Texas IDRA Parent Information and Resource Center

The Texas IDRA PIRC is a comprehensive, multicultural and multilingual parent leadership support program for strengthening partnerships between parents and schools for student success. The center is funded by the U.S. Department of Education to serve the state of Texas.

The IDRA Texas PIRC provides an innovative and results-oriented approach to strengthening partnerships between parents and school personnel in serving children, the working relationship between home and school, and enhancing the developmental progress of the children assisted in this program. Through these efforts, new collaboratives have emerged, and IDRA has become the catalyst for strengthening existing and emerging partnerships among critical organizations providing supportive services to parents and families.

IDRA brings a unique multilingual and multicultural focus, including training-of-trainers, to its approach in serving parents in Texas. The IDRA model of valuing parents as leaders promotes an emerging cadre of parents committed to positive support throughout the educational pipeline from pre-kindergarten through higher education.

IDRA provides evaluation aimed at improving the process, training and technical assistance, and the development of materials. IDRA is committed to sharing lessons learned from the project throughout the state and elsewhere to ensure sustainability and scale-up of project activities.

IDRA Classnotes Podcast Series
This twice monthly, award-winning podcast is for people who care about excellent and equitable education for all children. It is particularly designed for public school teachers and administrators. Several episodes deal with topics related to parent and community engagement. The podcasts are sponsored in part by the Texas IDRA PIRC.

Engaging Parents in Education
A new publication by the U.S. Department of Education profiles five parent information and resource centers, including IDRA Texas PIRC, and best practices in parent engagement.

Get Data on Your Texas High School
IDRA's School Holding Power Portal is designed to help community and school partners examine their school data and plan joint action to improve school holding power. Organized around IDRA's Quality School Action Framework.

Sign up to receive an alert by e-mail when a new episode of the Classnotes podcast is available.