Parent Leadership Group
Through our Parent Leadership Group, KSA-Plus Communications offers a wide range of products and services to strengthen the partnership between parents and schools. We help parents gain the knowledge, skills and confidence to become more effective advocates for better schools. And we help administrators and teachers better understand how they can meet the needs of increasingly diverse families... and how they can tap into this underutilized school-improvement resource: parents and families. Parent leaders, community organizations and school districts are using our workshops, consulting services and materials all across the country.
Latest News
New. Parent Leadership Starter Kit. Everything a parent leader needs to know to become a more effective advocate and decision-maker, including quizzes, checklists and lots of useful advice about making use of the No Child Left Behind law. Order guide.
New. Using Data as an Advocacy Tool. An 8-page guide that looks at how parents leaders can get smart about their school's data... identify which students are being well-served and which students are not ... and be able to ask the kinds of questions that lead to school improvement. Order guide.
New. Order online now. New e-commerce feature allows you to charge publications to your credit card. (And many of our publications are still free!). View publications.
New. Learning 360: At Home and At School. Four new resources (English and Spanish) with advice on what parents can do at home and at school to help their children become successful learners: a primer on education in the United States (mainly for immigrant parents), and tip sheets on testing, supplemental education services, and reading. Developed for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's ENLACE initiative. Order guide.
New. "Case" guide featured. The September 2004 issue of GreatSchools.net's e-newsletter featured our Case for Parent Leadership guide, plus examples of parent leadership in action.
See article.
New. 11 Tips to Help Parents Create Safer Schools. To help parents better understand how they can work with their child at home and with principals and staff at school. Developed in cooperation with the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC), creators of McGruff the Crime Dog. Order guide.
Coming Soon. Helping Children Become Successful Students. Four new resources: a parent primer on education in the United States, which is primarily for immigrant parents; and three tip sheets on testing, supplemental services and reading. Each tip sheet includes advice on what parents can do at home and at school to help their children be successful learners. Available in both English and Spanish and prepared for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation as part of its ENLACE initiative.
Coming Soon. Parent Leadership Starter Kit. Everything a parent leader needs to know to become a more effective advocate and decision-maker, including quizzes, checklists and lots of useful advice about making use of the No Child Left Behind law.
The Nov. 5, 2003 issue of Education Week features "Tipping Toward Parents," a commentary piece by KSA-Plus partners Adam Kernan-Schloss and Andy Plattner. See article.