Public Education Initiative...
Project: Increasing Effective Parental Involvement
GEORGIA APPLESEED
Presents
A KNOWLEDGE FORUMPARENT INVOLVEMENT UNDER NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND (NCLB):
NATIONAL AND LOCAL PERSPECTIVES
Featuring
Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Governor Roy Barnes, Dr. Joyce Epstein
& Georgia education leaders Dr. Diane Bradford and Laura Dobbs
in a timely discussion of
reauthorization legislation and parent involvement strategiesMonday, September 17, 2007
10:30 AM – 2 PM
Georgia Public Broadcasting
260 Fourteenth Street
Atlanta, Georgia
Driving DirectionsThe forum is presented to the community free of charge;
space is limited and reservations are required.
Parent involvement leads to higher classroom achievement, but schools often fail to make the effort to involve parents as partners in meaningful ways, according to the comprehensive national Appleseed report, “It Takes a Parent: Transforming Education in the Wake of the No Child Left Behind Act.” In Georgia, the Georgia Appleseed Center for Law and Justice is partnering with educators throughout the state to turn the recommendations of the report into action through parent involvement training and by working with Georgia’s teachers and education leaders on strategies to promote effective parent involvement.
U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, who as a Representative helped draft the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, noted “Appleseed has placed its finger on the pulse of a core education issue that is often overlooked. Informed parents are able to make a crucial difference in the academic success of children and the overall performance of schools.”
As Congress turns its attention to reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, Georgia Appleseed is pleased to present a KNOWLEDGE FORUM on PARENT INVOLVEMENT UNDER NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND (NCLB): NATIONAL AND LOCAL PERSPECTIVES. The Forum will feature distinguished panelists Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Governor Roy Barnes, nationally recognized authority on parent involvement, Dr. Joyce Epstein, and Georgia education leaders Dr. Diane Bradford, and Laura Dobbs.
The two-part Forum will take place Monday, September 17, 2007 beginning at 10:30 A.M. at Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) in Atlanta. The audience will include educators, policymakers, attorneys, education and parent advocates, and parents. The Forum will be web-cast live via GPB. Admission is free; space is limited and reservations are required by September 10th. RSVP online or 404-685-6750.
Moderated by Edwin Darden, Director of Education Policy for National Appleseed, the panel of distinguished leaders will offer expert perspective on ways to improve NCLB, enhance its parental involvement provisions and effectively use NCLB to engage parents in their children’s schools and academic success.
Governor Roy Barnes (D), former Georgia Governor, is Co-Chair of the distinguished Aspen Institute Commission on NCLB, an independent, bipartisan effort to improve the NCLB Act and ensure its capacity to improve student performance and close the achievement gap separating disadvantaged children and their peers. Governor Barnes presented The Aspen Report findings to Congress in testimony in March, 2007.
Parent involvement authority, Dr. Joyce Epstein, is Founder and Director of the National Network of Partnership Schools and the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships and Research Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. She has worked extensively with elementary, middle, and high schools, districts, and state departments of education to help educators build more effective programs of school, family, and community partnerships.
Dr. Diane Bradford, Deputy Superintendent, Office of Education Support and Improvement, GA Department of Education, will join Dr. Epstein and
Laura Dobbs, Georgia PTA President 2005-2007 and National PTA Board Member for the afternoon session to examine parent involvement training in Georgia and ongoing efforts to effectively engage parents as full partners contributing to the academic achievement of their children and to the success of Georgia’s schools.
