#ParentCampChat Week 6 Recap – Greater School Involvement for Parents – Ready for Week 7 – Everyone’s Role in Protecting Our Children – Wednesday 7/31 9:30 pm ET/6:30 pm PT

Did you miss #ParentCampChat Week 6 – Greater School Involvement for Parents? You can catch up by scrolling through all of the tweets on our Wakelet summary: https://wakelet.com/wake/8ceb1cbd-e00a-4802-b45a-9404ee98f790

ParentCamp would like to thank Ted Huff for hosting a great chat last week centering around the topic of Greater School Involvement for Parents. Some highlights from the chat:

Kris Jenkins (@PreK33) has a very open door policy with her parents – they volunteer in the classroom, at home, have lunch with their children and go on field trips.
Chris Leglieter (@cleglieter) holds ParentCamps and Parent Book Studies to refine their work and get better at what they do.
Peggy Cormeny (@PegCormeny) holds regular FACE (Family and Community Engagement) meetings with family, school and community members.
Julie Pile (@juliepile) mentioned that parent involvement looks different at each level, now that she has a high schooler she is seeing more community centered events like car shows, potlucks and alumni nights.
Andria Jackson (@MrsJackson) mentioned Parent Leadership Basecamps which may cover topics such as advocacy, college and career readiness, school report cards, equity and achievement gaps
Jennifer Ball (@TravelingJenB) mentioned her district overseas mentoring which included community mentors who work with their students
Ted Huff (@TedHiff) talked about Viking Dads at his school and their impact of projects and presence of being in their middle school.
Taking parent involvement to a new level is Joe HIbbit (@joeymh43) who offers parent PD which allows parents to sign-up for higher-ed themselves.

Catch #ParentCampChat each Wednesday night on Twitter starting at 9:30 pm ET/8:30 pm CT/7:30 pm MT/6:30 pm PT. Check out our upcoming topics on the Calendar page on the ParentCamp website. Make sure you follow @ParentCamp for updates.

This week on July 31st^h, we will talking about Everyone’s Role in Protecting our Children. Our guest will be Elaine Wilson-Ready (@elainewreddy) of Be the Elephant.

Elaine Wilson-Reddy is an educator, writer, and advocate. She founded Be the Elephant which provides training to adults- parents, teachers, administrators, church groups, PTOs, etc.- on the signs predatory abusers use to groom children for sexual abuse. You can find information at www.betheelephant.net and on Facebook at Be the Elephant. Elaine is originally from Macon, Georgia. She is a graduate of Berry College, Eastern Kentucky University, and University of Dayton School of Law. She is married and lives in Danville, Kentucky

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