Engagement

Parent and community involvement in education are crucial to student success, which is why engagement is one of the three main priorities in the Sun West Education Plan. Sun West encourages involvement through School Community Councils and partners with parents and the community in many ways to improve the quality of education offered in each Sun West school.

Key Resources

• ‍Our School‍
• Parents Guide to 21st Century Skills
• Assessment Parent Brochure
• Student Version of Scoring Scale

Promising Practices

Promising Practices for Meaningful Family Engagement is a 2020 report published by the McDowell Foundation based on the work of three Sun West teachers. The video above describes the findings of the report.

Click here to read their research report summary.

Each teacher sought to establish and communicate a host of possible practices that are central to engaging families to support student learning. Their project proposal asks, “What practices offer possibilities for the meaningful engagement of parents?” and seeks as well to understand, “What are the critical elements of these practices that contribute to success?”

Knowing the learning will be deeply affected by not only the positive experiences that they had alongside the families they worked with, they also analyzed:

• Which practices were less successful and why?
• What can we learn from this?

It is their hope that through their research dissemination, teachers in both rural and urban centres will have a window into an understanding of the possibilities to create authentic family engagement opportunities.