ParentCamp is THE transformational Family-School-Community Engagement Model designed to build a connected school ecosystem of caring and supportive adults surrounding our kids. ParentCamps are not the traditional stand and deliver sessions but facilitated dialogue where the entire room is the expert and everyone brings important and unique perspectives to the table.
The Design of the Traditional Family Engagement Model is Compliance Conditions. Compliance conditions keep people in “lanes” or “silos.” The Design of the Virtual ParentCamp Model is two-fold: Equality Conditions plus Purpose. Equality Conditions at a Virtual ParentCamp mean every person can be a learner and leader for kids, with the opportunity to go to any session at any time. Equality conditions mean every person can talk, listen, encourage, and connect with others as it feels right to them. Purpose at a Virtual ParentCamp means family, school and community decide not only the session topics but also the purposes around the topics–connect, strengthen and collaborate. Purpose is the secret sauce that leads to Family-School-Community Collective Efficacy.
Welcome to a new lived experience of “Family-School-Community Engagement” where each person can bring their abundant gifts to ParentCamps and together create a world where kids feel happy, healthy and strong.
Welcome to a level playing field and a unique family engagement experience every single ParentCamp.
This is how you Transform school culture and education.
One hour at a time.
One ParentCamp at a time.
We would like to invite you to join us in our nationwide Virtual ParentCamp “model classroom” every other Wednesday night. Come see what joyful family-school-community engagement looks like, sounds like, and feels like. Register at www.parentcamp.org/events. We are training school teams of 8 people in the Virtual ParentCamp Model. We think you’ll be pleased to know the teams are made up of family, school and community!
Find us here: www.parentcamp.org and www.linktr.ee/parentcamp
NOW is the time to transform your family-school-community engagement to family-school-community integration!
ParentCamp Headlines 2020-21
1. Video: National Teacher of the Year, Tabatha Rosproy, shares her story after Virtual ParentCamp!
2. Video: Author of Parents as Talent Developers, Dr. Brenda Williams-Harewood, shares her story after Virtual ParentCamp!
3. ParentCamp LinkTree – all the main links in ONE place
4. Publication—GETTING SMART: Julie Pile and Laura Gilchrist wrote Getting Smart Article: Stakeholders at the Heart of Education
5. Publication—KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION: Find Laura Gilchrist talking about Virtual ParentCamp in a recent Kauffman Foundation article: As Schools Debate Reopening, Parents are Called to be Partners.
6. ParentCamp is presented at the Nevada All Virtual Family Engagement Summit on October 17, 2020 (Nevada DOE Family Engagement)
7. Virtual ParentCamp is Keynoting “ClassTag Collaborate” Conference Series “Building School Community” in North Carolina and Georgia, beginning October 2020.
8. ParentCamp is partnering with the US Department of Education and the US Department of Health and Human Services, Administration of Children & Families, Early Childhood Catalysts to kick off Radical Family Engagement Week with Virtual ParentCamp.
9. ParentCamp is presenting at the Virtual ESEA Conference Feb 8-11, 2021. ParentCamp: Family-School-Community Integration to Create the Ideal Education Ecosystem (Session Link)
10. ParentCamp partnered with NAFSCE, the National Association for Family School Community Engagement, on September 16 and September 24, 2020 to design and host “Virtual ParentCamp Experiences” for NAFSCE members.
11. ParentCamp partnered with the Maryland State Department of Education in July and August 2020 to design and host 3 Virtual ParentCamp Experiences statewide.
12. Virtual ParentCamp partnered with DigiStoryKC and Thank You Walt Disney to design and host the first nationwide Virtual CareerCamp – Digital Media Careers using ParentCamp’s Family-School-Community Integration Model, June 18, 2020. We received positive feedback from participants. KC Digital media industry participants were amazing. and requests for future CareerCamps.