Leadership
Using the Four Pillars of Parental Engagement to Drive School Improvement
Build a parental engagement plan that lasts beyond the next coffee morning, around four pillars: knowledge, environment, culture and communication.
- 55 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Find your school's starting point by listening to parents in several ways
- Use the four pillars to plan engagement for the short, medium and long term
- Tell parents the minimum they need to do to support their child
- Build trust with parents who find it hard to come into school
- Write to parents in plain English, adult to adult, and invite replies
About this course
A new website won't fix parental engagement if the real problem is that parents don't feel heard. Listen first, then plan, and the four pillars of knowledge, environment, culture and communication give you a structure for both.
You'll find your starting point from data you already hold, what parents are saying online, and regular ways of listening rather than one survey a term. Then you'll use the four pillars to decide what active engagement should look like in your school. That means telling parents clearly the minimum you need from them, making the building and website welcoming, building trust with parents who had a hard time at school themselves, and writing to them in plain English, adult to adult.
If you've inherited a school where engagement is poor and absence is high, there's practical advice on where to start.
- For early career teachers, governors and 3 other roles. All phases.
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