With APTTs, teachers are more efficient and use their time in a more productive way. APTTs require the same number of hours as conventional conferences because the entire group of parents meets together at once, but instead of seeing parents only twice over the school year parents and teachers have four formal opportunities to meet.
•Parents are empowered: Many of the parents who participated in last year’s APTTs asked to continue the program. They want their children to be in a classroom that will be participating in APTT this coming school year.
Source: Wisconsin RTI Center and WestEd APTT
It's not too late to register!
Academic Parent Teacher Teams
This session will teach the components to develop successful academic parent teacher teams that can build the capacity of families to effectively engage in supporting their child’s grade level learning goals.
Date: Tuesday, September 24th
Time: 9:00 AM--12:00 PM
Session ID# 60087
Fee: $25
Register HERE.
Who should attend this session?
--Teachers, Principals, Academic Deans, Curriculum Coordinators, any Professional Staff that has a key role in supporting parent-teacher conferences, sharing data with families and supporting learning in the home!
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Kimberly Baumgardner, Consultant, Family Engagement, Education Service Center Region 20
Kimberly has become quite passionate about empowering families to be more involved in their child's education and future as well as challenging and supporting schools to increase their efforts to involve families in their child's educational journey and focus on Family Engagement as an instructional tool that improves student's academic outcomes.
Kimberly enjoys living out in the country with her husband, Tyson and two daughters, Lynette & Lucy Sue.
Email: kimberly.baumgardner@esc20.net
Website: www.esc20.net/parentresources
Location: 1314 Hines, San Antonio, TX, United States
Phone: 210-370-5431
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Twitter: @ESCRegion20