Parents as Leaders in Education – Podcast Episode 72 | Classnotes Podcast 72
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Classnotes Podcast (May 14, 2010) The fourth dimension of IDRA’s model for parent leadership in education focuses on parents as leaders and trainers of other parents. The innovation is that rather than expecting parents to be passive receivers of information from the school, they demonstrate their own expertise and value, share it with their peers and work together to advocate for all children in the school.
Frances Guzmán, M.Ed., an IDRA education associate, shares examples of this parent leadership in action from IDRA’s recent Annual IDRA La Semana del Niño Parent Institute, where groups of parents from several school districts led sessions for each other on multiple education topics.
Frances is interviewed by Aurelio Montemayor, M.Ed., director of the IDRA Texas Parent Information and Resource Center.
Show length: 15:55 min.
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Resources
IDRA Texas Parent Information and Resource Center
http://www.idra.org/Texas_IDRA_PIRC.htm/
Family Leadership in Education – Putting Principles into Action
By Rogelio López del Bosque, Ed.D., IDRA Newsletter
http://www.idra.org/resource-center/family-leadership-in-education/
ARISE South Tower PTA Comunitario – A New Model of Parent Engagement
By Aurelio M. Montemayor, M.Ed., IDRA Newsletter
http://www.idra.org/resource-center/arise-south-tower-pta-comunitario/
IDRA Family Leadership in Education Principles, handout (pdf)
http://www.idra.org/images/stories/FLPrinciples_English.pdf
IDRA Parent Leadership Model – Four Dimensions
web- http://www.idra.org/families-and-communities/family-leadership-model/
pdf– http://www.idra.org/images/stories/PLM_Four_Dimensions_English.pdf
“Valuing” and “Deficit” Assumptions
web- http://www.idra.org/families-and-communities/valuing-assumptions/
pdf- http://www.idra.org/images/stories/Assumptions_English.pdf
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