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Aiton Leadership Group Facilitates All-Staff Brainstorming Session

Aiton Elementary School teachers spent part of their December Staff Development Day brainstorming strategies for increasing family involvement.

Aiton’s Leadership Group (LG) members facilitated the hour-long discussion. Small groups led by LG members read recent literature on family involvement and focused on concrete ways to encourage more parents to become involved in the school. Strategies generated include: weekly reminders about upcoming opportunities for parents to get involved; weekly progress reports for each student that are readable and useful to parents, and setting clear school expectations for parents so that parents are better equipped to become more involved. Teachers also analyzed Aiton’s current level of family involvement and discussed the role of the family in education today.

The Staff Development Day discussion demonstrates just one more way TTP and the Aiton LG are working together to further the vision of Principal Peggy Mussenden and the rest of the staff: strengthening connections between home and school to ensure that students succeed.