'Parent Involvement' describes such a wide range of different activities that it essentially defies a useful definition.

This research project is intended to redefine 'Parent Involvement' and break it into units that can be described.

The starting place is a broad definition of the different kinds of parents within a school community.

• There are those who simply wish to carry out their role as parents.
• There are others who are willing to contribute their time and energy as volunteers.
• There are still others who are willing to become part of the school council, offering their leadership skills to the school community.

All are important and valid roles, however, they are different roles.  'Involvement' as a parent is different than 'involvement' as a volunteer and so on.  

Click on the buttons to the left to learn more about the needs of each of these different kinds of people - found within every school community.

This project is fairly new, so it will evolve and expand throughout 2002. 

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