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Those who do not know from where they came shall never arrive at their destination.
Filipino proverb.
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Parent Services Project :: Parent Leadership Institute
Parent Leadership Institute
Program Materials
Sample Agenda
The agenda for each Parent Leadership Institute will vary based on local strengths, needs and concerns. However, core topics will be covered, grounded in
the local context. A sample six-week agenda is below:
Session 1 A Leadership Legacy: Our History and Our Stories
- Welcome and orientation
- Stories of local parent leaders
- Why get involved in leadership? What happens as a consequence of family engagement and leadership?
- Introduce the practice of relational meetings
- Homework
Session 2 Families Accessing and Engaging the Education System
- State, County and District structures
- School structure and culture
- Parent organizations
- What are the possibilities that exist to build real communities in childcare centers and schools?
- Homework
Session 3 Parents As Equal Partners in Their Child's Education
- What is your individual experience navigating your child's school?
- How do various tests impact our children's education?
- What can one do to make parent-teacher communication more productive (including parent-teacher conferences) and beneficial for children?
- Develop strategies for individual parents and leadership groups
- Homework
Session 4 Facilitation and Planning of Meetings
- Why have a meeting? How to develop the agenda? Who is involved in the development of the agenda?
- Mediation, negotiation, arbitration and facilitation
- Group dynamics: managing interaction, generating ideas and making decisions
- From meeting agenda to community building
- Homework
Session 5 Family Pressures, Family Engagement and Community Organizing
- Participants learn to name what interests and concerns they have, and the role that the market, government, schools and service organizations play in the generation or elimination of pressures that families deal with daily.
- Participants will understand the value of researching information they need to have success in changing systems.
- Participants will dialogue about how community leadership intentionally brings different community groups together for common goals and actions.
- Participants will explore the process to organize a winnable action around a given issue. This will include a dialogue about various community organizing strategies.
- Homework
Session 6 Evaluation, Wrap-Up and Next Steps
- What worked, what should be changed?
- Key lessons from the Institute
- How parents and the community will use knowledge, skills and relationship gained through the Institute to further their goals.
- Personal and/or group next steps
- Celebration
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