Reaching Parents and Community: Using Data to Involve and Create a Sense of Urgency

Using Data to Involve and Create a Sense of Urgency

"Business and political leaders, worried that U.S. schools aren't challenging enough, are launching major campaigns to improve math and science education. But when it comes to math and science education, parents and students think things are just fine, thank you."

-Reality Check 2006
Public Agenda Foundation, New York, NY

Using Data to Involve and Create a Sense of Urgency

With public opinion research telling us that parents and other stakeholders are, in may ways, less concerned about these critical areas of student achievement than we are, how do we raise their sense of urgency and engage them as partners in the work? How do we face our own fears about sharing data? How do we do all of it in a way that doesn't turn stakeholders off with our education jargon and endless stacks of charts and graphs?

This section of the SAI Survival Guide will address all of these questions as well as provide tools that school administrators can customize and use in their own districts.

Reaching Parents and Community