Building Healthy Parent Communities

This course is intended for rising leaders but also includes content likely to be useful to teachers. It will build an awareness of the larger context of parent communities and the elements that create healthy dynamics in three specific dyads: Leader-Parent, Teacher-Parent, and Parent-Parent. This course is not a complete survey of everything pertaining to parent-academy relations, nor is it intended to train participants in implementing specific strategies for managing difficult relationships. Rather, it seeks to develop a deeper understanding of the role of the parent community as it relates to the work we do and provide frameworks and strategies for developing and nurturing healthy parent communities. This is about the long game. At the same time, participants will find practical – and short term – tools for success as well.

Course Text:

• Todd Whitaker and Douglas J Fiore's Dealing with Difficult Parents
• Plutarch's "To an Uneducated Leader," an essay from How to Be a Leader

Facilitator: TBD

Live Session Dates: TBD

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