Comments on: Dr. Pushor Webcast – my reflections & a call for proposals http://www.ourschool.ca/dr-pushor-webcast-my-reflections.html Connecting parents and teachers using technology Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:42:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: C. Steel http://www.ourschool.ca/dr-pushor-webcast-my-reflections.html/comment-page-1#comment-2605 C. Steel Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:31:19 +0000 http://www.ourschool.ca/?p=178#comment-2605 I'd love to be a part of this, primarily for the challenge it presents. As the two replys above have stated, we approach this from two very different views. Parent involvement or engagement HAS to move beyond cooking hot dogs... parents are demanding that their involvement become more meaningful in planning, visioning and much more important ways than the traditional roles have allowed. This has to stem into district planning and trustees need to recognize this shift. I’d love to be a part of this, primarily for the challenge it presents. As the two replys above have stated, we approach this from two very different views. Parent involvement or engagement HAS to move beyond cooking hot dogs… parents are demanding that their involvement become more meaningful in planning, visioning and much more important ways than the traditional roles have allowed. This has to stem into district planning and trustees need to recognize this shift.

]]> By: Cathy http://www.ourschool.ca/dr-pushor-webcast-my-reflections.html/comment-page-1#comment-299 Cathy Sat, 10 May 2008 03:21:00 +0000 http://www.ourschool.ca/?p=178#comment-299 I think that all partners in education need to come to an understanding about what the purpose of education is and how their visions of each other work to move to that purpose with all pulling in the same direction. We also need to understand what each partner sees as the definition of "partnership" because often I feel that roadblocks happens because we're singing from two different songsheets. Pat raises part of what I mean in her post re: parents looking at involvement as volunteer work, when it can be much more for those who might choose to be committed to the partnership in a way that see them at the table as equals, rather than nice bookends or coming with the education territory. I think that all partners in education need to come to an understanding about what the purpose of education is and how their visions of each other work to move to that purpose with all pulling in the same direction.

We also need to understand what each partner sees as the definition of “partnership” because often I feel that roadblocks happens because we’re singing from two different songsheets.

Pat raises part of what I mean in her post re: parents looking at involvement as volunteer work, when it can be much more for those who might choose to be committed to the partnership in a way that see them at the table as equals, rather than nice bookends or coming with the education territory.

]]> By: Pat Wagner http://www.ourschool.ca/dr-pushor-webcast-my-reflections.html/comment-page-1#comment-297 Pat Wagner Sat, 10 May 2008 00:34:03 +0000 http://www.ourschool.ca/?p=178#comment-297 This is the first time that I have visited your site, but I am pleased to have found it. Thank you for your advocacy of parental involvement - particularly when 'parent involvement' is too often misconstrued as volunteer work from parents in schools, instead of active parental interest and input in education. The school that I do most of my work with - I.S. 339 in the Bronx, N.Y. - just hosted a Parent Expo for the first time. The teachers, students and parents were ecstatic about the success of this event, and they are now looking to host more such events in the future. It gave the students the opportunity to teach their parents about the technology they were using, the projects they were completing, and about what they had been learning. We will be much more successful though, when we give our parents even more voice - which, I believe, is what you're encouraging. This is the first time that I have visited your site, but I am pleased to have found it. Thank you for your advocacy of parental involvement – particularly when ‘parent involvement’ is too often misconstrued as volunteer work from parents in schools, instead of active parental interest and input in education.
The school that I do most of my work with – I.S. 339 in the Bronx, N.Y. – just hosted a Parent Expo for the first time. The teachers, students and parents were ecstatic about the success of this event, and they are now looking to host more such events in the future. It gave the students the opportunity to teach their parents about the technology they were using, the projects they were completing, and about what they had been learning.
We will be much more successful though, when we give our parents even more voice – which, I believe, is what you’re encouraging.

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