Publications

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August 7th, 2014

Parent Power School- July 26, 2014

The third installment of Parent Power School focused on expanding our knowledge about community schools and was held at Trinity Church Staff Offices in downtown Manhattan. Over 70 parents attended our Parent Power School on July 26th!  We covered such topics as:

  • Understanding a parent’s role in community schools and how to build relationships of equal power between schools, families and community partners
  • Public speaking: How to craft stories that will move people to act.

Here are some of the materials from the training:

June 17th, 2014

Parent Conferences with the Department of Education

The New York City Coalition for Educational Justice in partnership with the NYC Department of Education held three amazing parent conferences on May 3rd; May 31st and June 7th. Over 750 parents attended workshops and connected with fellow parent leaders.  Photos from the conferences can be found here.  Workshops included topics such as increasing parent participation and creating community schools through partnerships. In an unprecedented collaboration, CEJ parents were involved in the planning every aspect of the conference as well as co-facilitating all of the workshops with Department of Education staff. This was a great first step in creating a sustainable district-family partnership to strengthen schools and raise student achievement. Below you will find some of the resources from the conferences:

May 14th, 2014

Community Schools & Mayor De Blasio: Preparing the Next Generation for College & Careers

CEJ Community Schools Brief

CEJ’s brief “Community Schools & Mayor de Blasio: Preparing the Next Generation College & Careers” was designed to influence and shape Mayor de Blasio’s community schools initiative. The policy brief lays out recommendations for how de Blasio can follow through on his promise to create at least 100 community schools by the end of his first term. It discusses guiding principles for implementation of community schools, a three-year timeline and proposes an estimated $50 million budget and plan for engaging key stakeholders in rolling out the initiative.

March 29th, 2014

Parent Power School- March 2014

The March 29th Parent Power School was focused on community schools and ending the school-to-prison pipeline and was held at Professional Staff Congress at 61 Broadway. Over 70 parent leaders attended.

Please see below for handouts from the training:

January 17th, 2014

Building a Culture of Parent/Community/School Partnership

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On October 16, 2013, the Fund for Public Advocacy and the Annenberg Institute for School Reform organized a citywide conference on Parent and Community Engagement, hosted by the Center for New York City Affairs at the New School. Some 150 parent activists, educators, advocates, policy-makers and elected officials participated in workshops, forums, and roundtable discussions. The conference had two 2 major aims: to showcase a set of effective research-based parent and community engagement programs for the conference participants, and to elicit their recommendations for how the new mayor should improve parent and community engagement throughout the city school system.

In this report, you will find the synopses of the national parent engagement models the conference featured and a summary of the recommendations the conference participants offered for the new mayor.

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