Ready, Set, Involved: The Power of Parents

Parental involvement can be highly beneficial to students’ educational success. However, involvement is an issue for English Language Learning (ELL) students, as well as for their parents. Many of these parents want to be involved, but there are many factors that get in the way. School faculty need to be more proactive on informing parents about resources available to them and other ways they can become more involved in their child’s education. The purpose of this research is to understand what schools are doing today to involve parents and how they are reaching out to them. After interviewing teachers and parents at Seashore Middle School, three action options emerged as ways to help increase parental involvement. Based on these results action was taken to inform school administration on ways to more effectively reach out to parents