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Volunteer Poems to recognize parent volunteers
http://bit.ly/aOeBbj
Volunteer Poems to recognize parent volunteers

Tips for Welcoming Parent Volunteers
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/voice/voice094.shtml
Tips for Welcoming Parent Volunteers Into Your Classroom

Top 5 Ways to Use Parent Volunteers
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=7834
Top 5 Ways to Use Parent Volunteers

45 Tasks for Parent Volunteers in the Classroom
http://bit.ly/cHfudB
45 Tasks for Parent Volunteers in the Classroom
If you’ll be accepting parents as classroom volunteers, be sure to ask them what they’d like to do and what they’d rather not do—not every parent is crafty or feels comfortable reading with children.
Also be sure to ask what times are convenient for them, making it more likely they’ll become regular helpers in your classroom.

10 Tips for Classroom Volunteers
http://www.ptotoday.com/pto-today-articles/article/30-10-tips-for-classroom-volunteers
10 Tips for Classroom Volunteers
The teachers who need classroom help the most are often too busy to organize volunteer work. These simple steps parents can take will make the volunteer experience more rewarding for everyone.

VolunteerSpot - Free Online Volunteer Scheduling
http://www.youtube.com/volunteerspot

Home-school agreements
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/parentalinvolvement/hsa/
Home-school agreements can raise standards and contribute to school effectiveness by enhancing partnerships between parents and teachers.
Home-school agreements will provide a framework for the development of such a partnership. The processes involved in introducing and reviewing the agreement will clarify what the school is trying to achieve, and the agreement will set out the role of the school, parents and pupils in this vital partnership.
This website is divided into a number of sections which will help you set up and manage your home-school agreement. Click on the following links to go to the relevant sections ...

Online Parent-Teacher Association Volunteer Sign-up
http://www.teeso.com/
Online Parent/Teacher Conference Sign-up
Online Parent-Teacher Association Volunteer Sign-up
TEESO : Electronic School Office Service
The provider of the most effective school administrative services designed especially for schools on a tight budget. Our challenge is to provide pre-school through grade 12 schools with the most efficient and effective administrative services that seamlessly connect all the key constituencies of a school together. Please review our demonstration system to see how we have met this challenge.
Contact us for a username and password
The Online Parent-Teacher Association Volunteer Sign-Up simplifies sign-up for activities by allowing a school group to create event signups with a few clicks. Further, different categories of positions can be offered for each event. Events can be ongoing, or one-time. The events page can also help describe the activity, and help volunteers to select an appropriate event quickly.

Creating Parent-School Partnerships
http://www.cpirc.org
Colorado Parent Information and Resource Center (CPIRC)
Creating Parent-School Partnerships

Parent Involvement: Basic Assumptions and Research
http://www.annenberginstitute.org/tools/tools/results.php?supid=3
Parent Involvement: Basic Assumptions and Research
Excellent site for those looking for the best research and strategies for involving parents and...

Parent Support Strategies (Australian Publication pdf file)
http://www.sprc.unsw.edu.au/reports/ParentSupport.pdf
Parent Support Strategies
The Parent Support Project aimed to understand the support and information needs of parents in order to improve the coordination between existing parent support services in the Cumberland Prospect Families First Area (Australia)
In this report, parent support means services to assist parents with parenting. These include: information to support parents; parenting advice; parent education and skills; and support groups for parents.
Australian Publication pdf file .. 60 pages .. 480KB to download

Teacher Tips Ideas!
http://www.ilovethatteachingidea.com/ideas/subj_teacher_tips.htm
"Back to School Night" Scavenger Hunt
Help kids and their parents become acquainted with your classroom!
Extra Help at Parent-Teacher Conference
Give parents an instant idea to help their children at home.

This is the Parental Involvement in School link area
/pages/staff/ParInvolv/
Bookmark this page for easier return visits.

National Coalition for Parent Involvement
http://www.ncpie.org/
Our mission is simple: to advocate the involvement of parents and families in their children’s education and to foster relationships between home, school, and community that can enhance the education of all our nation’s young people.

An Effective Parent-School Partnership
http://www.projectappleseed.org/chklst.html
A Checklist.

Home-School Agreements
http://www.standards.dfee.gov.uk/parentalinvolvement/
This website has been designed to help you to get the most from parental involvement. It offers some suggestions on how to achieve effective partnership with parents and how best to manage and use your home-school agreement.

Education Week
http://www.edweek.org/context/topics/issuespage.cfm?id=12
Parents' involvement is crucial to children's success in school. After all, most children are in the classroom for only eight of 24 hours a day, five of seven days a week, nine of 12 months a year. Improving children's "outside-the-classroom" education has become a key goal of education reformers.