Engaging Families and Communities

Communicating and Working with Parents

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What you are looking at

Communicating with Parents: The first graph shows the parent participation rate (for the school and for the state, at this school’s level) on the SALT Survey. Note that the participation rate is the percentage of students in the school whose parents participated in the survey. The next set of bar graphs shows the response of parents in this school and statewide at this school’s levels to several specific questions on the SALT Survey regarding communications between the school and parents.

Working with Parents: As above, these graphs show parental responses to six SALT Survey questions about how well the school works with parents on such issues as parent-teacher conferences, volunteering in the school, and issues and concerns regarding students.

Teacher practices and attitudes: These four bar graphs show teacher responses to specific questions on the SALT Survey, both within the school and statewide at this school’s level, regarding their interactions with parents of their students.

What you are looking for

With one exception, you would like the student and teacher responses to each of these questions to be as relatively high, indicating strong and effective partnerships between parents and students. (The exception is the middle question in the top set of bar graph; you would hope that most parents disagree that the school does not share their goals.) You would also like to see a high parent participation rate on the SALT Survey, an indicator of significant parental involvement in the school.