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CT PIRC Professional Development and Parent Education Opportunities

Raising Readers Parent Club Facilitator TrainingSession ASeptember 21, 2009 andSeptember 22, 2009Location: CREC, ColtsvilleorSession B December 7, 2009 andDecember 8, 2009Location: CREC, Coltsville

The Raising Readers Parent Club is a nationally recognized family literacy program. The program,comprised of eight sessions, provides opportunities for families to practice storytelling, reading aloud,and writing in a safe, nurturing environment. Parents take home quality children’s books after eachsession to continue family learning.

This Facilitator Training provides the background and practice Parent Club Facilitators need to helpparents establish literacy partnerships at home with their children. Specifically, participants will learnhow to get an eight-session Parent Club started, develop ground rules with Club members, andencourage discussion and interaction focused on children’s books, reading, and learning at each Clubsession.

Participants in this two-day professional development activity will explore components of the RaisingReaders Parent Club Program; understand the role of a Parent Club Facilitator; participate in a mockRaising Readers Parent Club session; examine program tools; develop a plan to get started with

implementing their own Parent Clubs; and be certified to conduct a Raising Readers Parent Club thatsupports children’s literacy learning.

Faith Families & Schools ConferenceSeptember 25, 2009Location: Crowne Plaza, Cromwell

Research has demonstrated again and again that family engagement is one of the major indicators ofstudent success. Schools across the country are discovering that faith-based leaders and othercommunity groups are often very effective in enhancing family involvement and are key allies inimproving educational outcomes for all students.

The Faith, Families & Schools Conference is an opportunity for faith and worship leaders, educators,and families to come together. Participants will share ideas about the practices that help families

support learning and hear about new activities that can be incorporated into the rich fabric of the faithand worship community.



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Schools and Families: Better Together Location: SERC Community Room, MiddletownOctober 2, 2009 - Rescheduled Rescheduled Dat e: November 20, 2009

Parents and other adult family members often are not aware of the opportunities that Title I of theNo Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation affords them, so they cannot make informed educationaldecisions on behalf of their children. This full-day training is designed to build the capacity ofcommunity organization and agency leaders, faith community leaders, and public school personnel toconduct informational workshops for family members whose children attend schools receiving Title Ifunds.

The session focuses on four essential components of NCLB: Parent Involvement, School Choice,Supplemental Educational Services (SES), and School and District Report Cards. A team of presentersfrom the CT Parent Information and Resource Center (CT PIRC), CT Parent Teacher Association (CTPTA), and the CT State Department of Education (CSDE) will provide and review relevant NCLBinformation, a wide variety of valuable resources, and the logistical background for conducting ameaningful workshop for families.

Participants in this professional development activity will become familiar with the relevantprovisions of NCLB; be expected to hold an informational workshop for parents within three months ofthis training and receive a stipend for this work; be able to conduct a meaningful two-hourinformational workshop for families on NCLB, focusing on four essential components; and be able toprovide families with a wide variety of resources on NCLB.

SFCP OverviewSession ALocation: SERC Community Room, MiddletownOctober 16, 2009orSession B January 27, 201 0Location: SERC Community Room, Middletown

The evidence has been clear and compelling for many years – comprehensive programs of School-Family-Community Partnerships (SFCP) bolster student achievement and healthy development, twogoals that schools, families, and communities greatly value. But how are these programs designed?What resources are available to support them? How are partnerships created and sustained? Whatdoes it take to gain administrative buy-in for this effective approach to family and community

engagement on behalf of student achievement?The answers to these and other questions about schools, families, and communities acting togetherto improve student learning will be addressed during this half-day session. This informationalopportunity is designed for individuals to learn about effective partnerships, bring this content to theirschool communities, and then form teams that will attend the one-day intensive SFCP Action TeamTraining. Time will be devoted to Joyce Epstein’s nationally recognized six-part typology of familyinvolvement developed at Johns Hopkins University. This framework coordinates action planning thatpartnerships undertake to develop comprehensive programs in support of school improvement plans.



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How Welcoming is Your School?Session ALocation: CREC, CREC CentralOctober 30, 2009or Session B Location: ACESNovember 5, 2009or Session C Location: SERC Community Room, MiddletownJanuary 12, 201 0

When schools create a welcoming environment, they become inviting places where students want tolearn, school employees want to work, and families want to be involved. This half-day training willincorporate hands-on activities and small group discussions to conduct a mock Walk ThroughAssessment of a school. The Welcoming Walk Through Assessment is designed to examine four specificareas: the physical environment, school-wide practices and policies, welcoming staff, and writtenmaterials. By using the Welcoming Walk Through Tool Kit, participants will learn how to assess theclimate of their school and develop a plan to create a welcoming environment to engage families andthe community.

Lee y serás

Location: SERC Community Room, MiddletownDecember 11, 20 09

Lee y serás ® (Read and You Will Be) is a national Latino early literacy initiative that engagesfamilies and community members as active participants in the literacy development of their children.It provides research-based, in-culture, bilingual curricula and materials for families and childcareproviders and leaders with the goal of creating long-term attitudinal and behavioral changes in effortsto close the education achievement gap.

This one-day workshop will prepare participants to conduct a six-session series that empowersfamilies and community members to foster the early literacy skills essential to children’s literacydevelopment.



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SFCP Action Team Training

Location: SERC Community Room, MiddletownDecember 18, 20 09

All Connecticut schools are working to engage families in the educational lives of students, but manyare not reaping the full benefit of their efforts. School-Family-Community Action Team Trainingprovides the coordinating framework that allows schools to maximize improvement plans and fullyimplement federal, state, and local parent involvement requirements.

During this one-day activity, teams will engage in interactive hands-on, research-based training toplan and implement activities around six key types of involvement developed by Joyce Epstein,Director of the National Network of Partnership Schools (NNPS) at Johns Hopkins University. TrainedAction Teams can also receive technical assistance for the implementation of their action plans. At theconclusion of this session, teams will be entered into the Connecticut School Family CommunityPartnership (SFCP) database to receive announcements of a wide variety of future trainings andconference offerings.

Program questions should be directed to Barbara Slone at (860) 632-1485, ext.340, [email protected] , or VeronicaMarion at (860) 632-1485, ext. 391, [email protected] , co-coordinators of CT PIRC.

Registration questions should be directed to Bianca Irizarry at (860) 632-1485, ext.216, [email protected] .

CT PIRC (CT Parent Information and Resource Center)

25 Industrial Park Road Middletown, CT 06457 -1516

Parent Information Line: 1 -800 -842 -8678 www.ctpirc.org

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