Building Stronger School Communities Through Family Partnerships: Perryville Elementary’s Journey to Gold
The Family Friendly Schools initiative has shown us what’s possible, and we’re not done yet.
The Family Friendly Schools initiative has shown us what’s possible, and we’re not done yet.
One of the premier events KDE hosts each year to further this effort is the Continuous Improvement Summit each September.
As a Title I school, Rosenwald Dunbar Elementary School (Jessamine County) is proud of its diverse population and is committed to meeting the needs of students from a variety of cultural and economic backgrounds.
To begin our (Family Friendly Schools) work, we formed a committee of stakeholders that represented our population. We sought out parents to join the partnership who were from diverse populations represented in our school.
Over the past school year, our school has undertaken a deeply meaningful journey to strengthen the partnership between home and school by becoming certified as a Family Friendly School.
The schools in our district are all Title I schools and we are constantly working on ways that we can improve to increase our parent and family involvement and engagement.
If you want to build a partnership with parents, you must begin with parent input, so we started there.
Families matter! That’s why we do the work we do. As we learn about and engage with families, everyone wins.
Kentucky’s second statewide Agriculture Education Week will be more than teaching students where their food, fuel, and fiber come from. Like the first All In for Ag Education Week last spring, the fall version will also introduce them to career opportunities that agriculture offers and will seek to inspire them to be a part of its future.
The beginning of the school year is always an exciting time, and I wish nothing but the best for our students and our educators as the year progresses. This has always been my favorite time of the year, welcoming students, educators and staff back into the buildings, filled with joy and the passion to learn.