Parent Involvement School Appraisal
This instrument is designed to assess how your school is involving students, parents and families in supporting student success in meeting and exceeding the Hawaii Content and Performance Standards.  Your school’s appraisal and reflective questions should add to your knowledge about parent, family, student, community and staff involvement within your school.  Use this tool, with participation from teachers, parents, students, staff, community members and others, as appropriate.  Each group has a different knowledge and perspectives of the present parent involvement practices, strengths, and needs of your school.

Use the results from this appraisal, with other data/information on your parent/family involvement program efforts to systematically and continuously monitor the effectiveness of the implementation of your parent/family involvement initiatives.

*Items in the following instrument are reprinted with permission from Epstein, J.L., Sanders, M.G., Simon, B.S., Salinas, K.C., Jansorn, N.R., & Van Voorhis, F.L, School, Family, and Community Partnerships:  Your handbook for Action, second edition.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.  c2002.  Other items are reprinted from National PTA. National Standards for Parent/Family Involvement Program. Chicago, IL: National PTA. c1998

SCORING RUBRIC: Your school’s appraisal may be most useful if three or more people participate.  Members of the appraisal group should include school staff and administrators, as well as parents.  Five of the six BOE Parent/Family Involvement Policy components are included in the appraisal.

Carefully review each item in relation to your school’s parent/family involvement practices, and score based on the following scale:

1. Not evident or visible
2. Some implementation
3. Good implementation
4. Very good implementation
5. Exemplary implementation
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1.  Uses a variety of communication tools on a regular basis, seeking to facilitate two-way interaction through each type of medium.
Not evident or visible
Exemplary implementation
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2.  Provides clear information regarding course expectations and offerings, student placement, school activities, student services, and optional programs.
Not evident or visible
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3.  Provides opportunities for parents to communicate with principal and other administrative staff.
Not evident or visible
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4.  Distributes report cards and regular progress reports to parents.  Provides support services and follow-up conferences as needed.
Not evident or visible
Exemplary implementation
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5.  Ensures immediate contact between parents and teachers when concerns arise.
Not evident or visible
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6.  Communicates the importance of positive relationships between parents and their children.
Not evident or visible
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7.  Conducts workshops or provides information for parents on child or adolescent development.*
Not evident or visible
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8.  Provides information, training, and assistance to all families who want them or who need them, not just to the few who can attend workshops or meetings at the school building.*
Not evident or visible
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9.  Provides families with information on developing home conditions or environments that support learning.*
Not evident or visible
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10. Links parents to programs and resources within the community that provide support services to families.
Not evident or visible
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11.  Provides information regarding how parents can foster learning at home, give appropriate assistance, monitor homework, and give feedback to teachers.*
Not evident or visible
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12.  Provides opportunities and encourages staff members to learn and share successful approaches to engaging parents in their child’s education.
Not evident or visible
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13.  Provides information for parents on the importance of reading at home, and asks parents to listen to their child read, or read aloud with their child.*
Not evident or visible
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14.  Informs parents of the expectations for students in each subject at each grade level.
Not evident or visible
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15.  Sponsors training or distributes information to assist parents in understanding how students can improve skills, get help when needed, meet class expectations, and perform well on assessment.
Not evident or visible
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16.  Provides understandable, accessible, and well publicized processes for influencing decisions, raising issues or concerns, appealing decisions, and resolving problems.
Not evident or visible
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17.  Includes parents on decision-making and advisory committees and offers training in policy, curriculum, budget, school reform initiatives, safety, and personnel.
Not evident or visible
Exemplary implementation
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18.  Provides training for staff and parents on collaborative partnering and shared decision making.
Not evident or visible
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19.  Encourages and facilitates active parent participation in decisions that affect students, e.g., student placement, course selection, and individual personalized education plans.
Not evident or visible
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20.  Includes parents as partners when setting school goals, developing or evaluating programs and policies, and analyzing performance data.
Not evident or visible
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21.  Creates a climate in which parents feel valued and welcomed through office staff greetings, signage, and any other interaction with parents.
Not evident or visible
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22.  Organizes an easily accessible program for utilizing parent volunteers, providing ample training on volunteer procedures and school protocol.
Not evident or visible
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23.  Educates and assists staff members in creating an inviting climate and effectively utilizing volunteer resources.
Not evident or visible
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24.  Invites families and the community to be involved with the school in a variety of ways  (assisting in the classroom, giving talks, monitoring halls, leading activities, etc.)*
Not evident or visible
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What major factors contributed to the success of your school’s parent/family involvement efforts this year?*
What major factors limited the success of your school’s parent/family involvement efforts this year?*
What is one of your school’s major goals for improving its school and family partnerships over the year? Three years?
How will you incorporate this information into your school’s Academic Plan?
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