Parent-Community Involvement Plan in a Low-Income and Diverse Community

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***PLEASE WRITE A 9 PAGES PARENT COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT PLAN PLEASE SEE THE BELOW DIRECTIONS
*** SCHOOL, IS HEAD START (PRESCHOOL FOR LOW-INCOME FAMILIES T I WORK THERE AS A PRESCHOOL TEACHER LOCATION: SPRING VALLEY NY
*******DIRECTIONS FOR PARENT-COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT PLAN:
Candidates will describe their personal action plan for establishing and maintaining positive relationships with families, school colleagues, and community agencies. The plan should include aspects of the candidate’s learning experiences in fieldwork, research on community agencies, and school-based personnel, opportunities to regularly interact with parents and caregivers, and the use of resources such as multimedia and children's literature.
Explain how this family and community action plan aligns with early childhood (NAEYC) ethical standards. Candidates will include a plan for how their interaction with families and communities intersects with advocacy for young children and the early childhood profession. 8-10 pages. Papers should use APA format and include components of academic writing: https://owl(dot)english(dot)purdue(dot)edu/owl/resource/560/01/
(NAEYC 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 2c, 4a, 6b; CAEP 1, 5; NYSTS 1, 6; Mercy ILO 1, 2, 4, 5; SLO 1-7)
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Reflect on whether there may be barriers (e.g., language spoken, distance from the child’s home, cost, etc.) that might prevent families from taking full advantage of these resources. Is there something you or school administrators could do to remove the barriers so families could more fully benefit from the resources in the community?
******THIS CUMULATIVE ASSIGNMENT WILL FOLLOW THIS OUTLINE: ****
• Introduction
• Description of the case study school you are profiling. Your case study school can be your place of employment, or one in which research was conducted.
• Description of the families and the community within your case study school
• How do you plan to develop respectful relationships and include Ethical Standards (use NAEYC Code of Ethics) within your plan?
• Describe the community strengths and resources related to your case study school
• Describe your plan for parent and community involvement (based on Epstein’s Model)
o Parenting
o Communicating
o Volunteering
o Learning at Home
o Decision Making
o Collaborating with the Community
• Conclusion
• References
• Appendix (extra credit)
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For my Parent-Community Involvement Plan, my case-study school is located in a low-income and diverse community.
Several families in the community of my case study struggle with financial issues and have English language difficulties as it is not their first language. , the school is Head start preschool in Spring valley NY and I teach there . Thus, parents often struggle to get involved in their child’s education, due to all the challenges I mentioned above, which can negatively impact their children’s academic and social-emotional development. However, educators need to develop a parent-community involvement plan that considers the needs of the community and can help the parents defeat these challenges and participate in their child’s education.
Below are some of the strategies that I will need to use in my parent community involvement plan:
1-The first plan is to use effective regular communication to build stronger relationships with parents this could include sending regular newsletters or emails to parents, hosting parent-teacher conferences, and organizing parent-teacher meetings (PTO) to discuss the school's policies and initiatives.
2-Provide translation during parent meetings so the non-English speaker parents will participate in the meeting and share their ideas.
3- Send home resources, flyers, newsletters, and notifications in both languages English and the home language of the parents
4-Provide refreshments for the parents during parent’s teacher meetings, school meetings
5-Support parents’ involvement in their child’s education by providing enough resources such as workshops, on home learning to teach the parents how to support their child's learning at home, classroom volunteering, or participating in school events.
6- Another planning strategy is to get in touch with other organizations to offer resources like school supplies, scholarships, afterschool programs, or any other activities that assist student learning and development.
Every school program needs a parent-community involvement plan, particularly those that serve diverse and low-income families. Developing a strategy that considers the requirements of parents, students, and the larger community will help the school to provide a more welcoming learning environment for everyone.