Whenever possible, staff is willing to honor parental requests and class assignments. If there is little parent involvement at your school, start with social events to bring parents together. Hold a discussion of the movie afterwards. Plan a pizza potluck for parents at each grade level. Attract parents to school events by putting their children on the programs.
Children can introduce speakers, perform, serve as ushers, be greeters or have many other duties.
Initiate rap sessions on topics like communicating with your teenagers, discipline, peer pressure, study habits, careers, or drug and alcohol abuse for junior high students and their parents. Plan school and community summer activities workshops and enrichment programs. Host an ice cream social where each family brings either ice cream, a topping, or cookies. Announce informal, regularly scheduled coffee times and encourage parents to drop in when they can. Invite parents to visit classrooms whenever they wish and send special invitations for in-class plays, poetry readings, puppet shows, songfest, etc.