Term
Fall 2017
Capstone
Capstone Project
Degree Name
MAEd
Facilitator(s)
Laura Halldin
Content Expert
Jane Riordan
Abstract
The research question addressed in this project was, how can families, students, and school staff come together to engage in authentic partnership through Partnerships for Academic Success (PAS) meetings? The project details the author’s work implementing Partnerships for Academic Success (PAS) meetings schoolwide. During these meetings, families receive data about their individual students, as well as anonymous data for the entire class or grade. After an exploration of this data, families learn an activity that can be done at home to practice the skill that was assessed, and work with their students to set a goal that is revisited at conferences and at future PAS meetings. These meetings were influenced by Dr. Maria Paredes’s research with Academic Parent-Teacher Teams. The author explores the literature related to the benefits of family involvement, as well as barriers to creating school-family partnerships. She describes the successes and challenges of implementing PAS meetings. Based on these schoolwide PAS meetings, the author created a guide and set of resources for teachers to use when planning PAS meetings in the future.
Project Type
Staff Resources
Keywords
Community Building, Parent Involvement, Staff Development, Teachers/ Teaching
Recommended Citation
Gartner, Emily, "Building School-Family Partnerships Through Partnerships For Academic Success Meetings" (2017). School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects. 60.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/hse_cp/60
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text
dc_publisher
DigitalCommons@Hamline
dc_format
application/pdf
dc_source
School of Education Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations