parental engagement network (cic)
To us at PEN, good parental engagement means building and maintaining strong
learning relationships with every family at your school. Parental engagement is
an ethos, a mindset, a culture, and a set of behaviours that promote
partnerships for life-long learning. Though there are many tools you can use to
help, there isn't one quick fix. To commit to developing excellent parental
engagement, you need to invest time. At PEN, all our work is governed by the
knowledge that parents are their child's first educators and know their children
best. We want schools and teachers to make the best use of parents, families and
communities as valuable partners. Parental engagement is about schools and
teachers engaging with their wider, less conventional resources to meet their
children's academic needs. We work with you to develop a whole-school approach
to parental engagement. We provide network opportunities via a closed network
group, a parental engagement toolkit of resources, research, strategies, and
access to subsidised or fully funded projects. All these things will support
your school in reaching out to parents and building life-long partnerships for
learning.
