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The school/district works with families and community groups to remove barriers to learning in an effort to meet the intellectual, social, career and developmental needs of students.
Performance Expectations:
The school leader sets high expectations for all students to learn at higher-level content.
The school leader keeps everyone informed and focused on student achievement.
The school leader makes parents partners in their student's education and creates a structure for parent and educator collaboration.
Indicators for this Standard:
5.1a - Families and communities active partners
Families and the communities are acitve partners in the educational process and work together with the school/district staff to promote programs and services for all students.
5.1b - All students have access to all curriculum
Structures are in place to ensure that all students have access to all the curriculum (e.g., school guidance, FRYSC's, ESS).
5.1c - School provides organizational structure
The school/district provides organizational structures and supports instructional practices to reduce barriers to learning.
5.1d - Student instructional assistance outside of classroom
Students are provided with a variety of opportunities to receive additional assistance to support their learning, beyond the initial classroom instruction.
5.1e - Accurate student record keeping system
The school maintains an accurate student record system that provides timely information pertinent to the student's academic and educational development.
Key Relationships with Other State and National Standards:
Kentucky's Standards and Indicators for School Improvement
Standard 7: Leadership - School/district instructional decisions focus on support for teaching and learning, organizational direction, high performance expectations, creating a learning culture, and developing leadership capacity.
Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC):
ISLLC Standard 2: A school administrator is an educational leader who promotes the success of all students by advocating, nurturing, and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff professional growth.
ISLLC Standard 4: A school administrator is an educational leader who promotes the success of all students by collaborating with families and community members, responding to diverse community interest and needs, and mobilizing community resources.
North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium
National Technology Standards for School Administrators:
Standard IV: Educational leaders ensure the integrations of technology to support productive systems for learning and administration.
Resources and Activities for this Standard:
Although there are many resources available for the individual school leader, the partners of this leadership initiative recommend that the following resources be explored:
Books:
A Framework for Understanding Poverty, by Ruby Payne
Coming Clean about Organizational Change: Leadership in the Real World, by Jerry Patterson
Professional Learning Communities at Work,
by Robert Eaker and Richard DuFour
Culturally Responsive Teaching, by Geneva Gay
Each and Every Child (Your Guide to Testing and Accountability in Kentucky), by Susan Perkins-Weston
Schools for the 21st Century, by Phillip Schlechty
Schools That Learn, by Peter Senge
Programs:
CHAMPs
A Proactive and Positive Approach to Classroom Management, by Randall Sprick, Mickey Garrison and Lisa Howard
Websites:
Critical Issue: Supporting Ways Patents and Families Can Become Involved in Schools
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL)
National Parent Teacher Association's National Standards for Parent/Family Involvement Programs
The National PTA deals with a variety of education issues and develops current information, programs, and projects encouraging parents to participate in their children's education.
Kentucky Parent Teacher Association (PTA)
Kentucky PTA is an affiliate of the National PTA. PTA is the largest child advocacy organization in the United States and a leader in increasing the awareness of the benefits of parent involvement. PTA is a powerful voice for all children, a relevant resource for parents, and a strong advocate for public education.
The Parent Institute
The mission of The Parent Institute is to encourage parent involvement in the education of their children. The Parent Institute publishes a variety of materials including newsletters, booklets, brochures, and videos.
Partners in Learning: How Schools Can Support Family Involvement in Education
KidSource Online
Project Appleseed
Project Appleseed provides parents with the information and resources necessary to become committed to school improvement.
Parental Involvement in Middle School
This article was prepared by ACCESS ERIC, with funding from the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education and is in the public domain.
KIDS (Kentucky Instructional Discipline and Support)
Kentucky Center for School Safety
KDE Resources:
The Standards and Indicators for School Improvement (SISI)
The Standards and Indicators for School Improvement define the elements of whole school improvement that schools can put into effect at the elementary, middle and high school levels in order to produce desired learning results.
Student Performance Standards
In June, 2001, the Kentucky Board of Education accepted new performance standards that resulted from a comprehensive process involving more than 1,600 Kentucky teachers, various advisory groups, and which provided for public input. These new standards set the stage for the work that lies ahead of Kentucky's educators: To improve the academic achievement of all our students.
Kentucky Performance Reports
The Kentucky Performance Report (KPR) gives detailed information on the results provided by the Kentucky Core Content Test (KCCT), Writing Portfolio, Norm-Referenced Test and other components of the Commonwealth Accountability Testing System (CATS).
KDE eSource
Over 500 publications to enhance your classroom learning experience. Here are some examples of topics in our collection: African American, Asian, Native American, and Latino History & Culture; Civil and Human Rights Materials; Gender and Cultural Sensitivity Information; Violence Prevention Information; Lesson Planning and Curriculum Tools, Implementation Strategies, and Techniques and Disability Information.
Contacts:
Prichard Committee: The Commonwealth Institute for Parent Leadership
The Commonwealth Institute for Parent Leadership, sponsored by the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, brings together parents and others, giving them training, information, and experiences to enable them to work with teachers and other parents to raise student achievement in their home communities.
Kentucky Association of School Councils (KASC)
KASC Home Page
Kentucky School Boards Association
KSBA Home Page