Week of June 11th: Family and Community Engagement


  • "Good teachers do not have to be parents. But parents and teachers have a lot in common, and I think that sometimes teachers and parents forget that we want the same thing for our kids,  (...) I have never met a parent or a teacher who didn't want their child to succeed."

(Source: A TED Talk for Thought -"Building Relationships between parents and teachers. Megan Olivia Hall at TEDxBurnsvilleED")
  • "Hopes and dreams for my kids. But, also, the hopes and dreams for my kids are the hopes and dreams for your kids. They are really what I want for all kids."

(Source: "A Parent's Wishes for His Child's Teacher: Chris Kennedy at TEDxWestVancouverED)
  • "(...), if a student is lacking academically, resources will be placed appropriately to ensure that the students in question receive the services they are entitled to by law. However, what type of support is placed within their reach when they are lacking social and emotional appropriate behavior, or material resources? (...)"
(Source: Deborah Martel Rogers, CASE STUDY A: Family and Community Engagement, California State University Bakersfield, January, 2017)

  • "Outside of formal professional development, there are other ways (...) school administrators can combat negative perceptions and low expectations for underrepresented students among their teachers. To begin with, (...)school administrators can lead by example and become agents of change, by studying other languages their students are already fluent in, and greeting their students' parents in their first language when they arrive on campus(...)."
(Source: Deborah Martel Rogers, PROFESSIONAL READING MATRIX: Family and Community Engagement, CSU Bakersfield, Spring 2016)



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