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Recommendation Two:
To the greatest extent possible, protect teachers from non-essential duties that interfere with teaching by creating a system that allows community members, administrators, or other qualified adults to assume some of the extra-curricular duties traditionally performed by teachers.
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Role Group Strategies:
District Office
Support/underwrite development of community volunteer training module.
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Communities in Schools Volunteer Page
http://www.cisnet.org/network/our_network_in.asp?.=NC
This site gives contact addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses for all Communities in Schools (CIS) network offices in North Carolina. CIS encourages community members to become involved in schools through mentoring, helping with after-school programs, bringing health specialists into schools, and teaching job skills.
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Making the Most of Volunteers
Grossman, J.B. and Kathryn Furano. (2002). Philadelphia: Public/Private Ventures.
http://www.ppv.org/ppv/publications/assets/152_publication.pdf
This essay explains the kind of infrastructure organizations such as schools need to put in place in order to maximize the effectiveness of volunteers. The authors discuss screening, training and skills, on-going management and support (including assigning tasks, providing support and supervision), and cost implications.
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National Standards for Parent/Family Involvement Strategies
National PTA.
http://www.pta.org/archive_article_details_1118251710359.html
Strategy four pertains to volunteer programs, listing quality indicators of successful volunteer programs and suggesting the types of materials volunteers should receive during training. Successful programs make parents and other volunteers feel welcome, utilize their skills and expertise, and provide opportunities for working parents to help in creative ways.
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What is a Partnership Program?
National Network for Partnership Schools.
http://www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/program2.htm
This page highlights six types of involvement for partnership programs, summarizing recommendations from the book Schools, Family, and Community Partnership: Your Handbook for Action (Epstein, 1997). The six types of involvement are parenting, communicating, volunteering, learning at home, decision making, and collaborating with the community. For each type, the website briefly lists sample practices, challenges and redefinitions, and results.
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