Workshops
In addition to our signature offering (The 6-day Parent Leadership Institute), The Center for Parent Leadership contracts to provide customized workshop development.
The following workshops are also available:
New! The Missing Piece of the Proficiency Puzzle:
Based on the report by the same name, this comprehensive training will take your school or district's parent involvement plan from assessment to action. Getting parents and community members involved in schools can improve your school's bottom line: attendance, discipline - and test scores.
Parent Leadership 101:
This 2-day comprehensive training helps parents reach other parents. It also trains parents to impact student achievement by serving on councils and committees, facilitating the school's improvement plan, understanding school data and effecting positive change and climate.
Parents and teachers talking together:
Learn how to facilitate a dialogue between the two groups who know students best: parents and teachers. Together, we will discuss what we want for students and develop an action plan to make it happen.
A Powerful Alliance: Educators and Parents:
This hands-on workshop provides an opportunity for educators to explore the roles parents can play at school related to improving achievement. Based on current research about the impact of parent involvement, information and activities will lead participants to look a their school's parent involvement efforts and will enable them to develop strategies to address parent involvement barriers they identify.
Authentic Parent Engagement :
Research shows parents will be involved when they a) know they should be b) understand they are capable and c) feel welcome. A training-of-trainers event for educators (district teams), this workshop builds solid school-to-home relationships so that educators can develop authentic relationships with parents and improve student achievement.
Parent on Line One!
School office staff members fill a number of roles, from telephone operator to triage nurse and from gate-keeper to public relations officer. In this workshop, secretaries and other school personnel can learn how to break down tension and build up rapport when parents call up or walk in.
Customized CPL workshops allow you to build a training event that targets your school’s specific needs. Let us work with you to create a workshop that’s as fun as it is effective.
Seminars
JOIN US!
The Center for Parent Leadership at the Prichard Committee invites you to:
Parent Leaders: An Untapped Resource in Education
Join your peers from around the country in a two-day seminar where you will:
- Learn best practices for planning, staffing, developing curriculum, recruiting, publicizing and funding parent leadership programs.
- Work side-by-side with parent involvement experts from around the county including Karen Anne T. Henderson, author of Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family/School Partnerships.
- Meet active parent leaders and hear first hand what is working for them at the school and district levels.
- And more
These seminars are hosted by the Center for Parent Leadership at the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence. Sessions will be led by staff and parents from Prichard’s acclaimed Commonwealth Institute for Parent Leadership which, since 1997, has trained over 1,500 Kentucky parent leaders that are making a difference in student achievement in their local communities.
Go to our "Events" page to learn more sign up!