World Café Ideas

World Café Ideas

November 4, 2010

What Do Our Students Need: At Home

Needs

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·  Back to books. Lack of common amenities. Lack of income. (Parents working 2-3 jobs, have no time).

·  Parents had a bad experience at school.

·  Good peer support for educators.

·  Reading & skills & support & enrichment.

·  Basic necessities.

·  Basic needs of food, shelter, and utilities.

·  Leadership needs to set the tone to help those who come into the school.

·  Find a way (place) for parents to become involved.

·  Educating parents.

·  Training the respect of/for adults (educators).

·  Praise for strengths, not focused on what can’t do.

·  Expected respect.

·  Time and opportunity to be involved.

·  Building a family strength.

·  Educating parents.

·  More Home School Coordinators.

·  Covering basic dietary and shelter needs.

·  Parental involvement. (4)

·  Principal and teachers should reach out make every effort to communicate with parents to involve them.

·  Parent classes-teaching them the same ideas and skills about studying and learning that you try to teach kids.

·  Teacher training to deal with behavior.

·  Communication gaps.

·  Buddy pack.

·  Give kids an opportunity or a chance to do something by themselves.

·  Parental involvement-interaction, stability-safe, nutrition, structure, routine, discipline, encouragement. (4)

·  Instill value of education at home before they come to school.

·  Parental education. (3)

·  Resources at community locations (library).

·  Mentoring.

·  Higher expectations.

·  Parents help kids understand instructional racism.

·  Parents need to give kids more opportunities to learn outside of home.

·  Kids hungry at school.

·  Some parents are products of court system-need recidivism programs for parents.

·  Basic needs must be met at home.

·  Good parenting.

·  Kids get negative peer pressure.

·  Stability.

·  Family time/interaction, communication.

·  Community based recidivism program.

·  Supervision, food, basic needs.

·  Adult relationships.

·  Books.

·  Safety/security. (2)

·  Play in proper setting.

·  Common accord-communications.

·  Expectations.

·  Men in the home.

·  Resources; computers.

·  Make role models.

·  Communication from agency to them.

·  Reaching out to high poverty needs.

·  Communication is two-way.

·  P/T conferences-Where can we meet?

·  Getting the community involved and communication.

·  1st year teachers to have a mentor that takes them on a home visit.

·  Supervision/guidance.

·  Parenting training. (2)

·  Playgrounds.

·  Community training.

·  Proper nutrition. (3)

·  Access to computers/technical.

·  Lack of comfort/availability to school facilities.

·  Lack of connection of staff and families.

·  Adapting to non-traditional family.

·  Home visits are needed to make connections with families.

·  Teachers need to get into the community.

·  Personal responsibility. (3)

·  Enough to eat (good nutrition).

·  Interaction.

·  Support and encouragement by parents-to have interest in school work.

·  Preventive health care-physical and emotional.

·  Praise when child does well in school, work, etc.

·  Family support.

·  Student volunteering.

·  Real history needs to be taught.

·  Student engagement.

·  Time; interaction.

·  Encouragement. (6)

·  Seeing and being helped to persist.

·  Positive, regular feedback.

·  Free the schools.

·  Love. (8)

·  Food. (9)

·  Safety. (10)

·  Security. (8)

·  When you deal with the parent, you deal with the whole child.

·  A study period at home.

·  Printed material in the home.

·  Communicate to parents the importance of education.

·  Loving foundation.

·  Communication across agencies.

·  True compassion.

·  Environment for learning.

·  Food at home-poverty 4%.

·  More reverence to teachers.

·  Need for built in social networking.

·  Basic needs met. (7)

·  Parents to believe in education.

·  Value education.

·  Someone to talk to them, take interest in them and know who they are.

·  Parents to teach kids to respect teachers.

·  Supervision.

·  Less academic push in early grades-more focus on developing whole child.

·  Parents holding themselves accountable.

·  Parents need an avenue to confront liabilities in the home. (drugs, alcohol, poverty)

·  Love for the children, structure for the lives of all children in the home, a significant adult to champion the child and speak to him/her.

·  Strong family connections.

·  Family services sharing information to continue helping the families receive Home School Communications.

·  Help the parents as well as helping the children.

·  Communication. (2)

·  You are important.

·  Positive activities. (2)

·  Lots of programs to support parents and kids.

·  Caring adult.

·  Structure and discipline (3).

·  Educated parent.

·  Families.

·  Being parents in love, trust, expectations.

·  High expectations.

·  Liaison with family-Family Services.

·  Mentors for parents. (2)

·  Develop trust.

·  High expectations at home.

·  Food, clothing, shelter. (9)

·  Guidance and affection/love.

·  Education, literature.

·  Transportation. (6)

·  Quality after school care. (4)

·  Positive role model.

·  Understanding of culture by schools (cultural awareness).

·  Value for education.

·  Proper sleep. (3)

·  Safe places. (2)

·  Home education.

·  Personal development-class diversity.

·  Shared expectations.

·  Language-talking, reading.

·  Rest.

·  Adequate healthcare. (3)

·  Books.

·  Early learning opportunities.

·  Mentors.

·  Basics.

·  Stability.

·  Title I programs.

·  Parent networking programs.

·  Communicate with your student and access to keep up.

·  Communicate with teachers/teacher email with work/good links at all levels.

·  Assume parents care about student-no matter what it looks like.

·  Build on what home support looks like-might be different in different homes. Baby steps-build on them.

·  Kids learn first at home-no matter what they learn-move this toward learning about positive and school.

·  Preschool.

·  Being read to.

·  Conversation. (2)

·  Parental guidance.

·  Resources to prevent teenage pregnancy.

·  No examples of what “good parenting” looks like.

·  One word-Parents!

·  Parent support.

·  Role models in seeking education.

·  Literacy.

·  Respect for elders.

·  Home School communicators.

·  Out Teach Coordinators.

·  Parents as Teachers.

·  More community leaders.

·  Multi generational connection.

·  Educating parents, family members on way to help their child/children be successful.

·  Indentify single family without extended resources verses with single resources.

·  GED for parents.

·  Motivation-connected, communication, options, confidence to take on challenges.

·  For homeless kids.

·  Need to have a home.

·  More engagement of families after early childhood.

·  Using community members to connect with family; the community members that they trust.

·  Students need high expectations from mentoring adults.

·  Students need to feel comfortable being themselves and not feel pressured to go along with the group.

·  Stronger community network.

·  Greater respect.

·  Parent accountability-mandate for parents to give community service in return for a check (disability/welfare).

·  Homework structure from parents.

·  Sofa surfing.

·  Parents needing to work.

·  Family morals.

·  Fear of retaliation of peers.

·  Time (5)

·  Adult relationships.

·  Teach out to communal programs.

·  Increase dialogue between teachers and parents (emails, texts).

·  More minority staff in schools-more recruitment.

·  Not enough home support-encouragement.

·  Rescources.

·  Social agencies-connect families.

·  Kids need to feel their parents value education.

·  Social workers.

·  After school programs for intermediate.

·  Support for parents. (5)

·  Parents have to help!

·  Family unit/family dinner/family values.

·  Parents as Teachers for school age/middle school/high school kids.

·  “Experience” gap.

·  To know school is important.

·  Public health model fully implemented!

·  Clear expectations on what’s expected at school.

·  Expectations within schools.

·  Medical assistance.

·  Community agencies.

·  Parents to support schools through words and actions.

·  “Peer parents”.

·  Help from churches?

·  Strength.

·  Train parents to educate, get involved.

·  Increased communication from teacher to parents-teachers need to know them personally.

·  Install pride in who you are.

·  Rules.

·  Structures.

·  Boundaries.

·  Parents who take in interest in homework and results.

·  Books in home.

·  Healthy meals.

·  Parents need to set expectations for kids.

·  Need more experiences across groups (SES, race, religion, etc.).

·  Parents need to expect students to do well.

·  Reestablishment of the family unit.

·  Equal access to resources at home.

·  Home internet/what they use it for?

·  Parents can’t read.

·  Access to preschools.

·  Routine.

·  Consequences.

·  Rules/boundaries.

·  Support for education.

·  Alternatives to adjudication.

·  Monitor technology.

·  Structure in home.

·  Schedules.

·  Parent engagement in solving and community.

·  The achievement gap.

·  Communication is limited. People do not know how to work with one another.

·  Family needs to state education is a priority.

·  All parents should be educated on how to be parents.

·  Father-rent a dad.

·  Caring people to serve as a resource who will care for you, help you.

·  More people in the schools who care about the kids.

·  Community needs to care about the child.

·  More communication between teachers and parents. (2)

·  Help parents so they can help the kids.

·  Caring father figure.

·  Teachers who enjoy their job.

·  Community awareness.

·  Stronger neighborhood association-community centers within to provide resources-connect resources within school. (2)

·  Math and science programs to aid parents and students. (3)

·  Advisory time.

·  University of Missouri students serving as role models.

·  Supportive parents-stay on them, stable & push them.

·  Be there for the basics.

·  Parent that knows how to use home access-attendance, grades, homework.

·  Stability of housing.

·  Have a parent that helps with priorities. Start with good habits.

·  Knowledgeable guardians (access to resources & learning the game of the school).

·  Dedications of parents/teachers.

·  Resources for jobs for parents.

·  Recruit non-traditional parents for PAT (they are less likely to open their door to someone that doesn’t look like them).

·  Bridge relationships between family and home.

·  Free WiFi-for the community. Twin Cities have it. (2)

·  Better living conditions.

·  Positive attitudes from parents about education.

·  Set bed times at 8 p.m. or early.

·  Mix parent and school studies time together.

·  Four for freedom: parents, schools, students, community working always for education. Parents need to welcome it in schools.

·  Need to let parents know what the expectations are.

·  Empower kids-tell them they have worth.

·  We don’t know what is at home-electronic influences.

·  Economics.

·  More facilities/space for Boys & Girls Club.

·  Encourage/enable parents to learn with students.

·  Having someone at home that cares.

·  Coach parents.

·  Male figure.

·  School counselors.

·  Peer support.

·  Communication among family members.

·  Fathers!

·  Positive support from more then 1 source.

·  Being marginalized as a family.

·  Supportive family.

·  Teachers should initiate communication especially when student struggling.

·  Mentoring (5).

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