Parent Information Guides, ready to print and distribute, are available here. Many are available in Hmong, Samoan, and Spanish.
Category Archive: Schools and Teachers
Guidance Documents
Guidance documents for Parent Involvement Policy, Home School Compact, and Title I Parent Involvement Checklist.
Staff Development Toolkits
ESEA requires all Title I schools to provide staff with professional development in the area of engaging families. AKPIRC has developed training that meets this requirement. A school is also able to deliver this training by downloading the PowerPoint presentation and accompanying documents. If you have any questions, please contact either Karin Halpin karinh@serrc.org or Julie Jessal juliej@serrc.org.
Parent Involvement Policy Toolkit
Ideas for Parent Involvement Activities.
Family-Friendly Schools Toolkit
The attached documents can assist your school in measuring its family friendliness and provide suggestions on how to make it more family friendly.
Family Information Nights
Title I schools are required by law to provide families of their students with information on state accountability, parenting, and being involved with school at home. AKPIRC has developed an assortment of PowerPoint presentations to help schools meeting this requirement. Should you not find what you are looking for, please contact us and we will be more than happy to work with you to develop a workshop to meet the needs of your families.
Along with individual PowerPoint presentations AKPIRC also has an assortment of toolkits. Within the toolkit you will find everything you need to put on a workshop, from the warm-up getting to know you activities, to facilitator’s guide, to sign in sheets, to equipment lists. Simply click on the toolkit you are interested in.
Toolkits
Family-Friendly Schools Toolkit
Parent Involvement Policy Toolkit
Transitioning to Kindergarten Toolkit
Transitioning to Middle School Toolkit
Support for developing a successful home-school liaison program
On this page you can download AKPIRC’s Language and Cultural Liaison (LCL) Program Manual and the AKPIRC Parent Handbook. The program manual provides an introduction to the LCL program and includes reporting forms that AKPIRC created to record and document the LCL’s work with families and schools. The AKPIRC Parent Handbook introduces parents to the benefits and agreements associated with enrolling in the LCL personal visit program.
Additional resources include a complete set of workshop PowerPoint presentations with accompanying training materials.
If you have questions or would like us to send you the additional LCL training workshop materials and program evaluations, please call our AKPIRC office at 907.349.0651 or email either Julie Jessal juliej@serrc.org or Karin Halpin karinh@serrc.org.