Corter – parent outreach

The last thing that I think we have to do in being successful in parent engagement is emphasize outreach. Because, when we talk about parent engagement, maybe it’s the ten percent who come in for the meetings, or the fifty percent, or maybe the eighty percent, but what about the ten percent who aren’t coming? That may be okay if they’re engaged at home, but what if they’re depressed parents? What it they’re living under circumstances where they feel marginalized? Try to reach out to respect and communicate with each parent I think would be the message that we’ve learned from our research is critically important, because if we don’t do that, if you engage the already engaged parents even better, you’re going to be widening gaps between the haves and the have nots.