Resources from Prince George's County Public schools

Prince George's County Public schools

Resource Title: Professional Development and Parent Education
Description: Human Resources: Director and Coordinators who work on-site with schools as well as systemically to provide comprehensive coordination and training for school and central office staff and the larger parent community. Training Modules offered by DFCS Staff include: Comer SDP Orientation; Comer SDP 5-Day MSDE-approved CPD Course; Team Leader Facilitative Leadership Training; Support Staff Skill Development Training; Workshops in Effective Engagement and Collaboration With Parents for Parent Teams, Central Office and School Administrators, Teachers and Support Staff; Child Adolescent Growth and Development; School Improvement Planning; School and Systems Change; Culture and Diversity; Team and Community Building; Effective Communication Skills; Classroom Management; Cooperative Discipline; Cooperative Learning; Student Leadership; Student Motivation; Peer Coaching and Collaboration; etc.

Resource Title: Strengthening Partnerships with Parents, Families & Community
Author: PGCPS Staff
Description: This resource document has been assembled through collaborative efforts of members of the Prince George’s County Public Schools’ Task Force on Parent, Family, Community and Business Outreach Initiatives, under the direction of Dr. Wesley Boykin, Chief Administrator, Division of Strategic Planning and School Support, and with facilitation by Sheila Jackson, Director, Department of Family and Community Outreach Services. Additional resources and materials, as well as trained facilitators for on-site assistance in implementing partnership strategies, are available and can be obtained by calling (301) 552-4294 or e-mailing sjackson@pgcps.org. Included in this manual are documents adapted, with permission, from the work of a variety of researchers in the field of education and parent, family, and community involvement, to whom we are deeply grateful. Dr. James P. Comer, Founder of the Yale University Child Study Center’s School Development Program has a long-established relationship with Prince George’s County Public Schools. His work has had an enormous impact upon our district’s efforts in engaging stakeholders in positive ways to support student achievement. Research and work in schools by Dr. Joyce Epstein Director, Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships and the National Network of Partnership Schools, Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Anne Henderson of the National Committee for Citizens in Education/Center for Law and Education and Dr. Dorothy Rich all have helped to operationalize the our thinking to provide the following:

1. Definitions of effective partnerships in order to help schools create a vision of what school staff and the total community of parents, families, community and business partners want their involvement and partnership programs to be.
2. Specific research-based strategies that, when faithfully replicated, create the school culture that is conducive to developing and sustaining effective partnerships.
3. Tools for building the capacity of all school staff towards full engagement in the process for developing and sustaining effective partnerships.
4. Tools for motivation of staff members and recruitment of volunteers.
5. Resource linkages for evaluating partnership programs.
6. Bibliography of principal-centered literature, web sites, and institutions focused upon building effective partnerships.

Resource Title: Title 1 Mobile Activities Center Van
Description: The department serves as a centralized location and dissemination source for the deployment of the Title 1 Mobile Activity Center Van to communit events to share information and resources regarding research-based best practices for parent and family engagement.