Leveraging P.T.S.D. To Meet Parents Where They Are

Format

Individual Presentation

First Presenter's Institution

Fayette County Schools - Bennett's Mill Middle School

First Presenter’s Email Address

broadhead.marcus@fcboe.org

First Presenter's Brief Biography

Dr. Marcus L. Broadhead has been an educator for over 20 years. Having started his career as an English teacher in Long Island, New York, he has had the privilege to work with students from the seventh grade through college prior to going into educational administration. Dr. Broadhead attended Hofstra University in NY where he obtained his Bachelor’s degree in English and Master’s in Education. He then furthered his education by adding Ed. Leadership to his Master’s degree through The University of West GA and then received his Specialist and Doctoral degrees in Educational leadership from Argosy University. He currently serves as a principal in Fayette County Schools. When he is not serving as Principal, Dr. Broadhead volunteers his time to speak on various educational topics for educators as well as speak to youth on making positive choices, goal setting, and facing obstacles. Dr. Broadhead’s dedication to making a difference has led to the development of the Gaining Essential Networking Tools for Success (GENTS) program in New York City, Chief Mentoring program and Shaping Him into Future Talent (SHIFT) in Fayetteville, Georgia. For Dr. Broadhead, being an educator encompasses more than a title but holds the weight of the responsibility to truly educate and be a resource to all with whom he comes in contact.

Location

Session One Breakouts

Strand #1

Home: Family & Community Engagement

Strand #2

Head: Academic Achievement & Leadership

Relevance

The presentation will share how leaders can increase parent and community (partners in ed) engagement through methods that start with reflection, identifying what is needed from parents and the community and then coaching to get the desired results. All leaders and educators will receive a new perspective as well as practices that can be applied within their respective school community.

Brief Program Description

School happens to children and their parents. Consequently parents can draw conclusions about education and how they will engage in part by what the school is doing and also based upon the recollection of their experiences as a student. This presentation will reveal how school beliefs and practices can be transformed to foster a healthy and thriving relationship by which our children can benefit.

Summary

Educating children is a business of the heart. What educators do has a lasting impact in so much that the experiences of the children we serve becomes the reality that exists in their adulthood as parents. Unfortunately, some educators may not recognize the impact of these experiences and how their inability to truly educate parents about what the school is doing, how the school supports children and how the parent can support the school in a way that is accessible and inclusive of all parents is counterintuitive to student achievement. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted that some parents felt ill-equipped to support their children. This has always been the reality.

For the purpose of this presentation, the acronym PTSD will be used for a dual purpose. Firstly,within the context of its medical connotation (post traumatic stress syndrome) to connect to the impact education has made on some parents in a negative way which in turn shapes their view on the expectation of education for their children. According to the article, Improving parent involvement in schools: A cultural perspective by T Keane - Rivier there are a multitude of reasons that impact parent involvement and among them, parent experiences are highlighted as a factor for a lack of involvement.

Secondly, the presentation will introduce P.T.S.D. as the acronym for Parent Teacher Student Dynamics(PTSD). This concept correlates to the structures school leaders can control that are in put in place for the purpose of fostering a rich and healthy partnership among parents, students and teachers. The importance of leveraging PTSD starts with understanding your audience (school Community) and systematically creating scaffolds and bridges to engage, support and sustain their engagement. Leveraging PTSD To Meet Parents Where They Are will help school leaders and educators own their responsibility to the school community and provide applicable strategies to appropriately measure parental involvement and increase engagement. Educating children takes a collective effort but if capacity is not built in to support parents and partners in ed on what their part looks like to support children, the assumption of expectations become the reality. Leaders will benefit from learning how to communicate a clear vision and expectations that promote a healthy partnership. Educators will benefit from learning how to recognize their culture of bias as it pertains to the assumption of what parental responsibilities should be and receive practical strategies that assist in supporting parents where they are without judgment. Now more than ever as a school community we must all do our part for the benefit of our children. We just need to be clear about what that part is.

Evidence

Expectations of Achievement: Student Teacher and Parent Perceptions by Christine M. Rubie-Davies, Elizabeth Peterson, Earl Irving, Deborah Widdowson, Robyn Dixon

Understanding parental involvement in American public education by GL Watson, ER Sanders-Lawson, L McNeal

Improving parent involvement in schools: A cultural perspective by T Keane - Rivier

Trauma-Sensitive Instruction by John Eller and Tom Hierck

Learning Objective 1

Participants will be able to identify ways in which schools engage parents as a part of traditional school culture

Learning Objective 2

Participants will be able to learn what P.T.S.D. is within the context of the educational experience and recognize the impact on parent engagement.

Learning Objective 3

Participants will be able to receive best practices on how to increase parent engagement as a school leader and educator.

Keyword Descriptors

parent engagement, parent involvement, best practices, educational leadership, servant leadership

Presentation Year

2022

Start Date

3-7-2022 10:15 AM

End Date

3-7-2022 11:30 AM

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Leveraging P.T.S.D. To Meet Parents Where They Are

Session One Breakouts

School happens to children and their parents. Consequently parents can draw conclusions about education and how they will engage in part by what the school is doing and also based upon the recollection of their experiences as a student. This presentation will reveal how school beliefs and practices can be transformed to foster a healthy and thriving relationship by which our children can benefit.